Hi !

My sincere thanks to all for giving yr valuable feedback. We will be
studying these carefully and would take a final decision.

With best regards,
Bala

--- In firebird-php@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:
>
> Myles Wakeham wrote:
> >> On 01-Dec-2008 20:58:03, firebird-php@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> >> We are thinking of developing a web enabled application using
Firebird
> >> & PHP. As we are new to PHP, thinking of using a tool for
faster and
> >> error free dev. Can someone compare between 'Delphi for PHP'
and 'Zend
> >> Studio'(we are familiar with Delphi)?
> >
> > Any IDE that you use has to be rugged, reliable and contain all
the support
> > for the language in question. I have been using Zend Studio for
years and
> > years, and love it. I bought Delphi for PHP back in v1 days,
and have v2
> > and I'm still not convinced of its usefulness for PHP
development. Nor its
> > stability and suitability for production code.
> >
> > PHP really is about tapping into communities of user
contributed, open
> > source code and my take on Delphi for PHP was that it distorts
that paradigm
> > to the point where you have to use the tool to either develop
components
> > that fit within it, or use the components that come with it or
are available
> > through 3rd parties. This completely goes against the overall
philosophy of
> > open source software libraries for PHP, IMHO, which makes it
rather
> > difficult to fit PHP projects into Delphi for PHP.
> >
> > If others have succeeded in doing this, I'm all ears, but for
now I'm
> > sticking with Zend Studio for my code development. Works great
for me.
>
> An alternative that costs nothing to test is Eclipse with
PHPEclipse. I
> switched to that from Builder5/6 some time ago, and am finding it
very
> flexible. The nice thing is that I can be on a Linux machine or a
> Windows machine and it makes no real difference to what I am
doing.
> Eclipse also supports my documentation activities as well as
managing
> the legacy Builder code.
>
> I use Bitweaver as the base for all the newer PHP development work
but
> there are a number of options in that side ...
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL
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