PHP4Delphi is a visual development

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for creating custom

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using

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. PHP extension, in the most basic terms, is a set of instructions that is designed to add functions to PHP.

Overview

* PHP4Delphi provides a visual development framework for creating custom PHP extensions using

extension, in the most basic of terms, is a set of instructions that is designed to add functions to PHP. * PHP4Delphi also allows executing the PHP scripts within a Delphi program directly from file or memory.

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s can be read, write, and result values set. * PHP4Delphi allows embedding the PHP interpreter into a Delphi application to extend and customize the application without needing to

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it.

Structure

PHP4Delphi is organized into several subprojects:

PHP scripting

PHP4Delphi allows executing

scripts within a Delphi program using TpsvPHP component directly without a

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. It is a scripting for applications (like

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(VBA) for

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) that enables writing client-side

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(GUI) applications or server-side PHP support in case if you are developing PHP enabled

s. One of the goals behind it was to prove that PHP is a capable general-purpose scripting language that is suited for more than Web applications only. With PHP4Delphi you can use Delphi forms instead of web-forms, pass parameters to script directly.

PHP extensions development framework

The visual development framework gives the possibility to create custom PHP extensions using Delphi.

PHP4Applications

PHP4Applications allows integrating

in any application. It supports C#, C, C++,

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(VBA), Delphi, Delphi .NET, Visual Basic (.NET), etc.

External links

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