Using It (Sort of)
Yeah, I know, I’ve been quiet for a long time. I’ve been working, earning money, OK?
But I have finally found time to start having a play with Delphi for PHP. It isn’t much of a start, but it is a start.
I’ve been doing a bit of Wordpress work – essentially adding a whole lot of extra database tables to a Wordpress blog. Now Wordpress is not a Delphi for PHP app, so you can’t just dive in there and use the VCL. However, I have been using the IDE, because if I’m writing PHP the source code highlighting stops me making a whole lot of stupid mistakes that I always used to make in Dreamweaver. For this I am very grateful.
And there might be more. Wordpress plug-ins should not, I think, be written using the VCL. But if you have a bunch of extra tables that are largely independent of the Wordpress data… Now the choice is between writing moderately complex data entry screens that are plugins for the Wordpress admin system, or writing a separate program using the VCL. Wordpress is, after all, just a mySQL database, so as long as you don’t touch the core Wordpress tables it should be OK, right?
Well, doubtless it won’t be that easy. It never is. But at least I have a potential trial project.