Developer's Guide :: Getting Started

From Delphi for PHP Documentation Wiki

Delphi for PHP provides out-of-the-box an environment to run PHP applications, but if you want to use VCL for PHP without the IDE, you must have a LAMP/WAMP environment setup, so you can run PHP applications, MySQL is not required but you should think on set it up, so you can create database applications.

• WAMP5 platform

This setups everything you need to run PHP applications on Windows.

• Apache web server

If you want to setup all parts separately, you can setup the webserver.

• PHP scripting language

The PHP language

• MySQL database server

The database server

Once you have this environment running, you can write code like this:

 
<?php
    require_once("vcl/vcl.inc.php");
    use_unit("stdctrls.inc.php");
 
    $button=new Button();
 
    $button->Caption="This is a Button";
    $button->Width=200;
 
    $button->show();
?>
 

Let's go and created your first app, the typical Hello, World!