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PHP IDE Space Gets Competitive

Borland's CodeGear unit this week released its new version of its Delphi for PHP IDE (define) -- introducing a number of enhancements geared to make PHP developers more productive.

But the new release may also signal growing competition with Zend, PHP's lead commercial sponsor, and the maker of Zend Studio IDE.

Version 2.0 of CodeGear's Delphi for PHP follows the launch of Zend Studio for Eclipse and Zend Platform 3.6 in January -- efforts that together come as enterprise adoption for PHP continues to grow, as do the number of tools for developers.

Among the improvements in Version 2.0 of CodeGear's IDE is support for Templated Forms, which provides a degree of code separation impossible in the previous version.

"It supports embedded PHP in the HTML at design time, allowing developers to manage their HTML as part of the project," Nick Hodges, Delphi product manager at CodeGear, told InternetNews.com. "It also enables developers to separate code and HTML presentation, like ASP.NET, by using embedded tags in place of components."

Other improvements include broader database access and a vastly improved editor with new, productivity-enhancing features.

Despite what might seem to be treading on Zend's turf, CodeGear's supporters say the two offerings have widely different focuses.

For one thing, CodeGear promotes Delphi for PHP 2.0 as a Rapid Application Development (RAD)-based IDE -- as a result, it differs dramatically from the Eclipse-based Zend Studio IDE....

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Source: internetnews.com