Embarcadero RadPHP XE2

New Features

What's new in RadPHP XE2

Build touch-enabled mobile web apps for phones and tablets

Easily create web apps optimised specifically for mobile devices with support for the most common mobile devices on the market.

Visual Mobile Designer

Take advantage of the new Visual Mobile Designer to see how your app will look on the real device.

Build native mobile apps

Convert PHP apps into native mobile apps for both iOS (requires an Intel-based Mac and Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later) and Android.

Incorporate device functionality into mobile applications

Interact with mobile device hardware such as the GPS, accelerometer, camera and more.

Expanded Zend Framework component set

Use over 35+ new Zend Framework components to help simplify web development. Includes email, barcode, Google, RSS and more.

Features

Integrated development environment

• Visual design enables you to create web pages, forms and web applications through simple drag and drop.
• Object inspector enables easy customisation of any components codelessly.
• Code explorer helps you to easily navigate around your code.
• The project manager helps you view and organise your project files.
• Supports international encodings and character sets.
• History manager provides automatic, multi-level file backups, file differencing and file restore.
• Customisable PHP source code editor with colour syntax highlighting.
• Integrated XDebug debugger to find and fix errors.
• Integrated PHP profiler helps locate performance bottlenecks.

RadPHP component library

• Includes over 200 reusable components for real rapid application development.
• Standard components - easily add frames, menus, buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, scroll bars, panels, action lists and validation.
• Advanced components - easily add image buttons, Flash objects, image lists, rich edit controls, progress bars, calendars, tree views, timers, web services, PEAR data grid, jQuery, Google Maps and more.
• Database components - components for accessing databases, tables, queries and stored procedures as well as data grids and data navigation.
• Zend Framework components - helps to simplify web development whilst promoting best practices.
• Facebook components - a range of components for interacting with Facebook applications, permissions, friends, shares and more.
• Easily extend functionality with your own components or choose from a range of 3rd party libraries.

Database application development

• Data Explorer included within the IDE and enables you to view database schemas and objects
• Connectivity support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, Sybase, Informix, SQL Anywhere and InterBase.
• Includes native database components for Oracle, InterBase and MySQL.
• Drag-and-Drop support enables you to drag schemas from the Data Explorer onto the visual designer to codelessly create data-driven applications.
• Connect to DataSnap servers built with Delphi and C++Builder.

Mobile development

• Build mobile-optimised touch-friendly web applications for most mobile devices in the market.
• Visual Mobile Designer to see how the app will look on the real device.
• Convert PHP apps into native mobile apps for iOS and Android.
• Interact with the mobile device hardware, like GPS, accelerometer, camera, etc.

Benefits

Rapid development with a visual PHP IDE

RadPHP is the only PHP development solution with drag-and-drop visual design. RadPHP provides both code and design views of PHP applications and HTML pages in the integrated development environment (IDE). Use the visual design view in RadPHP to build user interfaces and database connections by simply dragging and dropping components onto a form. Changes in code and the visual designers are always kept in sync.

Create mobile apps and web apps

Use RadPHP to create web applications that are optimised for mobile phones and devices. Your apps will look great and give your users functionality similar to native mobile apps. You can also build apps that interact with mobile device hardware including cameras, accelerometers, and GPS – and distribute them via the Apple and Android app stores.

Includes all the tools you need

RadPHP delivers a complete IDE with all the tools you need for PHP coding and development. The customisable source code editor, integrated debugging, performance profiling and wizards for everything from new application creation to mobile deployment help simplify tasks and make your development more productive every step of the way.

Build applications for Facebook

With RadPHP you can quickly create applications for the popular Facebook social networking site. The included Facebook application wizard guides you through the steps to build your application and you can use the built-in components to easily incorporate Facebook functionality including user information and friend lists.

System Req.

Hardware requirements

• 512 MB RAM (1 GB for Microsoft Windows Vista)
• 300 MB free hard disk space
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• SVGA or higher-resolution monitor (XGA recommended)
• Mouse or other pointing device
• Intel Pentium III/M 1.4 GHz, or Pentium IV 1.4 GHz minimum

Supported operating systems

• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (SP2)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP3)
• Windows 2000 Professional (SP4)
• Windows 2000 Server (SP4)

Supported browsers

• Internet Explorer 7 thru 9
• Internet Explorer 6 or earlier
• Firefox 1 thru 4
• Chrome 4 thru 12
• Opera
• Safari

Supported mobile components for mobile OS

• iOS (iPhone, iPad) – 3.1.3+
• Symbian S60 – 5.0+
• BlackBerry – 6.0+
• Android – 1.5+
• Windows Mobile – 7.0+
• WebOS – 1.4.1+

Standalone app development for iOS and Android

• iOS (iPhone, iPad) – 3.1.3 or higher
• Android – 1.5 or higher

Note: for iOS applications, RadPHP creates a project file that requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.6 or later with Xcode 3.2 or higher to create a standalone iOS application.