php or Delphi

[Anon]

We're planning a new database application for one of our clients and an interesting question has been asked.

The question is, should we build the application as a php-apache-postgresql app or go the more traditional delphi-postgresql route. The application will be used on an intranet with no plans of making it accessable via the internet right now although that would provide some nice flexability for the future.

I guess our big question is has anyone developed a php-apache-postgresql project as a standalone application before and would you do it again?

Thanks -
Bruce

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It depends very much on what kind of functionality you need.

PHP/webserver is stateless from a database point of view. ie: you cannot keep a transaction open while the user makes changes. In Delhpi you can keep a transaction open as long as you want.

And there's the GUI, Delhpi uses the OS's GUI elements. PHP/webserver is limited to what you can do with HTML/CSS.

On the other hand, a PHP/webserver/PGSQL solution can be used by any browser anywhere on the planet. Delphi cannot.

If you don't plan to do anything exotic with transactions and you can get by with the limited GUI functionality of the browser, then PHP/webserver is certainly an option.

PS: yes I have done it, and yes I would do it again.

[Anon]

I work on one project now.
Firsly i started to program in Access but it worked very bad, I needed some not simple reports from my database and php/html/mysql was the best solution for my problem.
I think I will continue to program in php.
It is very cool, even I began my programming life from Delphi/Paradox.
I would like to know what kind of application you have to implement?
Contact my by e-mail.