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fidel
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Is there a RAD for PHP? I mean which is best of Zend, dbquiksite NuSphere?? which ones have you had use?
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there's no real RAD's for PHP that I know of publicly available.... yet.
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feyd wrote:there's no real RAD's for PHP that I know of publicly available.... yet.
So, what do you mean with "real", what are ZEND and NuSphere then? or what can I do for speed up development? if I use ZEND or NuSphere would be helpful isn´t it?

But I still don´t understand the difference between RAD and this two applications...could you explain me please?
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RAD = Rapid Application Development.. most RAD systems are apart of the language. C# is RAD, Delphi is RAD. PHP is largely based on C/C++, which aren't RAD. Zend's is simply an IDE-like editor. It has some nice features, and some inherant bugs.

The RAD language applications I've built with are quickly done via visual programming (setting up interactions, placing objects within containers, etc)... But you still have to fall back into programming at some point to flesh out the actual details of the logic.

There are some editors for PHP code that does have some "macro" like things that can create boilerplate versions of common controls and things, but nothing that I know of really that is true RAD... Pear is probably the most close to RAD available.. if you slightly skew the definition..
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A couple of years ago i had the chance to play with Qadram PHP Visual Studio and the project looked promising.. But the project seems to have stalled since then (If i'm not mistaken, it had some nice GUI code generators ;))
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feyd wrote:Pear is probably the most close to RAD available.. if you slightly skew the definition..
Man, I think outside the box, but that is definitely an interesting way of looking at it. Interesting!
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