CodeGear, provider of developer tools,has announced Delphi for PHP 2.0. Delphi for PHP is the only PHP Integrated Development Environment(IDE) for building interactive web applications using visual drag-and-drop design capabilities and a powerful PHP component framework.The new 2.0 version focuses on making PHP web development in several key areas:
 

HTML templates with embedded dynamic PHP, enabling PHP developers to work visually in their Web 2.0 development and to collaborate easily with HTML designers.Comprehensive and seamless database support for MySQL™, CodeGear InterBase®, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Oracle®, PostgreSQL, Informix®, Sybase®, SQL Anywhere® and IBM® DB2™, plus the ability to build rich data-driven web applications without requiring database connectivity coding.

An expanded and faster Visual Component Library (VCL) for PHP with support for popular PHP packages and libraries including Zend Framework.Any developer can take advantage of Delphi for PHP 2.0 to build PHP applications visually in just minutes.Database developers, for example, who want to create intranet and Web applications can natively connect them to their database and use drag-and-drop components to connect, display and edit data.