Valentina solutions are available for programming in PHP. Please read more about specific operating system support.

• Valentina server implementations (Valentina Office Server, Valentina Embedded Server) on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X support scripting with PHP 4 and PHP 5.
• Valentina PHP ADK allows developers to write PHP based applications that are executed locally. Valentina PHP ADK is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
• Valentina supports both PHP 4 and PHP 5. Paradigma Software recommends PHP 5 for any development with Valentina products as the advisory group of the development of PHP have dropped support for PHP 4.

What is PHP?

This short description is from the PHP website:

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

More on Valentina PHP Support

PHP is a common server-side scripting language that Paradigma Software strongly supports.

Porting from MySQL to Valentina

The Valentina API for PHP allows easy porting from mySQL. The Valentina API for PHP was designed to be 100% compatible with the PHP API for mySQL. Easily port any PHP solution that interfaces with mySQL to Valentina with a simple find/replace of the “mysql_” prefix to “val_”.

PEAR API Option

PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. PEAR is one option of working with Valentina and PHP. From the PEAR website, a definition of PEAR:

PEAR is short for "PHP Extension and Application Repository" and is pronounced just like the fruit. The purpose of PEAR is to provide:

• A structured library of open-source code for PHP users
• A system for code distribution and package maintenance
• A standard style for code written in PHP, specified here
• The PHP Extension Community Library (PECL)
• A web site, mailing lists and download mirrors to support the PHP/PEAR community

You can learn more about PEAR from the PEAR website.

ADOdb API Option

ADOdb is a PHP database class library to provide more powerful abstractions for performing queries and managing databases. ADOdb also hides the differences between the different databases so you can easily switch dbs without changing code.

You can learn more about ADOdb on Sourceforge.