freespider – Lazarus Components

freespider

Matthius 19 février 2010 2 min read

Free Spider is web development package for Free Pascal / Lazarus. It is similar to Delphi’s web broker /WebSnap technology.

You can build web applications using Lazarus and deploy it in Linux, and Windows, (Mac is not tested yet).

You will get benefit of Lazarus rich OOP features and database components to connect to FireBird, MySql, or PostgreSQL.
Your web application will be cross-platform.
It is easy to deploy Lazarus CGI web application executable which is native to all platforms and need not additional libraries in deployment.
You will get a secure binary executable file that you deploy in the server, and even web administrator could not see your code.
Built-in Automatic multipart/form-data decoder for uploading/downloading files

Components:

TSpiderCGI : generate CGI application
TSpiderAction: component that has OnRequest for each Path
TSpiderPage: use external HTML templates and link it to active contents
TSpiderForm: generate HTML form using OOP methods like SpiderForm1.AddInput(itText,, etc
TSpiderTable: generate HTML table from dataset or manually using OOP method like: SpiderTable1.AddRow(‘Yellow’, [‘One’, ‘Two’, Three’]);