God forbid anyone ask a simple, polite, simple question, as Leledumbo seems to do his best to sound the fountain of all knowledge, and, anyone else as a piece of dirt.
Learn first, ask later
Yes the last line of the signature is:
Code first, think later
My background?
Actually attending a conference where Philip Kahn (yes, the real man) did his usual saxophone performance, and Borland (the Company) handed out free boxes of software.
This was in a room of 00's, where only a handful had ventured into the world of Windows Programming, and DOS meant Disk Operating System, rather than Denial Of Service.
Delphi revolutionised with it's simplicity and IDE.
God, I prior I had to use a MS DOS IDE to compile a Windows program, then run it separately to see if it worked.
Borland, Delphi, opened my eyes to the possibilities, and I moved from my country to Asia, then USA to continue Delphi development.
Now, nearly 22 years later, Lazarus is doing it's best to keep Kahn's vision alive, whilst others seem to try and alien newcomers.
Having been programming for more years than you were born (I suspect), a little humbleness with go a long way - it got me three jobs in three other countries, along with my accumulated skills (before Windows I wrote a DOS undelete program, when, to the best of my knowledge, the only other two in existence were from Norton, and, McAfee)
Anyone here remember when we'd have to intercept Windows messages, say a mouse click, then break the event to first find out if was left button or right button?
I came here to consider resurrecting (no pun intended), an old Delphi commercial program, or re-write in PHP, either with a Framework such as CodeIgniter, or, do the whole thing from scratch, using as much of the old Delphi logic as possible)
Browsing the forums, it seems a fantastic project, and I cannot compliment you high enough.
So many bright, clever, and sharing individuals.
Then there are these people ... the reason I gave up Corporate programming many years ago.
When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, only then do you get my respect Grasshopper