You might want to look at creating a truely wysiwyg rad tool for php. If been chained to my windows install because there is no alternative for linux because of
Codecharge Studio . Delphi for php seems to try and do the same but yet again....just for windows. I can't see myself going back to using something that is basicly an enhanced text editor.
This i the kind of tool that let's you create grids in seconds and still leaves room for your own programming via the event structure it incorporates.
If there was a true gpl alternative on linux I'd delete my windows partitions and never look back. Sadly there is no such thing as yet.