PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development,
but also used as a general-purpose programming language. With over 240
million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like
Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many web
developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as
Python and Ruby.
There are scads of PHP tools available over the internet for php
developers, but finding an appropriate PHP tool is quite an arduous task
and demands effort and time. Today we’ve collected 43 handy PHP
development tools for developers…
PHPCheckstyle
is an open-source tool that helps PHP programmers adhere to certain
coding conventions. The tool checks the input PHP source code and
reports any violations against the given standards.
The
Laravel framework is open-sourced software with expressive, elegant syntax.
A
Parsedown wrapper for Laravel to compile markdown to HTML. Parsedown is fast and supports GitHub flavored markdown.
Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to work with HTTP/1.1 and takes the pain out of consuming web services.
Hoa is a set of PHP libraries that help to create a bridge between industrial and research worlds.
The
PHP-CPP
library is a C++ library for developing PHP extensions. It offers a
collection of well documented and easy-to-use classes that can be used
and extended to build native extensions for PHP.
Twig is a fast, secure and flexible templates engine for PHP users.
Requests is a HTTP library written in PHP.
Prettifier
provides a great place for editing, formatting and syntax highlighting
for some programming languages including CSS, HTML, XML, SQL, PHP, Perl
and others.
Geocoder is a great library for building geo applications. It provides an abstraction layer for geocoding manipulations.
Slim starter by Xsanisty is another excellent solution for bootstrapping advanced web applications.
Mink
is a PHP Library which lets you test that your web apps interacts with
the browser properly. It removes the API differences between the two
types of browser emulators, giving you a more accurate testing
environment.
Forp is
a PHP profiler written in C. Forp is a lightweight PHP extension which
provides the full call stack of your script, with CPU and memory usage,
in a plain PHP Array or JSON output. forp is non intrusive and it
provides PHP annotations to do its work.
Belt is a collection of useful tools for PHP developers. It offers over 60 useful functions.
Icon generator lets you generate initial based icons with a colored background similar to Gmail’s.
RainLoop is a
free and open source PHP webmail application for anyone wanting to use a
single interface for many accounts. The application has a modern user
interface and supports both SMTP + IMAP.
Pattern Lab is
more a framework for front-end frameworks, a PHP-powered static site
generator or your project’s pattern library and frontend style guide.
This
dependency manager for PHP lets you create a composer file in your
project root, run a single command, and all your dependencies are
downloaded ready to use.
Directus is a
free and open-source, client-friendly database GUI written in
Backbone.js that provides a feature-rich environment for rapid
development and management of custom database solutions.
The
DebugBar
integrates easily in any projects and can display profiling data from
any part of your application. It comes built-in with data collectors for
standard PHP features and popular projects.
Phalcon PHP is a web framework delivered as a C extension providing high performance and lower resource consumption.
Pinboard is a MySQL storage engine that acts as a realtime monitoring/statistics server for PHP using MySQL as a read-only interface.
Casebox is an
open source and PHP/MySQL-powered web application for storing and
managing records, tasks and files. It has a desktop-like interface where
we can create an unlimited-level of directories and store stuff in the
structure preferred.
Munee is an all-in-one
library that handles many things related to optimization and
manipulation of website assets. The library has a powerful caching
feature that can cache resources in both server and client-side.
ImageWorkshop
is an open source class using the GD library that helps you to manage
images with PHP. This class is thought like photo editing software like
Photoshop and GIMP: you can superpose many layers or even layer groups,
each layer having a background image.
Sylius is an open
source and free e-commerce solution for PHP (and based on Symfony2). It
is capable of managing stores of any size and having complex products
and categories.
Pico is an open
source CMS application that is capable of very few things, which is the
main point. It uses flat-files as the database and built with PHP.
Simply, there is no setup and the app works instantly.
PHP MyFAQ is a
stable and open source PHP F.A.Q. application that has many features for
building a good F.A.Q. system. A powerful admin interface exists for
managing the categories, entries, users and also viewing the stats.
PHP Documentor reads
the structure of your code, the filesystem structure, the classes,
functions and everything in between, and generates documentation from
that.
CakePHP is an open
source web application framework. It follows the Model-View-Controller
(MVC) approach and is written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby
on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License.
CodeIgniter is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint.
Monsta FTP is
PHP cloudware and which places FTP file management on the web browser.
The user can easily drag and drop files into the web browser.
XAMPP
is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack
package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database,
and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming
languages.
NetBeans is open
source, and allows you to quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile and
web applications with Java, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more.
Aura provides
independent library packages for PHP 5.4+. These packages can be used
alone, in concert with each other, or combined into a full-stack
framework of their own.
Plates is a
simple and easy to use PHP templates system. Plates is designed for web
developers who prefer to use native PHP templates over compiled
templates.
PHP Mess Detector is
an easy to configure, user-friendly front-end for the raw metrics that
PHP Depend measures. It looks for several potential problems in your
code, including possible bugs, suboptimal code, unused parameters, and
more.
Kohana is
an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using
PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.
A parser for CSS Files written in PHP.
This allows extraction of CSS files into a data structure, manipulation of said structure and output as (optimized) CSS.
Nette Framework is
a tool for PHP web development. It is designed to be as usable and as
friendly as possible. It focuses on security and performance and is
definitely one of the safest PHP frameworks.
This is a library package that includes the
PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
Yii 2 is a
complete rewrite of its previous version Yii 1.1 which is one of the
most popular PHP frameworks. Yii is a high-performance PHP framework
best for developing Web 2.0 applications.
PHP Sandbox utilizes
PHPParser to prevent sandboxed code from running unsafe code. It
utilizes FunctionParser to disassemble callables passed to the sandbox,
so that PHP callables can also be run in sandboxes without first
converting them into strings.
