PHP is a scripting language that is used for a lot of web development. More than 240 million websites have PHP installed on them, so it is a very popular language that is used. Not all programmers have the same level of knowledge and you will want to know what they do and don’t know, for doing this there are myriad of useful php tools are out there that are easy to understand and use.
For this roundup we have chosen some of the Best PHP Tools for Developers that will sever number of purposes for your development tasks and help you to use and understand the basic things of PHP without much efforts. Enjoy !!
1. PHPCI
PHPCI is a free and open source continuous integration tool specifically designed for PHP. Built with simplicity in mind and featuring integrations with all of your favourite testing tools, it is the very best platform for testing your PHP projects.
2. Deployer
Deployer is a deployment tool written in PHP. Deploy your project to all your servers faster what you ever can imagine! Deployer packed full of time-saving features and optimisations, best for performance and development. Deployer has very clean code and good tested. Repository is watched by many code quality tools, every pull request also checked by QA tools.
3. PHP Metrics
PHP Metrics is a Static analysis tool for PHP.
4. PHP Trace
Phptrace is a tracing and troubleshooting tool for PHP scripts. The information of php execute context and php function calls are fetched from PHP Runtime. It is very useful to locate blocking problems, heavy-load problems and tricky bugs both in the online environment and the development environment.
5. October CMS
October is an open source content management system built on the Laravel PHP Framework. It’s rooted in simplicity and based on flexible patterns.
6. Parsedown
Parsedown is a Markdown parser built with PHP to include in your apps. It’s fast and consistent, uses GitHub-flavored Markdown, and offers a Markdown Extra extension.
7. Mini2
Mini 2 is a naked PHP application that you can use as a starting point for building your own PHP apps. It’s very useful for small projects and quick prototypes, and comes with its own auto-installer.
8. PHPloy
PHPloy is a incremental Git FTP deployment tool. By keeping track of the state of the remote server(s) it deploys only the files that were committed since the last deployment. PHPloy supports submodules, sub-submodules, deploying to multiple servers and rollbacks.
9. PHP Date & Converter
This PHP Date & Converter is a reference chart that displays common date and time formats used in PHP. It also includes a Unix timestamp converter.
10. VirtPHP
virtPHP is a tool for creating and managing multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine. It’s like Python’s virtualenv, but for PHP. virtPHP creates isolated environments so that you may run any number of PHP development projects, all using different versions of PEAR packages and different PECL extensions. You may even specify a different version of PHP, if your system has various installations of PHP.
11. Belt
Belt is a collection of useful tools for PHP developers. It offers over 60 useful functions, and it’s fully tested.
12. Iconizr
A PHP command line tool for converting SVG images to a set of CSS icons (SVG & PNG, single icons and / or CSS sprites) with support for image optimization and Sass output. iconizr is written in (namespaced) PHP and meant to be used on the (Linux) command line (i.e. with the PHP CLI SAPI).
13. Cartographer
A sitemap generation tool for PHP following the Sitemap Protocol v0.9. Cartographer can handle Sitemaps of any size. When generating sitemaps with more than 50,000 entries (the limit), the sitemap becomes a “map of maps” (i.e. nested sitemaps).
14. Mondrian
A static php code analysis tool using the Graph Theory, This app provides some helpers to add abstraction into concrete classes with minimum pain. When you need abstraction, you have to “zoom out” from the code and see the big picture. For that, what’s better than graphical representation?
15. Pake
Pake is a command line utility for executing predefined tasks, inspired by rake. It is written in PHP and the tasks are also described in PHP.
Pake supports tasks with prerequisites. Pake can be bundled with your application as a single phar archive (or even as a single PHP file), end users don’t need to install Pake on their systems.
