26 Worth Knowing PHP Tools & Resources For Web Developers
Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Ferman in Tools
Web development is not that much difficult now a days. The important is how you do it and how much time you take to complete the task. Web developers do not have to start over from scratch all the time when there are lots of free tools making advanced Web Development a easier.
In this post i have compiled tools and resources for php developers which will make their life easier.
1. Symfony
Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP.
2. MODx
MODx helps you take control of your online content. An Open Source PHP application framework, it frees you to build sites exactly how you want and make them 100% yours.
3. PHP Object Generator
PHP Object Generator, (POG) is an open source which automatically generates clean & tested Object Oriented code for your PHP4/PHP5 application.
4. Zend Studio
Zend Studio for Eclipse combines proven capabilities to create the world’s most powerful IDE for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).
5. CakePHP
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.
6. DBG | PHP Debugger and Profiler
DBG is a a full-featured php debugger, an interactive tool that helps you debugging php scripts.
7. FirePHP
FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.
8. Aukyla
Aukyla Software is an offspring of Auton Rijnsburg, specialized in software development and web services.
9. BlueShoes
BlueShoes is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP.
10. Horde Application Framework
The Horde Application Framework is a general-purpose web application framework in PHP, providing classes for dealing with preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking, MIME handling, and more.
11. CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications
12. PhpOpenbiz
Want to build a data centric business application without dirty code – PhpOpenbiz (Openbiz) is the solution!
13. Qcodo
The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.
14. Seagull PHP Framework
Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.
15. Zoop
PHP coding in an object oriented framework that’s ajax friendly.
16. Xaraya
Xaraya is a cutting edge open source framework (written in PHP) on which developers can create sophisticated web applications and designers enjoy considerable flexibility.
17. SimpleTest
It is a PHP unit test and web test framework.
18. phpDocumentor
The complete documentation solution for PHP.
19. Securimage
Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse.
20. PIXY
Pixy is a Java program that performs automatic scans of PHP 4 source code.
21. PHP/SWF Charts
PHP/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data.
22. WideImage
WideImage is an object-oriented library for image manipulation, written in/for PHP 5?
22. PHP_Beautifier
This program reformat and beautify PHP 4 and PHP 5 source code files automatically. The program is Open Source and distributed under the terms of PHP Licence. It is written in PHP 5 and has a command line tool.
23. Phing
It’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework.
24. HTML Purifier
HTML Purifier is a standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP.
25. SimplePie
SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ’simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’.
26. Koders
Koders.com, the leading search engine for open source and other downloadable code now contains over 2 billion lines of code within its repository.
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Kawsar Ali
08. Jul, 2009
Some very useful stuff here. Good post
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08. Jul, 2009
Thanks for sharing this cool list of tools.
levelx
08. Jul, 2009
Symfony all they way b(-.-)d
Dave
08. Jul, 2009
This should really be a frameworks roundup. +1 for CakePHP btw, awesome framework.
duellsy
08. Jul, 2009
Very nice. Currently use a lot of them quite often, but some in that list I hadn’t seen before.
Cheers.
kayoone
08. Jul, 2009
more like a list of frameworks and stuff you could find on google in 5secs…not much new in there
Maciej
08. Jul, 2009
Nice list of recources. Thanks! But i think there should be also note about Yii Framework, fast and very extensible.
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Marco
08. Jul, 2009
Thanks for this list, but I still prefer Konsolidate (http://www.konsolidate.net).
It’s a new but upcoming framework; very open and expandable…
jpablobr
08. Jul, 2009
CakePHP excellent framework!!
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nomalab
08. Jul, 2009
When I read “Tools & Resources” I’m thinking about… well, tools and resources. This was more or less a list of available PHP frameworks. Why not title the post as such? A bit disappointed.
Mark
08. Jul, 2009
Since you included a few application frameworks I am surprised that Zend Framework didn’t make the list.
Notacouch
08. Jul, 2009
Hi, the link to Phing is currently pointing to PHP Beautifier.
admin
08. Jul, 2009
thanks for the correction…its edited
Art2code
08. Jul, 2009
Nice list ! very useful ! thx
postlogic
08. Jul, 2009
You should mention KohanaPHP as well. Fast and lean PHP framework originally based on CodeIgniter but is now written from scratch. http://www.kohanaphp.com/
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09. Jul, 2009
Our digital agency now fully endorses CakePHP. Thanks for sharing this. It’s great to have these in mind when building apps. Love your work!
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Seyyed
10. Jul, 2009
and where’s Zend Framework in the list?!
ZF is the official PHP framework made by Zend, and that’s a nice framework I think.
Luci
17. Jul, 2009
all this time I’ve been tearing my hair out coding PHP from scratch, and it turns out theres things like symfony & koders.com out there? Thanks for the list!
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Dutch Rapley
19. Jul, 2009
NetBeans for PHP is a nice, lightweight, free option to Zend Studio.
http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/
Jaspal Singh
18. Aug, 2009
Nice list, Thanks for sharing.
Jaspal Singh
18. Aug, 2009
Nice list
vickie
24. Aug, 2009
I would recommend Netbeans IDE to start coding over there
CakePHP is okay however I saw a benchmarh comparison at DooPHP. Seems like CakePHP performance is slower than CodeIgniter. I think DooPHP cab be considered as fastest among other framework.
Gisee
20. Sep, 2009
DooPHP seems fun and easy, just downloaded it thx.