Advanced PHP Tools

PHP is still one of the leading programming language that builds websites. Here is some advanced tools to speedup your development php coding development.

• Composer, PHP dependency manager, is very easy to use and very reliable.
• Behat is the PHP implementation of Cucumber, amazing for functional or integration tests
• PHPUnit, while it has nothing fancy, works well and the coverage report are very good (unlike say the ones for JavaScript like Istanbul)
• Blackfire a one of a kind tool for optimising your application
• Scrutinizer  and PhpMetrics, excellent code analysis tool
• Famous libraries:
  • fzaninotto/Faker for data generation, inspired by Ruby’s one
  • Seldaek/monolog for logging, inspired by Python’s one
• frameworks like Symfony that regroups lots of amazing idea from Ruby on Rails, Django, Java Entreprise patterns
• Robo is a task runner you always have been looking for. It allows you to write fully customizable tasks in common OOP PHP style. Robo has comprehensive list of built-in common tasks for development, testing, and deployment.
• Github is one of the major GIT based version control repository portal that we can manage your code more securely both public and private.