50 Extremely useful PHP tools - Part II
PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source scripting language that can be used to produce dynamic web pages and runs on a web server. PHP is released under the PHP License. PHP includes a command line interface (CLI) capability as well as a graphical based interface.
PHP Tools
In our previous article Extremely Useful PHP Tools: part - 1, we had described some tools from our list of the 50 extremely useful PHP tools. Here are the remaining PHP tools, classified as:
- Code Enhancement Tools
- Version Control Tools
- Utility Tools, Classes and Enhancements
- PHP Online Tools
- PHP Browser Addons
- PHP Frameworks
- PHP IDEs & Editors
List of 27 PHP Tools
As we mentioned in the earlier post, we have segregated these 50 tools in equal parts. In this post you will get to know about rest 27 tools. Following are the compilation of PHP Code Enhancement Tools, PHP Version Control Tools, Online PHP Tools, PHP Browser Tools, PHP Frameworks and IDEs:
PHPEclipse: It is a source code editor that runs on most major OS platforms. [http://www.phpeclipse.com/]
PHPEd: It is an IDE for Windows users. [http://www.nusphere.com/products/phped.htm]
phpDesigner: It is a PHP IDE that handles front end code and markup. [www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php]
Zend Studio: It is a PHP IDE to develop, deploy and manage Rich Internet Applications (RIA). [www.zend.com/en/products/studio/]
VS.PHP: It is a PHP IDE for MS Visual Studio. [http://www.jcxsoftware.com/vs.php]
PHP Beautifier: It is a tool to format PHP 4 and 5 source code. [http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier]
PHP Code Beautifier: It has a GUI to format code visually in addition to a CLI. [http://www.waterproof.fr/products/phpCodeBeautifier/]
GeSHi: It is a code highlighting class and customizes output formats. [http://qbnz.com/highlighter/]
Phing: It is a version control tool to organize and maintain various project builds. [http://phing.info/trac/]
Xinc: It is a continuous integration server version control tool that works with Subversion and Phing. [http://code.google.com/p/xinc/]
SimplePie: It is a PHP class that works with RSS feeds. [http://simplepie.org/]
HTML Purifier: It is an HTML filter library written in PHP. [http://htmlpurifier.org/]
TCPDF: This PHP class generates PDF documents. [http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf]
htmlSQL: It is a PHP class to query HTML values using an SQL-like syntax. [http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/htmlsql.htm]
Creole: It is a database abstraction layer for PHP 5. [http://creole.phpdb.org/trac/]
PHPLing: This tool adds data querying abilities to PHP using an SQL-like syntax. [http://www.codeplex.com/PHPLinq]
PHPMathPublisher: This PHP class enables the user to publish mathematical documents on the web. [http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/]
phpMyAdmin: It is a web-based tool to manage, build and export MySQL databases. [http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php]
PHPExcel: It is a PHP class to work with MS Excel files. [http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel]
Minify: It is a PHP 5 application that combines CSS or JavaScript files and shows the results with HTTP encoding. [http://code.google.com/p/minify/]
HTTP Staticmerger: This tool merges sets of CSS or JavaScript files and speeds up page loading. [http://en.dklab.ru/lib/HTTP_StaticMerger/]
gotAPI / PHP: It is an online tool to lookup PHP functions and classes. [http://www.gotapi.com/php]
PECL: It is a directory of PHP extensions and hosts them. [http://pecl.php.net/]
FirePHP: It is a Firefox extension that allows user to log data in Firebug. [http://www.firephp.org/]
phpLangEditor: It is a Firefox add-on to translate language files. [http://phplangeditor.mozdev.org/]
PHP Lookup: It is an inbuilt search bar to search PHP syntax. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3505]
NetBeans: It is a coding environment that is dynamically integrated with HTML, JavaScript and CSS. [http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/index.html]
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