Earlier this week, Smashing Magazine put together a fantastic resource for PHP developers. The post is a list of “50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools.” The categories covered in the post are:
- Debugging Tools
- Testing and Optimization Tools
- Documentation Tools
- Security Tools
- Image Manipulation and Graphs
- PHP Code Beautifier
- Version-Control Systems (though, according to the comments, the tools listed in this section arguably do not belong there)
- Useful Extensions, Utilities and Classes
- PHP Online Tools and Resources
- In-Browser Tools (Firefox Add-Ons)
- Frameworks for PHP
- PHP IDEs and Editors
- Sources and Resources
The descriptions of some of the tools in the article could have been a little better, as I don’t even understand what some of the tools are designed to do. However, there are quite a few interesting items in the list. I will definitely be trying some of them over the next few months to see how they work and what they might be able to do for me.