Modern tools for PHP developers

• swoole-by-examples

  1 175 7.3 PHP

  Learn Swoole by Examples

Another common complaint when it comes to PHP is its lack of asynchronous execution support. There are a couple of projects aimed in that direction like Swoole and ReactPHP. Take a look at the following code pulled from the Swoole By Examples repository:

• xDebug

  27 3,046 8.9 PHP

  Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP

  

Before the introduction of debuggers like XDebug and ZendDebugger, developers were forced to spend excessive time understanding the root cause of an application’s misbehavior.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Symfony

  151 29,294 10.0 PHP

  The Symfony PHP framework

  

In the older days of PHP, these were a real challenge. Nowadays, there are many MVC frameworks available, most notably Symfony and Laravel, which you can use as a basis for your task. Symfony and Laravel both boast of large community support and widespread usage.

• React

  40 8,813 3.9 PHP

  Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP.

  

Another common complaint when it comes to PHP is its lack of asynchronous execution support. There are a couple of projects aimed in that direction like Swoole and ReactPHP. Take a look at the following code pulled from the Swoole By Examples repository:

• PHPUnit

  47 19,538 9.9 PHP

  The PHP Unit Testing framework.

Automated testing tools have become a standard throughout the software development industry. Every language has its own tools, and the biggest player for PHP is definitely phpUnit.

• Laravel

  351 76,753 8.9 PHP

  Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

  

In the older days of PHP, these were a real challenge. Nowadays, there are many MVC frameworks available, most notably Symfony and Laravel, which you can use as a basis for your task. Symfony and Laravel both boast of large community support and widespread usage.

• Composer

  191 28,225 9.5 PHP

  Dependency Manager for PHP

  

Another discrete leap was the introduction of Composer, a PHP dependency manager, which certainly drew the line between amateur and professional development. But, I’m getting a little ahead of myself, we’ll cover this in-depth later. Let’s review some major improvements made to PHP within the last few versions.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Codeception

  12 4,740 7.6 PHP

  Full-stack testing PHP framework

  

Other tools worth mentioning include Codeception and behat. Both use phpUnit underneath, but have different approaches to writing tests.

• Behat

  3 3,880 3.7 PHP

  BDD in PHP

  

Other tools worth mentioning include Codeception and behat. Both use phpUnit underneath, but have different approaches to writing tests.

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