Here is the list of Top Helpful Tools for PHP Developers :
Sublime Text
It's Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. This cutting-edge text editor comes with slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
Xdebug
It's one of the most popular debugging PHP extensions. Tired of bugs in your code? Xdebug provides a ton of useful data that will allow you to quickly find bugs in your source code. Xdebug plugs right into many of the most popular PHP applications, such as PHPEclipse and phpDesigner.
phpDocumentor
This tool allows to generate documentation directly from your PHP source code. With this tool, you can provide users with more information regarding the functionality embedded within your source and not just what is usable to them from your user interface.
Documentation generated by phpDocumentor does not aim to be a replacement for conventional documentation but is rather supplemental, or reference, documentation.
PHP CPD
This is a Copy/Paste Detector tool for PHP. When you are working on big projects, this tool comes to your rescue as it follows good old ways of programming. With PHP CPD, you can easily analyze the code to greatly eliminate repetitive functions and calls. You can configure PHPCPD and run the test cases all over your code base.
Deployer
Deployer is a cutting-edge deployment tool written in PHP. Now you can deploy your project to all your servers faster that you ever imagined! Deployer is packed with a wide variety of optimization features which save time and resources and deliver best performance. Deployer contains clean and well tested code. The repository is watched by several code quality tools and each and every pull request is checked by QA tools. Deployer can run tasks in parallel. As a result, no other extension is needed. Deployer maintains consistency between servers, even in parallel mode! This quintessentially means that if one task fails, subsequent tasks will not be executed on all servers.
virtPHP
virtPHP creates and manages multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine. virtPHP creates isolated environments. This allows you run several PHP development projects with different PEAR packages versions and PECL extensions. User can also specify a different PHP version, if the system has various installations of PHP.
Sylius
Sylius is an open source and free e-commerce solution for PHP. This free ecommerce solution is capable of managing stores of any size and complexity with voluminous products as well as categories. With this open source solution, products with different tax rates and different shipping methods can be supported. Furthermore, Sylius is integrated with Omnipay (multi-gateway payment processing library).
Iconizr
This is a PHP command line tool that converts SVG drawings and processes them to a CSS icon kit. This tool prefers high-resolution (retina) SVG compared to PNG icons, data URIs against CSS sprites and single images and provides fallbacks for the least capable browsers. It outputs Sass along with (or instead of) CSS code.
We hope this list of tools will help PHP developers and make development tasks easier and less time consuming. Have you used these tools or do you a list of your favorite tools? It is about time to share your top PHP tools with us in the comment box.
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