Some Useful PHP Tools for Web Development (Ⅰ)

Here are some useful PHP tools for web development, including PHP development framework, debugging tools, graphic processing tools, code optimization tools, PHP editors, IDE, etc.

 

PHPEdit

PHPEdit is a full featured PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Windows. It has an advanced PHP editor, code insight, code completion, syntax-highlighting, integrated debugger, code browser, keyboard templates. It enables web developers to create dynamic and professional websites more easily and efficiently. It has been designed to maximize developers’ productivity helping them to code faster, to debug PHP and test their projects, as well as to maximize project management within their IT team.

PHPScriptGen

PHPScriptGen is a powerful online tool that can automatically generates fully functional codes for your PHP/MySQL applications. You can create completed CRUD (Create, Retrieve Update and Delete) scripts within ten minutes. Thus it can save you a lot of time wasted on repetitive coding. The generated codes can be easily understood and further customized. It is designed for both beginners and veteran programmers. This amazing tool is completely FREE for both commercial and non-commercial use.

Webgrind

Webgrind is an Xdebug profiling web frontend in PHP5. It implements a subset of the features of kcachegrind and installs in seconds and works on all platforms. Its features involve super simple, cross platform installation, track time spent in functions by self-cost or inclusive cost. Inclusive cost is time inside function + calls to other functions. See if time is spent in internal or user functions. See where any function was called from and which functions it calls.

phpDocumentor

phpDocumentor is a tool with which it is possible to generate documentation from developers’ PHP source code. With this documentation developers can provide their consumers with more information regarding the functionality embedded within their source and not only what is usable to them from their user interface. Documentation generated by phpDocumentor does not aim to be a replacement for conventional documentation but is rather supplemental, or reference, documentation.

Securimage

Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse. It can be easily added into existing forms on web developers' website to provide protection from spam bots. It can run on most any webserver as long as developers have PHP installed, and GD support within PHP. It does everything from generating the CAPTCHA images to validating the typed code. Audible codes can be streamed to the browser with Flash for the vision impaired.