As the popularity of PHP grows, there are more and more useful PHP tools emerging everyday. | PHP tools make it easier for a PHP developer to do their work. They conduct various aspects of the work, which would otherwise have taken the developer more time. There are a number of PHP tools available online and these are some of the best. |
1. DebugBar: This is a free and open source tol that can be joined to any PHP project and then used for profiling and collecting data. In addition, the tool doesn’t have any dependencies and supports AJAX requests too. It also has generic data collectors for libraries.
2. Monsta FTP: This is an FTP file management tool, which puts the functionality directly in your browser. It is an open source PHP/Ajax cloudware that allows the user to drag and drop files from your computer to your browser for the files to be uploaded. In addition, it also has support for on-screen file editing and runs on Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
3. Phalcon PHP: This is a web framework that comes as a C extension. It has been written in the C programming language and emphasises on platform independence. Being written in C, it runs on Microsoft’s Windows along with GNU/Linux and Apple’s Mac OS X.
4. Pinba: This is a MySQL storage engine that can also be used as a realtime monitoring and statistics server for PHP through MySQL. This tool processes data that has been sent over UDP and returns the statistics in human-readable reports.
5. CaseBox: This is a web application used for managing and storing tasks, records and files. It comes with a desktop-like interface and can create numerous directories in order to store data. It is powered by PHP/MySQL.
6. Munee: When you need to optimise and manipulate website assets, this is the tool that you go for. It is a all-in-one library that has a caching feature. This feature can be used for caching resources on both the client and the server side. The tool integrate easily with the PHP image manipulation library as well.
7. PHPImageWorkshop: This is an open source class that uses the GD library allowing the user to manage images using PHP. It also allows the user to superpose layers and layer groups. Each layer group can have a background image.
8. Sylius: This is a free and open source e-commerce solution that is based on Symfony2. It can manage stores of any size and many products or categories of products. In addition, the products can have different shipping details and tax rates etc. It also comes with Omnigateway, which is a multi-gateway payment processing library.
9. Pico: This is an open source content management system application, which has been built using PHP. It uses flat-files as its database.
10. phpMyFAQ: Lastly, the open source application PHP F.A.Q. is a good tool for building F.A.Q. systems. It comes with a powerful admin interface and the tool is quite stable as well. This interface can be used in order to manage various categories, users, entries and other information.
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