Modern tools for PHP developers

1

Xdebug

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.

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2

PHPUnit

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.

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3

PEAR

Importing external libraries as dependencies used to be a real pain in PHP. However, one of the most prominent changes in PHP’s maturity came with the release of Composer. Before Composer, PHP used PEAR, which solved the same problem in a more primitive way.

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4

Laravel

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.

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5

Composer

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.

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6

Codeception

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

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