PHP Application Tools

After taking part in several large PHP projects and writing a lot of PHP code, I found that many tools can improve code quality and simplify publishing, making the career of PHP developers a lot easier. Many of these tools may have been used for everyone. But since some people don't even notice the existence of these tools, I'll start from there, okay, no nonsense, here's a list of tools I think all PHP programmers should know. Phing-a project building system


Phing is a project building system based on Apache ANT. Its name is a clumsy statement acronym-Phing is isn't GNU make. Phing can do traditional building systems such as what GNU make can do, without steep learning curves.
The idea behind Phing (and other build systems) is to evaluate a series of dependencies and then execute a series of PHP classes to properly install and configure an application system. The build process is controlled with a simple XML configuration file. Out of the box,phing built-in can perform a series of substitutions (such as changing include paths between your development version and product version), executing SQL statements, moving and copying files, running external scripts, and so on. You can also create your own custom tasks by extending the "task" class that is included in the release package.

For anyone who needs to deploy a large PHP application on more than one server in the afterlife, Phing is a priceless treasure. And I find it useful for simple PHP scripts as well.
Xdebug-Debugging and analysis tools