PHP is one of the most popular general purpose scripting
language, which is designed for web development, to create dynamic web pages.
Many of the open source publishing platforms like Drupal and joomla uses this
language. PHP gives fast, stable and secure pages. For a productive web
developer, a superb collection of tools is needed.
In this article I like to present 6 significant PHP tools
1. XAMPP
Many of us know that it is difficult to install Apache web
server. It is not an easy task to add MySQL, Perl and PHP. XAMPP is an easy to
use Apache tool including MySQL, Perl and PHP. It is easy to download, extract
and use.
It is a fast development framework for PHP. It provides architecture for creating, maintaining and
deploying applications. Using this tool reduces cost and the developer can
reduce codes.
3. Codeigniter
Codeigniter is a powerful open source PHP framework for PHP
coders who need an excellent toolkit for full featured web applications.
4. PEAR
PEAR is a framework for reusable PHP elements. It is also
easy to use.
5. Symfony
Symfony is a collection of cohesive classes in PHP. It
provides necessary elements, scheme and tools for developers to create complex
web applications.
6. JpGraph
JpGraph is an object-oriented graph generating library for PHP.
It is written entirely in PHP. It can be used in any of the PHP scripts. Using
this tool various types of graphs can be created to convert boring data into
beautiful graphs.
