Posted by C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) on 01/01/08 17:23

On 1 Jan, 10:58, NC <n...@iname.com> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 12:46 am, "R.A.M." <r_ahims...@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Q: What tools, utility programs do you use when you are
> > designing and programming PHP applications? Could you
> > recommend me something?
>
> > I was programming in Microsoft .NET and there are many
> > tools like Reflector (code analysis), DotNetNuke and ASP.NET
> > Web Matrix (to create dynamic web applications), NDoc (for
> > documentation generation).
>
> For code analysis, you'd have to go with the top of the line stuff
> (Zend IDE or NuSphere phpED);

? Eclipse and XDebug do a pretty good tracing solution, and for code
coverage/profiling, kcachegrind and XDebug.

Firebug/FirePHP are handy for HTTP related stuff, particularly on
production systems.

Personally I also use phpxref for documentation (although
phpdocumentor is very good too).

There are lots of unit test harnesees out there, alternatively, if you
prefer continuous integration, check out Rephlux.


> Creating applications... There are tons of things you can use, from
> MVC frameworks (CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony, etc.) to templating
> systems (phpTemplate, Smarty, etc.) to customizable off-the-shelf
> applications (Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, just to name a few).
>

agreed - if anything there's too many choices! But if you're having a
look for different ways of doing things, I'd recommend looking at
Prado, Zend and Seagull in the list of frameworks.

C.

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