Lesser known but helpful tools for PHP web development

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Lesser known but helpful tools for PHP web
development
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PHP is one of the most celebrated scripting
language of all and it is known to be powering
major websites like WordPress and Facebook and a
lot many others. The language is highly preferred
over several other scripting languages
by software developers but it is also a common
complaint among them that the language is a bit
complicated to work on when compared to the rest
of its counterparts.
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To make things simple for PHP developers, there
are several developing tools that an expert
programmers should know. These tools help
accomplish important tasks of PHP web application
development swiftly and accurately.
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I finally compiled a list of all such really
helpful tools for PHP web development and make
life a lot easier for programmers.
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Go through the list and thank me later!
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SublimeText
This is the best text editor tool for PHP
frameworks. If you search the web, you will find
many text editors. But the special feature of
this one is that it is a highly advanced text
editor and enables the user to improvise the
layout in a satisfying way. It can be used for
codes, markup and prose and at the same time
offers an extraordinary performance.
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Geocoder
Nowadays, there are many applications that use
the geolocation feature to offer more accurate
services. For that, the app needs to access the
GPS of the phone and thereby offer tailored
services based on the location of the user. This
tool helps PHP developers to generate an
abstraction layer that can execute tasks of using
the location services of the device through easy
geocoding manipulation.
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PHPCPD
For developers to be able to successfully build a
massive website in PHP, there is a a large amount
of coding required. Also, for a website with a
lot of frontend and backend communication, there
is a lot of repetition of coding in which several
codes are recalled several time. In such a
situation,
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The server communication can get stuck and the
website performance shall suffer is if there are
repetitive calls and functions in the code that
can cause problematic loops. That is why if there
is a tool that can detect all the codes that have
been copy-pasted, the developer can spot all the
repeated codes and decide whether or not to
eliminate all the redundancies.
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Mink
For any web application to work smoothly and
cover more ground and gain popularity, it needs
to be compatible with all web browsers. The Mink
tools helps developers to test any PHP based web
application for compatibility with any web
browser and detect all the API conflict issues
and develop browser compatible codes.
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Securimage
This is a tool that helps one add CAPTCHA codes
to web forms on the web application. The tool is
designed specially to develop complicated CAPTCHA
codes thereby making the form more secure. This
tool is generally used in combination with PHP
CAPTCHA tool that helps one to add a security
patch to the forms that are being submitted
online.
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Summing up
There are many more tools for developing better
and more responsive web applications with PHP
language. But the ones listed above are some
lesser known yet extremely helpful ones. It would
make the lives of PHP web developers a lot more
simpler if they had knowledge about the
above-mentioned tools.
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