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• Computers: Programming: Development Tools  (244)
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Advanced Web Forms - PHP development tools - - Allows the use of a PHP/HTML form to produce basic HTML invoices.

Analog X - PHP Config - - Front end to the php.ini file. Includes graphical components for the standard PHP configuration options, plus the ability to add in 'other' configuration directives, such as for the zend optimizer. Windows only. Freeware.

Apache Friends XAMPP - - XAMPP is an easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux and Windows. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, SQLite, PHP, Perl, a FTP-Server and phpMyAdmin.

ASP Translator - - Free, client-side tool to convert ASP to PHP.

BuildExec PHP Installation Generator - - BuildExec generates PHP installation sequences for all PHP applications. Using a web control panel, developers can generate installation sequences for their applications in just a few minutes.

DBG - - A full-featured php debugger, that allows you to execute PHP script in step-by-step manner, and trace down errors.

Dev-PHP - - A full-featured Integrated Development Environment for PHP on Windows. It's fast, powerful and has a user-friendly interfase. It has many cool features, like Function browsing and full integration with the PHP parser and the PHP-GTK library. [Open source, GPL.

DzSoft - - A tool for writing and testing PHP and HTML pages.

eAccelerator - - A further development from mmcache PHP Accelerator & Encoder. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state. [Open source, GPL.

EasyPHP - - A software package for Windows includes an Apache server, a MySQL database, a fully PHP execution, as well as some PHP development tools.

EngInSite Editor for PHP - - A complete integrated development environment (IDE) for creating, testing and debugging PHP scripts, which runs on Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP. [Commercial.

e-novative WAMP - - An automated installer for Apache, PHP, MySql and phpMyAdmin on Windows. Free download.

Gubed - - A PHP debugger for stepping through code, breakint at errors and breakpoints. [Open source, GPL.

ionCube PHP Accelerator - - A PHP extension to the PHP Zend engine that accelerates compilation and execution of scripts. Works particularly well with the Smarty templating system.

Javuh - - An organized distribution of PHP classes, including the Psychoo site modeling system, Internet protocols, database abstraction.

LogiCreate - - PHP web application server and framework. [Open source, req. registration.

Maguma Workbench - - A customizable Integrated Development Environment with modular plug-in architecture for the development of PHP scripts. [Commercial.

PEAR: Benchmark - - Provides a framework to benchmark PHP scripts or function calls.

PECL: Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) - - A full-featured profiler/debugger that is loaded as a zend_extension. It aims to be an analog of C's gprof or Perl's Devel::DProf.

PHAkt - - An server model for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, allowing PHP generation using the same techniques as when developing ASP/JSP/ColdFusion. [Open source, GPL.

PHP Designer - - Powerful freeware IDE for coding PHP for both professional and novice alike.

PHP Expert Editor - - An easy-to-use PHP IDE for Windows. Has an internal HTTP-server and Debugger to run, test and debug PHP scripts. [Shareware.

Php Object Generator - - Php Object Generator, (POG) automatically generates tested Object Oriented code that you can use for your PHP4/PHP5 application.

phpBackend - - An online tool that accelerates databases forms and script development. It converts database structure definition into a PHP application that allows you to add/edit/delete/search/order data. [Commercial.

phpBeans - - Provides software and specifications for enabling n-tier development within PHP, such as the phpBeans Object Server, and interoperable with other languages as well. [Open source, GPL.

phpCodeGenie Code Generator - - A code generator for database driven applications. PCG can generate entire working basic database driven applications from different databases.

PHPEclipse - - A PHP IDE built as an Eclipse plugin. It takes advantage of a well-designed, robust and widely used application framework. [Open source, Common Public License.

PhpED IDE - - An integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP for Windows and Linux. It supports PHP software development on all stages including coding, debugging, profiling and publishing. By NuSphere. [Commercial.

PHPEdit - - A full featured PHP IDE for Windows. It has code insight, code completion, syntax-highlighting, integrated debugger, code browser, keyboard templates. [Commercial.

phpGTK User Language (GUL) - - A free Xul-like markup language for describing user interfaces with PHP-GTK extension.

PHP4HS (PHP Development Extensions for HomeSite) - - The spot for people using HomeSite for PHP or ASP development to find help and to exchange add-on extensions, resources, help, links, tips, requests and articles.

PHPTriad - - A Windows installer for an Apache/PHP/MySQL/Perl environment.

PSD - - A visual frontend for debugging PHP. It runs on Win98SE and newer and can be used remotely. [Freeware.

QaDRAM - - a Delphi-like RAD tool for PHP.

Rapid PHP Editor - - Full-featured, quick and sophisticated PHP editor. Enables easily create, edit, navigate and validate PHP, HTML and CSS code. [Shareware.

RedKernel Referer Tracker - Free Php/MySql Script - - A powerful referer tracking script that will draw detailed graphics depending on the period, the referring domain and the audited host.

RegExp.net - - Online tool to check and tweak regular expressions. Supports ereg, eregi and preg_match.

Roadsend Compiler for PHP - - Produces optimized stand alone applications, libraries, and Web applications from standard PHP source code.

Simple Test for PHP - - PHP unit tester and mock objects framework. [Open source, Open Group Test Suite License.

Top PHP Studio - - An editor which is designed for PHP programming language. Top PHP Studio has internal HTTP-server and internal browser to test PHP scripts. [Shareware.

TruStudio - - A cross-platform, multi-language Integrated Development Environment for PHP and Python built on top of Eclipse Platform.

TurboPHP - - A Windows program which uses an extendable Delphi or VB-like component model for PHP-based web programming.

VS.Php for Visual Studio .Net - - A PHP editor built on top of Visual Studio .Net .

WAMP5 - - WAMP5 installs Apache, PHP5 and MySQL on Windows plateform. It comes with a service manager as an icon tray and lots of options.

Web-based PHP Class Generator - - A very basic PHP class builder to generate class templates useful for object-oriented programming in PHP.

Website Databases - - Windows software that generates PHP scripts to create and manage MySQL databases. Database Converter software also available.

WizzyWeb - - Web-based application development tool. Self-contained, ODBC compliant (tab delimited) database applications can be created completely online. Custom front-end HTML data entry forms, reports and supporting back-end code are automatically generated to be saved locally and FTP'd for instant deployment.

Xdebug - - An PHP extension for powerful debugging. It supports stack and function traces, profiling information and memory allocation and script execution analysis.

Zend Studio - - Integrated Development Environment for PHP. Versions for linux, Mac and Windows. [Commercial.