Modern PHP Development Links

I started hacking around with PHP in 1998 but never really considered it development until I learned what I used to consider “superior languages”. A decade later, PHP is going strong and I am actually employed at a company where we do a lot of PHP (my opinions are my own). I’ve been wanting to implement something smart for deploying PHP projects (like continuous-integration) and decided to compile a list of useful links here. Wouldn’t really consider this an article, just a placeholder of links.

Test Frameworks

• Codeception: BDD inspired testing framework. MIT licensed.
• SimpleTest: Unit Testing framework, written in PHP. LGPL licensed.
• PHPunit. Unit Testing framework. BSD licensed.
• Enhance PHP.

Object Relational Mapping (ORM)

• Doctrine: Doctrine ORM, used by Symfoni and others.
• RedBeanPHP
• PHP ActiveRecord
• DataSourceORM
• idiorm BSD licensed

Build Systems

Code Tools

Message Queues

• RabbitMQ: AMQP compatible server.
• ActiveMQ: AMQP compatible server.
• 0MQ: server (not AMQP compatible AFAIK).

Other useful libraries

• Opauth

Frameworks

• Flourish: Modular
• Symfoni: Modular.
• Aurora PHP

Articles

• PHP Continuous integration, with Jenkins and Phing
• Exploring RabbitMQ and PHP
• CakePHP