Development tools

Symfony framework development team are adding Psalm into github action, this will help them check errors in Pull Requests. Psalm is a static analysis tool for PHP created by Vimeo, that...

Rector PHP is an extremely powerful and amazing tool to help developers improve the code quality of your PHP projects. It could be used to safely upgrade your legacy codebase from...

Derick Rethans, author of Xdebug, have just announced the availability of Xdebug cloud, a new service that run in the cloud that allows for Xdebug debugging sessions to be proxied through...

Couscous is a PHP tool that generates beautiful GitHub pages website from your markdown documentation. Everything you need to do is to write your documentation in Markdown inside your repository, versioned with your...

Symfony Panther 1.0 have just been released, the browser testing and web scraping library for PHP and Symfony. The library relies on theWebDriver W3C specification to manipulate real web browsers. Chrome...

Lando is a very interesting cross platform, free and open source alternative built on Docker technology to get your local development environment up and running ! Lando is designed to work...

We talked in a previous article about PHP Scoper, the PHP tool to help you prepare your code for packaging. Once your code is ready, you can send it to Box...

PHP-Scoper is a tool which essentially moves any body of code, including all dependencies such as vendor directories, to a new and distinct namespace. The tool goal is to make sure...

This week have been marked by the release of Composer 2.0, the dependency manager for PHP. This is a major release with over 50 new features and bugfixes. Top new feature in...

Derick Rethans just announced the availability of Xdebug 3.0.0beta1. This version supports PHP 8, and changes how Xdebug is configured. It is also much faster than Xdebug 2. Configuration changes, massive...