"Psalm is a static analysis tool that’s designed to improve large PHP codebases by identifying both obvious and hard-to-spot bugs.

Psalm comes with a fixer that allows you to improve your code automatically, too."

"If you are a fellow PHP developer just like me you're probably aware of the following fact: PHP really SUCKS in long running tasks.

When using RabbitMQ with pure PHP consumers you have to deal with stability issues. Probably you are killing your consumers regularly just like me. And try to solve the problem with supervisord. Which also means on every deploy you have to restart your consumers. A little bit dramatic if you ask me.

This library aims at PHP developers solving the above described problem with RabbitMQ. Why don't let the polling over to a language as Go which is much better suited to run long running tasks."

"Sick and tired of defending code quality over and over again? GrumPHP will do it for you! This composer plugin will register some git hooks in your package repository. When somebody commits changes, GrumPHP will run some tests on the committed code. If the tests fail, you won't be able to commit your changes. This handy tool will not only improve your codebase, it will also teach your co-workers to write better code following the best practices you've determined as a team.

GrumPHP has a set of common tasks built-in. You will be able to use GrumPHP with a minimum of configuration."

"Python has one. Ruby has one. Clojure has one. Now PHP has one, too. Boris is PHP's missing REPL (read-eval-print loop), allowing developers to experiment with PHP code in the terminal in an interactive manner. If you make a mistake, it doesn't matter, Boris will report the error and stand to attention for further input.

Everything you enter into Boris is evaluated and the result inspected so you can understand what is happening. State is maintained between inputs, allowing you to gradually build up a solution to a problem."

"PHP cache slam defense using (memcached) semaphore to prevent dogpile effect (aka clobbering updates, stampending herd or Slashdot effect).

Problem: too many requests hit your website at the same time to regenerate same content slamming your database. It might happen after the cache was expired.

Solution: first request generates new content while all the subsequent requests get (stale) content from cache until it's refreshed by the first request."

"phpspec is a development tool, designed to help you achieve clean and working PHP code by using a technique derived from test-first development called (spec) behaviour driven development, or SpecBDD.

The technique consists of describing the next object behaviour (spec) you are about to implement, using a tool like phpspec, then writing just enough code to quickly satisfy that specification and finally stopping to refactor the last increment, allowing the emergent design to guide the direction. This is done in small iterative steps."

"virtPHP is a tool for creating and managing multiple isolated PHP environments on a single machine. It's like Python's virtualenv, but for PHP.

virtPHP creates isolated environments so that you may run any number of PHP development projects, all using different versions of PEAR packages and different PECL extensions. You may even specify a different version of PHP, if your system has various installations of PHP.

To install multiple versions of PHP, we suggest taking a look at the phpenv and php-build projects and using virtPHP with them, to manage multiple virtual PHP environments.

Note: virtPHP is currently only targeted to command line php (php-cli) for *nix based systems."