PHP

PHP CodeSniffer

PHP CodeSniffer is a tool that can automatically detect violations of the standards you configure, and sometimes automatically fix them.

Drush

Drush is a computer software shell-based application used to control, manipulate, and administer Drupal websites.

APC

Alternative PHP Cache with a goal to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.

Bitrix Framework

A PHP-based platform for the development of web apps. Popular in the former Soviet Union region, two famous products are: Bitrix Site Manager & Bitrix24. 

Blackfire

Performance Management Solution for PHP. It is a developer tool that will help test, debug and optimize application performance.

CakePHP

A modern PHP 7 framework offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system that makes building both small and complex systems simpler and easier.

CMS

Content Management System (CMS) is an application (more likely web-based), that provides capabilities for multiple users with different permission levels to manage content, data or information of a website project, or internet / intranet application.

Codeception

BDD-styled PHP testing framework. Collects and shares best practices and solutions for testing PHP web applications. Based on three main pillars: PHPUnit as a testing environment, Mink, and Symfony Components.

CodeIgniter

Powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for full-featured web applications. Provides a simple toolkit to create fully featured web applications.

Composer

A PHP dependency management tool, created to facilitate installation and update of project dependencies, it is used in all modern PHP frameworks (Symfony, Laravel). 

Doctrine

A set of PHP libraries primarily focused on providing persistence services and related functionality. Its prize projects are an object-relational mapper (ORM) and the database abstraction layer it is built on top of.

Drupal

Platform into which various modules can be plugged and combined to provide CMS customized to your needs. There are modules for many purposes, for example storing different kinds of content, retrieving content based on criteria, and for displaying content in different ways and much more.

Gearman

Distrbuted task handling application framework. Provides a simple framework to handle jobs across many servers where jobs can be pushed onto the server and workers pull the jobs off the server and complete them.

Guzzle

HTTP client library for PHP. Simplifies sending HTTP requests and integration with web services.

HHVM

Virtual machine for running PHP code as well as for running the new programming language HACK. The power of HHVM comes from using just-in-time compilation. HHVM uses this approach to optimize "hot code" which it notices is being repeatedly run.

Joomla

Ecommerce platform that is popular for medium to large businesses. The following list highlights some of the concrete features: out-of-the-box content management features, content organization using nested level of categories, content versioning and tagging, media management, user management, etc.

Kohana

PHP 5 framework that uses the Hierachical Model View Controller architectural pattern. It aims to be secure, lightweight, and easy to use.

LAMP

Solution stack used to develop dynamic web sites and servers. Refers to Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl and is considered most growing field these days for development and deployment of highly dynamic web applications which are based on reliable foundation.

Laravel

PHP web application framework based on MVC architecture. The security feature of Laravel is prompt in taking appropriate action as and when there is a breach in security. The syntax patterns of Laravel are expressive and elegant.

Lumen

A PHP micro-framework designed for building stunningly fast microservices and APIs.

Magento

An open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP. Provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content and functionality of their online store.

MAMP

Application that can be installed on the Mac which allows to have access to a local PHPserver and MySQL server. Essentially, MAMP gives all of the tools to run WordPress on your machine, for development and testing purposes.

Memcached

An in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

Mockery

PHP extension that offers a superior mocking experience, particularly when compared to PHPUnit. Offers a set of mocking-related matchers that are very similar to a Hamcrest dictionary, offering a very natural way to express mocked expectations.

MODX

A pure PHP CMS that can cater to a wide range of users. It brings a lot of customization and can power virtually any genre of websites, including blogs.