Development Tools

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

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

Online CRUD scaffold creator for MySQL. Generates code from MySQL query in PHP for copying into existing code. [Free, Browser-based]

Code generator connects to a MySQL database and produces valid PHP code through a graphic interface. Site and installation also available in Italian. [Freeware]

PHP script encoder and trialware creator with a graphical interface with several editions available. The website also offers a web-based free PHP encoder accessible through a free membership as well as support through a newsletter and forum. [Commercial]

Tools to prettyprint PHP and make it more readable, or to obfuscate the source and make it difficult to reverse-engineer. [Commercial]