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PHP Impact collected nice collection of useful PHP classes and components for your PHP applications. In this post you would find tools for databases, security, images and much more.

Simplicity and extensibility are the main reasons why PHP became the favourite dynamic language of the Web. In the last decade, PHP has developed from a niche language for adding dynamic functionality to small websites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale Web systems.

Found great article in Sitepoint about php tools for in-browser develop. It describes Xdebug, symphony development toolbar and other great tools.

While debuggers exists, there isn’t much of a tradition for using them in PHP. People have largely come to rely on injecting debugging code directly into the program, for inspecting program scope. The infamous var_dump have served for this purpose and version 4.3.0 of PHP brought us another equally useful function — debug_backtrace.

I think everyone must know how it is important  to debug code.