Ask HN: What are PHP's equivalents to Python's top tools?
I have been a happy Python user for years and super thankful for the plethora of good tools in the Python environment. However I sometimes have to use some PHP and still feel like I'm in the 90ies when it comes to the tools I use. I skimmed through Josh Lockhart's Modern PHP, but still I have not found many alternatives to the tools I love.
I'm sure, however, that these exist. So, what are the closest best practice equivalents, for...
- Creating separate dev environments using `Virtualenv`? - Installing packages in these envs using `pip`? How can I use composer in that workflow? - Enabling persistence in a super simple way using `dataset`? - Handling requests using `requests`? - Creating beautiful command line interfaces using `click`? - Getting an overview of good practices via http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/?
Probably you can come up with even more great workflow tools in Python and their equivalent in PHP.
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[ 26.1 ms ] story [ 211 ms ] thread- guzzle for HTTP request handling - http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/
- Virtphp for virtual environments - https://github.com/virtphp/virtphp
- Composer for dependency management - https://getcomposer.org/
- PHP-cli-tools for CLI building, see the example: https://github.com/wp-cli/php-cli-tools/blob/master/examples...