7 Awesome tools for PHP developers

For making programming better for PHP developers I came to know about few tools and resources. I am decribing here:
1. Framework: Frameworks provide a base for developping applications quickly. They provide intelligence to use most commonly used functions.
two commopnly used frameworks:

• Symfony (www.symfony-project.com)
• Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com)

2. Compilers: PHP is a compiled language and it compiles code in to byte code and processed by the zend engine. The mod_php module does this job.
There are other compilers available that allow PHP to be compiled into other languages.

• .Net (http://www.php-compiler.net/)
• Java (http://www.caucho.com/resin3.0/php/)
• Mono (http://php4mono.sourceforge.net/)
• RoadSend PHP compiler - It converts PHP code into a standalone executable file with out the need of PHP on the target machine (http://www.roadsend.com)
• www.priadoBlender.com

3. IDEs: To write PHP code some developers prefer vi or kate (linux developers).
There are some intresting one:

• PHPEclipse (www.phpeclipse.net)

It provides PHP support to Eclipse and is really well done for peojects and debugging.

4. Debugging: Currently people uses echo or print/printf .
There are more efficient ways

• Xdebug (www.xdebug.org) - Provides detailed stack trace and file/function information.
• APD (Advanced PHP Debugger) - http://pear.php.net/apd/ - It can log porofile information in to a file that can later be analysed.
• PhpEclipse also used for debugging.

5. Performance: to optimise applications.

• alternative php cache (APC)- http://pear.php.net/apc/ - This is a good tool to analyse sluggish code points.
• Database queries should be optimized.
• memchached (http://www.danga.com/memcached/) - this is a daemon that caches objects in memory & optimises databbase performance.

6. Database:

• Mysql query browser
• To give a refreshing interface to your customer, to manage Mysql on the server use - phpFlashMyAdmin (http://www.tufat.com/s-flash-phpmyadmin.htm)

7. User Interaction (User Interface):
Dojo toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.org) - It provides excellent set of DHTML/AJAX widgets that you can easily integrate in your application.