Tools and languages

(updated 2014-06-02 by Greg)

As the name states, PHPDevShell is a framework written in PHP for PHP developers. And as it’s mostly meant to create websites, it also has HTML and Javascript components.

You don’t need any tool in particular to use it; however there are several tools we are using and that you may want to use too:

• PHPDoc: API documentation is embedded in the source files according to PHPDoc conventions
• PHPUnit: all PHP-related unit testing is done with PHPUnit
• bazaar: currently, the code is hosted on Launchpad, which uses bazaar the versionning system; it’s needed to push/pull code from the repository (but not needed to just download a released version)
• PHP Code Sniffer: helps making the code quality better
• Manula: this very documentation is provided throught this service
  

Also, PHPDevShell itself uses several third-parties Open Source products:

• Smarty: a templating engine for PHP (you are not required to write your own pages with it)
• PNotify Pines): a Javascript libray to display visual notifications
• RedBeanPHP: ORM/CRUD library for PHP (as a plugin)
• TinyMCE: WYSIWYG editor