PHP: Miscellaneous

Modern Tooling

Unit testing PHP?

Quickly Perform PHP Unit Testing With PHPUnit

Interesting PHP libraries

• UserFrosting
  Modern user management framework for PHP

Optimize images

• spatie/image-optimizer
  can optimize PNG,JPG,SVG,GIF and WebP by running them through a chain of various image optimization tools. Not sure if it can convert or resize images.

Browser screenshots

• spatie/browsershot
  Convert html to an image, pdf or string
  Easily convert webpages to images using PHP

Crawlers

spatie/crawler

spatie/crawler: An easy to use, powerful crawler implemented in PHP. Can execute Javascript.

By default, the crawler will not execute JavaScript, but you can enable the execution of JavaScript: this package uses Browsershot subpackage. This package uses Puppeteer under the hood.

Goutte & Panther - same API and that’s important

PHP Web Scraping: What to know before you start with Symfony Panther, Goutte, and more
Web Scraping with PHP

Proxy in Panther:
https://github.com/symfony/panther#using-a-proxy
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59583732/how-can-i-set-proxy-server-with-symfony-panther