Tools for PHP code refactoring [closed]

Answer 1

As far as I know, the only IDEs that has any significant Refactoring support for PHP are Zend Studio from the makers of PHP and the Eclipse PHP plugin. Though the features are very basic. Nothing that I know of has the features of products like Resharper for C# etc.

Answer 2

Still my favorite refactoring tool is good ol' EditPlus in combination with Total Commander's super fast file search. (Hint: Alt+F7) I totally agree with Mark Biek's reply that you want to have full control over what is replaced where and when.

Whenever i have to do a some refactoring, i create a list in total commander of the files i want to alter by either searching with the built-in function or just by selecting them, and then i drag them all to EditPlus

Editplus can search & replace through the current file, a selection or all opened files using normal text matching, regex matching or multiline matching. It really gives you full control :)

Also, what comes in handy for code refactoring is EditPlus's Macro Recorder (Ctrl + Q to start recording macro 1-9 and Alt + 1-9 to playback a macro).

Once you get the hang of it, you know you can just search for a variable, ctrl + shift + (home || end || arrow keys) through your code, delete, copy/paste and use al that keyboard wizardry to like, for instance, convert a CSV file into a bunch of SQL queries within 30 seconds.

Answer 3

PHPStorm from Jetbrains support refactoring, http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/index.html

The Rename refactoring works for files, functions, constants, classes, properties, methods, parameters, and local and global variables. Also following refactorings are available:

• Introduce Variable
• Introduce Constant
• Introduce Field
• Inline variable

and they offer some free license to open source project as well !

Answer 4

Maybe it's just because I'm still getting comfortable with the concepts of refactoring but I don't like having a tool do it for me.

I still prefer to do most refactoring manually because it forces me to slow down and really think about what I'm moving around and why.

Answer 5

The NetBeans IDE has some refactoring capability but it doesn't always seem to work. I am however using 6.1 with early PHP access. I expect 6.5 to have better refactoring capabilities with PHP.

Answer 6

Scisr is a simple, standalone refactoring tool for PHP.

I know this is an old question, but since it's one of the best rundowns of PHP refactoring tools, I thought I would add my new project to the list.

A lot of my design goals sprung out of the inadequacies of other items mentioned here - they are tied into certain IDEs, or try to dictate your testing practices, or require a whole bunch of rote manual labor. I am hoping to create an overall better experience in Scisr. It's simple to install and run. It tries to be clever, but not too clever. It does the tasks that I have found to lend themselves best to automation. Enjoy!