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.<p>I'm sure, however, that these exist. So, what are the closest best practice equivalents, for...<p>- 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/?<p>Probably you can come up with even more great workflow tools in Python and their equivalent in PHP.
I did some more research and might have find a few good PHP equivalents:<p>- guzzle for HTTP request handling - <a href="http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/" rel="nofollow">http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/latest/</a><p>- Virtphp for virtual environments - <a href="https://github.com/virtphp/virtphp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/virtphp/virtphp</a><p>- Composer for dependency management - <a href="https://getcomposer.org/" rel="nofollow">https://getcomposer.org/</a><p>- PHP-cli-tools for CLI building, see the example: <a href="https://github.com/wp-cli/php-cli-tools/blob/master/examples/arguments.php" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wp-cli/php-cli-tools/blob/master/examples...</a>