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date: 2023-12-19
topic: 'PHP: TUIs, CLIs and open-source'
guests:
  - Dan Leech
transistor:
  id: 45d57d43
links:
  - - PHP TUI on GitHub
    - https://github.com/php-tui

  - - Phpactor on GitHub
    - https://github.com/phpactor

  - - PHPbench on GitHub
    - https://github.com/phpbench

  - - Phpactor documentation
    - https://phpactor.readthedocs.io

  - - PHPBench documentation
    - https://phpbench.readthedocs.io

  - - Testing code performance with PHPBench
    - https://youtu.be/-qxu6n9Q-3k?si=2N8Ee9GIgCul7_e1

  - - PHP-TUI Progress
    - https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2023/11/03/php-tui-progress

  - - PHP Term
    - https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2023/11/27/php-term

  - - PHP Architecture Tester (phpat)
    - https://github.com/carlosas/phpat

  - - Jess Archer
    - https://jessarcher.com

  - - Neovim as a PHP and JavaScript IDE (Laracasts)
    - https://laracasts.com/series/neovim-as-a-php-ide

  - - Laravel Prompts
    - https://github.com/laravel/prompts

  - - Symfony Terminal component
    - https://speakerdeck.com/fabpot/the-symfony-terminal-component
---

In this week's episode, Oliver is joined by Dan Leech to discuss building command-line applications and TUIs with PHP based on Dan's open-source projects - Phpactor, PHPBench and, most recently, PHP-TUI.
