Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PHPSandbox
Online Code sandbox for PHP with Composer packages support.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PHPSandbox launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 6IB
2021 · vemto.app · its alternatives →
- 7DH
Hey HN, I last PHP professionally over 15 years ago, and I loved it. I switched to Ruby on Rails, then Node/Go/React/GraphQL as there was a lot more demand for those roles. However, PHP is back! In true JavaScript fashion, I decided to learn PHP again by building a framework to put all the pieces together in my brain. I absolutely love Hono.dev, and decided to base the PHP framework on that. Dumbo isn't intended to compete with Laravel, Symphony or Slim, if anything, it's something people can use in production, but also contribute to and be used as a learning resource for…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 10TB
2013 · serverpilot.io · its alternatives →
- 11AL
Hey HN, I built ArtisanForge, a free platform to learn PHP and Laravel through a medieval-fantasy RPG. Instead of traditional tutorials, you progress through kingdoms, solve coding exercises in a browser editor, earn XP, join guilds, and fight boss battles. Tech stack: Laravel 12, Livewire 3, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js. Code execution runs sandboxed via php-wasm in the browser. What's in there: - 12 courses across 11 kingdoms (PHP basics to deployment) - 100+ interactive exercises with real-time code validation using AST analysis - AI companion (Pip the Owlox) that uses Socratic method – never…
Feb 2026 · artisanforge.online · its alternatives →
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A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies. - olivier-ls/php-fts
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14CC
Chunk co-founder here. We spent the last 2 weeks building this to scratch our own itch: As developers, we often have problems that could be solved just by running a few lines of code. Sometimes, running this code on your local machine is fine. But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere. So now, you have to find a cloud provider, to package or build the code and finally to deploy it. All of that for what could be literally be 4 lines of code. We couldn’t find an easier way to do…
2022 · chunk.run · its alternatives →
- 15HA
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 16OS
2014 · blockify.co · its alternatives →
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I needed to make a tiny webapp backend to upload to shared LAMP hosting (they still exist, and I think they're fun despite us being well beyond 2005), but I couldn't face waiting for FTP to sync down however thousands files Laravel or similar frameworks need. So I made a tiny PHP framework that gets packaged into a single file. I'm using it for my own shady purposes, but I decided to put it on GitHub in case anyone else finds the approach useful. It has typed request/response handling, filesystem-based routing, object serialization, database models/schema generation, and a little…
12d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18TO
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Rust compiler with ownership checking, written in PHP - mrconter1/rustc-php
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20IB
This is a simple PHP framework I built myself from scratch with minimal dependencies from composer. It has Autowiring DI and some simple routing provided by the Slim router. The code: https://github.com/cipher-code/phpframework
2022 · its alternatives →
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Online PHP sandbox to test PHP code with MySQL
Aug 2026 · phphub.net · its alternatives →
- 22PD
2016 · phpappbuild.com · its alternatives →
- 23L4
2013 · laravel.com · its alternatives →
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