# Awesome PHP ![](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/workflows/Awesome%20Bot/badge.svg) A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things. ## Contributing and Collaborating Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), [CODE-OF-CONDUCT](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md) and [COLLABORATING](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/COLLABORATING.md) for details. ## Table of Contents - [Awesome PHP](#awesome-php) - [Composer Repositories](#composer-repositories) - [Dependency Management](#dependency-management) - [Dependency Management Extras](#dependency-management-extras) - [Frameworks](#frameworks) - [Framework Extras](#framework-extras) - [Content Management Systems](#content-management-systems-cms) - [Components](#components) - [Micro Frameworks](#micro-frameworks) - [Micro Framework Extras](#micro-framework-extras) - [Routers](#routers) - [Templating](#templating) - [Static Site Generators](#static-site-generators) - [HTTP](#http) - [Scraping](#scraping) - [Middlewares](#middlewares) - [URL](#url) - [Email](#email) - [Files](#Files) - [Streams](#streams) - [Dependency Injection](#dependency-injection) - [Imagery](#imagery) - [Testing](#testing) - [Continuous Integration](#continuous-integration) - [Documentation](#documentation) - [Security](#security) - [Passwords](#passwords) - [Code Analysis](#code-analysis) - [Code Quality](#code-quality) - [Static Analysis](#static-analysis) - [Architectural](#architectural) - [Debugging and Profiling](#debugging-and-profiling) - [Build Tools](#build-tools) - [Task Runners](#task-runners) - [Navigation](#navigation) - [Asset Management](#asset-management) - [Geolocation](#geolocation) - [Date and Time](#date-and-time) - [Event](#event) - [Logging](#logging) - [E-commerce](#e-commerce) - [PDF](#pdf) - [Office](#office) - [Database](#database) - [Migrations](#migrations) - [NoSQL](#nosql) - [Queue](#queue) - [Search](#search) - [Command Line](#command-line) - [Authentication and Authorization](#authentication-and-authorization) - [Markup and CSS](#markup-and-css) - [JSON](#json) - [Strings](#strings) - [Numbers](#numbers) - [Filtering and Validation](#filtering-and-validation) - [API](#api) - [Caching and Locking](#caching-and-locking) - [Data Structure and Storage](#data-structure-and-storage) - [Notifications](#notifications) - [Deployment](#deployment) - [Internationalisation and Localisation](#internationalisation-and-localisation) - [Serverless](#serverless) - [Configuration](#configuration) - [Third Party APIs](#third-party-apis) - [Extensions](#extensions) - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous) - [Software](#software) - [PHP Installation](#php-installation) - [Development Environment](#development-environment) - [Virtual Machines](#virtual-machines) - [Text Editors and IDEs](#text-editors-and-ides) - [Web Applications](#web-applications) - [Infrastructure](#infrastructure) - [Resources](#resources) - [PHP Websites](#php-websites) - [PHP Books](#php-books) - [PHP Videos](#php-videos) - [PHP Podcasts](#php-podcasts) - [PHP Newsletters](#php-newsletters) - [PHP Reading](#php-reading) - [PHP Internals Reading](#php-internals-reading) ### Composer Repositories *Composer Repositories.* * [Firegento](https://packages.firegento.com/) - Magento Module Composer Repository. * [Packagist](https://packagist.org/) - The PHP Package Repository. * [Private Packagist](https://packagist.com/) - Composer package archive as a service for PHP. * [WordPress Packagist](https://wpackagist.org/) - Manage your plugins with Composer. ### Dependency Management *Libraries for dependency and package management.* * [Composer Installers](https://github.com/composer/installers) - A multi framework Composer library installer. * [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) - A package and dependency manager. * [Phive](https://phar.io/) - A PHAR manager. * [Pickle](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/pickle) - A PHP extension installer. ### Dependency Management Extras *Extras related to dependency management.* * [Composed](https://github.com/joshdifabio/composed) - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime. * [Composer Merge Plugin](https://github.com/wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin) - A composer plugin to merge several `composer.json` files. * [Composer Normalize](https://github.com/ergebnis/composer-normalize) - A plugin for normalising `composer.json` files. * [Composer Patches](https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches) - A plugin for Composer to apply patches. * [Composer Require Checker](https://github.com/maglnet/ComposerRequireChecker) - CLI tool to analyze composer dependencies and verify that no unknown symbols are used in the sources of a package. * [Composer Unused](https://github.com/composer-unused/composer-unused) - A CLI Tool to scan for unused composer packages. * [Prestissimo](https://github.com/hirak/prestissimo) - A composer plugin which enables parallel install process. * [Repman](https://repman.io) - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy. * [Satis](https://github.com/composer/satis) - A static Composer repository generator. * [Tooly](https://github.com/tommy-muehle/tooly-composer-script) - A library to manage PHAR files in project using Composer. * [Toran Proxy](https://toranproxy.com) - A static Composer repository and proxy. ### Frameworks *Web development frameworks.* * [CakePHP](https://cakephp.org/) - A rapid application development framework. * [Laminas](https://getlaminas.org/) - A framework comprised of individual components (previously Zend Framework). * [Laravel](https://laravel.com/) - A web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. * [Nette](https://nette.org) - A web framework comprised of mature components. * [Phalcon](https://phalcon.io/en-us) - A framework implemented as a C extension. * [Spiral](https://spiral.dev/) - A high performance PHP/Go framework. * [Symfony](https://symfony.com/) - A set of reusable components and a web framework. * [Yii2](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/) - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework. ### Framework Extras *Extras related to web development frameworks.* * [CakePHP CRUD](https://github.com/friendsofcake/crud) - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP. * [Knp RAD Components](https://rad.knplabs.com/) - A set of Rapid Application Development (RAD) components for Symfony. * [LaravelS](https://github.com/hhxsv5/laravel-s) - Glue for using Swoole in Laravel or Lumen. * [Symfony CMF](https://github.com/symfony-cmf/symfony-cmf) - A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS. * [Livewire](https://laravel-livewire.com/) - A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs. ### Content Management Systems (CMS) *Tools for managing digital content.* * [Backdrop](https://backdropcms.org) - A CMS targeting small-to-medium sized business and non-profits (a fork of Drupal). * [Concrete5](https://www.concretecms.com/) - A CMS targeting users with a minimum of technical skills. * [CraftCMS](https://github.com/craftcms/cms) - A flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond. * [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org) - An enterprise level CMS. * [Grav](https://github.com/getgrav/grav) - A modern flat-file CMS. * [Joomla](https://www.joomla.org/) - Another leading CMS. * [Kirby](https://getkirby.com/) - A flat-file CMS that adapts to any project. * [Magento](https://business.adobe.com/products/magento/magento-commerce.html) - The most popular ecommerce platform. * [Moodle](https://moodle.org/) - An open-source learning platform. * [Pico CMS](https://picocms.org/) - A stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS. * [Statamic](https://statamic.com/) - Build beautiful, easy to manage websites. * [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) - A blogging platform and CMS. ### Components *Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.* * [Aura](https://auraphp.com/) - Independent components, fully decoupled from each other and from any framework. * [CakePHP Plugins](https://plugins.cakephp.org/) - A directory of CakePHP plugins. * [Laravel Components](https://github.com/illuminate) - The Laravel Framework components. * [League of Extraordinary Packages](https://thephpleague.com/) - A PHP package development group. * [Spatie Open Source](https://spatie.be/open-source) - A collection of open source PHP and Laravel packages. * [Symfony Components](https://symfony.com/components) - The components that make Symfony. * [Laminas Components](https://docs.laminas.dev/components/) - The components that make the Laminas Framework. ### Micro Frameworks *Micro frameworks and routers.* * [Laravel-Zero](https://laravel-zero.com) - A micro-framework for console applications. * [Lumen](https://lumen.laravel.com/) - A micro-framework by Laravel. * [Mezzio](https://getexpressive.org/) - A micro-framework by Laminas. * [Radar](https://github.com/radarphp/Radar.Adr) - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP. * [Silly](https://github.com/mnapoli/silly) - A micro-framework for CLI applications. * [Slim](https://www.slimframework.com/) - Another simple micro framework. ### Micro Framework Extras *Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.* * [Slim Skeleton](https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Skeleton) - A skeleton for Slim. * [Slim Twig View](https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Views) - Integrate Twig into Slim. * [Slim PHP View](https://github.com/slimphp/PHP-View) - A simple PHP renderer for Slim. ### Routers *Libraries for handling application routing.* * [Aura.Router](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Router) - A full-featured routing library. * [Fast Route](https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute) - A fast routing library. * [Klein](https://github.com/klein/klein.php) - A flexible router. * [Pux](https://github.com/c9s/Pux) - Another fast routing library. * [Route](https://github.com/thephpleague/route) - A routing library built on top of Fast Route. ### Templating *Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.* * [Latte](https://latte.nette.org/) - The safest and truly intuitive templates for PHP. * [MtHaml](https://github.com/arnaud-lb/MtHaml) - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language. * [Mustache](https://github.com/bobthecow/mustache.php) - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language. * [PHPTAL](https://phptal.org/) - A PHP implementation of the [TAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language) templating language. * [Plates](http://platesphp.com/) - A native PHP templating library. * [Smarty](https://www.smarty.net/) - A template engine to complement PHP. * [Twig](https://twig.symfony.com/) - A comprehensive templating language. ### Static Site Generators *Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.* * [Couscous](http://couscous.io) - Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids. * [Jigsaw](https://jigsaw.tighten.com/) - Simple static sites with Laravel's Blade. * [Sculpin](https://sculpin.io) - A tool that converts Markdown and Twig into static HTML. * [Spress](http://spress.yosymfony.com) - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML. ### HTTP *Libraries for working with HTTP.* * [Buzz](https://github.com/kriswallsmith/Buzz) - Another HTTP client. * [Guzzle]( https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) - A comprehensive HTTP client. * [HTTPlug](http://httplug.io) - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation. * [Nyholm PSR-7](https://github.com/Nyholm/psr7) - A super lightweight PSR-7 implementation. Very strict and very fast. * [PHP VCR](https://php-vcr.github.io/) - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests. * [Requests](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests) - A simple HTTP library. * [Retrofit](https://github.com/tebru/retrofit-php) - A library to ease creation of REST API clients. * [Symfony HTTP Client](https://github.com/symfony/http-client) - A component to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously. * [Laminas Diactoros](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-diactoros) - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation. ### Scraping *Libraries for scraping websites.* * [Chrome PHP](https://github.com/chrome-php/chrome) - Instrument headless Chrome/Chromium instances from PHP. * [DiDOM](https://github.com/Imangazaliev/DiDOM) - A super fast HTML scrapper and parser. * [Embed](https://github.com/oscarotero/Embed) - An information extractor from any web service or page. * [Goutte](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte) - A simple web scraper. * [Symfony Panther](https://github.com/symfony/panther) - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony. * [PHP Spider](https://github.com/mvdbos/php-spider) - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider. ### Middlewares *Libraries for building application using middlewares.* * [PSR-7 Middlewares](https://github.com/oscarotero/psr7-middlewares) - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares. * [Relay](https://github.com/relayphp/Relay.Relay) - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher. * [Stack](https://github.com/stackphp) - A library of stackable middleware for Symfony. * [Laminas Stratigility](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-stratigility) - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7. ### URL *Libraries for parsing URLs.* * [PHP Domain Parser](https://github.com/jeremykendall/php-domain-parser) - A domain suffix parser library. * [Purl](https://github.com/jwage/purl) - A URL manipulation library. * [sabre/uri](https://github.com/sabre-io/uri) - A functional URI manipulation library. * [Uri](https://github.com/thephpleague/uri) - Another URL manipulation library. ### Email *Libraries for sending and parsing email.* * [CssToInlineStyles](https://github.com/tijsverkoyen/CssToInlineStyles) - A library to inline CSS in email templates. * [Email Reply Parser](https://github.com/willdurand/EmailReplyParser) - An email reply parser library. * [Email Validator](https://github.com/nojacko/email-validator) - A small email address validation library. * [Fetch](https://github.com/tedious/Fetch) - An IMAP library. * [Mautic](https://github.com/mautic/mautic) - Email marketing automation * [PHPMailer](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) - Another mailer solution. * [PHP IMAP](https://github.com/barbushin/php-imap) - A library to access mailboxes via POP3, IMAP and NNTP. * [Stampie](https://github.com/Stampie/Stampie) - A library for email services such as [SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com/), [PostMark](https://postmarkapp.com), [MailGun](https://www.mailgun.com/) and [MailChimp](https://mailchimp.com/features/transactional-email/). * [SwiftMailer](https://swiftmailer.symfony.com) - A mailer solution. * [Symfony Mailer](https://github.com/symfony/mailer) - A powerful library for creating and sending emails. ### Files *Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.* * [CSV](https://github.com/thephpleague/csv) - A CSV data manipulation library. * [Flysystem](https://github.com/thephpleague/Flysystem) - Abstraction for local and remote filesystems. * [Gaufrette](https://github.com/KnpLabs/Gaufrette) - A filesystem abstraction layer. * [PHP FFmpeg](https://github.com/PHP-FFmpeg/PHP-FFmpeg/) - A wrapper for the [FFmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/) video library. * [UnifiedArchive](https://github.com/wapmorgan/UnifiedArchive) - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives. ### Streams *Libraries for working with streams.* * [ByteStream](https://amphp.org/byte-stream/) - An asynchronous stream abstraction. * [Streamer](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Streamer) - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library. ### Dependency Injection *Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.* * [Aura.Di](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Di) - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more. * [Acclimate](https://github.com/AcclimateContainer/acclimate-container) - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators. * [Auryn](https://github.com/rdlowrey/Auryn) - A recursive dependency injector. * [Container](https://github.com/thephpleague/container) - Another flexible dependency injection container. * [Disco](https://github.com/bitExpert/disco) - A PSR-11 compatible, annotation-based dependency injection container. * [PHP-DI](https://php-di.org/) - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring. * [Pimple](https://pimple.symfony.com/) - A tiny dependency injection container. * [Symfony DI](https://github.com/symfony/dependency-injection) - A dependency injection container component. ### Imagery *Libraries for manipulating images.* * [Color Extractor](https://github.com/thephpleague/color-extractor) - A library for extracting colours from images. * [Glide](https://github.com/thephpleague/glide) - An on-demand image manipulation library. * [Image Hash](https://github.com/jenssegers/imagehash) - A library for generating perceptual image hashes. * [Image Optimizer](https://github.com/psliwa/image-optimizer) - A library for optimizing images. * [Imagine](https://imagine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) - An image manipulation library. * [Intervention Image](https://github.com/Intervention/image) - Another image manipulation library. * [PHP Image Workshop](https://github.com/Sybio/ImageWorkshop) - Another image manipulation library. ### Testing *Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.* * [Alice](https://github.com/nelmio/alice) - An expressive fixture generation library. * [AspectMock](https://github.com/Codeception/AspectMock) - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception. * [Atoum](https://github.com/atoum/atoum) - A simple testing library. * [Behat](https://docs.behat.org/en/latest/) - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework. * [Codeception](https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception) - A full stack testing framework. * [Faker](https://github.com/fakerphp/faker) - A fake data generator library. * [Foundry](https://github.com/zenstruck/foundry) - A fixture factory generation library for Doctrine. * [HTTP Mock](https://github.com/InterNations/http-mock) - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests. * [Infection](https://github.com/infection/infection) - An AST-based PHP Mutation testing framework. * [Kahlan](https://github.com/kahlan/kahlan) - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support. * [Mink](https://mink.behat.org/en/latest/) - Web acceptance testing. * [Mockery](https://github.com/mockery/mockery) - A mock object library for testing. * [ParaTest](https://github.com/paratestphp/paratest) - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit. * [Pest](https://pestphp.com/) - A testing framework with a focus on simplicity. * [Peridot](https://github.com/peridot-php/peridot) - An event driven test framework. * [Phake](https://github.com/phake/phake) - Another mock object library for testing. * [Pho](https://github.com/danielstjules/pho) - Another behaviour driven development testing framework. * [PHP-Mock](https://github.com/php-mock/php-mock) - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()). * [PHP MySQL Engine](https://github.com/vimeo/php-mysql-engine) - A MySQL engine written in pure PHP. * [PHPSpec](https://github.com/phpspec/phpspec) - A design by specification unit testing library. * [PHPT](https://qa.php.net/write-test.php) - A test tool used by PHP itself. * [PHPUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit) - A unit testing framework. * [Prophecy](https://github.com/phpspec/prophecy) - A highly opinionated mocking framework. * [VFS Stream](https://github.com/bovigo/vfsStream) - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing. ### Continuous Integration *Libraries and applications for continuous integration.* * [CircleCI](https://circleci.com) - A continuous integration platform. * [GitlabCi](https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/continuous-integration/) - Let GitLab CI test, build, deploy your code. TravisCi like. * [Jenkins](https://www.jenkins.io/) - A continuous integration platform with [PHP support](https://www.jenkins.io/solutions/php/). * [JoliCi](https://github.com/jolicode/JoliCi) - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker. * [PHPCI](https://github.com/dancryer/phpci) - An open source continuous integration platform for PHP. * [SemaphoreCI](https://semaphoreci.com/) - A continuous integration platform for open source and private projects. * [Shippable](https://jfrog.com/blog/weve-acquired-shippable-to-complete-devops-pipeline-automation-from-code-to-production/) - A Docker based continious integration platform for open source and private projects. * [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/) - A continuous integration platform. * [Setup PHP](https://github.com/shivammathur/setup-php) - A GitHub Action for PHP. ### Documentation *Libraries for generating project documentation.* * [APIGen](https://github.com/apigen/apigen) - Another API documentation generator. * [daux.io](https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io) - A documentation generator which uses Markdown files. * [PHP Documentor 2](https://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor) - A documentation generator. * [phpDox](https://phpdox.net/) - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation). ### Security *Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning and testing for vulnerabilities.* * [Halite](https://paragonie.com/project/halite) - A simple library for encryption using [libsodium](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium). * [HTML Purifier](https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier) - A standards compliant HTML filter. * [IniScan](https://github.com/psecio/iniscan) - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security. * [Optimus](https://github.com/jenssegers/optimus) - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method. * [PHPGGC](https://github.com/ambionics/phpggc) - A library of PHP unserializable payloads along with a tool to generate them. * [PHP Encryption](https://github.com/defuse/php-encryption) - Secure PHP Encryption Library. * [PHP SSH](https://github.com/Herzult/php-ssh) - An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library. * [PHPSecLib](http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/) - A pure PHP secure communications library. * [random_compat](https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat) - PHP 5.x support for `random_bytes()` and `random_int()` * [RandomLib](https://github.com/ircmaxell/RandomLib) - A library for generating random numbers and strings. * [Symfony Security Monitoring](https://security.symfony.com/) - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as "SensioLabs Security Check". * [SQLMap](https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap) - An automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool. * [TCrypto](https://github.com/timoh6/TCrypto) - A simple encrypted key-value storage library. * [VAddy](https://vaddy.net/) - A continuous security testing platform for web applications. * [Zap](https://owasp.org/www-project-zap/) - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications. ### Passwords *Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.* * [GenPhrase](https://github.com/timoh6/GenPhrase) - A library for generating secure random passphrases. * [Password Compat](https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat) - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions. * [Password Policy](https://github.com/ircmaxell/password-policy) - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript. * [Password Validator](https://github.com/jeremykendall/password-validator) - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes. * [Password-Generator](https://github.com/hackzilla/password-generator) - PHP library to generate random passwords. * [PHP Password Lib](https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHP-PasswordLib) - A library for generating and validating passwords. * [phpass](https://www.openwall.com/phpass/) - A portable password hashing framework. * [Zxcvbn PHP](https://github.com/bjeavons/zxcvbn-php) - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS. ### Code Analysis *Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.* * [Better Reflection](https://github.com/Roave/BetterReflection) - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code * [Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com) - An automated code review. * [GrumPHP](https://github.com/phpro/grumphp) - A PHP code-quality tool. * [PHP Parser](https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser) - A PHP parser written in PHP. * [PHP Semantic Versioning Checker](https://github.com/tomzx/php-semver-checker) - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply. * [Phpactor](https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor) - PHP completion, refactoring and introspection tool. * [PHPLOC](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phploc) - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project. * [PHPQA](https://github.com/EdgedesignCZ/phpqa) - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics). * [Qafoo Quality Analyzer](https://github.com/Qafoo/QualityAnalyzer) - A tool to visualize metrics and source code. * [Rector](https://github.com/rectorphp/rector) - A tool to upgrade and refactor code. * [Scrutinizer](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/) - A web tool to [scrutinise PHP code](https://github.com/scrutinizer-ci/php-analyzer). * [UBench](https://github.com/devster/ubench) - A simple micro benchmark library. ### Code Quality *Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.* * [CaptainHook](https://github.com/captainhookphp/captainhook) - An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library. * [PHP CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer) - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations. * [PHP CS Fixer](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer) - A coding standards fixer library. * [PHP Mess Detector](https://github.com/phpmd/phpmd) - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more. * [PHPCheckstyle](https://github.com/PHPCheckstyle/phpcheckstyle) - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions. * [PHPCPD](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd) - A library that detects copied and pasted code. ### Static Analysis *Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.* * [Exakat](https://github.com/exakat/exakat) - A static analysis engine for PHP. * [Deptrac](https://github.com/qossmic/deptrac) - A static code analysis tool that helps to enforce rules for dependencies between software layers. * [Mondrian](https://github.com/Trismegiste/Mondrian) - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory. * [phan](https://github.com/phan/phan) - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension. * [PHP Architecture Tester](https://github.com/carlosas/phpat) - Easy to use architecture testing tool for PHP. * [PHPCompatibility](https://github.com/PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility) - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer. * [PhpDependencyAnalysis](https://github.com/mamuz/PhpDependencyAnalysis) - A tool to create customisable dependency graphs. * [PHP Metrics](https://github.com/phpmetrics/PhpMetrics) - A static metric library. * [PHP Migration](https://github.com/monque/PHP-Migration) - A static analyzer for PHP version migration. * [PHPStan](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) - A PHP Static Analysis Tool. * [Psalm](https://github.com/vimeo/psalm) - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications. ### Architectural *Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.* * [Design Patterns PHP](https://github.com/DesignPatternsPHP/DesignPatternsPHP ) - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP. * [Finite](https://yohan.giarel.li/Finite/) - A simple PHP finite state machine. * [Functional PHP](https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php) - A functional programming library. * [Iter](https://github.com/nikic/iter) - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators. * [Patchwork](https://patchwork2.org/) - A library for redefining userland functions. * [Pipeline](https://github.com/thephpleague/pipeline) - A pipeline pattern implementation. * [Porter](https://github.com/ScriptFUSION/Porter) - Data import abstraction library for consuming Web APIs and other data sources. * [RulerZ](https://github.com/K-Phoen/rulerz) - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern. ### Debugging and Profiling *Libraries and tools for debugging errors and profiling code.* * [APM](https://pecl.php.net/package/APM) - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD. * [Barbushin PHP Console](https://github.com/barbushin/php-console) - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome. * [Blackfire.io](https://www.blackfire.io) - A low-overhead code profiler. * [Kint](https://github.com/kint-php/kint) - A debugging and profiling tool. * [Metrics](https://github.com/beberlei/metrics) - A simple metrics API library. * [PCOV](https://github.com/krakjoe/pcov) - A self contained code coverage compatible driver. * [PHP Console](https://github.com/Seldaek/php-console) - A web debugging console. * [PHP Debug Bar](http://phpdebugbar.com/) - A debugging toolbar. * [PHPBench](https://github.com/phpbench/phpbench) - A benchmarking Framework. * [PHPSpy](https://github.com/adsr/phpspy) - A low-overhead sampling profiler. * [Symfony VarDumper](https://github.com/symfony/var-dumper) - A variable dumper component. * [Tideways.io](https://tideways.com/) - Monitoring and profiling tool. * [Tracy](https://github.com/nette/tracy) - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library. * [Whoops](https://github.com/filp/whoops) - A pretty error handling library. * [xDebug](https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug) - A debug and profile tool for PHP. * [XHProf](https://github.com/phacility/xhprof) - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook. * [Z-Ray](https://www.zend.com/products/z-ray) - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server. ### Build Tools *Project build and automation tools.* * [Box](https://github.com/box-project/box) - A utility to build PHAR files. * [Construct](https://github.com/jonathantorres/construct) - A PHP project/micro-package generator. * [Phing](https://www.phing.info/) - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant. * [RMT](https://github.com/liip/RMT) - A library for versioning and releasing software. ### Task Runners *Libraries for automating and running tasks.* * [Bldr](https://bldr.io/) - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components. * [Jobby](https://github.com/jobbyphp/jobby) - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab. * [Robo](https://github.com/consolidation/Robo) - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations. * [Task](https://taskphp.github.io/) - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp. ### Navigation *Tools for building navigation structures.* * [KnpMenu](https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu) - A menu library. * [Menu](https://github.com/spatie/menu) - A flexible menu library with a fluent interface. ### Asset Management *Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.* * [JShrink](https://github.com/tedious/JShrink) - A JavaScript minifier library. * [Laravel Mix](https://github.com/laravel-mix/laravel-mix ) - An elegant wrapper around Webpack for the 80% use case. * [Symfony Asset](https://github.com/symfony/asset) - Manages URL generation and versioning of web assets. * [Symfony Encore](https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore) - A simple but powerful API for processing and compiling assets built around Webpack. ### Geolocation *Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.* * [Country List](https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list) - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes. * [GeoCoder](https://geocoder-php.org/) - A geocoding library. * [GeoJSON](https://github.com/jmikola/geojson) - A GeoJSON implementation. * [GeoTools](https://github.com/thephpleague/geotools) - A library of geo-related tools. * [PHPGeo](https://github.com/mjaschen/phpgeo) - A simple geo library. ### Date and Time *Libraries for working with dates and times.* * [CalendR](https://yohan.giarel.li/CalendR/) - A calendar management library. * [Carbon](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon) - A simple DateTime API extension. * [Chronos](https://github.com/cakephp/chronos) - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time. * [Moment.php](https://github.com/fightbulc/moment.php) - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support. * [Yasumi](https://github.com/azuyalabs/yasumi) - An library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays. ### Event *Libraries that are event-driven or implement non-blocking event loops.* * [Amp](https://github.com/amphp/amp) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library. * [Broadway](https://github.com/broadway/broadway) - An event source and CQRS library. * [CakePHP Event](https://github.com/cakephp/event) - An event dispatcher library. * [Elephant.io](https://github.com/Wisembly/Elephant.io) - Yet another web socket library. * [Evenement](https://github.com/igorw/evenement) - An event dispatcher library. * [Event](https://github.com/thephpleague/event) - An event library with a focus on domain events. * [Pawl](https://github.com/ratchetphp/Pawl) - An asynchronous web socket client. * [Prooph Event Store](https://github.com/prooph/event-store) - An event source component to persist event messages * [PHP Defer](https://github.com/php-defer/php-defer) - Golang's defer statement for PHP. * [Ratchet](https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet) - A web socket library. * [ReactPHP](https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library. * [RxPHP](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPHP) - A reactive extension library. * [Swoole](https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src) - An event-driven asynchronous and concurrent networking communication framework with high performance for PHP written in C. * [Workerman](https://github.com/walkor/Workerman) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library. ### Logging *Libraries for generating and working with log files.* * [Monolog](https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog) - A comprehensive logger. ### E-commerce *Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.* * [Money](https://github.com/moneyphp/money) - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern. * [Brick\Money](https://github.com/brick/money) - A money library for PHP, with support for contexts, cash roundings, currency conversion. * [OmniPay](https://github.com/thephpleague/omnipay) - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library. * [Payum](https://github.com/payum/payum) - A payment abstraction library. * [Shopware](https://github.com/shopware/shopware) - Highly customizable e-commerce software * [Swap](https://github.com/florianv/swap) - An exchange rates library. * [Sylius](https://sylius.com/) - An open source e-commerce solution. ### PDF *Libraries and software for working with PDF files.* * [Dompdf](https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf) - A HTML to PDF converter. * [PHPPdf](https://github.com/psliwa/PHPPdf) - A library for generating PDFs and images from XML. * [Snappy](https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy) - A PDF and image generation library. * [WKHTMLToPDF](https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf) - A tool to convert HTML to PDF. ### Office *Libraries for working with office suite documents.* * [PHPPowerPoint](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPPresentation) - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations. * [PHPWord](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord) - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents. * [PHPSpreadsheet](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet) - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel). * [Spout](https://github.com/box/spout) - Read and write spreadsheet files (CSV, XLSX and ODS), in a fast and scalable way . ### Database *Libraries for interacting with databases using object-relational mapping (ORM) or datamapping techniques.* * [Atlas.Orm](https://github.com/atlasphp/Atlas.Orm) - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP. * [Aura.Sql](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Sql) - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator. * [Aura.SqlQuery](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.SqlQuery) - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server. * [Baum](https://github.com/etrepat/baum) - A nested set implementation for Eloquent. * [CakePHP ORM](https://github.com/cakephp/orm) - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern. * [Cycle ORM](https://github.com/cycle/orm) - PHP DataMapper, ORM. * [Doctrine Extensions](https://github.com/doctrine-extensions/DoctrineExtensions ) - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions. * [Doctrine](https://www.doctrine-project.org/) - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM. * [Laravel Eloquent](https://github.com/illuminate/database) - A simple ORM. * [Pomm](https://github.com/chanmix51/Pomm) - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL. * [ProxyManager](https://github.com/Ocramius/ProxyManager) - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers. * [RedBean](https://redbeanphp.com/index.php) - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM. * [Slimdump](https://github.com/webfactory/slimdump) - An easy dumper tool for MySQL. * [Spot2](https://github.com/spotorm/spot2) - A MySQL datamapper ORM. ### Migrations Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations. * [Doctrine Migrations](https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/migrations.html) - A migration library for Doctrine. * [Migrations](https://github.com/icomefromthenet/Migrations) - A migration management library. * [Phinx](https://github.com/cakephp/phinx) - Another database migration library. * [PHPMig](https://github.com/davedevelopment/phpmig) - Another migration management library. * [Ruckusing](https://github.com/ruckus/ruckusing-migrations) - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite. ### NoSQL *Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.* * [PHPMongo](https://github.com/sokil/php-mongo) - A MongoDB ORM. * [Predis](https://github.com/predis/predis) - A feature complete Redis library. ### Queue *Libraries for working with event and task queues.* * [Bernard](https://github.com/bernardphp/bernard) - A multibackend abstraction library. * [BunnyPHP](https://github.com/jakubkulhan/bunny) - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library. * [Pheanstalk](https://github.com/pheanstalk/pheanstalk) - A Beanstalkd client library. * [PHP AMQP](https://github.com/php-amqplib/php-amqplib) - A pure PHP AMQP library. * [Tarantool Queue](https://github.com/tarantool-php/queue) - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue. * [Thumper](https://github.com/php-amqplib/Thumper) - A RabbitMQ pattern library. * [Enqueue](https://github.com/php-enqueue/enqueue-dev) - A message queue packages for PHP that supports RabbitMQ, AMQP, STOMP, Amazon SQS, Redis and Doctrine transports. ### Search *Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.* * [Elastica](https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica) - A client library for ElasticSearch. * [ElasticSearch PHP](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php) - The official client library for [ElasticSearch](https://www.elastic.co/). * [Solarium](https://www.solarium-project.org/) - A client library for [Solr](https://solr.apache.org/). * [SphinxQL Query Builder](https://foolcode.github.io/SphinxQL-Query-Builder/) - A query library for the [Sphinx](https://sphinxsearch.com/) and [Manticore](https://manticoresearch.com/) search engines. ### Command Line *Libraries related to the command line.* * [Aura.Cli](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Cli) - Provides the equivalent of request ( Context ) and response ( Stdio ) objects for the command line interface, including Getopt support, and an independent Help object for describing commands. * [Boris](https://github.com/borisrepl/boris) - A tiny PHP REPL. * [Cilex](https://github.com/Cilex/Cilex) - A micro framework for building command line tools. * [CLI Menu](https://github.com/php-school/cli-menu) - A library for building CLI menus. * [CLIFramework](https://github.com/c9s/CLIFramework) - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew. * [CLImate](https://github.com/thephpleague/climate) - A library for outputting colours and special formatting. * [Commando](https://github.com/nategood/commando) - Another simple command line opt parser. * [Cron Expression](https://github.com/mtdowling/cron-expression) - A library to calculate cron run dates. * [GetOpt](https://github.com/getopt-php/getopt-php) - A command line opt parser. * [GetOptionKit](https://github.com/c9s/GetOptionKit) - Another command line opt parser. * [PsySH](https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh) - Another PHP REPL. * [ShellWrap](https://github.com/MrRio/shellwrap) - A simple command line wrapper library. ### Authentication and Authorization *Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.* * [Aura.Auth](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Auth) - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters. * [SocialConnect Auth](https://github.com/socialConnect/auth) - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect). * [Json Web Token](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt) - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information. * [OAuth 1.0 Client](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth1-client) - An OAuth 1.0 client library. * [OAuth 2.0 Client](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-client) - An OAuth 2.0 client library. * [OAuth2 Server](https://bshaffer.github.io/oauth2-server-php-docs/) - Another OAuth2 server implementation. * [OAuth2 Server](https://oauth2.thephpleague.com/) - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library. * [Opauth](https://github.com/opauth/opauth) - A multi-provider authentication framework. * [Paseto](https://github.com/paragonie/paseto) - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens. * [PHP oAuthLib](https://github.com/Lusitanian/PHPoAuthLib) - Another OAuth library. * [Sentinel Social](https://cartalyst.com/manual/sentinel-social/2.0) - A library for social network authentication. * [Sentinel](https://cartalyst.com/manual/sentinel/2.0) - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library. * [TwitterOAuth](https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth) - A Twitter OAuth library. ### Markup and CSS *Libraries for working with markup and CSS formats. * [Cebe Markdown](https://github.com/cebe/markdown) - An fast and extensible Markdown parser. * [CommonMark PHP](https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark) - Highly-extensible Markdown parser which fully supports the [CommonMark spec](https://spec.commonmark.org/). * [Decoda](https://github.com/milesj/decoda) - A lightweight markup parser library. * [Essence](https://github.com/essence/essence) - A library for extracting web media. * [Embera](https://github.com/mpratt/Embera) - An Oembed consumer library. * [HTML to Markdown](https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown) - Converts HTML into Markdown. * [HTML5 PHP](https://github.com/Masterminds/html5-php) - An HTML5 parser and serializer library. * [Parsedown](https://github.com/erusev/parsedown) - Another Markdown parser. * [PHP CSS Parser](https://github.com/sabberworm/PHP-CSS-Parser) - A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP. * [PHP Markdown](https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown) - A Markdown parser. * [Shiki PHP](https://github.com/spatie/shiki-php) - A [Shiki](https://github.com/shikijs/shiki) code highlighting package in PHP. * [VObject](https://github.com/sabre-io/vobject) - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects. ### JSON *Libraries for working with JSON.* * [JSON Lint](https://github.com/Seldaek/jsonlint) - A JSON lint utility. * [JSONMapper](https://github.com/JsonMapper/JsonMapper) - A library for mapping JSON to PHP objects. ### Strings *Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.* * [Agent](https://github.com/jenssegers/agent) - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect. * [ANSI to HTML5](https://github.com/sensiolabs/ansi-to-html) - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library. * [Color Jizz](https://github.com/mikeemoo/ColorJizz-PHP) - A library for manipulating and converting colours. * [Device Detector](https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector) - Another library for parsing user agent strings. * [Jieba-PHP](https://github.com/fukuball/jieba-php) - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing. * [Mobile-Detect](https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect) - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). * [Patchwork UTF-8](https://github.com/nicolas-grekas/Patchwork-UTF8) - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings. * [Portable ASCII](https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii) - A library to convert strings to ascii. * [Portable UTF-8](https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8) - A string manipulation library with UTF-8 safe replacement methods. * [Slugify](https://github.com/cocur/slugify) - A library to convert strings to slugs. * [SQL Formatter](https://github.com/jdorn/sql-formatter/) - A library for formatting SQL statements. * [Stringy](https://github.com/voku/Stringy) - A string manipulation library with multibyte support. * [UA Parser](https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser/tree/master/php) - A library for parsing user agent strings. * [URLify](https://github.com/jbroadway/urlify) - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js. * [UUID](https://github.com/ramsey/uuid) - A library for generating UUIDs. ### Numbers *Libraries for working with numbers.* * [Brick\Math](https://github.com/brick/math) - A library providing large number support: `BigInteger`, `BigDecimal` and `BigRational`. * [ByteUnits](https://github.com/gabrielelana/byte-units) - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems. * [DecimalObject](https://github.com/spryker/decimal-object) - A value object to handle decimals/floats easily and more precisely. * [IP](https://github.com/darsyn/ip) - An immutable value object for working with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. * [LibPhoneNumber for PHP](https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php) - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library. * [PHP Conversion](https://github.com/Crisu83/php-conversion) - Another library for converting between units of measure. * [PHP Units of Measure](https://github.com/triplepoint/php-units-of-measure) - A library for converting between units of measure. * [MathPHP](https://github.com/markrogoyski/math-php) - A math library for PHP. ### Filtering and Validation *Libraries for filtering and validating data.* * [Assert](https://github.com/beberlei/assert) - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions. * [Aura.Filter](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Filter) - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays. * [CakePHP Validation](https://github.com/cakephp/validation) - Another validation library. * [Filterus](https://github.com/ircmaxell/filterus) - A simple PHP filtering library. * [ISO-codes](https://github.com/ronanguilloux/IsoCodes) - A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries. * [JSON Schema](https://github.com/justinrainbow/json-schema) - A [JSON Schema](https://json-schema.org/) validation library. * [MetaYaml](https://github.com/romaricdrigon/MetaYaml) - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML. * [Respect Validation](https://github.com/Respect/Validation) - A simple validation library. * [Upload](https://github.com/brandonsavage/Upload) - A library for handling file uploads and validation. * [Valitron](https://github.com/vlucas/valitron) - Another validation library. * [Volan](https://github.com/serkin/Volan) - Another simplified validation library. ### API *Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.* * [API Platform](https://api-platform.com ) - Expose in minutes an hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format. * [Laminas API Tool Skeleton](https://github.com/laminas-api-tools/api-tools-skeleton) - An API builder built with the Laminas Framework. * [Drest](https://github.com/leedavis81/drest) - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints. * [HAL](https://github.com/blongden/hal) - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library. * [Hateoas](https://github.com/willdurand/Hateoas) - A HATEOAS REST web service library. * [Jane](https://github.com/janephp/janephp/) - An OpenApi client generator with validation support. * [Negotiation](https://github.com/willdurand/Negotiation) - A content negotiation library. * [Restler](https://github.com/Luracast/Restler) - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API. * [wsdl2phpgenerator](https://github.com/wsdl2phpgenerator/wsdl2phpgenerator) - A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files. ### Caching and Locking *Libraries for caching data and acquiring locks.* * [APIx Cache](https://github.com/apix/cache) - A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasising cache tagging and indexing. * [CacheTool](https://github.com/gordalina/cachetool) - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line. * [CakePHP Cache](https://github.com/cakephp/cache) - A caching library. * [Doctrine Cache](https://github.com/doctrine/cache) - A caching library. * [Metaphore](https://github.com/sobstel/metaphore) - Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect. * [Stash](https://github.com/tedious/Stash) - Another library for caching. * [Laminas Cache](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-cache) - Another caching library. * [Lock](https://github.com/php-lock/lock) - A lock library to provide exclusive execution. ### Data Structure and Storage *Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.* * [CakePHP Collection](https://github.com/cakephp/collection) - A simple collections library. * [Fractal](https://github.com/thephpleague/fractal) - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output. * [Ginq](https://github.com/akanehara/ginq) - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ. * [JsonMapper](https://github.com/cweiske/jsonmapper) - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes. * [JSON Machine](https://github.com/halaxa/json-machine) - Provides iteration over huge JSONs using simple `foreach` * [Knapsack](https://github.com/DusanKasan/Knapsack) - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences. * [msgpack.php](https://github.com/rybakit/msgpack.php) - A pure PHP implementation of the [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org/) serialization format. * [PINQ](https://github.com/TimeToogo/Pinq) - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query). * [Serializer](https://github.com/schmittjoh/serializer) - A library for serialising and de-serialising data. * [YaLinqo](https://github.com/Athari/YaLinqo) - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP. * [Laminas Serializer](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-serializer) - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data. ### Notifications *Libraries for working with notification software.* * [JoliNotif](https://github.com/jolicode/JoliNotif) - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc) * [Notification Pusher](https://github.com/Ph3nol/NotificationPusher) - A standalone library for device push notifications. * [Notificato](https://github.com/mac-cain13/notificato) - A library for handling push notifications. * [Notificator](https://github.com/namshi/notificator) - A lightweight notification library. * [Php-pushwoosh](https://github.com/gomoob/php-pushwoosh) - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services. ### Deployment *Libraries for project deployment.* * [Deployer](https://github.com/deployphp/deployer) - A deployment tool. * [Envoy](https://github.com/laravel/envoy) - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP. * [Rocketeer](https://github.com/rocketeers/rocketeer) - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world. ### Internationalisation and Localisation *Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).* * [Aura.Intl](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Intl) - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation. * [CakePHP I18n](https://github.com/cakephp/i18n) - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers. ### Serverless *Libraries and tools to help build serverless web applications.* * [Bref](https://bref.sh/) - Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda. * [OpenWhisk](https://openwhisk.apache.org/) - An open-source serverless cloud platform. * [Serverless Framework](https://www.serverless.com/framework) - An open-source framework for building serverless applications. * [Laravel Vapor](https://vapor.laravel.com/) - A serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS. ## Configuration *Libraries and tools for configuration.* * [PHP Dotenv](https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv) - Parse and load environment variables from `.env` files. * [Symfony Dotenv](https://github.com/symfony/dotenv)- Parse and load environment variables from `.env` files. * [Yo! Symfony TOML](https://github.com/yosymfony/toml) - A PHP parser for [TOML](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml). ### Third Party APIs *Libraries for accessing third party APIs.* * [Amazon Web Service SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php) - The official PHP AWS SDK library. * [AsyncAWS](https://async-aws.com/) - An unofficial asynchronous PHP AWS SDK. * [Campaign Monitor](https://campaignmonitor.github.io/createsend-php/) - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library. * [Github](https://github.com/KnpLabs/php-github-api) - A library to interface with the Github API. * [Mailgun](https://github.com/mailgun/mailgun-php) The official Mailgun PHP API. * [Square](https://github.com/square/connect-php-sdk) - The official Square PHP SDK for payments and other Square APIs. * [Stripe](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-php) - The official Stripe PHP library. * [Twilio](https://github.com/twilio/twilio-php) - The official Twilio PHP REST API. ### Extensions *Libraries to help build PHP extensions.* * [PHP CPP](https://www.php-cpp.com/) - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions. * [Zephir](https://github.com/zephir-lang/zephir ) - A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions. ### Miscellaneous *Useful libraries or utilities that don't fit into the categories above.* * [Annotations](https://github.com/doctrine/annotations) - An annotation library (part of Doctrine). * [BotMan](https://github.com/botman/botman) - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chat bots. * [ClassPreloader](https://github.com/ClassPreloader/ClassPreloader) - A library for optimising autoloading. * [Hprose-PHP](https://github.com/hprose/hprose-php) - A cross-language RPC. * [noCAPTCHA](https://github.com/ARCANEDEV/noCAPTCHA) - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA). * [Pagerfanta](https://github.com/whiteoctober/Pagerfanta) - A pagination library. * [Safe](https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe) - All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false. * [SuperClosure](https://github.com/jeremeamia/super_closure) - A library that allows Closures to be serialized. # Software *Software for creating a development environment.* ### PHP Installation *Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.* * [Brew PHP Switcher](https://github.com/philcook/brew-php-switcher) - Brew PHP switcher. * [HomeBrew](https://brew.sh/) - A package manager for OSX. * [Laravel Valet](https://laravel.com/docs/master/valet) - A development environment for macOS. * [PHP Brew](https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew) - A PHP version manager and installer. * [PHP Build](https://github.com/php-build/php-build) - Another PHP version installer. * [PHP OSX](https://php-osx.liip.ch/) - A PHP installer for OSX. ### Development Environment *Software and tools for creating and sharing a development environment.* * [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) - A radically simple orchestration framework. * [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) - A containerization platform. * [Docker PHP Extension Installer](https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer) - Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers. * [Expose](https://github.com/beyondcode/expose) - An open source PHP tunneling service. * [Lando](https://lando.dev/) - Push-button development environments. * [Laravel Homestead](https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead) - A local development environment for Laravel. * [Laradock](http://laradock.io/) - A full PHP development environment based on Docker. * [Puppet](https://puppet.com/) - A server automation framework and application. * [Takeout](https://github.com/tighten/takeout) - A Docker-based development-only dependency manager. * [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - A portable development environment utility. ### Virtual Machines *Alternative PHP virtual machines.* * [Hack](https://hacklang.org/) - A programming language for HHVM. * [HHVM](https://github.com/facebook/hhvm) - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook. * [PeachPie](https://github.com/peachpiecompiler/peachpie) - PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core. ### Compilers *Compilers to translate PHP into other programming languages.* * [KPHP](https://github.com/VKCOM/kphp) - A compiler that translates PHP to C++. ### Text Editors and IDEs *Text Editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with support for PHP.* * [Eclipse for PHP Developers](https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) - A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform. * [Apache NetBeans](https://netbeans.apache.org/) - An IDE with support for PHP and HTML5. * [PhpStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/) - A commercial PHP IDE. * [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - An open source code editor. ### Web Applications *Web-based applications and tools.* * [3V4L](https://3v4l.org/) - An online PHP & HHVM shell. * [Adminer](https://www.adminer.org/) - Database management in a single PHP file. * [Cachet](https://github.com/cachethq/cachet) - The open source status page system. * [DBV](https://github.com/victorstanciu/dbv) - A database version control application. * [Lychee](https://github.com/electerious/Lychee) - An easy to use and great looking photo-management-system. * [MailCatcher](https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher) - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails. * [phpMyAdmin](https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin) - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB. * [PHP Queue](https://github.com/CoderKungfu/php-queue) - An application for managing queueing backends. * [phpRedisAdmin](https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/phpRedisAdmin) - A simple web interface to manage [Redis](https://redis.io/) databases. * [PHPSandbox](https://phpsandbox.io) - An online IDE for PHP in the browser. ### Infrastructure *Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.* * [appserver.io](https://github.com/appserver-io/appserver) - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP. * [php-pm](https://github.com/php-pm/php-pm) - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications. * [RoadRunner](https://github.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner) - High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager. # Resources Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your PHP development skills and knowledge. ### PHP Websites *Useful PHP-related websites.* * [libs.garden: PHP](https://libs.garden/php) - An overview of fastest growing PHP libraries. * [Nomad PHP](https://nomadphp.com/) - A online PHP learning resource. * [Laravel News](https://laravel-news.com/) - The official Laravel blog. * [PHP Annotated Monthly](https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/tag/php-annotated-monthly/) - A monthly digest of PHP news. * [PHP Best Practices](https://phpbestpractices.org/) - A PHP best practice guide. * [PHP FIG](https://www.php-fig.org/) - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group. * [PHP Package Development Standards](http://php-pds.com) - Package development standards for PHP. * [PHP School](https://www.phpschool.io/) - Open Source Learning for PHP. * [PHP Security](https://phpsecurity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) - A guide to PHP security. * [PHP The Right Way](https://phptherightway.com/) - A PHP best practice quick reference guide. * [PHP UG](https://php.ug) - A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG). * [PHP Versions](http://phpversions.info/) - Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts. * [PHP Watch](https://php.watch/) - PHP articles, news, upcoming changes, RFCs and more. * [PHP Weekly](https://www.phpweekly.com/archive.html) - A weekly PHP newsletter. * [Seven PHP](https://7php.com/) - A website that interviews members of the PHP community. ### PHP Books *Fantastic PHP-related books.* * [Domain-Driven Design in PHP](https://leanpub.com/ddd-in-php) - Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles. * [Functional Programming in PHP](https://www.functionalphp.com/) - This book will show you how to leverage these new PHP5.3+ features by understanding functional programming principles * [Grumpy PHPUnit](https://leanpub.com/grumpy-phpunit) - A book about unit testing with PHPUnit by Chris Hartjes. * [Mastering Object-Orientated PHP](https://www.brandonsavage.net/) - A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage. * [Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491905173/) - A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart. * [Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP](https://leanpub.com/mlaphp) - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones. * [PHP 7 Upgrade Guide](https://leanpub.com/php7) - An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O'Dell. * [PHP Pandas](https://daylerees.com/php-pandas/) - A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees. * [Scaling PHP Applications](https://www.scalingphpbook.com) - An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona. * [Securing PHP: Core Concepts](https://leanpub.com/securingphp-coreconcepts) - A book about common security terms and practices for PHP by Chris Cornutt. * [Signaling PHP](https://leanpub.com/signalingphp) - A book about catching PCNTL signals in CLI scripts by Cal Evans. * [The Grumpy Programmer's Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications](https://leanpub.com/grumpy-testing) - A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes. * [XML Parsing with PHP](https://www.phparch.com/books/xml-parsing-with-php/) - This book covers parsing and validating XML documents, leveraging XPath expressions, and working with namespaces as well as how to create and modify XML files programmatically. ### PHP Videos *Fantastic PHP-related videos.* * [Nomad PHP Lightning Talks](https://www.youtube.com/c/nomadphp) - 10 to 15 minute Lightning Talks by PHP community members. * [PHP UK Conference](https://www.youtube.com/user/phpukconference/videos) - A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference. * [Programming with Anthony](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-218uGSX3DQ3KsB5NJnuOqPqc5CW2kW) - A video series by Anthony Ferrara. * [Taking PHP Seriously](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history/) - A talk outlining PHP's strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook. * [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com) - Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more. * [Laravel YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfO2GiQwb-cwJTb1CuRSkwg) - The official Laravel YouTube channel. * [SymfonyCasts](https://symfonycasts.com/) - Screencasts and tutorials about PHP and Symfony. ### PHP Podcasts *Podcasts with a focus on PHP topics.* * [Laravel Podcast](https://laravelpodcast.com/) - Laravel and PHP development news and discussion. * [PHP Internals News](https://phpinternals.news) - A podcast about PHP internals. * [PHP Roundtable](https://phproundtable.com/) - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about. * [PHP Town Hall](https://phptownhall.com/) - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon. * [Voices of the ElePHPant](https://voicesoftheelephpant.com/) Interviews with the people that make the PHP community special. ### PHP Newsletters *PHP-related news directly to your inbox.* * [PHP Weekly](https://www.phpweekly.com/) - A weekly newsletter about PHP. ### PHP Reading *PHP-related reading materials.* * [php[architect]](https://www.phparch.com/magazine/) - A monthly magazine dedicated to PHP. ### PHP Internals Reading *Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.* * [PHP RFCs](https://wiki.php.net/rfc) - The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments). * [Externals](https://externals.io/) - PHP internal discussions. * [PHP RFC Watch](https://php-rfc-watch.beberlei.de/) - Watch the latest PHP [RFCs](https://wiki.php.net/rfc). * [PHP Internals Book](https://www.phpinternalsbook.com/) - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.