Awesome PHP

A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.

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Table of Contents

• Awesome PHP
  • Composer Repositories
  • Dependency Management
  • Dependency Management Extras
  • Frameworks
  • Framework Extras
  • Content Management Systems
  • Components
  • Micro Frameworks
  • Micro Framework Extras
  • Routers
  • Templating
  • Static Site Generators
  • HTTP
  • Scraping
  • Middlewares
  • URL
  • Email
  • Files
  • Streams
  • Dependency Injection
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Continuous Integration
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Passwords
  • Code Analysis
  • Code Quality
  • Static Analysis
  • Architectural
  • Debugging and Profiling
  • Build Tools
  • Task Runners
  • Navigation
  • Asset Management
  • Geolocation
  • Date and Time
  • Event
  • Logging
  • E-commerce
  • PDF
  • Office
  • Database
  • Migrations
  • NoSQL
  • Queue
  • Search
  • Command Line
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Markup
  • Strings
  • Numbers
  • Filtering and Validation
  • API
  • Caching
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Internationalisation and Localisation
  • Serverless
  • Configuration
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • PHP Installation
  • Development Environment
  • Virtual Machines
  • Text Editors and IDEs
  • Web Applications
  • Infrastructure
• Resources
  • PHP Websites
  • Other Websites
  • PHP Books
  • Other Books
  • PHP Videos
  • PHP Podcasts
  • PHP Reading
  • PHP Internals Reading

Composer Repositories

Composer Repositories.

• Firegento - Magento Module Composer Repository.
• Packagist - The PHP Package Repository.
• Private Packagist - Composer package archive as a service for PHP.
• WordPress Packagist - Manage your plugins with Composer.

Dependency Management

Libraries for dependency and package management.

• Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
• Composer - A package and dependency manager.
• Melody - A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
• Pickle - A PHP extension installer.

Dependency Management Extras

Extras related to dependency management.

• Composed - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime.
• Composer Merge Plugin - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
• Prestissimo - A composer plugin which enables parallel install process.
• Repman - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
• Satis - A static Composer repository generator.
• tooly - A library to manage PHAR files in project using Composer.
• Toran Proxy - A static Composer repository and proxy.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• CakePHP - A rapid application development framework.
• Laminas - A framework comprised of individual components (previously Zend Framework).
• Laravel - A web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
• Nette - A web framework comprised of mature components.
• Phalcon - A framework implemented as a C extension.
• Spiral - A high performance PHP/Go framework.
• Symfony - A set of reuseable components and a web framework.
• Yii2 - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework.

Framework Extras

Extras related to web development frameworks.

• CakePHP CRUD - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
• Knp RAD Components - A set of Rapid Application Development (RAD) components for Symfony.
• LaravelS - Glue for using Swoole in Laravel or Lumen.
• Symfony CMF - A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Tools for managing digital content.

• Backdrop - A CMS targeting small-to-medium sized business and non-profits (a fork of Drupal).
• Concrete5 - A CMS targeting users with a minimum of technical skills.
• Drupal - An enterprise level CMS.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
• Joomla - Another leading CMS.
• Magento - The most popular ecommerce platform.
• Pico CMS - A stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
• WordPress - A blogging platform and CMS.
• Moodle - An open-source learning platform.

Components

Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.

• Aura - Independent components, fully decoupled from each other and from any framework.
• CakePHP Plugins - A directory of CakePHP plugins.
• Hoa Project - Another package of PHP components.
• Laravel Components - The Laravel Framework components.
• League of Extraordinary Packages - A PHP package development group.
• Spatie Open Source - A collection of open source PHP and Laravel packages.
• Symfony Components - The components that make Symfony.
• Laminas Components - The components that make the Laminas Framework.

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routers.

• Laravel-Zero - A micro-framework for console applications.
• Lumen - A micro-framework by Laravel.
• Mezzio - A micro-framework by Laminas.
• Radar - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
• Silly - A micro-framework for CLI applications.
• Slim - Another simple micro framework.

Micro Framework Extras

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

• Slim Skeleton - A skeleton for Slim.
• Slim Twig View - Integrate Twig into Slim.
• Slim PHP View - A simple PHP renderer for Slim.

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing.

• Aura.Router - A full-featured routing library.
• Fast Route - A fast routing library.
• Klein - A flexible router.
• Pux - Another fast routing library.
• Route - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.

Templating

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• MtHaml - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
• Mustache - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
• PHPTAL - A PHP implementation of the TAL templating language.
• Plates - A native PHP templating library.
• Smarty - A template engine to complement PHP.
• Twig - A comprehensive templating language.

Static Site Generators

Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.

• Couscous - Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.
• Sculpin - A tool that converts Markdown and Twig into static HTML.
• Spress - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• Buzz - Another HTTP client.
• Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client.
• HTTPlug - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation.
• Nyholm PSR-7 - A super lightweight PSR-7 implementation. Very strict and very fast.
• PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
• Requests - A simple HTTP library.
• Retrofit - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
• Symfony HTTP Client - A component to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously.
• Laminas Diactoros - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.

Scraping

Libraries for scraping websites.

• DiDOM - A super fast HTML scrapper and parser.
• Embed - An information extractor from any web service or page.
• Goutte - A simple web scraper.
• Symfony Panther - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony.
• PHP Spider - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.

Middlewares

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

• PSR-7 Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
• Relay - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
• Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Symfony.
• Laminas Stratigility - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• PHP Domain Parser - A domain suffix parser library.
• Purl - A URL manipulation library.
• sabre/uri - A functional URI manipulation library.
• Uri - Another URL manipulation library.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• CssToInlineStyles - A library to inline CSS in email templates.
• Email Reply Parser - An email reply parser library.
• Email Validator - A small email address validation library.
• Fetch - An IMAP library.
• Mautic - Email marketing automation
• PHPMailer - Another mailer solution.
• PHP IMAP - A library to access mailboxes via POP3, IMAP and NNTP.
• Stampie - A library for email services such as SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun and Mandrill.
• SwiftMailer - A mailer solution.
• Symfony Mailer - A powerful library for creating and sending emails.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• CSV - A CSV data manipulation library.
• Flysystem - Abstraction for local and remote filesystems.
• Gaufrette - A filesystem abstraction layer.
• Hoa Mime - Another MIME detection library.
• PHP FFmpeg - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
• UnifiedArchive - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

• ByteStream - An asynchronous stream abstraction.
• Streamer - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• Aura.Di - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more.
• Acclimate - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
• Auryn - A recursive dependency injector.
• Container - Another flexible dependency injection container.
• Disco - A PSR-11 compatible, annotation-based dependency injection container.
• PHP-DI - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
• Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
• Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• Color Extractor - A library for extracting colours from images.
• Glide - An on-demand image manipulation library.
• Image Hash - A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
• Image Optimizer - A library for optimizing images.
• Imagine - An image manipulation library.
• Intervention Image - Another image manipulation library.
• PHP Image Workshop - Another image manipulation library.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Alice - An expressive fixture generation library.
• AspectMock - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception.
• Atoum - A simple testing library.
• Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
• Codeception - A full stack testing framework.
• Faker - A fake data generator library.
• HTTP Mock - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
• Infection - An AST-based PHP Mutation testing framework.
• Kahlan - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
• Mink - Web acceptance testing.
• Mockery - A mock object library for testing.
• ParaTest - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
• Peridot - An event driven test framework.
• Phake - Another mock object library for testing.
• Pho - Another behaviour driven development testing framework.
• PHP-Mock - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
• PHPSpec - A design by specification unit testing library.
• PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
• PHPUnit - A unit testing framework.
• Prophecy - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
• VFS Stream - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.

Continuous Integration

Libraries and applications for continuous integration.

• CircleCI - A continuous integration platform.
• GitlabCi - Let GitLab CI test, build, deploy your code. TravisCi like.
• Jenkins - A continuous integration platform with PHP support.
• JoliCi - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker.
• PHPCI - An open source continuous integration platform for PHP.
• SemaphoreCI - A continuous integration platform for open source and private projects.
• Shippable - A Docker based continious integration platform for open source and private projects.
• Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.
• Setup PHP - A GitHub Action for PHP.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• APIGen - Another API documentation generator.
• daux.io - A documentation generator which uses Markdown files.
• PHP Documentor 2 - A documentation generator.
• phpDox - 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 - A simple library for encryption using libsodium.
• HTML Purifier - A standards compliant HTML filter.
• IniScan - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security.
• Optimus - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
• PHPGGC - A library of PHP unserializeable payloads along with a tool to generate them.
• PHP Encryption - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
• PHP SSH - An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library.
• PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
• random_compat - PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()
• RandomLib - A library for generating random numbers and strings.
• Symfony Security Monitoring - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as "SensioLabs Security Check".
• SQLMap - An automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
• TCrypto - A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
• VAddy - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
• Zap - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

Passwords

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

• GenPhrase - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
• Password Compat - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
• Password Policy - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
• Password Validator - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
• Password-Generator - PHP library to generate random passwords.
• PHP Password Lib - A library for generating and validating passwords.
• phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
• 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 - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
• Code Climate - An automated code review.
• PHP Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP.
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
• Phpactor - PHP completion, refactoring and introspection tool.
• PHPLOC - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project.
• PHPQA - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
• Qafoo Quality Analyzer - A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
• Rector - A tool to upgrade and refactor code.
• Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench - A simple micro benchmark library.

Code Quality

Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.

• PHP CodeSniffer - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
• PHP CS Fixer - A coding standards fixer library.
• PHP Mess Detector - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
• PHPCheckstyle - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
• PHPCPD - A library that detects copied and pasted code.

Static Analysis

Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.

• Exakat - A static analysis engine for PHP.
• Deptrac - A static code analysis tool that helps to enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.
• Mondrian - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
• phan - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
• PHP Architecture Tester - Easy to use architecture testing tool for PHP.
• PHPCompatibility - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
• PhpDependencyAnalysis - A tool to create customisable dependency graphs.
• PHP Metrics - A static metric library.
• PHP Migration - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
• PHPStan - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
• 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 - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
• Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
• Functional PHP - A functional programming library.
• Iter - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
• Patchwork - A library for redefining userland functions.
• Pipeline - A pipeline pattern implementation.
• Porter - Data import abstraction library for consuming Web APIs and other data sources.
• Ruler - A simple stateless production rules engine.
• RulerZ - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging errors and profiling code.

• APM - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
• Barbushin PHP Console - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
• Elastic APM PHP Agent - PHP Agent for Elastic APM With Intake API v2 Support.
• Blackfire.io - A low-overhead code profiler.
• Kint - A debugging and profiling tool.
• PCOV - A self contained code coverage compatible driver.
• PHP Console - A web debugging console.
• PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
• PHPBench - A benchmarking Framework.
• PHPSpy - A low-overhead sampling profiler.
• Symfony VarDumper - A variable dumper component.
• Tideways.io - Monitoring and profiling tool.
• Tracy - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
• Whoops - A pretty error handling library.
• xDebug - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
• XHProf - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
• Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• Box - A utility to build PHAR files.
• Construct - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
• Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.

Task Runners

Libraries for automating and running tasks.

• Bldr - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
• Jobby - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
• Robo - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations.
• Task - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

• KnpMenu - A menu library.
• Menu - A flexible menu library with a fluent interface.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• JShrink - A JavaScript minifier library.
• Laravel Mix - An elegant wrapper around Webpack for the 80% use case.
• Symfony Asset - Manages URL generation and versioning of web assets.
• Symfony 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.

• GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
• GeoJSON - A GeoJSON implementation.
• GeoTools - A library of geo-related tools.
• PHPGeo - A simple geo library.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• CalendR - A calendar management library.
• Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension.
• Chronos - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
• Moment.php - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
• 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 - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• Broadway - An event source and CQRS library.
• CakePHP Event - An event dispatcher library.
• Elephant.io - Yet another web socket library.
• Evenement - An event dispatcher library.
• Event - An event library with a focus on domain events.
• Hoa EventSource - An event source library.
• Hoa WebSocket - Another web socket library.
• Prooph Event Store - An event source component to persist event messages
• PHP Defer - Golang's defer statement for PHP.
• Ratchet - A web socket library.
• ReactPHP - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• RxPHP - A reactive extension library.
• Swoole - An event-driven asynchronous and concurrent networking communication framework with high performance for PHP written in C.
• Workerman - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Monolog - A comprehensive logger.

E-commerce

Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.

• Money - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
• Brick\Money - A money library for PHP, with support for contexts, cash roundings, currency conversion.
• OmniPay - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
• Payum - A payment abstraction library.
• Shopware - Highly customizable e-commerce software
• Swap - An exchange rates library.
• Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

• Dompdf - A HTML to PDF converter.
• PHPPdf - A library for generating PDFs and images from XML.
• Snappy - A PDF and image generation library.
• WKHTMLToPDF - A tool to convert HTML to PDF.

Office

Libraries for working with office suite documents.

• PHPPowerPoint - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
• PHPWord - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
• PHPSpreadsheet - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel).
• 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 - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.
• Aura.Sql - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
• Aura.SqlQuery - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Baum - A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
• CakePHP ORM - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern.
• Cycle ORM - PHP DataMapper, ORM.
• Doctrine Extensions - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
• Doctrine - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
• Laravel Eloquent - A simple ORM.
• Pomm - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
• ProxyManager - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
• RedBean - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
• Spot2 - A MySQL datamapper ORM.

Migrations

Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.

• Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
• Migrations - A migration management library.
• Phinx - Another database migration library.
• PHPMig - Another migration management library.
• Ruckusing - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.

NoSQL

Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.

• PHPMongo - A MongoDB ORM.
• Predis - A feature complete Redis library.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• Bernard - A multibackend abstraction library.
• BunnyPHP - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
• Pheanstalk - A Beanstalkd client library.
• PHP AMQP - A pure PHP AMQP library.
• Tarantool Queue - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
• Thumper - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
• Enqueue - 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 - A client library for ElasticSearch.
• ElasticSearch PHP - The official client library for ElasticSearch.
• Solarium - A client library for Solr.
• Sphinx Search - Sphinx Search library provides SphinxQL indexing and searching features
• SphinxQL query builder - A query library for the Sphinx search engine.

Command Line

Libraries related to the command line.

• 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 - A tiny PHP REPL.
• Cilex - A micro framework for building command line tools.
• CLI Menu - A library for building CLI menus.
• CLIFramework - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
• CLImate - A library for outputting colours and special formatting.
• Commando - Another simple command line opt parser.
• Cron Expression - A library to calculate cron run dates.
• GetOpt - A command line opt parser.
• GetOptionKit - Another command line opt parser.
• Hoa Console - Another command line library.
• PsySH - Another PHP REPL.
• ShellWrap - A simple command line wrapper library.

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.

• Aura.Auth - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
• SocialConnect Auth - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
• Json Web Token - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
• OAuth 1.0 Client - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
• OAuth 2.0 Client - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
• OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
• OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
• Opauth - A multi-provider authentication framework.
• PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library.
• Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
• Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
• TwitterOAuth - A Twitter OAuth library.

Markup

Libraries for working with markup.

• Cebe Markdown - An fast and extensible Markdown parser.
• CommonMark PHP - Highly-extensible Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark spec.
• Decoda - A lightweight markup parser library.
• Emoji - A library that converts unicode characters and names into emoji images.
• HTML to Markdown - Converts HTML into Markdown.
• HTML5 PHP - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
• Parsedown - Another Markdown parser.
• PHP Markdown - A Markdown parser.

Strings

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.

• Agent - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
• ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
• Color Jizz - A library for manipulating and converting colours.
• Device Detector - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
• Hoa String - Another UTF-8 string library.
• Jieba-PHP - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
• Mobile-Detect - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
• Patchwork UTF-8 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
• Portable UTF-8 - A string manipulation library with UTF-8 safe replacement methods.
• Slugify - A library to convert strings to slugs.
• SQL Formatter - A library for formatting SQL statements.
• Stringy - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
• UA Parser - A library for parsing user agent strings.
• URLify - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
• UUID - A library for generating UUIDs.

Numbers

Libraries for working with numbers.

• Brick\Math - A library providing large number support: BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational.
• ByteUnits - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
• LibPhoneNumber for PHP - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
• PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure.
• PHP Units of Measure - A library for converting between units of measure.

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data.

• Assert - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.
• Aura.Filter - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
• CakePHP Validation - Another validation library.
• Filterus - A simple PHP filtering library.
• ISO-codes - A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries.
• JSON Schema - A JSON Schema validation library.
• MetaYaml - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
• Respect Validation - A simple validation library.
• Upload - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
• Valitron - Another validation library.
• Volan - Another simplified validation library.

API

Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.

• API Platform - Expose in minutes an hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.
• Laminas API Tool Skeleton - An API builder built with the Laminas Framework.
• Drest - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
• HAL - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
• Hateoas - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
• Negotiation - A content negotiation library.
• Restler - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
• wsdl2phpgenerator - A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• Alternative PHP Cache (APC) - Open opcode cache for PHP.
• APIx Cache - A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasising cache tagging and indexing.
• CacheTool - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line.
• CakePHP Cache - A caching library.
• Doctrine Cache - A caching library.
• Metaphore - Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect.
• Stash - Another library for caching.
• Laminas Cache - Another caching library.

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

• CakePHP Collection - A simple collections library.
• Fractal - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
• Ginq - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.
• JsonMapper - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
• JSON Machine - Provides iteration over huge JSONs using simple foreach
• Knapsack - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
• msgpack.php - A pure PHP implementation of the MessagePack serialization format.
• PINQ - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
• Serializer - A library for serialising and de-serialising data.
• YaLinqo - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
• Laminas Serializer - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data.

Notifications

Libraries for working with notification software.

• JoliNotif - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
• Notification Pusher - A standalone library for device push notifications.
• Notificato - A library for handling push notifications.
• Notificator - A lightweight notification library.
• Php-pushwoosh - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.

Deployment

Libraries for project deployment.

• Deployer - A deployment tool.
• Envoy - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
• Rocketeer - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.

Internationalisation and Localisation

Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).

• Aura.Intl - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
• CakePHP I18n - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers.

Serverless

Libraries and tools to help build serverless web applications.

• Bref - Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda.
• OpenWhisk - An open source serverless cloud platform.
• Serverless Framework - An open source framework for building serverless applications.
• Laravel Vapor - A serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS.

Configuration

Libraries and tools for configuration.

• PHP Dotenv - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Symfony Dotenv- Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Yo! Symfony TOML - A PHP parser for TOML.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• Amazon Web Service SDK - The official PHP AWS SDK library.
• AsyncAWS - An unofficial asynchronous PHP AWS SDK.
• Campaign Monitor - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
• Dropbox SDK - The official PHP Dropbox SDK library.
• Github - A library to interface with the Github API.
• Mailgun The official Mailgun PHP API.
• Square - The official Square PHP SDK for payments and other Square APIs.
• Stripe - The official Stripe PHP library.
• Twilio - The official Twilio PHP REST API.

Extensions

Libraries to help build PHP extensions.

• PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
• Zephir - A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions.

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• Annotations - An annotations library (part of Doctrine).
• BotMan - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chat bots.
• CakePHP Utility - Utility classes such as Inflector, String, Hash, Security and XML.
• Chief - A command bus library.
• ClassPreloader - A library for optimising autoloading.
• Country List - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
• Embera - An Oembed consumer library.
• Essence - A library for extracting web media.
• Expose - An open source PHP tunneling service.
• Graphviz - A Graphviz library.
• Hprose-PHP - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now.
• JSON Lint - A JSON lint utility.
• JSONPCallbackValidator - A library for validating JSONP callbacks.
• Lock - A lock library to provide exclusive execution.
• Metrics - A simple metrics API library.
• noCAPTCHA - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
• Nmap - A PHP wrapper around Nmap.
• Pagerfanta - A pagination library.
• PHP PassBook - A PHP library for iOS PassBook.
• PHP-ML - A library for Machine Learning in PHP.
• PHPCR - A PHP port of the Java Content Repository (JCR).
• PHPStack - A TCP/IP stack proof of concept written in PHP.
• print_o - An object graph visualizer.
• Procrastinator - A library for running time consuming tasks.
• Prooph Service Bus - Lightweight message bus supporting CQRS and Micro Services
• RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software.
• sabre/vobject - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.
• Safe - All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false.
• Slimdump - An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
• Spork - A process forking library.
• SuperClosure - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.
• Underscore - A PHP port of the Underscore JS library.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

PHP Installation

Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.

• Brew PHP Switcher - Brew PHP switcher.
• HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
• Laravel Valet - A development environment for macOS.
• PHP Brew - A PHP version manager and installer.
• PHP Build - Another PHP version installer.
• PHP OSX - A PHP installer for OSX.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.

• Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
• Docker - A containerization platform.
• Laravel Homestead - A local development environment for Laravel.
• Laradock - A full PHP development environment based on Docker.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
• Vessel - Simple Docker development environments for Laravel.

Virtual Machines

Alternative PHP virtual machines.

• Hack - A programming language for HHVM.
• HHVM - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
• PeachPie - PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core.

Text Editors and IDEs

Text Editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with support for PHP.

• Eclipse for PHP Developers - A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
• Netbeans - An IDE with support for PHP and HTML5.
• PhpStorm - A commercial PHP IDE.
• VS Code - An open source code editor.

Web Applications

Web-based applications and tools.

• 3V4L - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
• DBV - A database version control application.
• PHP Queue - An application for managing queueing backends.
• MailCatcher - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
• Cachet - The open source status page system.
• phpRedisAdmin - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
• phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
• Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
• Lychee - An easy to use and great looking photo-management-system.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.

• appserver.io - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
• php-pm - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.
• 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 - An overview of fastest growing PHP libraries.
• Nomad PHP - A online PHP learning resource.
• PHP Best Practices - A PHP best practice guide.
• PHP FIG - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
• PHP Package Development Standards - Package development standards for PHP.
• PHP School - Open Source Learning for PHP.
• PHP Security - A guide to PHP security.
• PHP The Right Way - A PHP best practice quick reference guide.
• PHP UG - A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG).
• PHP Versions - Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts.
• PHP Weekly - A weekly PHP newsletter.
• Securing PHP - A newsletter about PHP security and library recommendations.
• Seven PHP - A website that interviews members of the PHP community.
• PHP Annotated Monthly - A monthly digest of PHP news.

Other Websites

Useful websites related to web development.

• Atlassian Git Tutorials - A series of Git tutorials.
• Learning Linux - A website for learning Linux.
• Semantic Versioning - A website explaining semantic versioning.
• Servers for Hackers - A newsletter about server management.
• The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) - An open software security community.

PHP Books

Fantastic PHP-related books.

• Domain-Driven Design in PHP - Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles.
• Functional Programming in PHP - This book will show you how to leverage these new PHP5.3+ features by understanding functional programming principles
• Grumpy PHPUnit - A book about unit testing with PHPUnit by Chris Hartjes.
• Mastering Object-Orientated PHP - A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage.
• Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices - A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart.
• Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
• PHP 7 Upgrade Guide - An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O'Dell.
• PHP Pandas - A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees.
• Scaling PHP Applications - An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona.
• Securing PHP: Core Concepts - A book about common security terms and practices for PHP by Chris Cornutt.
• Signaling PHP - A book about catching PCNTL signals in CLI scripts by Cal Evans.
• The Grumpy Programmer's Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications - A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes.
• 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.

Other Books

Books related to general computing and web development.

• Eloquent JavaScript - A book about JavaScript programming by Marijn Haverbeke.
• Pro Git - A book about Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
• The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
• The Tangled Web — Securing Web Applications - A book about securing web applications by Michal Zalewski.

PHP Videos

Fantastic PHP-related videos.

• Nomad PHP Lightning Talks - 10 to 15 minute Lightning Talks by PHP community members.
• PHP UK Conference - A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference.
• Programming with Anthony - A video series by Anthony Ferrara.
• Taking PHP Seriously - A talk outlining PHP's strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook.
• Laracasts - Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more.

PHP Podcasts

Podcasts with a focus on PHP topics.

• Laravel Podcast - Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
• PHP Internals News - A podcast about PHP internals.
• PHP Roundtable - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.
• PHP Town Hall - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
• Voices of the ElePHPant Interviews with the people that make the PHP community special.

PHP Reading

PHP-releated reading materials.

• Composer Primer - A Composer primer.
• Composer Stability Flags - An article about Composer stability flags.
• Composer Versioning - An article about Composer versioning.
• Create Your Own PHP Framework - A series of articles on how to make your own PHP framework by Fabien Potencier.
• Don't Worry About BREACH - An article about the BREACH hack and CSRF tokens.
• On PHP 5.3, Lambda Functions and Closures - An article about lambda functions and closures.
• PHP Is Much Better Than You Think - An article about the PHP language and ecosystem.
• PHP Package Checklist - A checklist for successful PHP package development.
• PHP Sucks! But I Like It! - An article about the pros and cons of PHP.
• Preventing CSRF Attacks - An article on preventing CSRF attacks.
• Seven Ways to Screw Up BCrypt - An article about correct BCrypt implementation.
• The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software - A guide to building secure PHP software.
• Use Env - An article about using the unix environment helper.

PHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.

• PHP RFCs - The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments).
• Externals - PHP internal discussions.
• PHP RFC Watch - Watch the latest PHP RFCs.
• Disproving the Single Quotes Myth - An article about performance of single and double quoted strings.
• How Big Are PHP Arrays (And Values) Really? - An article about array internals.
• How Foreach Works - A detailed StackOverflow answer about foreach.
• How Long is a Piece of String - An article about string internals.
• PHP Evaluation Order - An article about evaluation order in PHP.
• PHP Internals Book - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.
• Print vs Echo, Which One is Faster? - An article about print and echo performance.
• The PHP Ternary Operator. Fast or Not? - An article ternary performance.
• Understanding OpCodes - An article about opcodes.
• When Does Foreach Copy? - An article about the internals of foreach.
• Why Objects (Usually) Use Less Memory Than Arrays - An article about object and array internals.
• You're Being Lied To - An article about internal ZVALs.
• Collecting Garbage: 1 2 3 - A series about the PHP garbage collection internals.
• PHP Source Code for Developers: 1 2 3 4 - A series about the PHP source code.

PHP Magazines

Fantastic PHP-related magazines.

• php[architect] - A monthly magazine dedicated to PHP.