Awesome PHP
A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE-OF-CONDUCT for details.
Table of Contents
Composer Repositories
Composer Repositories.
Dependency Management
Libraries for dependency and package management.
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Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer.
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Composer - A package and dependency manager.
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Melody - A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
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Pickle - A PHP extension installer.
Dependency Management Extras
Extras related to dependency management.
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Composed - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime.
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Composer Checker - A tool to validate Composer configurations.
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Composer Merge Plugin - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
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Composition - A library to check your Composer environment at runtime.
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NameSpacer - A library to convert from underscores to namespaces.
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Patch Installer - A library to install patches using Composer.
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Prestissimo - A composer plugin which enables parallel install process.
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Satis - A static Composer repository generator.
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tooly - A library to manage PHAR files in project using Composer.
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Toran Proxy - A static Composer repository and proxy.
Frameworks
Web development frameworks.
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Aura Framework - A framework built from independent components.
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CakePHP - A rapid application development framework (CP).
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Laravel 5 - Another PHP framework (L5).
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Nette - Another framework comprised of individual components.
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Phalcon - A framework implemented as a C extension.
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PPI Framework 2 - An interoperability framework.
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Symfony - A framework comprised of individual components (SF).
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Yii2 - Another PHP framework.
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Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components (ZF2).
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Ice - Another simple and fast PHP framework delivered as C-extension.
Framework Extras
Extras related to web development frameworks.
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CakePHP CRUD - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
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Knp RAD Components - A set of Rapid Application Development (RAD) components for Symfony.
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Symfony CMF - A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS.
Components
Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.
Micro Frameworks
Micro frameworks and routers.
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Bullet PHP - A micro framework for building REST APIs.
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Lumen - A micro-framework by Laravel.
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Proton - A StackPHP compatible micro framework.
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Radar - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
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Silex - A micro framework built around Symfony components.
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Slim - Another simple micro framework.
Micro Framework Extras
Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.
Routers
Libraries for handling application routing.
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Aura.Router - A full-featured routing library.
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Fast Route - A fast routing library.
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Klein - A flexible router.
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Pux - Another fast routing library.
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Route - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.
Templating
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
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Aura.View - Provides TemplateView and TwoStepView using PHP as the tempting language, with support for partials, sections, and helpers.
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Foil - Another native PHP templating library.
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Lex - A lightweight template parser.
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MtHaml - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
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Mustache - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
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Phly Mustache - Another PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
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PHPTAL - A PHP implementation of the TAL templating language.
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Plates - A native PHP templating library.
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Smarty - A template engine to complement PHP.
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Twig - A comprehensive templating language.
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Tale Jade - A PHP implementation of the Jade template language.
Static Site Generators
Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.
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Couscous - Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.
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Phrozn - Another tool that converts Textile, Markdown and Twig into HTML.
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Sculpin - A tool that converts Markdown and Twig into static HTML.
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Spress - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML.
HTTP
Libraries for working with HTTP.
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Buzz - Another HTTP client.
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Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client.
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HTTPFul - A chainable HTTP client.
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PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
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Requests - A simple HTTP library.
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Retrofit - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
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zend-diactoros - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.
Scraping
Libraries for scraping websites.
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Embed - An information extractor from any web service or page.
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Goutte - A simple web scraper.
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PHP Spider - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.
Middlewares
Libraries for building application using middlewares.
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Expressive - PSR-7 Middleware framework from Zend.
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PSR7-Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
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Relay - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
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Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Silex/Symfony.
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zend-stratigility - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.
URL
Libraries for parsing URLs.
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PHP Domain Parser - A domain suffix parser library.
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Purl - A URL manipulation library.
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sabre/uri - A functional URI manipulation library.
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Uri - Another URL manipulation library.
Email
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
Files
Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.
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Apache MIME Types - A library that parses Apache MIME types.
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Canal - A library to determine internet media types.
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CSV - A CSV data manipulation library.
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Ferret - A MIME detection library.
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Flysystem - Another filesystem abstraction layer.
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Gaufrette - A filesystem abstraction layer.
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Hoa Mime - Another MIME detection library.
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Lurker - A resource tracking library.
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PHP FFmpeg - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
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UnifiedArchive - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.
Streams
Libraries for working with streams.
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Streamer - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.
Dependency Injection
Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.
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Aura.Di - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more.
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Acclimate - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
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Auryn - A recursive dependency injector.
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Container - Another flexible dependency injection container.
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Disco - A PSR-11 compatible, annotation-based dependency injection container.
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PHP-DI - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
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Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
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Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component (SF).
Imagery
Libraries for manipulating images.
Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
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Alice - An expressive fixture generation library.
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AspectMock - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception.
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Atoum - A simple testing library.
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Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
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Codeception - A full stack testing framework.
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DBUnit - A database testing library for PHPUnit.
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Faker - A fake data generator library.
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HTTP Mock - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
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Kahlan - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
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Mink - Web acceptance testing.
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Mockery - A mock object library for testing.
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ParaTest - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
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Peridot - An event driven test framework.
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Phake - Another mock object library for testing.
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Pho - Another behaviour driven development testing framework.
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PHP-Mock - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
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PHPSpec - A design by specification unit testing library.
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PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
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PHPUnit - A unit testing framework.
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Prophecy - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
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Samsui - Another fake data generator library.
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VFS Stream - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.
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VFS - Another virtual filesystem for testing.
Continuous Integration
Libraries and applications for continuous integration.
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CircleCI - A continuous integration platform.
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GitlabCi - Let GitLab CI test, build, deploy your code. TravisCi like.
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Jenkins - A continous integration platform with PHP support.
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JoliCi - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker.
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PHPCI - An open source continuous integration platform for PHP.
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SemaphoreCI - A continuous integration platform for open source and private projects.
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Shippable - A docker based continious integration platform for open source and private projects.
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Sismo - A continuous testing server library.
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Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.
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Wercker - A continuous integration platform
Documentation
Libraries for generating project documentation.
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APIGen - Another API documentation generator.
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daux.io - A documentation generator which uses Markdown files.
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PHP Documentor 2 - A documentation generator.
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phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
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Sami - An API documentation generator.
Security
Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.
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Halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium.
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HTML Purifier - A standards compliant HTML filter.
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IniScan - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security.
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Optimus - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
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PHP Encryption - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
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PHP IDS - A structured PHP security layer.
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PHP SSH - An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library.
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PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
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random_compat - PHP 5.x support for
random_bytes()
and random_int()
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RandomLib - A library for generating random numbers and strings.
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SecurityMultiTool - A PHP security library.
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SensioLabs Security Check - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories.
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TCrypto - A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
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VAddy - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
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Zed - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.
Passwords
Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.
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GenPhrase - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
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Password Compat - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
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Password Policy - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
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Password Validator - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
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Password-Generator - PHP library to generate random passwords.
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PHP Password Lib - A library for generating and validating passwords.
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phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
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Zxcvbn PHP - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.
Code Analysis
Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.
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Athletic - An annotation based benchmark framework.
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Better Reflection - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
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Code Climate - An automated code review.
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Dissect - A set of tools for lexical and syntactical analysis.
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Exakat - A static analysis engine for PHP.
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GrumPHP - A composer plugin to defend code quality.
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Mondrian - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
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PHP Analyser - A library for analysing PHP code to find bugs and errors.
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PHP Code Sniffer - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
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PHP CS Fixer - A coding standards fixer library.
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PHP Manipulator - A library for analysing and modifying PHP Source Code.
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PHP Mess Detector - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
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PHP Metrics - A static metric library.
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PHP Migration - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
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PHP Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP.
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PHP Refactoring Browser - A command line utility for refactoring PHP code.
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PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
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phan - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
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PHPCheckstyle - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
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PHPCPD - A library that detects copied and pasted code.
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PhpDependencyAnalysis - A tool to create customisable dependency graphs.
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PHPLOC - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project.
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PHPQA - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
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PHPPHP - A PHP VM implementation in PHP.
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PHPSandbox - A PHP sandbox environment.
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PHPStan - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
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Qafoo Quality Analyzer - A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
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Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
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UBench - A simple micro benchmark library.
Architectural
Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.
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Compose - A function composition library.
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Design Patterns PHP - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
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Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
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Functional PHP - A functional programming library.
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Galapagos - Evolutionary language transformation.
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Iter - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
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Monad PHP - A simple Monad library.
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Patchwork - A library for redefining userland functions.
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PHP Option - An option type library.
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Pipeline - A pipeline pattern implementation.
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Ruler - A simple stateless production rules engine.
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RulerZ - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.
Debugging and Profiling
Libraries and tools for debugging and profiling code.
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APM - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
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Barbushin PHP Console - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
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Blackfire.io - A low-overhead code profiler.
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Kint - A debugging and profiling tool.
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PHP Console - A web debugging console.
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PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
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PHPBench - A benchmarking Framework.
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Tideways.io - Monitoring and profiling tool
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Tracy - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
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xDebug - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
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XHProf - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
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Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.
Build Tools
Project build and automation tools.
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Bob - A simple project automation tool.
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Box - A utility to build PHAR files.
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Construct - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
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Phake - A rake PHP clone library.
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Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.
Task Runners
Libraries for automating and running tasks.
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Bldr - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
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Jobby - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
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Robo - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations.
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Task - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.
Navigation
Tools for building navigation structures.
Asset Management
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
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JShrink - A JavaScript minifier library.
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Munee - An asset optimiser library.
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Puli - A library for determining assets absolute paths.
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BowerPHP - A PHP implementation of Bower. A package manager for the web
Geolocation
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
Date and Time
Libraries for working with dates and times.
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CalendR - A calendar management library.
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Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension.
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Chronos - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
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ExpressiveDate - Another DateTime API extension.
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Moment.php - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
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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.
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Amp - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
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Broadway - An event source and CQRS library.
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Cake Event - An event dispatcher library (CP).
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Elephant.io - Yet another web socket library.
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Evenement - An event dispatcher library.
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Event - An event library with a focus on domain events.
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Hoa EventSource - An event source library.
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Hoa WebSocket - Another web socket library.
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Prooph Event Store - An event source component to persist event messages
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Ratchet - A web socket library.
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React - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
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Rx.PHP - A reactive extension library.
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Workerman - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
Logging
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
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Analog - A closure-based micro logging package.
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KLogger - An easy-to-use PSR-3 compliant logging class.
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Monolog - A comprehensive logger.
E-commerce
Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.
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Money - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
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OmniPay - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
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Payum - A payment abstraction library.
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Shopware - Highly customizable e-commerce software
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Swap - An exchange rates library.
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Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.
PDF
Libraries and software for working with PDF files.
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Dompdf - A HTML to PDF converter.
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PHPPdf - A library for generating PDFs and images from XML.
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Snappy - A PDF and image generation library.
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WKHTMLToPDF - A tool to convert HTML to PDF.
Office
Libraries for working with office suite documents.
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ExcelAnt - A library for manipulating Microsoft Excel documents.
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PHPPowerPoint - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
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PHPWord - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
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PHPSpreadsheet - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel)
Database
Libraries for interacting with databases using object-relational mapping (ORM) or datamapping techniques.
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Aura.Sql - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
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Aura.SqlQuery - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server. Edit
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Baum - A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
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Cake ORM - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern (CP).
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Doctrine Extensions - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
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Doctrine - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
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Eloquent - A simple ORM (L5).
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LazyRecord - A fast ORM designed for simplicity, extendability and performance.
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Pomm - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
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Propel - A fast ORM, migration library and query builder.
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ProxyManager - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
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RedBean - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
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Spot2 - A MySQL datamapper ORM.
Migrations
Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.
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Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
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Migrations - A migration management library.
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Phinx - Another database migration library.
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PHPMig - Another migration management library.
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Ruckusing - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.
NoSQL
Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.
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Monga - A MongoDB abstraction library.
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MongoQB - A MongoDB query builder library.
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PHPMongo - A MongoDB ORM.
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Predis - A feature complete Redis library.
Queue
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
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Bernard - A multibackend abstraction library.
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BunnyPHP - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
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Pheanstalk - A Beanstalkd client library.
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PHP AMQP - A pure PHP AMQP library.
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Tarantool Queue - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
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Thumper - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
Search
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
Command Line
Libraries related to the command line.
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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.
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Boris - A tiny PHP REPL.
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Cilex - A micro framework for building command line tools.
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CLI Menu - A library for building CLI menus.
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CLIFramework - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
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CLImate - A library for outputting colours and special formatting.
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Commando - Another simple command line opt parser.
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Cron Expression - A library to calculate cron run dates.
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GetOpt - A command line opt parser.
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GetOptionKit - Another command line opt parser.
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Hoa Console - Another command line library.
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OptParse - Another command line opt parser.
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Pecan - An event-driven, non-blocking shell.
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PsySH - Another PHP REPL.
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ShellWrap - A simple command line wrapper library.
Authentication and Authorization
Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.
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Aura.Auth - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
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Hawk - A Hawk HTTP authentication library.
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SocialConnect Auth - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
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Json Web Token - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
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OAuth 1.0 Client - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
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OAuth 2.0 Client - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
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OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
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OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
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Opauth - A multi-provider authentication framework.
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PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library.
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Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
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Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
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TwitterOAuth - A Twitter OAuth library.
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TwitterSDK - A fully tested Twitter SDK.
Markup
Libraries for working with markup.
Strings
Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.
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Agent - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
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ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
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Color Jizz - A library for manipulating and converting colours.
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Device Detector - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
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Hoa String - Another UTF-8 string library.
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Jieba-PHP - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
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Mobile-Detect - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
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Patchwork UTF-8 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
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Slugify - A library to convert strings to slugs.
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SQL Formatter - A library for formatting SQL statements.
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Stringy - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
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Text - A text manipulation library.
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UA Parser - A library for parsing user agent strings.
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URLify - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
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UUID - A library for generating UUIDs.
Numbers
Libraries for working with numbers.
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ByteUnits - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
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LibPhoneNumber for PHP - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
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Math - A library for working with large numbers.
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Numbers PHP - A library for working with numbers.
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PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure.
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PHP Units of Measure - A library for converting between units of measure.
Filtering and Validation
Libraries for filtering and validating data.
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Aura.Filter - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
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Cake Validation - Another validation library (CP).
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DMS Filter - An annotation filtering library.
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Filterus - A simple PHP filtering library.
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ISO-codes - A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries
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MetaYaml - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
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Respect Validation - A simple validation library.
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Upload - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
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Valitron - Another validation library.
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Volan - Another simplified validation library.
API
Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.
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API Platform - Expose in minutes an hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.
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Apigility - An API builder built with Zend Framework 2.
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Drest - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
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HAL - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
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Hateoas - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
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Negotiation - A content negotiation library.
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Restler - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
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wsdl2phpgenerator - A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files.
Caching
Libraries for caching data.
Data Structure and Storage
Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.
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Ardent - A library of data structures.
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Cake Collection - A simple collections library (CP).
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Collections - Collections Abstraction library for PHP.
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Fractal - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
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Ginq - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.
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JsonMapper - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
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Knapsack - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
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PHP Collections - A simple collections library.
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PINQ - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
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Porter - Data import abstraction framework.
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Serializer - A library for serialising and de-serialising data.
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Totem - A library to manage and create data changesets.
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YaLinqo - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
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Zend Serializer - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data (ZF2).
Notifications
Libraries for working with notification software.
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JoliNotif - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
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Nod - A notification library (e.g., Growl).
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Notification Pusher - A standalone library for device push notifications.
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Notificato - A library for handling push notifications.
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Notificator - A lightweight notification library.
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Php-pushwoosh - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.
Deployment
Libraries for project deployment.
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Deployer - A deployment tool.
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Envoy - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
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Plum - A deployer library.
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Pomander - A deployment tool for PHP applications.
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Rocketeer - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.
Internationalisation and Localisation
Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).
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Aura.Intl - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
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Cake I18n - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers (CP)
Third Party APIs
Libraries for accessing third party APIs.
Extensions
Libraries to help build PHP extensions.
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PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
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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.
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Annotations - An annotations library (part of Doctrine).
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Cake Utility - Utility classes such as Inflector, String, Hash, Security and Xml (CP).
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Chief - A command bus library.
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ClassPreloader - A library for optimising autoloading.
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Country List - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
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Embera - An Oembed consumer library.
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Essence - A library for extracting web media.
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Flux - A regular expression building library.
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Graphviz - A Graphviz library.
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Hprose-PHP - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now.
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JSON Lint - A JSON lint utility.
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JSONPCallbackValidator - A library for validating JSONP callbacks.
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Jumper - A remote service executor library.
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LadyBug - A dumper library.
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Lambda PHP - A Lambda calculus interpreter in PHP.
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LiteCQRS - A CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Separation) library.
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Metrics - A simple metrics API library.
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noCAPTCHA - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
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Nmap - A PHP wrapper around Nmap.
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Opengraph - An opengraph library.
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Pagerfanta - A pagination library.
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PHP Expression - A PHP expression language.
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PHP PassBook - A PHP library for iOS PassBook.
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PHP-GPIO - A library for playing with the Raspberry PI's GPIO pins.
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PHP-ML - A library for Machine Learning in PHP.
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PHPCR - A PHP port of the Java Content Repository (JCR).
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PHPStack - A TCP/IP stack proof of concept written in PHP.
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print_o - An object graph visualizer.
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Procrastinator - A library for running time consuming tasks.
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Prooph Service Bus - Lightweight message bus supporting CQRS and Micro Services
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RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software.
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sabre/vobject - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.
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Slimdump - An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
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Spork - A process forking library.
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Sslurp - A library that makes dealing with SSL suck less.
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SuperClosure - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.
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Symfony VarDumper - A variable dumper component (SF).
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Underscore - A PHP port of the Underscore JS library.
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Whoops - A pretty error handling library.
Software
Software for creating a development environment.
PHP Installation
Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.
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HomeBrew PHP - A PHP tap for HomeBrew.
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HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
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PHP Brew - A PHP version manager and installer.
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PHP Build - Another PHP version installer.
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PHP Env - Another PHP version manager.
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PHP OSX - A PHP installer for OSX.
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PHP Switch - Another version manager.
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VirtPHP - A tool for creating and managing isolated PHP environments.
Development Environment
Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.
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Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
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Phansible - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines with Ansible.
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Protobox - Another web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
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PuPHPet - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
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Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
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Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
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Docker - A containerization platform.
Virtual Machines
Alternative PHP virtual machines.
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Hack - A programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP.
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HHVM - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
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HippyVM - Another PHP virtual machine.
Integrated Development Environment
Integrated Development Environments with support for PHP.
Web Applications
Web-based applications and tools.
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3V4L - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
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DBV - A database version control application.
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PHP Queue - An application for managing queueing backends.
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MailCatcher - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
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Cachet - The open source status page system.
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phpBeanstalkdAdmin - Monitoring and administration interface for Beanstalkd.
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phpRedisAdmin - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
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phpPgAdmin - A web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL.
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phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
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Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
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Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.
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appserver.io - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
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php-pm - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.
Resources
Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your PHP development skills and knowledge.
PHP Websites
Useful PHP-related websites.
Other Websites
Useful websites related to web development.
PHP Books
Fantastic PHP-related books.
Other Books
Books related to general computing and web development.
PHP Videos
Fantastic PHP-related videos.
PHP Podcasts
Podcasts with a main focus on PHP topics
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PHP Town Hall - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
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Voices of the ElePHPant Interviews with the people that make the PHP community special.
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PHP Roundtable - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.
PHP Reading
PHP-releated reading materials.
PHP Internals Reading
Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.
PHP Magazines
Fantastic PHP-related magazines.