Awesome PHP
A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
Contributing and Collaborating
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Table of Contents
Composer Repositories
Composer Repositories.
Dependency Management
Libraries for dependency and package management.
Composer Installers 751 472 - A multi framework Composer library installer.
Composer - A package and dependency manager.
Melody - A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
Pickle 1k 56 - 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 Checker 4 0 - A tool to validate Composer configurations.
Composer Merge Plugin 259 42 - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
Composition 108 5 - A library to check your Composer environment at runtime.
NameSpacer 47 6 - A library to convert from underscores to namespaces.
Patch Installer 37 0 - A library to install patches using Composer.
Prestissimo 3k 108 - A composer plugin which enables parallel install process.
Satis 2k 393 - A static Composer repository generator.
tooly 57 7 - A library to manage PHAR files in project using Composer.
Toran Proxy - A static Composer repository and proxy.
Frameworks
Web development frameworks.
Aura Framework - A framework built from independent components.
CakePHP - A rapid application development framework (CP).
Laravel 5 - Another PHP framework (L5).
Nette - Another framework comprised of individual components.
Phalcon - A framework implemented as a C extension.
PPI Framework 2 - An interoperability framework.
Symfony - A framework comprised of individual components (SF).
Yii2 14k 9k - Another PHP framework.
Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components (ZF2).
Ice - Another simple and fast PHP framework delivered as C-extension.
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.
Symfony CMF 766 107 - A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS.
Components
Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.
Micro Frameworks
Micro frameworks and routers.
Bullet PHP - A micro framework for building REST APIs.
Lumen - A micro-framework by Laravel.
Proton 305 44 - A StackPHP compatible micro framework.
Radar 45 13 - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
Silex - A micro framework built around Symfony components.
Slim - Another simple micro framework.
Micro Framework Extras
Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.
Routers
Libraries for handling application routing.
Aura.Router 342 89 - A full-featured routing library.
Fast Route 2k 281 - A fast routing library.
Klein 427 80 - A flexible router.
Pux 1k 115 - Another fast routing library.
Route 302 114 - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.
Templating
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
Aura.View 59 27 - Provides TemplateView and TwoStepView using PHP as the tempting language, with support for partials, sections, and helpers.
Foil 114 23 - Another native PHP templating library.
Lex 62 18 - A lightweight template parser.
MtHaml 348 51 - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
Mustache 3k 470 - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
Phly Mustache 135 21 - Another 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.
Tale Jade 92 15 - A PHP implementation of the Jade template 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.
Phrozn 456 73 - Another tool that converts Textile, Markdown and Twig into HTML.
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 1k 250 - Another HTTP client.
Guzzle 10k 2k - A comprehensive HTTP client.
HTTPFul 1k 309 - A chainable HTTP client.
HTTPlug - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation.
PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
Requests 3k 446 - A simple HTTP library.
Retrofit 103 19 - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
zend-diactoros 472 157 - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.
Scraping
Libraries for scraping websites.
Embed 1k 178 - An information extractor from any web service or page.
Goutte 6k 879 - A simple web scraper.
PHP Spider 916 201 - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.
Middlewares
Libraries for building application using middlewares.
Expressive - PSR-7 Middleware framework from Zend.
PSR7-Middlewares 577 69 - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
Relay 152 10 - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Silex/Symfony.
zend-stratigility 209 67 - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.
URL
Libraries for parsing URLs.
PHP Domain Parser 507 76 - A domain suffix parser library.
Purl 708 86 - A URL manipulation library.
sabre/uri 10 1 - A functional URI manipulation library.
Uri 242 46 - Another URL manipulation library.
Email
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
Files
Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.
Apache MIME Types 16 3 - A library that parses Apache MIME types.
Canal 12 1 - A library to determine internet media types.
CSV 1k 250 - A CSV data manipulation library.
Ferret 10 4 - A MIME detection library.
Flysystem - Another filesystem abstraction layer.
Gaufrette 2k 408 - A filesystem abstraction layer.
Hoa Mime 81 14 - Another MIME detection library.
Lurker 88 9 - A resource tracking library.
PHP FFmpeg - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
UnifiedArchive 100 11 - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.
Streams
Libraries for working with streams.
Streamer 89 8 - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.
Dependency Injection
Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.
Aura.Di 279 92 - 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 220 40 - A recursive dependency injector.
Container 294 66 - Another flexible dependency injection container.
Disco 95 17 - 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 180 32 - A dependency injection container component (SF).
Imagery
Libraries for manipulating images.
731 78 - A library for extracting colours from images.
GIF Creator 83 22 - A library to create GIF animations from multiple images.
51 13 - A library to extract GIF animation frame information.
Glide 1k 116 - An on-demand image manipulation library.
Image Hash 705 67 - A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
Image Optimizer 394 73 - A library for optimizing images.
Image With Text 53 8 - A library for embedding text into images.
Imagine - An image manipulation library.
Intervention Image 6k 962 - Another image manipulation library.
PHP Image Workshop 818 198 - Another image manipulation library.
Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
Alice 2k 270 - An expressive fixture generation library.
AspectMock 590 81 - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception.
Atoum 1k 205 - A simple testing library.
Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
Codeception 4k 2k - A full stack testing framework.
DBUnit 182 113 - A database testing library for PHPUnit.
Faker 12k 2k - A fake data generator library.
HTTP Mock 298 41 - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
Kahlan 364 35 - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
Mink - Web acceptance testing.
Mockery 117 21 - A mock object library for testing.
ParaTest 561 135 - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
Peridot 270 27 - An event driven test framework.
Phake 442 78 - Another mock object library for testing.
Pho 289 19 - Another behaviour driven development testing framework.
PHP-Mock 123 7 - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
PHPSpec 1k 318 - A design by specification unit testing library.
PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
PHPUnit 9k 2k - A unit testing framework.
Prophecy 1k 184 - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
Samsui 28 1 - Another fake data generator library.
VFS Stream 806 101 - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.
VFS 303 21 - Another virtual filesystem 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 continous integration platform with PHP support .
JoliCi 680 47 - 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.
Sismo - A continuous testing server library.
Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.
Wercker - A continuous integration platform
Documentation
Libraries for generating project documentation.
APIGen 806 174 - Another API documentation generator.
daux.io 5k 760 - A documentation generator which uses Markdown files.
PHP Documentor 2 2k 636 - A documentation generator.
phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
Sami 2k 275 - An API documentation generator.
Security
Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.
Halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium 5k 829 .
HTML Purifier 1k 200 - A standards compliant HTML filter.
IniScan 1k 98 - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security.
Optimus 1k 80 - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
PHP Encryption 1k 204 - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
PHP IDS 290 76 - A structured PHP security layer.
PHP SSH 281 80 - An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library.
PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
random_compat 500 81 - PHP 5.x support for random_bytes()
and random_int()
RandomLib 638 117 - A library for generating random numbers and strings.
SecurityMultiTool 57 5 - A PHP security library.
SensioLabs Security Check - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories.
TCrypto 53 10 - A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
VAddy - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
Zed - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.
Passwords
Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.
GenPhrase 66 2 - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
Password Compat 1k 215 - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
Password Policy 54 15 - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
Password Validator 136 10 - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
Password-Generator 67 14 - PHP library to generate random passwords.
PHP Password Lib 258 34 - A library for generating and validating passwords.
phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
Zxcvbn PHP 370 47 - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.
Code Analysis
Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.
Code Quality
Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.
PHP CodeSniffer 4k 1k - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
PHP CS Fixer 6k 1k - A coding standards fixer library.
PHP Mess Detector - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
PHPCheckstyle 90 24 - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
PHPCPD 1k 157 - A library that detects copied and pasted code.
Static Analysis
Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.
Exakat 89 16 - A static analysis engine for PHP.
Mondrian 188 9 - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
phan 239 18 - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
PHPCompatibility 812 138 - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
PhpDependencyAnalysis 276 20 - A tool to create customisable dependency graphs.
PHP Metrics 498 99 - A static metric library.
PHP Migration 94 8 - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
PHPStan 3k 241 - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
Pslam 685 52 - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications.
Architectural
Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.
Compose 60 4 - A function composition library.
Design Patterns PHP 13k 3k - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
Functional PHP 1k 152 - A functional programming library.
Galapagos - Evolutionary language transformation.
Iter 620 44 - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
Monad PHP 116 24 - A simple Monad library.
Patchwork - A library for redefining userland functions.
PHP Option 541 33 - An option type library.
Pipeline 347 43 - A pipeline pattern implementation.
Ruler 456 61 - A simple stateless production rules engine.
RulerZ 561 57 - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.
Debugging and Profiling
Libraries and tools for debugging and profiling code.
APM - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
Barbushin PHP Console 1k 225 - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
Blackfire.io - A low-overhead code profiler.
Kint 264 28 - A debugging and profiling tool.
PHP Console 261 43 - A web debugging console.
PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
PHPBench 589 44 - A benchmarking Framework.
Tideways.io - Monitoring and profiling tool
Tracy 824 188 - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
xDebug 1k 361 - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
XHProf 1k 416 - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.
Build Tools
Project build and automation tools.
Bob 78 2 - A simple project automation tool.
Box 1k 75 - A utility to build PHAR files.
Construct 466 46 - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
Phake 355 32 - A rake PHP clone library.
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 372 62 - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
Robo 586 93 - 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.
481 209 - A menu library.
Asset Management
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
JShrink 495 115 - A JavaScript minifier library.
Munee 916 118 - An asset optimiser library.
Puli 475 38 - A library for determining assets absolute paths.
BowerPHP 738 88 - A PHP implementation of Bower. A package manager for the web
Geolocation
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
GeoJSON 128 33 - A GeoJSON implementation.
GeoTools 852 88 - A library of geo-related tools.
PHPGeo 824 146 - A simple geo library.
Date and Time
Libraries for working with dates and times.
CalendR - A calendar management library.
Carbon 6k 959 - A simple DateTime API extension.
Chronos 393 39 - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
Moment.php 645 130 - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
Yasumi 371 74 - 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 1k 95 - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
Broadway 138 27 - An event source and CQRS library.
Cake Event 12 2 - An event dispatcher library (CP).
Elephant.io - Yet another web socket library.
Evenement 359 36 - An event dispatcher library.
Event 257 45 - An event library with a focus on domain events.
Hoa EventSource 76 14 - An event source library.
Hoa WebSocket 381 58 - Another web socket library.
Prooph Event Store 283 42 - An event source component to persist event messages
Ratchet 4k 585 - A web socket library.
React 3k 257 - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
Rx.PHP 237 23 - A reactive extension library.
Workerman 5k 2k - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
Logging
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
Monolog 6k 1k - A comprehensive logger.
E-commerce
Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.
Money 1k 138 - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
OmniPay 4k 739 - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
Payum - A payment abstraction library.
Shopware 881 887 - Highly customizable e-commerce software
Swap 851 67 - An exchange rates library.
Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.
PDF
Libraries and software for working with PDF files.
Dompdf 4k 1k - A HTML to PDF converter.
PHPPdf 314 60 - A library for generating PDFs and images from XML.
Snappy 3k 386 - A PDF and image generation library.
WKHTMLToPDF 6k 899 - A tool to convert HTML to PDF.
Office
Libraries for working with office suite documents.
ExcelAnt 30 13 - A library for manipulating Microsoft Excel documents.
PHPPowerPoint 327 146 - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
PHPWord 3k 1k - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
PHPSpreadsheet 1k 240 - 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.
Atlas.Orm 374 41 - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.
Aura.Sql 421 103 - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
Aura.SqlQuery 263 79 - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Baum 2k 304 - A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
Cake ORM 122 16 - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern (CP).
Doctrine Extensions 2k 1k - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
Doctrine - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
Eloquent 1k 525 - A simple ORM (L5).
LazyRecord 51 5 - A fast ORM designed for simplicity, extendability and performance.
Pomm 135 32 - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
Propel - A fast ORM, migration library and query builder.
ProxyManager 797 139 - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
RedBean - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
Spot2 8 6 - A MySQL datamapper ORM.
Migrations
Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.
Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
Migrations 34 0 - A migration management library.
Phinx 224 87 - Another database migration library.
PHPMig 466 83 - Another migration management library.
Ruckusing 499 107 - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.
NoSQL
Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.
Monga 320 41 - A MongoDB abstraction library.
MongoQB 142 57 - A MongoDB query builder library.
PHPMongo 169 53 - A MongoDB ORM.
Predis 4k 743 - A feature complete Redis library.
Queue
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
Bernard 854 111 - A multibackend abstraction library.
BunnyPHP 281 43 - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
Pheanstalk 1k 243 - A Beanstalkd client library.
PHP AMQP 707 238 - A pure PHP AMQP library.
Tarantool Queue 40 3 - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
Thumper 47 18 - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
Search
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
Command Line
Libraries related to the command line.
Aura.Cli 103 28 - 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 625 93 - A micro framework for building command line tools.
821 57 - A library for building CLI menus.
CLIFramework 324 50 - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
CLImate 1k 113 - A library for outputting colours and special formatting.
Commando 629 72 - Another simple command line opt parser.
Cron Expression 1k 215 - A library to calculate cron run dates.
GetOpt 32 10 - A command line opt parser.
GetOptionKit 108 31 - Another command line opt parser.
Hoa Console 239 28 - Another command line library.
OptParse 13 0 - Another command line opt parser.
Pecan 30 1 - An event-driven, non-blocking shell.
PsySH 2k 238 - Another PHP REPL.
ShellWrap 692 73 - A simple command line wrapper library.
Authentication and Authorization
Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.
Aura.Auth 93 35 - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
Hawk 63 11 - A Hawk HTTP authentication library.
SocialConnect Auth - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
Json Web Token 2k 225 - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
OAuth 1.0 Client 157 62 - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
OAuth 2.0 Client 2k 570 - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
Opauth 2k 310 - A multi-provider authentication framework.
PHP oAuthLib 1k 511 - Another OAuth library.
Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
4k 2k - A Twitter OAuth library.
38 2 - A fully tested Twitter SDK.
Markup
Libraries for working with markup.
Cebe Markdown 662 140 - An fast and extensible Markdown parser.
Ciconia 320 22 - Another Markdown parser that supports Github flavoured Markdown.
CommonMark PHP 935 117 - A Markdown parser which supports the full CommonMark spec .
Decoda 188 52 - A lightweight markup parser library.
Emoji - A library that converts unicode characters and names into emoji images.
HTML to Markdown 469 94 - Converts HTML into Markdown.
HTML5 PHP 459 78 - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
Parsedown 5k 870 - Another Markdown parser.
PHP Markdown 3k 578 - A Markdown parser.
Strings
Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.
Agent 1k 143 - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
ANSI to HTML5 106 19 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
Color Jizz 235 34 - A library for manipulating and converting colours.
Device Detector 15 2 - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
Hoa String 27 4 - Another UTF-8 string library.
Jieba-PHP 353 104 - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
Mobile-Detect 8k 2k - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
Patchwork UTF-8 63 6 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
Slugify 1k 186 - A library to convert strings to slugs.
SQL Formatter 900 198 - A library for formatting SQL statements.
Stringy 2k 179 - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
Text 27 3 - A text manipulation library.
UA Parser 1k 405 - A library for parsing user agent strings.
URLify 547 84 - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
UUID 3k 248 - A library for generating UUIDs.
Numbers
Libraries for working with numbers.
ByteUnits 45 12 - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
LibPhoneNumber for PHP 2k 309 - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
Math 35 5 - A library for working with large numbers.
Numbers PHP 109 9 - A library for working with numbers.
PHP Conversion 11 1 - Another library for converting between units of measure.
PHP Units of Measure 109 37 - A library for converting between units of measure.
Filtering and Validation
Libraries for filtering and validating data.
Aura.Filter 115 48 - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
Cake Validation 24 1 - Another validation library (CP).
DMS Filter 35 5 - An annotation filtering library.
Filterus 430 65 - A simple PHP filtering library.
ISO-codes 501 67 - A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries
MetaYaml 61 16 - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
Respect Validation 4k 888 - A simple validation library.
Upload - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
Valitron 933 219 - 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.
Apigility 495 177 - An API builder built with Zend Framework 2.
Drest 86 13 - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
HAL 193 46 - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
Hateoas 792 124 - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
Negotiation 417 46 - A content negotiation library.
Restler 1k 372 - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
wsdl2phpgenerator 579 219 - 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 382 37 - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line.
Cake Cache 12 4 - A caching library (CP).
Doctrine Cache 609 213 - A caching library.
Metaphore 73 8 - Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect.
Stash 837 144 - Another library for caching.
Zend Cache 31 47 - Another caching library (ZF2).
Data Structure and Storage
Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.
Ardent 621 59 - A library of data structures.
Cake Collection 30 4 - A simple collections library (CP).
Collections 44 15 - Collections Abstraction library for PHP.
Fractal 2k 361 - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
Ginq 198 25 - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.
JsonMapper 274 59 - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
Knapsack 600 36 - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
PHP Collections 264 40 - A simple collections library.
PINQ 400 19 - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
Porter 344 23 - Data import abstraction framework.
Serializer 859 577 - A library for serialising and de-serialising data.
Totem 70 4 - A library to manage and create data changesets.
YaLinqo 276 20 - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
Zend Serializer 11 18 - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data (ZF2).
Notifications
Libraries for working with notification software.
JoliNotif 800 70 - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
Nod 29 1 - A notification library (e.g., Growl).
Notification Pusher 982 293 - A standalone library for device push notifications.
Notificato 207 43 - A library for handling push notifications.
Notificator 139 23 - A lightweight notification library.
Php-pushwoosh 46 32 - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.
Deployment
Libraries for project deployment.
Deployer 5k 819 - A deployment tool.
Envoy 995 171 - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
Plum 88 9 - A deployer library.
Pomander 216 16 - A deployment tool for PHP applications.
Rocketeer 3k 268 - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.
Internationalisation and Localisation
Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).
Aura.Intl 70 27 - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
Cake I18n 13 1 - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers (CP)
Third Party APIs
Libraries for accessing third party APIs.
Amazon Web Service SDK 3k 987 - The official PHP AWS SDK library.
Campaign Monitor - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
Digital Ocean 129 7 - A library to interface with the Digital Ocean API.
Dropbox SDK 230 113 - The official PHP Dropbox SDK library.
Github 56 12 - A library to interface with the Github API.
Mailgun 662 221 The official Mailgun PHP API.
PHP Github API 1k 513 - Another library to interface with the Github API.
S3 Stream Wrapper 10 1 - A stream wrapper library for Amazon S3.
Stripe 1k 487 - The official Stripe PHP library.
Twilio 986 479 - The official Twilio PHP REST API.
6 1 - A library to interface with Twitter's OAuth workflow.
18 4 - A library to interact with Twitter's REST API.
Extensions
Libraries to help build PHP extensions.
PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
Zephir 2k 476 - 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 494 136 - An annotations library (part of Doctrine).
BotMan 2k 243 - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chat bots.
Cake Utility 33 7 - Utility classes such as Inflector, String, Hash, Security and Xml (CP).
Chief 39 4 - A command bus library.
ClassPreloader 117 20 - A library for optimising autoloading.
Country List 3k 1k - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
Embera 150 35 - An Oembed consumer library.
Essence 399 42 - A library for extracting web media.
Flux 329 23 - A regular expression building library.
Graphviz 44 21 - A Graphviz library.
Hprose-PHP 987 270 - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now.
JSON Lint 258 44 - A JSON lint utility.
JSONPCallbackValidator 22 4 - A library for validating JSONP callbacks.
Jumper 26 1 - A remote service executor library.
LadyBug 132 18 - A dumper library.
Lambda PHP 15 2 - A Lambda calculus interpreter in PHP.
LiteCQRS 247 32 - A CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Separation) library.
Metrics 199 32 - A simple metrics API library.
noCAPTCHA 156 24 - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
Nmap 70 36 - A PHP wrapper around Nmap .
Opengraph 50 7 - An opengraph library.
809 178 - A pagination library.
PHP Expression 20 2 - A PHP expression language.
PHP PassBook 187 62 - A PHP library for iOS PassBook.
PHP-GPIO 98 29 - A library for playing with the Raspberry PI's GPIO pins.
PHP-ML 3k 424 - A library for Machine Learning in PHP.
PHPCR 390 43 - A PHP port of the Java Content Repository (JCR).
PHPStack - A TCP/IP stack proof of concept written in PHP.
print_o 65 9 - An object graph visualizer.
Procrastinator 48 6 - A library for running time consuming tasks.
Prooph Service Bus 294 41 - Lightweight message bus supporting CQRS and Micro Services
RMT 352 38 - A library for versioning and releasing software.
sabre/vobject 8 2 - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.
Slimdump 39 7 - An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
Spork 610 59 - A process forking library.
Sslurp 48 7 - A library that makes dealing with SSL suck less.
SuperClosure 689 85 - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.
Symfony VarDumper - A variable dumper component (SF).
Underscore - A PHP port of the Underscore JS library.
Whoops 5k 570 - A pretty error handling library.
Software
Software for creating a development environment.
PHP Installation
Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.
HomeBrew PHP 3k 958 - A PHP tap for HomeBrew.
HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
PHP Brew 3k 315 - A PHP version manager and installer.
PHP Build 352 81 - Another PHP version installer.
PHP Env 334 34 - Another PHP version manager.
PHP OSX - A PHP installer for OSX.
PHP Switch 80 9 - Another version manager.
VirtPHP - A tool for creating and managing isolated PHP environments.
Development Environment
Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.
Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
Phansible - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines with Ansible.
Protobox - Another web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
PuPHPet - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
Docker - A containerization platform.
Virtual Machines
Alternative PHP virtual machines.
Hack - A programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP.
HHVM 16k 3k - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
HippyVM 930 62 - Another PHP virtual machine.
Text Editors and IDEs
Text Editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with support for PHP.
Web Applications
Web-based applications and tools.
3V4L - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
DBV - A database version control application.
PHP Queue 397 38 - An application for managing queueing backends.
MailCatcher 4k 457 - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
Cachet - The open source status page system.
phpBeanstalkdAdmin 127 23 - Monitoring and administration interface for Beanstalkd.
phpRedisAdmin 985 296 - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
phpPgAdmin 259 147 - A web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL.
phpMyAdmin 3k 2k - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
Grav 9k 1k - A modern flat-file CMS.
Lychee 4k 528 - 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 4k 219 - 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 focus on PHP topics.
PHP Reading
PHP-releated reading materials.
PHP Internals Reading
Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.
PHP Magazines
Fantastic PHP-related magazines.