Awesome PHP

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

Contributing and Collaborating

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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
  • Error Tracking and Monitoring Services
  • 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 and CSS
  • JSON
  • Strings
  • Numbers
  • Filtering, Sanitizing and Validation
  • API
  • Caching and Locking
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Internationalisation and Localisation
  • Serverless
  • Configuration
  • LLMs
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • PHP Installation
  • Development Environment
  • Virtual Machines
  • Text Editors and IDEs
  • Web Applications
  • Infrastructure
• Resources
  • PHP Websites
  • PHP Books
  • PHP Videos
  • PHP Conferences
  • PHP Podcasts
  • PHP Newsletters
  • PHP Reading
  • PHP Internals Reading

Composer Repositories

Composer Repositories.

• Firegento - Magento Module Composer Repository.
• Packagist - The PHP Package Repository.
• Packalyst - The Laravel 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.
• Phive - A PHAR manager.
• 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.
• Composer Normalize - A plugin for normalizing composer.json files.
• Composer Patches - A plugin for Composer to apply patches.
• Composer Prefer Lowest Validator - A plugin to check if minimum dependencies can be installed and tested.
• Composer Require Checker - CLI tool to analyze composer dependencies and verify that no unknown symbols are used in the sources of a package.
• Composer Unused - A CLI Tool to scan for unused composer packages.
• Repman - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
• Satis - A static Composer repository generator.
• Tooly - A library to manage PHAR files in a project using Composer.
• Toran Proxy - A Composer proxy for speed and reliability. (:warning: Toran Proxy is being phased out.)

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• CakePHP - A rapid application development framework.
• CodeIgniter - A powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.
• 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 reusable 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 - An out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole.
• Livewire - Powerful, dynamic, front-end UIs without leaving PHP.

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.
• CraftCMS - A flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.
• Drupal - An enterprise level CMS.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
• Joomla - Another leading CMS.
• Kirby - A flat-file CMS that adapts to any project.
• Magento - The most popular e-commerce platform.
• Moodle - An open-source learning platform.
• Pico CMS - A stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
• Statamic - Build beautiful, easy-to-manage websites.
• Sulu - A user and developer friendly focused CMS and Platform based on the Symfony Framework.
• WordPress - A blogging platform and CMS.

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.
• 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.
• Mezzio - A micro-framework by Laminas.
• Minicli - Minimalist, dependency-free framework for building CLI-centric PHP applications.
• 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.

• Latte - The safest and truly intuitive templates for PHP.
• 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.
• Jigsaw - Simple static sites with Laravel's Blade.
• 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 and detecting crawlers.

• Chrome PHP - Instrument headless Chrome/Chromium instances from PHP.
• CrawlerDetect - A PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent.
• DiDOM - A super-fast HTML scrapper and parser.
• Embed - An information extractor from any web service or page.
• PHP Spider - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.
• Symfony Panther - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony.

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.