Awesome PHP

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

Contributing and Collaborating

Composer Repositories.

Libraries for dependency and package management.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

Libraries for handling application routing.

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

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.

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.

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.