Learning Resources

Valuable communities, blogs, websites, articles, books, videos, and other resources related to PHP

• PHP Websites

  • PHP The Right Way - A quick reference guide to PHP best practices
  • PHP Best Practices - PHP best practices
  • Clean Code PHP - PHP coding standards
  • PHP Weekly News - PHP weekly newsletter archive
  • Securing PHP - Resources on PHP security
  • PHP FIG - PHP Framework Interoperability Group
    • PSR Chinese Translation
  • PHP School - Open-source PHP learning resources
  • PHPTrends - Search for rapidly growing PHP libraries
  • PHP Developer Prepares - PHP developer practices

• Recommended Articles

  • The 2018 Guide to Building Secure PHP Software - Chinese translation: 2018 PHP Application Security Design Guide
  • advanced-php - Articles on PHP multiprocessing, sockets, etc.
  • LEARN REGEX THE EASY WAY - Learning regular expressions

• Other Websites

  • The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) - Open-source web application security community
  • WebSec IO - Web security community
  • Semantic Versioning - Semantic versioning (Chinese version available)
  • Atlassian Git Tutorials - Series of Git tutorials
  • Servers for Hackers - Server operations and maintenance resources
  • be-a-professional-programmer - Resources, tools, and frameworks for becoming a professional programmer
  • PHP Security Advisories Database - Database of PHP security advisories

• PHP Books

  • Modern PHP - By the initiator of PHP The Right Way and author of Slim framework
    • Modern PHP (Chinese Edition)
  • PHP Pandas
  • ppts_for_php2017 - PPTs/Keynotes from the 2017 Third Global PHP Developers Conference
  • PHP-Data-Structure-and-Algorithms
  • DesignPatternsPHP - PHP design patterns
    • DesignPatternsPHP (Chinese Edition)

• Other Books

  • The Linux Command Line - Linux command line tutorial
  • architecture.of.internet-product - Technical architecture of internet companies
  • architect-awesome - Backend architect technology roadmap

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Dependency Management

Packages and frameworks for dependency management

• Composer / Packagist - Package and dependency manager
• composer/installers - Multi-framework Composer library installer
• hirak/prestissimo - Parallel installation of Composer dependencies
• composer/satis - Build private Composer package repositories
• FriendsOfPHP/pickle - PHP extension installer
• Melody - Tool to build one-file Composer scripts
• tommy-muehle/tooly-composer-script - Library for managing PHAR files with Composer

Frameworks

Web development frameworks

• laravel/laravel - Elegant and simple PHP web development framework
• symfony/symfony - Framework composed of independent components (Symfony)
• yiisoft/yii2 - High-performance PHP framework for developing large web applications
• cakephp/cakephp - Efficient application development framework (CakePHP)
• phalcon/cphalcon - High-performance C extension framework
• Yaf - C extension framework by Laruence
  • overtrue/yaf-skeleton - Testable Yaf skeleton with Composer support
• swoole - Production-grade PHP asynchronous network communication engine
  • SwooleDistributed/SwooleDistributed - Swoole distributed full-stack framework
  • swoft-cloud/swoft - Next-generation high-performance PHP coroutine framework based on Swoole https://www.swoft.org
  • hyperf/hyperf - Enterprise-level PHP coroutine microservices framework
  • mixphp/mix - High-performance PHP framework with FPM, resident memory, and coroutine modes based on Swoole (well-documented) http://mixphp.cn
  • hhxsv5/laravel-s - Integrate Swoole into Laravel or Lumen
  • swooletw/laravel-swoole - High-performance HTTP server based on Swoole to accelerate Laravel/Lumen applications
  • scil/LaravelFly - Safe solution to run Laravel with Swoole coroutines + Tinker online
  • garveen/laravoole - Laravel with Swoole or Workerman for 10x faster performance than php-fpm
  • easyswoole/easyswoole - Use Swoole easily like echo "hello world"
  • bingcool/swoolefy - Lightweight, high-performance, coroutine-level, open API and MVC application service framework based on Swoole
  • youzan/zan - Youzan open-source PHP framework (maintenance stopped)
  • php-msf - Camera360 open-source microservices framework
• Biny - Tencent open-source high-performance lightweight PHP framework
• zendframework/zendframework - Zend framework

Components

• auraphp - Collection of independent component packages
• Hoa Project - Collection of PHP components
• andersao/l5-repository - Support for Repository development pattern

Configuration

Libraries and extensions for loading configuration files

• Yaconf - High-performance configuration management extension
• config - Lightweight configuration loader supporting PHP, INI, XML, JSON, YAML files
• Zend-config
• phpdotenv - Load global highest-priority variables from .env
• symfony/yaml - Load and dump YAML configuration files

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routers

• Lumen - Micro framework based on Laravel
• Silex - Micro framework based on Symfony components
  • Silex Skeleton - Project skeleton for Silex
  • Silex Web Profiler - Web debug toolbar for Silex
• Slim - Another simple micro framework
  • awesome-slim
  • Slim Skeleton - Skeleton for Slim
  • Slim View - Custom view collection for Slim
  • Slim Middleware - Custom middleware collection for Slim
  • slim-skeleton - MVC implementation with components on Slim
  • slim-boilerplate
• Bullet PHP - Micro framework for building REST APIs
• Proton - Micro PHP framework
• blink - High-performance web micro framework for building long-running services
• flight - Extensible PHP micro framework

Routers

• Fast Route - Efficient routing library
• Route - Routing library based on Fast Route
• Pux - Another efficient routing library
• Klein - Flexible routing library
• Macaw - Simple, fast, and sexy PHP router

Templating

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing

• Twig - Comprehensive templating language
• asm89/twig-cache-extension - Template fragment caching library for Twig
• rcrowe/TwigBridge - Twig template engine support
• Mustache - Mustache template language implemented in PHP
• Phly Mustache - Another Mustache implementation in PHP
• MtHaml - HAML template language implemented in PHP
• PHPTAL - TAL template language implemented in PHP
• Plates - Native PHP template library
• Lex - Lightweight template parser
• Aura.View - Provides TemplateView and TwoStepView

Static Site Generators

Pre-processing tools for generating web page content

• Sculpin - Tool to convert Markdown and Twig to static HTML
• Phrozn - Tool to convert Textile, Markdown, and Twig to HTML
• Spress
• Couscous - Tool to convert Markdown documentation to HTML for publishing on GitHub Pages

HTTP

Libraries for HTTP and web scraping

• guzzle/guzzle - Full-featured HTTP client
• amphp/artax - Asynchronous HTTP client for PHP
• Buzz - Another HTTP client
• Requests - Simple HTTP library
• HTTPFul - Chainable HTTP client
• FriendsOfPHP/Goutte - Simple web scraper
• PHP VCR - Library for recording and replaying HTTP requests
• php-curl-class - PHP Curl class
• Beanbun - Multi-process web crawler framework
• php-mod/curl - PHP Curl Class
• medz/cors - PHP CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing) middleware
• barryvdh/laravel-cors - Cross-origin resource sharing support

SOAP

• soap-client - General-purpose SOAP client for PHP
• soap-client - PHP implementation of SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 client specifications
• wsdl2phpgenerator - Utility and class library for generating PHP classes from WSDL files
• laravel-soap - SOAP protocol client

Middlewares

Middleware libraries for building applications

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs

• Purl - URL manipulation library
• PHP Domain Parser - Public suffix list-based domain parser
• Uri - Simple URL manipulation library

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing emails

• swiftmailer/swiftmailer - Email solution
• PHPMailer/PHPMailer - Another email solution
• nette/mail - Simple and elegant email sending module
• tedivm/Fetch - IMAP library
• willdurand/EmailReplyParser - Email reply parser library
• henrikbjorn/Stampie - Library for email services like SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun, Mandrill
• tijsverkoyen/CssToInlineStyles - Inline CSS library for email templates
• nojacko/email-validator - Small email validation library
• egulias/EmailValidator - PHP email validator library
• Snowfire/Beautymail - Laravel HTML email templates

Files

File handling and MIME type detection

• symfony/finder - Find files and directories with intuitive interface
• Gaufrette - Filesystem abstraction layer
• thephpleague/flysystem - Another filesystem abstraction layer
• Canal - Internet media type detection library
• Apache MIME Types - Apache MIME types parser library
• Ferret - MIME detection library
• Hoa Mime - Another MIME detection library
• Lurker - Resource tracking library
• PHP File Locator - File locator in large projects
• PHP FFmpeg - FFmpeg video wrapper library
• GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Flysystem - Filesystem operations with multi-platform support

Streams

Libraries for handling streams

• Streamer - Simple object-oriented stream wrapper library

Dependency Injection

Libraries implementing dependency injection pattern

• Pimple - Small dependency injection container
• container-interop - Containers interoperability
• Auryn - Another small dependency injection container
• Container - Flexible dependency injection container
• PHP DI - Dependency injection using annotations
• Acclimate - Common interface for dependency injection containers and service locators
• Symfony DI - Dependency injection component (Symfony)
• Twittee
• simple di container
• Ding
• di - Yii DI container and injector

Imagery

Libraries for image processing

• Intervention/image - Image manipulation library
• Intervention/imagecache - Image caching enhancement tool
• Imagine - Image processing library
• Sybio/ImageWorkshop - Another image processing library
• Sybio/GifFrameExtractor - Library for extracting GIF animation frame information
• Sybio/GifCreator - Library for creating GIF animations from multiple images
• nmcteam/image-with-text - Library for embedding text in images
• php-loep/color-extractor - Library for extracting colors from images
• thephpleague/glide - On-demand image manipulation library
• psliwa/image-optimizer - Image optimization library
• PHPThumb - Thumbnail processing library
• t0k4rt/phpqrcode - QR code generation library
• endroid/qr-code - Another QR code generation library
• Bacon/BaconQrCode - QR Code Generator for PHP
• SimpleSoftwareIO/simple-qrcode - QR code generation tool
• lsolesen/pel - PHP Exif library
• php-exif - PHP Exif information reading library
• Gregwar/Image - Image processing library
• Gregwar/Captcha - Graphical captcha
• google/recaptcha - Google reCAPTCHA client library
• mewebstudio/captcha - Image captcha solution

Testing

Libraries for testing code and generating test data

• PHPUnit - Unit testing framework
• DBUnit - Code testing library for PHPUnit
• ParaTest - Parallel testing library for PHPUnit
• PHPSpec - Specification-based unit testing library
• Codeception - Full-stack testing framework
• AspectMock - Mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception
• Atoum - Simple testing library
• Mockery - Mock object library for testing
• Phake - Another mock object library for testing
• Prophecy - Powerful mocking framework
• Faker - Fake data generation library
• Samsui - Another fake data generation library
• Alice - Library for generating complex data
• Behat - Behavior-driven development (BDD) testing framework
• Pho - Another BDD testing framework
• Mink - Web acceptance testing
• HTTP Mock - Library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests
• VFS Stream - Virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing
• VFS - Another virtual filesystem for testing
• Locust - Modern load testing library developed in Python
• Peridot - Event-driven testing framework
• SimpleTest - Unit Testing for PHP
• testbench - Unit testing tool for Laravel packages
• laracasts/TestDummy - Fake data creation tool by Laracasts

Continuous Integration

Libraries and applications for continuous integration

• Travis CI - Continuous integration platform
• SemaphoreCI - Continuous integration platform for open-source and private projects
• PHPCI - Open-source continuous integration platform for PHP
• Sismo - Continuous testing server library
• Jenkins - Continuous integration platform with PHP support
• JoliCi - Docker-supported continuous integration client developed in PHP

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation

• Sami - API documentation generator
• APIGen - Another API documentation generator
• PHP Documentor 2 - Documentation generator
• phpDox - Documentation generator for PHP projects (not just API)
• swagger-php - PHP Swagger annotation and parsing library

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data, scanning vulnerabilities, tokens

• ezyang/htmlpurifier - Standard-compliant HTML filter
• random_compat - Library for generating secure random numbers in PHP 5.x (PHP 7 has built-in random_bytes() and random_int())
• RandomLib - Library for generating random numbers and strings
• True Random - Library using www.random.org for random numbers
• SecurityMultiTool - PHP security library
• PHPSecLib - Pure PHP secure communication library
• TCrypto - Simple key-value encryption storage library
• PHP IDS - Structured PHP security layer
• PHP SSH - Object-oriented SSH wrapper library
• IniScan - Tool for scanning PHP INI files for security
• SensioLabs Security Check - Web tool for checking Composer dependencies against security advisories
• Zed - Integrated penetration testing tool for web applications
• php-ratelimiter
• xxtea-php - XXTEA encryption algorithm library for PHP
• mewebstudio/Purifier - Whitelist filtering for user-submitted HTML
• defuse/php-encryption - Symmetric key encryption library
• paragonie/halite - Libsodium wrapper providing advanced encryption interfaces

Passwords

Libraries and tools for handling and storing passwords, various encodings

• ircmaxell/password_compat - Compatibility library for new PHP 5.5 password functions
• phpass - Portable password hashing framework
• ircmaxell/PHP-PasswordLib - Library for generating and verifying passwords
• ircmaxell/password-policy - Password policy library for PHP and JavaScript
• jeremykendall/password-validator - Library for validating and upgrading password hashes
• bjeavons/zxcvbn-php - PHP password strength estimation library based on Zxcvbn JS
• timoh6/GenPhrase - Library for generating secure random passphrases
• tuupola/base62 - Base62 encoding library (short URL applications)
• stephen-hill/base58php - Base58 encoding library (unique encoding used in Bitcoin for wallet addresses)
• base85 - Base85 encoding library (further compression on base64, used in Adobe PostScript and PDF)
• bjeavons/zxcvbn-php - Password strength evaluation library (stronger passwords are harder to crack)

Code Analysis

Tools for analyzing, parsing, and manipulating code

• PHP Parser - PHP parser written in PHP
• PHPPHP - PHP virtual machine implemented in PHP
• PHPSandbox - PHP sandbox environment
• Dissect - Set of lexical and syntactic analysis tools
• PHP Mess Detector - Library for scanning code bugs, suboptimal code, and unused parameters
• PHP_CodeSniffer - PHP/CSS/JS code standards and quality checker
• PHP CS Fixer - PHP code standards and quality fixer
• phpmd - PHP code standards and quality checker
• PHPCPD - Library for detecting copy-paste code
• PHP Analyser - Library for analyzing errors in PHP code
• PHP Manipulator - Library for analyzing and modifying PHP source code
• PHP Metrics - Static metrics library
• PHP Refactoring Browser - Command-line tool for refactoring PHP code
• php-semver-checker - Semantic version comparison command-line tool
• UBench - Simple micro-benchmark library
• Athletic - Annotation-based benchmark library
• Mondrian - Code analysis tool using graph theory
• Scrutinizer - Web tool for checking PHP code
• PHPLOC - Quick tool for evaluating PHP project size
• PHPCheckstyle - Tool for adhering to specific code rules
• PhpDependencyAnalysis - Tool for creating customizable dependency graphs
• Code Climate - Automated code review
• PHP Error - Better PHP error reporting for development debugging
• psalm - Static analysis tool to identify potential bugs
• phan - Static code analysis tool
• phpstan - Static code analysis tool
• PHPLint - PHP file syntax checker (multi-process, based on php -l)

Architectural

Libraries related to design patterns, programming paradigms, and code organization

• PHP Option - PHP option type library
• Ruler - Simple stateless production rule engine
• Finite - Simple PHP finite state machine
• Compose - Function composition library
• Monad PHP - Simple Monad library
• Patchwork - Library for redefining user functions
• Galapagos - Language evolution
• Design Patterns PHP - Design pattern examples implemented in PHP
• Functional PHP - Functional programming library
• Lib Accessor - Library for simplifying access
• Iter - Library providing iteration primitives using generators
• laracasts/Laravel-5-Generators-Extended - Code generation tool by Laracasts
• symfony/workflow - Workflow component tools for managing workflows or finite state machines

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging code

• xDebug - PHP debugging and profiling tool
• whoops
• PHP Debug Bar - Debugging toolbar
• PHP Console - Web debugging console
• Barbushin PHP Console - Web debugging tool using Google Chrome
• PHPDBG - Interactive PHP debugger
• Tracy - Simple error detection, logging, and timing library
• Z-Ray - Debugging and profiling tool
• xHprof - Facebook open-source PHP performance profiling tool
  • xhprof - Community fork supporting PHP7
  • xhprof.io - UI for saving and displaying xhprof data
  • xhgui - Another UI for xhprof data
• Blackfire.io - Low-overhead code profiler
• Kint - Debugging and profiling tool
• phptrace - 360 open-source PHP execution tracing tool
• php-apm - Application performance management for PHP
• BooBoo - Centralized exception handling
• Collision - Error handler framework for CLI PHP applications
• symfony/debug - PHP debug library
• Molten - Transparent application link tracing tool (PHP extension)
• laravel-debugbar - Laravel debugger
• itsgoingd/clockwork - Debugging tool with Chrome plugin
• GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Exceptions - Error exception handling tool (supports dev and prod, uses Whoops for display)

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools

• Go - Simple PHP build tool
• Bob - Simple project automation tool
• Phake - PHP clone library
• Box - Tool for building PHAR files
• Phing - PHP project build system based on Apache Ant

Task Runners

Libraries for automating task execution

• Task - Pure PHP task runner based on Grunt and Gulp
• Robo - Object-oriented PHP task runner
• Bldr - PHP task runner built on Symfony components

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures

• KnpMenu - Menu library
• Cartographer - Sitemap generation library

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing, and minifying website assets

• kriswallsmith/assetic - Asset pipeline library
• CHH/pipe - Another asset pipeline library
• meenie/munee - Asset optimization library
• tedivm/JShrink - JavaScript minification library
• webmozart/puli - Library for detecting absolute paths of resources
• Chumper/Zipper - ZIP packaging tool (based on ZipArchive)
• HTMLMin/Laravel-HTMLMin - HTML compression tool based on minify

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses with latitude and longitude

• geocoder-php/Geocoder - Geolocation toolset (based on Geocoder)
• php-loep/Geotools - Geo-related tools library
• mjaschen/phpgeo - Simple geo library
• jmikola/geojson - GeoJSON implementation
• laravel-geoip - Get geographic location from IP (GeoIP database)
• lionsoul2014/ip2region - IP address location library
• maxmind/GeoIP2-php - GeoIP database PHP client

Date and Time

Libraries for handling dates and times

• Carbon - Simple date/time API extension
• ExpressiveDate - Another date/time API extension
• CalendR - Calendar management library
• date - Multilingual date library
• moment.php

Event

Libraries for event-driven or non-blocking event loops

• React - Event-driven non-blocking I/O library
• Rx.PHP - Reactive extensions library
• phpsocket.io
• Ratchet - WebSocket library
• Hoa WebSocket - Another WebSocket library
• Elephant.io - Another WebSocket library
• Hoa EventSource - EventSource library
• Evenement - Event dispatcher library
• Event - Event package for apps/domains
• Cake Event - Event dispatcher class library
• Broadway - Event sourcing and CQRS library

Logging

Libraries for generating and handling log files

• Monolog - Comprehensive logging library
• KLogger - Easy-to-use PSR-3 logger
• Analog - Micro logging package using closures
• SeasLog - Efficient logging extension
• rap2hpoutre/laravel-log-viewer - Convenient page-based log viewer tool

E-commerce

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

• OmniPay - Multi-gateway payment processing framework
  • omnipay-paypal - PayPal payment
  • omnipay-wechatpay - WeChat payment
  • omnipay-unionpay - UnionPay payment
  • omnipay-alipay - Alipay payment
  • omnipay-pingpp - Ping++ aggregated payment
  • omnipay-99bill - 99Bill payment
• Payum - Payment abstraction library
• Sylius - Open-source e-commerce solution
• Thelia - Another open-source e-commerce solution
• Money - Fowler's Money pattern implemented in PHP
• Sebastian Money - Library for handling currency values
• Swap - Exchange rate library
• yansongda/pay - Elegant Alipay and WeChat payment SDK package
• paypal/PayPal-PHP-SDK - PHP SDK for PayPal RESTful APIs https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/
• paypal/Checkout-PHP-SDK - PHP SDK for Checkout RESTful APIs

PDF

Libraries and software for handling PDF files

• Snappy - PDF and image generation library
• WKHTMLToPDF - Tool for converting HTML to PDF
• PHPPdf - Library for converting XML to PDF and images
• phpwkhtmltopdf
• php-pdftk - PDF conversion and form utility based on pdftk
• barryvdh/laravel-dompdf - PDF tool (based on dompdf)
• laravel-snappy - PDF processing tool

Office

Libraries for handling various Office suite documents

• PHPOffice/PHPWord - Word document processing library
• PHPOffice/PHPExcel - Excel document processing library
• PHPOffice/PHPPowerPoint - PowerPoint slide processing library
• Wisembly/ExcelAnt - Excel document manipulation library
• PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet - Recommended latest PHPOffice-maintained Excel document processing library
• viest/php-ext-excel-export - PHP extension for Excel operations
• Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel - Excel processing tool
• thephpleague/csv - CSV data manipulation library

Database

Database interaction libraries using ORM or data mapper techniques

• Doctrine - Complete DBAL and ORM
• Doctrine Extensions - Collection of Doctrine behavior extensions
• Propel - Fast ORM, migration, and query library
• Eloquent - Laravel ORM
  • baum/baum - Nested Set model support
  • VentureCraft/revisionable - Operation logging for data models (e.g., admin logs)
  • nicolaslopezj/searchable - Add search functionality to Eloquent models via Trait
  • Tucker-Eric/EloquentFilter - Custom query conditions (model field filtering)
  • rtconner/laravel-tagging - Add tagging functionality to Eloquent models
• LazyRecord - Fast ORM
• Baum - Eloquent nested set
• Spot2 - MySQL ORM mapper
• RedBean - Lightweight, configurable ORM
• Pomm - Object model manager for PostgreSQL
• ProxyManager - Toolset for generating proxy objects for data mapping
• Cake ORM - Object-relational mapper using data mapper pattern
• catfan/Medoo - Lightweight ORM for accelerating development
• auraphp/Aura.Sql - SQL database access through PDO
• EasyDB - Database abstraction layer

Migrations

Libraries for managing database schemas, migrations, backups

• davedevelopment/phpmig - Migration management library
• robmorgan/phinx - Database migration management library
• icomefromthenet/Migrations - Another migration management library
• Doctrine Migrations - Migration library for Doctrine
• Xethron/migrations-generator - Export existing database tables as migrations, including indexes and foreign keys
• orangehill/iseed - Export database data as seeds
• spatie/laravel-backup - Data backup tool (supports compression and various filesystems)

NoSQL

Libraries for handling NoSQL backends

• MongoDB
  • mongo-php-library - Official MongoDB PHP library
  • MongoQB - MongoDB query builder library
  • Monga - MongoDB abstraction library
  • mongodm - MongoDB ORM
  • php-mongo - PHP ODM for MongoDB
  • jenssegers/laravel-mongodb - MongoDB database support
• Redis
  • Predis - Full-featured Redis library
  • codis - Distributed Redis solution
  • twemproxy - Twitter open-source Redis and Memcache proxy server
  • pika - Persistent high-capacity Redis storage service

Queue

Libraries for handling event and task queues

• enqueue-dev - Message queue packages for PHP, Symfony, Laravel, Magento
  • enqueue/rdkafka
  • enqueue/enqueue
  • enqueue/pheanstalk
  • enqueue/redis
  • php-enqueue/dsn Queue Service Frameworks
• Kafka - High-throughput distributed publish-subscribe messaging system
• RabbitMQ - AMQP implementation in Erlang
• RocketMQ
• ActiveMQ
• Qpid
• Disque - Distributed in-memory queue
• beanstalkd - High-performance lightweight message queue middleware Queue-Related Libraries
• Pheanstalk - Beanstalkd client library
• PHP AMQP - Pure PHP AMQP library
• Thumper - RabbitMQ pattern library
• Bernard - Multi-backend abstraction library
• php-resque - Redis-based message queue
• php-amqplib - RabbitMQ client library
• kafka-php - Kafka client library (Composer)
• php-rdkafka - Kafka client library (PECL)

Search

Libraries and software for indexing and querying data

• ElasticSearch PHP - Official client library for ElasticSearch
• Elastica - Another ElasticSearch client library
• Solarium - Client library for Solr
• SphinxQL query builder - Query library for Sphinx search engine

Command Line

Libraries for building command-line tools

• symfony/console - Symfony console component
• symfony/process - Symfony process execution component (for running system commands)
• Boris - Tiny PHP REPL
• PsySH - Another PHP REPL
• Pecan - Event-driven non-blocking shell
• GetOpt - Command-line option parser
• OptParse - Another command-line option parser
• Commando - Simple command-line option parser
• GetOptionKit - Yet another command-line option parser
• mtdowling/cron-expression - Library for calculating cron run dates
• ShellWrap - Simple command-line wrapper library
• Hoa Console - Another console library
• Shunt - Library for running commands in parallel on multiple remote machines
• Cilex - Micro-framework for building command-line tools
• CLImate - Framework for building command-line tools (supports colors and special formats)
• Webmozart Console
• Silly - CLI micro-framework based on Symfony Console
• php-shellcommand - Simple object-oriented interface for executing shell commands in PHP
• PHP-Console-Highlighter - Highlight PHP code in command line

Crontab

Crontab management and PHP encapsulations for scheduled tasks

• Indatus/dispatcher - Laravel-based scheduled task management
• osgochina/swoole-crontab - Swoole-based timer supporting second-level processing
• jobbyphp/jobby - PHP cron job manager
• ajbdev/cronlingo - Express crontabs as human-friendly phrases
• Indatus/dispatcher - Scheduled task dispatcher (direct replacement for Cron)

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries implementing authentication patterns

• Sentinel - Authentication and authorization framework
• Sentinel Social - Library for social network authentication
• Opauth - Supports OAuth authentication with unified access methods
• OAuth2 Server - OAuth2 authentication server, resource server, and client library
• OAuth2 Server - OAuth2 server implementation
• PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library
• ruudk/twitteroauth - Twitter OAuth library
• Hawk - Hawk HTTP authentication library
• HybridAuth - Open-source social login library
• Lock - Access Control Lists (ACL) system library
• OAuth 1.0 Client - OAuth 1.0 client library
• OAuth 2.0 Client - OAuth 2.0 client library
• Sentry - Authentication and authorization system
• EvaOAuth - Unified OAuth login PHP class library
• JSON Web Token
  • firebase/php-jwt
  • lcobucci/jwt
  • namshi/jose - Library for JSON signing and encryption
  • tuupola/slim-jwt-auth
  • tymondesigns/jwt-auth - JWT user authentication mechanism
• Sapient - Secure API messaging validation
• legalthings/sso - Simple Single Sign-On for PHP
• antonioribeiro/google2fa - Two-factor authentication (supports Google Authenticator and HOTP)
• PHPGangsta/GoogleAuthenticator - Google two-factor authentication

Permission

Role and permission control components

• spatie/laravel-permission - Laravel-based permission component
• Zizaco/entrust - Role-based user permission system
• php-casbin/php-casbin - PHP implementation of lightweight open-source access control framework Casbin

Markup

Libraries for handling markup

• Decoda - Lightweight markup parsing library
• michelf/php-markdown - Markdown parser
• thephpleague/commonmark - Markdown parser supporting CommonMark spec
• thephpleague/html-to-markdown - HTML to Markdown converter
• erusev/parsedown - Markdown parser
• kzykhys/Ciconia - GitHub-flavored Markdown parser
• cebe/markdown - Fast and extensible Markdown parser
• GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Markdown - Markdown parser
• Masterminds/html5-php - HTML5 parsing and serialization library
• heyupdate/Emoji - Simple emoji handling library
• iamcal/php-emoji - Emoji conversion library

Strings

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings

• jenssegers/agent - Client User Agent parser (based on MobileDetect)
• sensiolabs/ansi-to-html - ANSI to HTML5 converter library
• nicolas-grekas/Patchwork-UTF8 - Portable UTF-8 string handling library
• hoaproject/String - Another UTF-8 string library
• danielstjules/Stringy - Multibyte-supported string manipulation library
• mikeemoo/ColorJizz-PHP - Color handling and conversion library
• ramsey/uuid - UUID generation library
• laravel-uuid - RFC 4122 UUID generation
• cocur/slugify - String to slug converter library
• jbroadway/urlify - PHP port of Django URLify.js
• kzykhys/Text - Text processing library
• jdorn/sql-formatter - SQL statement formatting library
• tobie/ua-parser - User Agent string parser library
• piwik/device-detector - Another User Agent parser library
• serbanghita/Mobile-Detect - Lightweight mobile device detection library (including desktops)
• cbschuld/Browser.php - Detect user browser environment
• hisorange/browser-detect - Browser detection tool (including JavaScript and CSS support)
• colors.php - Easy way to add colors in CLI scripts
• cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable - Article title URL slug processing tool
• fukuball/jieba-php - "Jieba" Chinese word segmentation

Numbers

Libraries for handling numbers

• Numbers PHP - Number handling library
• Math - Big number handling library
• ByteUnits - Parse, format, and convert byte units in binary and metric systems
• PHP Units of Measure - Unit conversion library
• PHP Conversion - Another unit conversion library
• LibPhoneNumber for PHP - PHP port of Google's phone number handling library
• ivanakimov/hashids.php - Generate unique strings from integers (e.g., hide real IDs via encryption/decryption)
• Particle - PHP ID Generator | Twitter Snowflake ID implementation
• nanoid-php - Compact unique ID generator
• vinkla/laravel-hashids - Hash ID generator to hide numeric IDs (based on Hashids)

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data

• ircmaxell/filterus - Simple PHP filtering library
• Respect/Validation - Simple validation library
• vlucas/valitron - Another data validation library
• cakephp/validation - Another data validation library
• illuminate/validation - Laravel validation library
• php-readability - Content analysis algorithm
• codeguy/Upload - File upload handling and validation library
• rdohms/DMS-Filter - Annotation-based filtering library
• romaricdrigon/MetaYaml - Schema validation library supporting YAML, JSON, XML
• ronanguilloux/IsoCodes - Validation library for various ISO and ZIP codes
• aura/filter - Aura data validation component
• symfony/validator - Symfony data validation component
• dwightwatson/validating - Automatic validation on Eloquent model save via Trait
• Propaganistas/Laravel-Phone - Phone and mobile number validation support
• felixkiss/uniquewith-validator - Add uniqueness validation between fields in form rules
• cviebrock/image-validator - Image dimension validation

REST and API

Libraries and web frameworks for developing RESTful APIs

• dingo/api - Complete solution for building API servers
• Apigility - API builder using Zend Framework
• Hateoas - HATEOAS REST web service library
• HAL - Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library
• Negotiation - Content negotiation library
• Drest - Library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resources
• Restler - Lightweight framework for exposing PHP methods as RESTful web APIs
• thephpleague/fractal - [Best Practice] Unified data response handling
• api-problem - Simple implementation of api-problem specification
• graphql-php - Application-layer query language library
• GraphQL - Another application-layer query language library
• GrahamCampbell/Laravel-Throttle - Rate limiting tool

Caching

Libraries for caching data

• symfony/cache - Symfony cache component following PSR-6
• Alternative PHP Cache (APC) - Open-source opcode cache for PHP
• Doctrine Cache - Caching library
• Zend Cache - Another caching library
• Cake Cache - Caching library
• Stash - Another caching library
• CacheTool - Command-line tool for clearing APC/opcode cache
• PhpFastCache - PHP caching library
• desarrolla2/Cache - Caching library with multiple adapters
• laruence/yac - Shared memory lock-free content cache for PHP
• liexusong/pcache - PHP local cache extension
• Shies/PHP7-buffer - High-performance local cache extension for PHP7

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries implementing data structures and storage techniques

• Illuminate\Support\Collection - Laravel's fluent collection for manipulating array data
• Collections - Collection library extracted from Laravel
• Ardent - Data structure library
• Cake Collection - Simple collection library
• Collections - Collection abstraction library
• Fractal - Library for transforming complex data structures to JSON output
• PHP Collections - Simple collection library
• Serializer - Serialization and deserialization library
• Zend Serializer - Another serialization/deserialization library
• PHP Object Storage - Object storage library
• Totem - Library for managing and creating data change sets
• PINQ - Real-time LINQ library for PHP
• JsonMapper - Library for mapping nested JSON structures to PHP classes
• php-jsonq - PHP query builder for JSON
• DeepCopy - Create deep copies (clones) of objects

Notifications

Libraries for notifications

• filp/nod - Notification library
• wrep/notificato - Push message handling library
• Ph3nol/NotificationPusher - Standalone device push notification library
• namshi/notificator - Lightweight notification library
• davibennun/laravel-push-notification - Push notification tool for apps (supports APNS and GCM)
• edvinaskrucas/notification - Page message notification component

Deployment

Libraries for project deployment

• tamagokun/pomander - PHP application deployment tool
• rocketeers/rocketeer - Fast and simple PHP deployer
• laravel/envoy - Official Laravel simple deployment tool
• aerialls/Plum - Deployment library
• deployphp/deployer - Deployment tool
• meolu/walle-web - Open-source web code deployment management system
• Piplin - Free open-source CI/CD system for automated build, test, and deployment

Internationalisation and Localisation

Libraries for internationalization (I18n) and localization (L10n)

• auraphp/Aura.Intl
• cakephp/i18n - Translation and localization messages
• symfony/translation
• illuminate/translation
• Gettext - PHP library to collect and manipulate gettext (.po, .mo, .php, .json, etc)
• zend/i18n
• mcamara/laravel-localization - Enhanced Laravel localization
• dimsav/laravel-translatable - Multilingual database translation solution
• webpatser/laravel-countries - World countries data (including capitals, currencies, etc.)

Third Party APIs

Libraries/SDKs for accessing third-party APIs

• mailgun-php - Official Mailgun SDK for PHP
• wechat - Simplify WeChat development
• Qiniu/sdk - Qiniu Resource Storage SDK for PHP
• Qiniu/qshell - Command-line tool for testing and using Qiniu APIs
• tencentyun/wafer - Quickly build scalable WeChat mini-programs
• maxmind/GeoIP2-php - MaxMind GeoIP2 location service
• PingPlusPlus/pingpp-php - Ping++ aggregated payment SDK
• mgp25/Instagram-API - Instagram private API
• aws/aws-sdk-php - AWS services developer toolkit
• bugsnag/bugsnag-laravel - Bugsnag integration package
• maknz/slack - Slack service integration
• lyrixx/twitter-sdk - Fully tested Twitter SDK
• thujohn/twitter - Twitter API support
• overtrue/weather - PHP weather component based on Gaode open platform
• aliyun/aliyun-oss-php-sdk - Alibaba Cloud Object Storage
• aliyun/openapi-sdk-php - Alibaba Cloud SDK for PHP
• overtrue/laravel-filesystem-qiniu - Laravel filesystem Qiniu
• jacobcyl/Aliyun-oss-storage - Alibaba Cloud OSS Laravel extension
• overtrue/easy-sms - SMS sending component supporting multiple providers
• mingyoung/dingtalk - DingTalk SDK
• wowiwj/ding-notice - DingTalk robot message sending Laravel package

Extensions

Libraries for building PHP extensions

• Zephir - Compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions
• PHP CPP - C++ library for developing PHP extensions
• PHP-X - C++ wrapper for Zend API

PHP Installation

Tools for installing and managing PHP

• HomeBrew - macOS package manager
• HomeBrew PHP - PHP formulas for HomeBrew
• PHP OSX - PHP installer for macOS
• PHP Brew - PHP version manager and installer
• PHP Env - Another PHP version tool
• PHP Switch - Another PHP version tool
• PHP Build - Another PHP version tool
• VirtPHP - Tool for creating and managing isolated PHP environments

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating sandbox development environments

• Docker - Open-source application container engine
• Vagrant - Lightweight tool for creating development environments
• Ansible - Simple orchestration framework
• Puppet - Server automation framework and application
• PuPHPet - Tool for building PHP development VMs
• Protobox - Another tool for building PHP development VMs
• Phansible - Another tool for building PHP development VMs
• centstead - Laravel local development environment based on Vagrant and Homestead
• Devilbox - Modern Dockerized LAMP/MEAN stack alternative to XAMPP
• Homestead - Vagrant-based PHP development environment
• Laradock - Docker-based PHP development environment

Virtual Machines

Alternative PHP virtual machines

• HHVM - Facebook open-source PHP virtual machine
• HippyVM - Another PHP virtual machine

Integrated Development Environment

IDEs supporting PHP

• Netbeans
• Eclipse for PHP Developers
• PhpStorm

Web Applications

Web-based applications and tools

• 3V4L - Online PHP shell
• DBV - Database version control application
• PHP Queue - Queue management backend
• MailCatcher - Catch and view emails
• Cachet - Open-source status page system (like status.github.com)
• phpRedisAdmin - Redis management tool
• phpPgAdmin - PostgreSQL management tool
• phpMyAdmin - MySQL management tool
• rockmongo - MongoDB management tool
• Grav - Powerful Flat-File CMS
• Piwik - Web analytics
• YOURLS - Short URL generator system
• Nextcloud server - Open-source private cloud system
• magento2 - Open-source PHP e-commerce system
• laravel-admin - Laravel-based admin framework
• Crinsane/LaravelShoppingcart - Simple shopping cart implementation
• CachetHQ/Cachet - Open-source status page system with API
• flarum/flarum - Elegant lightweight forum
• roots/bedrock - WordPress deployment tool
• monicahq/monica - Personal relationship management CRM

Infrastructure

Infrastructure for PHP applications and services

• appserver.io - Multi-threaded PHP application server
• php-pm - Process manager, booster, and load balancer for PHP applications

DB Proxy

For read-write separation, sharding, etc.

• kingshard - Kingsoft open-source database proxy
• heisenberg - Baidu open-source database proxy
• Oceanus - 58.com open-source database proxy
• Atlas - 360 open-source database proxy
• DBProxy - Meituan based on Atlas database proxy
• Mycat
• TiDB - Distributed database

RPC Frameworks

Remote procedure call frameworks

• apache/thrift - Apache Thrift
• grpc/grpc - Google's open-source framework
• protobuf
• alibaba/dubbo - Alibaba open-source RPC framework
• TarsCloud/Tars - Tencent high-performance RPC framework using Tars protocol
• weibocom/motan - Weibo lightweight RPC framework
• dangdangdotcom/dubbox - Dangdang maintained dubbox
• baidu/sofa-pbrpc - Baidu open-source sofa-pbrpc
• laruence/yar - Lightweight concurrent RPC framework for PHP & C
• Hprose - High-performance cross-language RPC
  • hprose-php
  • hprose-swoole
• Others
  • Dora-RPC
  • workerman-JsonRpc

Asynchronous Event Driven Framework

• Swoole
• Workerman
• Gearman - Task distribution system
• phpdaemon
• ReactPHP
• amphp/amp - Non-blocking concurrency framework for PHP
• async - Easily run code asynchronously
• kraken-php - Asynchronous & fault-tolerant PHP framework for distributed applications
• recoilphp/recoil - Asynchronous coroutines for PHP 7

Rules Engine

• Hoa\Ruler - Hoa project rules engine
• Ruler - Simple stateless rule engine
• Rules - Simple PHP rules engine

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries and tools not fitting above categories

• overtrue/pinyin - Chinese to Pinyin library
• jifei/Pinyin - Chinese to Pinyin library
• class.upload.php - File upload handling class
• php-paginator - Pagination handling class
• Anahkiasen/underscore-php - Underscore.js-like PHP syntax support
• Flexihash - Consistent hashing library
• Eden - Rapid development library with autoloading, events, caching, templating, i18n, database, web services, payment gateways, and cloud services
• html-parser - HTML parsing tool
• PHPCrawl - PHP crawler framework
• Tig - Git browser in command line
• copywriting-correct - Chinese/English copywriting typography corrector
• PHP-ML - PHP machine learning library
• BotMan - Chatbot library
• barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper - IDE helper for Laravel development
• davejamesmiller/laravel-breadcrumbs - Breadcrumb tool
• laracasts/PHP-Vars-To-Js-Transformer - Transform PHP variables to JavaScript
• Laravelium/laravel-sitemap - Sitemap generator
• yajra/laravel-datatables - Backend support for jQuery DataTables
• formers/former - Powerful form builder
• Laravelium/laravel-feed - Feed generator