Awesome PHP

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

Contributing and Collaborating

Please see CONTRIBUTING, CODE-OF-CONDUCT and COLLABORATING for details.

Composer Repositories

Composer Repositories.

• Firegento – Magento Module Composer Repository.
• Packagist – The PHP 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.
• Melody – A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
• 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 normalising composer.json files.
• Composer Patches – A plugin for Composer to apply patches.
• 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.
• Prestissimo – A composer plugin which enables parallel install process.
• Repman – A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
• Satis – A static Composer repository generator.
• Tooly – A library to manage PHAR files in project using Composer.
• Toran Proxy – A static Composer repository and proxy.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• CakePHP – A rapid application development framework.
• 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 reuseable 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 – Glue for using Swoole in Laravel or Lumen.
• Symfony CMF – A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS.

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 ecommerce platform.
• Moodle – An open-source learning platform.
• Pico CMS – A stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
• Statamic – Build beautiful, easy to manage websites.
• 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.
• Hoa Project – Another package of PHP components.
• 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.
• Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel.
• Mezzio – A micro-framework by Laminas.
• Radar – An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
• 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.

• 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.

• Chrome PHP – Instrument headless Chrome/Chromium instances from PHP.
• DiDOM – A super fast HTML scrapper and parser.
• Embed – An information extractor from any web service or page.
• Goutte – A simple web scraper.
• Symfony Panther – A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony.
• PHP Spider – A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.

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.
• Stampie – A library for email services such as SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun and Mandrill.
• SwiftMailer – A mailer solution.
• Symfony Mailer – A powerful library for creating and sending emails.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• CSV – A CSV data manipulation library.
• Flysystem – Abstraction for local and remote filesystems.
• Gaufrette – A filesystem abstraction layer.
• Hoa Mime – Another MIME detection library.
• PHP FFmpeg – A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
• UnifiedArchive – A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

• ByteStream – An asynchronous stream abstraction.
• Streamer – A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• Aura.Di – 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 – A recursive dependency injector.
• Container – Another flexible dependency injection container.
• Disco – 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 – A dependency injection container component.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• Color Extractor – A library for extracting colours from images.
• Glide – An on-demand image manipulation library.
• Image Hash – A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
• Image Optimizer – A library for optimizing images.
• Imagine – An image manipulation library.
• Intervention Image – Another image manipulation library.
• PHP Image Workshop – Another image manipulation library.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Alice – An expressive fixture generation library.
• AspectMock – A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception.
• Atoum – A simple testing library.
• Behat – A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
• Codeception – A full stack testing framework.
• Faker – A fake data generator library.
• HTTP Mock – A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
• Infection – An AST-based PHP Mutation testing framework.
• Kahlan – Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
• Mink – Web acceptance testing.
• Mockery – A mock object library for testing.
• ParaTest – A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
• Pest – A testing framework with a focus on simplicity.
• Peridot – An event driven test framework.
• Phake – Another mock object library for testing.
• Pho – Another behaviour driven development testing framework.
• PHP-Mock – A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
• PHP MySQL Engine – A MySQL engine written in pure PHP.
• PHPSpec – A design by specification unit testing library.
• PHPT – A test tool used by PHP itself.
• PHPUnit – A unit testing framework.
• Prophecy – A highly opinionated mocking framework.
• VFS Stream – A virtual filesystem stream wrapper 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 continuous integration platform with PHP support.
• JoliCi – 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.
• Travis CI – A continuous integration platform.
• Setup PHP – A GitHub Action for PHP.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• APIGen – Another API documentation generator.
• daux.io – A documentation generator which uses Markdown files.
• PHP Documentor 2 – A documentation generator.
• phpDox – A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning and testing for vulnerabilities.

• Halite – A simple library for encryption using libsodium.
• HTML Purifier – A standards compliant HTML filter.
• IniScan – A tool that scans PHP INI files for security.
• Optimus – Id obfuscation based on Knuth’s multiplicative hashing method.
• PHPGGC – A library of PHP unserializeable payloads along with a tool to generate them.
• PHP Encryption – Secure PHP Encryption Library.
• PHP SSH – An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library.
• PHPSecLib – A pure PHP secure communications library.
• random_compat – PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()
• RandomLib – A library for generating random numbers and strings.
• Symfony Security Monitoring – A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as “SensioLabs Security Check”.
• SQLMap – An automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
• TCrypto – A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
• VAddy – A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
• Zap – An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

Passwords

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

• GenPhrase – A library for generating secure random passphrases.
• Password Compat – A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
• Password Policy – A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
• Password Validator – A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
• Password-Generator – PHP library to generate random passwords.
• PHP Password Lib – A library for generating and validating passwords.
• phpass – A portable password hashing framework.
• Zxcvbn PHP – A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.

• Better Reflection – AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
• Code Climate – An automated code review.
• GrumPHP – A PHP code-quality tool.
• PHP Parser – A PHP parser written in PHP.
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker – A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
• Phpactor – PHP completion, refactoring and introspection tool.
• PHPLOC – A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project.
• PHPQA – A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
• Qafoo Quality Analyzer – A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
• Rector – A tool to upgrade and refactor code.
• Scrutinizer – A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench – A simple micro benchmark library.

Code Quality

Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.

• CaptainHook – An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library.
• PHP CodeSniffer – A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
• PHP CS Fixer – A coding standards fixer library.
• PHP Mess Detector – A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
• PHPCheckstyle – A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
• PHPCPD – A library that detects copied and pasted code.

Static Analysis

Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.

• Exakat – A static analysis engine for PHP.
• Deptrac – A static code analysis tool that helps to enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.
• Mondrian – A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
• phan – A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
• PHP Architecture Tester – Easy to use architecture testing tool for PHP.
• PHPCompatibility – A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
• PhpDependencyAnalysis – A tool to create customisable dependency graphs.
• PHP Metrics – A static metric library.
• PHP Migration – A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
• PHPStan – A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
• Psalm – A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications.

Architectural

Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.

• Design Patterns PHP – A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
• Finite – A simple PHP finite state machine.
• Functional PHP – A functional programming library.
• Iter – A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
• Patchwork – A library for redefining userland functions.
• Pipeline – A pipeline pattern implementation.
• Porter – Data import abstraction library for consuming Web APIs and other data sources.
• Ruler – A simple stateless production rules engine.
• RulerZ – A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging errors and profiling code.

• APM – Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
• Barbushin PHP Console – Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
• Blackfire.io – A low-overhead code profiler.
• Kint – A debugging and profiling tool.
• Metrics – A simple metrics API library.
• PCOV – A self contained code coverage compatible driver.
• PHP Console – A web debugging console.
• PHP Debug Bar – A debugging toolbar.
• PHPBench – A benchmarking Framework.
• PHPSpy – A low-overhead sampling profiler.
• Symfony VarDumper – A variable dumper component.
• Tideways.io – Monitoring and profiling tool.
• Tracy – A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
• Whoops – A pretty error handling library.
• xDebug – A debug and profile tool for PHP.
• XHProf – A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
• Z-Ray – A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• Box – A utility to build PHAR files.
• Construct – A PHP project/micro-package generator.
• Phing – A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.
• RMT – A library for versioning and releasing software.

Task Runners

Libraries for automating and running tasks.

• Bldr – A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
• Jobby – A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
• Robo – 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.

• KnpMenu – A menu library.
• Menu – A flexible menu library with a fluent interface.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• JShrink – A JavaScript minifier library.
• Laravel Mix – An elegant wrapper around Webpack for the 80% use case.
• Symfony Asset – Manages URL generation and versioning of web assets.
• Symfony Encore – A simple but powerful API for processing and compiling assets built around Webpack.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• Country List – A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
• GeoCoder – A geocoding library.
• GeoJSON – A GeoJSON implementation.
• GeoTools – A library of geo-related tools.
• PHPGeo – A simple geo library.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• CalendR – A calendar management library.
• Carbon – A simple DateTime API extension.
• Chronos – A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
• Moment.php – Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
• Yasumi – An library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays.

Event

Libraries that are event-driven or implement non-blocking event loops.

• Amp – An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• Broadway – An event source and CQRS library.
• CakePHP Event – An event dispatcher library.
• Elephant.io – Yet another web socket library.
• Evenement – An event dispatcher library.
• Event – An event library with a focus on domain events.
• Hoa EventSource – An event source library.
• Hoa WebSocket – Another web socket library.
• Pawl – An asynchronous web socket client.
• Prooph Event Store – An event source component to persist event messages
• PHP Defer – Golang’s defer statement for PHP.
• Ratchet – A web socket library.
• ReactPHP – An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• RxPHP – A reactive extension library.
• Swoole – An event-driven asynchronous and concurrent networking communication framework with high performance for PHP written in C.
• Workerman – An event driven non-blocking I/O library.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Monolog – A comprehensive logger.

E-commerce

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

• Money – A PHP implementation of Fowler’s money pattern.
• Brick\Money – A money library for PHP, with support for contexts, cash roundings, currency conversion.
• OmniPay – A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
• Payum – A payment abstraction library.
• Shopware – Highly customizable e-commerce software
• Swap – An exchange rates library.
• Sylius – An open source e-commerce solution.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

• Dompdf – A HTML to PDF converter.
• PHPPdf – A library for generating PDFs and images from XML.
• Snappy – A PDF and image generation library.
• WKHTMLToPDF – A tool to convert HTML to PDF.

Office

Libraries for working with office suite documents.

• PHPPowerPoint – A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
• PHPWord – A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
• PHPSpreadsheet – A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel).
• Spout – Read and write spreadsheet files (CSV, XLSX and ODS), in a fast and scalable way .

Database

Libraries for interacting with databases using object-relational mapping (ORM) or datamapping techniques.

• Atlas.Orm – A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.
• Aura.Sql – Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
• Aura.SqlQuery – Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Baum – A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
• CakePHP ORM – Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern.
• Cycle ORM – PHP DataMapper, ORM.
• Doctrine Extensions – A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
• Doctrine – A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
• Laravel Eloquent – A simple ORM.
• Pomm – An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
• ProxyManager – A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
• RedBean – A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
• Slimdump – An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
• Spot2 – A MySQL datamapper ORM.

Migrations

Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.

• Doctrine Migrations – A migration library for Doctrine.
• Migrations – A migration management library.
• Phinx – Another database migration library.
• PHPMig – Another migration management library.
• Ruckusing – Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.

NoSQL

Libraries for working with “NoSQL” backends.

• PHPMongo – A MongoDB ORM.
• Predis – A feature complete Redis library.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• Bernard – A multibackend abstraction library.
• BunnyPHP – A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
• Pheanstalk – A Beanstalkd client library.
• PHP AMQP – A pure PHP AMQP library.
• Tarantool Queue – PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
• Thumper – A RabbitMQ pattern library.
• Enqueue – A message queue packages for PHP that supports RabbitMQ, AMQP, STOMP, Amazon SQS, Redis and Doctrine transports.

Search

Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.

• Elastica – A client library for ElasticSearch.
• ElasticSearch PHP – The official client library for ElasticSearch.
• Solarium – A client library for Solr.
• SphinxQL Query Builder – A query library for the Sphinx and Manticore search engines.

Command Line

Libraries related to the command line.

• Aura.Cli – Provides the equivalent of request ( Context ) and response ( Stdio ) objects for the command line interface, including Getopt support, and an independent Help object for describing commands.
• Boris – A tiny PHP REPL.
• Cilex – A micro framework for building command line tools.
• CLI Menu – A library for building CLI menus.
• CLIFramework – A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
• CLImate – A library for outputting colours and special formatting.
• Commando – Another simple command line opt parser.
• Cron Expression – A library to calculate cron run dates.
• GetOpt – A command line opt parser.
• GetOptionKit – Another command line opt parser.
• Hoa Console – Another command line library.
• PsySH – Another PHP REPL.
• ShellWrap – A simple command line wrapper library.

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.

• Aura.Auth – Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
• SocialConnect Auth – An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
• Json Web Token – Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
• OAuth 1.0 Client – An OAuth 1.0 client library.
• OAuth 2.0 Client – An OAuth 2.0 client library.
• OAuth2 Server – Another OAuth2 server implementation.
• OAuth2 Server – An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
• Opauth – A multi-provider authentication framework.
• Paseto – Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens.
• PHP oAuthLib – Another OAuth library.
• Sentinel Social – A library for social network authentication.
• Sentinel – A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
• TwitterOAuth – A Twitter OAuth library.

Markup and CSS

*Libraries for working with markup and CSS formats.

• Cebe Markdown – An fast and extensible Markdown parser.
• CommonMark PHP – Highly-extensible Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark spec.
• Decoda – A lightweight markup parser library.
• Essence – A library for extracting web media.
• Embera – An Oembed consumer library.
• Emoji – A library that converts unicode characters and names into emoji images.
• HTML to Markdown – Converts HTML into Markdown.
• HTML5 PHP – An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
• Parsedown – Another Markdown parser.
• PHP CSS Parser – A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP.
• PHP Markdown – A Markdown parser.
• Shiki PHP – A Shiki code highlighting package in PHP.
• VObject – A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.

JSON

Libraries for working with JSON.

• JSON Lint – A JSON lint utility.

Strings

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.

• Agent – A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
• ANSI to HTML5 – An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
• Color Jizz – A library for manipulating and converting colours.
• Device Detector – Another library for parsing user agent strings.
• Hoa String – Another UTF-8 string library.
• Jieba-PHP – A PHP port of Python’s jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
• Mobile-Detect – A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
• Patchwork UTF-8 – A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
• Portable UTF-8 – A string manipulation library with UTF-8 safe replacement methods.
• Slugify – A library to convert strings to slugs.
• SQL Formatter – A library for formatting SQL statements.
• Stringy – A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
• UA Parser – A library for parsing user agent strings.
• URLify – A PHP port of Django’s URLify.js.
• UUID – A library for generating UUIDs.

Numbers

Libraries for working with numbers.

• Brick\Math – A library providing large number support: BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational.
• ByteUnits – A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
• DecimalObject – A value object to handle decimals/floats easily and more precisely.
• IP – An immutable value object for working with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
• LibPhoneNumber for PHP – A PHP implementation of Google’s phone number handling library.
• PHP Conversion – Another library for converting between units of measure.
• PHP Units of Measure – A library for converting between units of measure.
• MathPHP – A math library for PHP.

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data.

• Assert – A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.
• Aura.Filter – Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
• CakePHP Validation – Another validation library.
• Filterus – A simple PHP filtering library.
• ISO-codes – A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries.
• JSON Schema – A JSON Schema validation library.
• MetaYaml – A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
• Respect Validation – A simple validation library.
• Upload – A library for handling file uploads and validation.
• Valitron – 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.
• Laminas API Tool Skeleton – An API builder built with the Laminas Framework.
• Drest – A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
• HAL – A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
• Hateoas – A HATEOAS REST web service library.
• Negotiation – A content negotiation library.
• Restler – A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
• wsdl2phpgenerator – A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files.

Caching and Locking

Libraries for caching data and acquiring locks.

• APIx Cache – A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasising cache tagging and indexing.
• CacheTool – A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line.
• CakePHP Cache – A caching library.
• Doctrine Cache – A caching library.
• Metaphore – Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect.
• Stash – Another library for caching.
• Laminas Cache – Another caching library.
• Lock – A lock library to provide exclusive execution.

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

• CakePHP Collection – A simple collections library.
• Fractal – A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
• Ginq – Another PHP library based on .NET’s LINQ.
• JsonMapper – A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
• JSON Machine – Provides iteration over huge JSONs using simple foreach
• Knapsack – Collection library inspired by Clojure’s sequences.
• msgpack.php – A pure PHP implementation of the MessagePack serialization format.
• PINQ – A PHP library based on .NET’s LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
• Serializer – A library for serialising and de-serialising data.
• YaLinqo – Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
• Laminas Serializer – Another library for serialising and de-serialising data.

Notifications

Libraries for working with notification software.

• JoliNotif – A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
• Notification Pusher – A standalone library for device push notifications.
• Notificato – A library for handling push notifications.
• Notificator – A lightweight notification library.
• Php-pushwoosh – A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.

Deployment

Libraries for project deployment.

• Deployer – A deployment tool.
• Envoy – A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
• Rocketeer – A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.

Internationalisation and Localisation

Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).

• Aura.Intl – Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
• CakePHP I18n – Message translation and localization for dates and numbers.

Serverless

Libraries and tools to help build serverless web applications.

• Bref – Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda.
• OpenWhisk – An open-source serverless cloud platform.
• Serverless Framework – An open-source framework for building serverless applications.
• Laravel Vapor – A serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS.

Configuration

Libraries and tools for configuration.

• PHP Dotenv – Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Symfony Dotenv– Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Yo! Symfony TOML – A PHP parser for TOML.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• Amazon Web Service SDK – The official PHP AWS SDK library.
• AsyncAWS – An unofficial asynchronous PHP AWS SDK.
• Campaign Monitor – The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
• Github – A library to interface with the Github API.
• Mailgun The official Mailgun PHP API.
• Square – The official Square PHP SDK for payments and other Square APIs.
• Stripe – The official Stripe PHP library.
• Twilio – The official Twilio PHP REST API.

Extensions

Libraries to help build PHP extensions.

• PHP CPP – A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
• Zephir – A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions.

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or utilities that don’t fit into the categories above.

• Annotations – An annotation library (part of Doctrine).
• BotMan – A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chat bots.
• ClassPreloader – A library for optimising autoloading.
• Hprose-PHP – A cross-language RPC.
• noCAPTCHA – Helper for Google’s noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
• Pagerfanta – A pagination library.
• Safe – All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false.
• SuperClosure – A library that allows Closures to be serialized.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

PHP Installation

Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.

• Brew PHP Switcher – Brew PHP switcher.
• HomeBrew – A package manager for OSX.
• Laravel Valet – A development environment for macOS.
• PHP Brew – A PHP version manager and installer.
• PHP Build – Another PHP version installer.
• PHP OSX – A PHP installer for OSX.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating and sharing a development environment.

• Ansible – A radically simple orchestration framework.
• Docker – A containerization platform.
• Docker PHP Extension Installer – Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers.
• Expose – An open source PHP tunneling service.
• Lando – Push-button development environments.
• Laravel Homestead – A local development environment for Laravel.
• Laradock – A full PHP development environment based on Docker.
• Puppet – A server automation framework and application.
• Takeout – A Docker-based development-only dependency manager.
• Vagrant – A portable development environment utility.

Virtual Machines

Alternative PHP virtual machines.

• Hack – A programming language for HHVM.
• HHVM – A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
• PeachPie – PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core.

Text Editors and IDEs

Text Editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with support for PHP.

• Eclipse for PHP Developers – A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
• Apache NetBeans – An IDE with support for PHP and HTML5.
• PhpStorm – A commercial PHP IDE.
• VS Code – An open source code editor.

Web Applications

Web-based applications and tools.

• 3V4L – An online PHP & HHVM shell.
• DBV – A database version control application.
• PHP Queue – An application for managing queueing backends.
• MailCatcher – A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
• Cachet – The open source status page system.
• phpRedisAdmin – A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
• phpMyAdmin – A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
• Adminer – Database management in a single PHP file.
• Lychee – 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 – A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.
• RoadRunner – High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your PHP development skills and knowledge.

PHP Websites

Useful PHP-related websites.

• libs.garden: PHP – An overview of fastest growing PHP libraries.
• Nomad PHP – A online PHP learning resource.
• Laravel News – The official Laravel blog.
• PHP Annotated Monthly – A monthly digest of PHP news.
• PHP Best Practices – A PHP best practice guide.
• PHP FIG – The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
• PHP Package Development Standards – Package development standards for PHP.
• PHP School – Open Source Learning for PHP.
• PHP Security – A guide to PHP security.
• PHP The Right Way – A PHP best practice quick reference guide.
• PHP UG – A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG).
• PHP Versions – Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts.
• PHP Watch – PHP articles, news, upcoming changes, RFCs and more.
• PHP Weekly – A weekly PHP newsletter.
• Securing PHP – A newsletter about PHP security and library recommendations.
• Seven PHP – A website that interviews members of the PHP community.

PHP Books

Fantastic PHP-related books.

• Domain-Driven Design in PHP – Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles.
• Functional Programming in PHP – This book will show you how to leverage these new PHP5.3+ features by understanding functional programming principles
• Grumpy PHPUnit – A book about unit testing with PHPUnit by Chris Hartjes.
• Mastering Object-Orientated PHP – A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage.
• Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices – A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart.
• Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP – A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
• PHP 7 Upgrade Guide – An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O’Dell.
• PHP Pandas – A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees.
• Scaling PHP Applications – An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona.
• Securing PHP: Core Concepts – A book about common security terms and practices for PHP by Chris Cornutt.
• Signaling PHP – A book about catching PCNTL signals in CLI scripts by Cal Evans.
• The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications – A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes.
• XML Parsing with PHP – This book covers parsing and validating XML documents, leveraging XPath expressions, and working with namespaces as well as how to create and modify XML files programmatically.

PHP Videos

Fantastic PHP-related videos.

• Nomad PHP Lightning Talks – 10 to 15 minute Lightning Talks by PHP community members.
• PHP UK Conference – A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference.
• Programming with Anthony – A video series by Anthony Ferrara.
• Taking PHP Seriously – A talk outlining PHP’s strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook.
• Laracasts – Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more.
• Laravel YouTube Channel – The official Laravel YouTube channel.
• SymfonyCasts – Screencasts and tutorials about PHP and Symfony.

PHP Podcasts

Podcasts with a focus on PHP topics.

• Laravel Podcast – Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
• PHP Internals News – A podcast about PHP internals.
• PHP Roundtable – The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.
• PHP Town Hall – A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
• Voices of the ElePHPant Interviews with the people that make the PHP community special.

PHP Newsletters

PHP-related news directly to your inbox.

• PHP Weekly – A weekly newsletter about PHP.

PHP Reading

PHP-releated reading materials.

• php[architect] – A monthly magazine dedicated to PHP.

PHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.

• PHP RFCs – The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments).
• Externals – PHP internal discussions.
• PHP RFC Watch – Watch the latest PHP RFCs.
• PHP Internals Book – An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.