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This is great for small projects, but when you use a library like this for a large application, you have to follow the rules because your code can quickly become unmaintainable. So you'd better go with a fully mature framework like Laravel or CodeIgniter.
3. Ham – Routing library with cache
Ham is also a lightweight routing framework, but it uses caching to achieve even faster speeds. It does this by caching anything I/O related into XCache/APC. Here is an example:
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Combining resources in this way is a good idea as it speeds up the site. Not only the total download volume is reduced, but also a large number of unnecessary HTTP requests are eliminated (these are the two things that most affect page load time)
5. ImageWorkshop – Image processing with layers
ImageWorkshop is a tool that allows you to control An open source library for layered images. With it you can resize, crop, create thumbnails, watermark or do more. Here is an example:
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$norwayLayer= ImageWorkshop::initFromPath('/path/to/images/norway.jpg');
// Initialize the watermark layer (watermark layer) from the watermark.png image
$watermarkLayer= ImageWorkshop::initFromPath('/path/to/images/watermark.png');
$image= $norwayLayer->getResult();
// This is the generated image!
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
imagejpeg($image, null, 95);
// We choose to show a JPG with a quality of 95%
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ImageWorkshop was developed to enable some of the most versatile image processing cases in PHP Simplified, if you need something more powerful, you should check out the Imagine library!
6. Snappy - Snapshot/PDF library
Snappy is a PHP5 library that can generate snapshots, URLs, HTML, and PDFs. It relies on the wkhtmltopdf binary (available on Linux, Windows and OSX). You can use them like this:
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//Initialize the library through wkhtmltopdf binary path
$snappy= newPdf( '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf' );
//Display pdf in the browser by setting the Content-type header to pdf
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
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7. Idiorm - lightweight ORM library
Idiorm is my favorite one that I have used in the tutorials on this website before. It is a lightweight ORM library, a PHP5 query builder built on PDO. With it, you can forget how to write boring SQL:
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Idiorm has a sister library called Paris, which is an Active Record implementation based on Idiorm.
8. Underscore - A tool belt for PHP
Underscore is an interface to the original Underscore.js - a tool belt for Javascript applications. The PHP version does not disappoint and supports almost all native features. Here are some examples:
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$multiplier= 2;
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function($num,
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echo$index. '=' . ($num * $multiplier) .
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// prints: 0=2,1=4,2=6,
__::reduce(array( 1, 2, 3),
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// 6
__::find(array(1, 2, 3, 4),
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This library also supports chain syntax, which makes it More powerful.
9. Requests - Simple HTTP Requests
Requests is a library that simplifies HTTP requests. If you're like me and can almost never remember the various parameters passed to Curl, then this is for you:
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$request= Requests::get('https://api.github.com/gists',
$headers, $options);
var_dump($request->status_code);
// int(200)
var_dump( $request->headers['content-type']);
// string(31) "application/json; charset=utf-8"
var_dump( $request->body);
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10. Buzz – Simple HTTP request library
Buzz is another library that completes HTTP requests. Here is an example:
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11. Goutte – Web Scraping Library
Goutte is a library for crawling websites and extracting data. It provides an elegant API that makes it easy to select specific elements from remote pages.
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useGoutteClient;
$client = newClient();
$crawler= $client->request('GET',
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//Click the link
$link= $crawler->selectLink('Plugins')->link();
$crawler = $client->click($link);
//Use a CSS-like syntax to extract data
$t= $crawler->filter('#data')->text();
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Carbon is a simple extension of the DateTime API.
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$tomorrow= Carbon::now()->addDay();
$lastWeek= Carbon::now()->subWeek();
$nextSummerOlympics= Carbon::createFromDate(2012)->addYears(4);
$officialDate= Carbon::now()->toRFC2822String();
$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;
$noonTodayLondonTime= Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');
$endOfWorld= Carbon::createFromDate(2012, 12, 21, 'GMT');
//Always compare with UTC
if(Carbon::now ()->gte($endOfWorld)) {
die();
}
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echo'Party!';
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Ubench is a micro library for benchmarking PHP code, monitoring (code) execution time and memory usage. Here is an example:
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$bench->start();
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//Get Execution time and memory consumption
echo$bench->getTime(); // 156ms or 1.123s
echo$bench->getTime(true ); // elapsed microtime in float
echo$bench->getTime(false, '%d%s');
// 156ms or 1s
echo$bench->getMemoryPeak(); // 152B or 90.00Kb or 15.23Mb
echo $bench-> getMemoryPeak(true); // memory peak in bytes memory peak
echo$bench->getMemoryPeak(false, '%.3f%s');
// 152B or 90.152Kb or 15.234Mb
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(only) It’s a good idea to run these checks during development.
14. Validation – Input validation engine
Validation claims to be the most powerful validation engine in the PHP library. But does it live up to its name? Watch below:
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//Simple verification
$number = 123;
v::numeric()->validate($number);
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//Chain validation
$usernameValidator= v::alnum()->noWhitespace()->length(1,15);
$ usernameValidator->validate('alganet');
//true
//Verify object properties
$user= newstdClass;
$user->name =
'Alexandre';
$user->birthdate =
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//Validate his attributes in a simple chain
$userValidator= v::attribute('name', v ::string()->length(1,32))
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//true You can validate your form or other user submitted data through this library. In addition, it has a lot of built-in validation, throwing exceptions and custom error messages.
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Filterus has many built-in modes, supports chain usage, and can even use independent validation rules to validate array elements.
16. Faker - Fake Data Generator
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you. This comes in handy when you need to populate a test database, or generate test data for your web application. It's also very easy to use:
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$faker= FakerFactory::create();
//Generate fake data by accessing properties
echo$faker-> name; // 'Lucy Cechtelar';
echo$faker->address;
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As long as you continue to access object properties, it will continue to return randomly generated data.
17. Mustache.php - Elegant template library
Mustache is a popular template language that has actually been implemented in various programming languages. Using it, you can reuse templates in client or service segments. As you guessed, Mustache.php is implemented using PHP.
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18. Gaufrette – File system abstraction layer
Gaufrette is a PHP5 library that provides an abstraction layer for the file system. It makes it possible to manipulate local files, FTP servers, Amazon S3 or more in the same way. It allows you to develop programs without knowing how you will access your files in the future.
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useGaufretteAdapterLocal asLocalAdapter;
//Local file:
$adapter= newLocalAdapter('/var/media');
//Optionally use an FTP adapter
// $ftp = new FtpAdapter($path, $host, $username, $password, $port);
//Initialize the file system
$filesystem= newFilesystem($adapter);
//Use it
$content= $filesystem->read('myFile');
$content = 'Hello I am the new content';
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19. Omnipay – Payment Processing Library
Omnipay is a PHP payment processing library. It has a clear and consistent API and supports dozens of gateways. Using this library, you only need to learn an API and deal with various payment processors. Here is an example:
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$gateway= GatewayFactory:: create('Stripe');
$gateway->setApiKey('abc123');
$formData= [ 'number' => '4111111111111111',
'expiryMonth'=> 6,
'expiryYear'=> 2016];
$response= $gateway->purchase(['amount'=> 1 000, 'card '=> $formData]);
if($response->isSuccessful()) {
/ /Payment successful: update database
print_r($response);
} elseif($response->isRedirect ()) {
//jump Go to an off-site payment gateway
$response->redirect();
} else{
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20. Upload – Handling file uploads
Upload is a library that simplifies file uploading and verification. When uploading a form, this library verifies the file type and size.
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$file= newUploadFile('foo',
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//Verify file upload
$file->addValidations(array(
//Make sure the file type is "image /png"
newUploadValidationMimetype('image/png'),
//Make sure the file does not exceed 5M (use "B", "K", "M "or "G")
newUploadValidationSize('5M')
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//Attempting to upload a file
try{
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$file->upload();
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It will reduce a lot of tedious code.
21. HTMLPurifier – HTML XSS Protection
HTMLPurifier is an HTML filtering library that protects your code from XSS attacks through powerful whitelisting and aggregation analysis. It also ensures that the output markup conforms to the standard. (The source code is on github)
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If your website allows users to submit HTML code and display the code without modification, then this is the time It’s time to use this library.
22. ColorJizz-PHP – Color manipulation library
ColorJizz is a simple library with which you can convert different color formats and do simple color operations
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echo Hex::fromString( 'red')->hue(-20)->greyscale();
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23. PHP Geo – Geolocation Positioning Library
phpgeo is a simple library for calculating geography Highly accurate distances between coordinates. For example:
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$coordinate1= newCoordinate(19.820664, -155.468066); // Mauna Kea Summit
$coordinate2 = new Coordinate(20.709722, -156.253333); // Haleakala Summit
$calculator= newVincenty();
$distance= $calculator-> getDistance($coordinate1,
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It will work well in apps that use geolocation data. You can try translating the HTML5 Location API, Yahoo's API (or both, as we did in the weather web app tutorial) to get the coordinates.
24. ShellWrap – Beautiful command line wrapper
With the ShellWrap library, you can use powerful Linux/Unix command line tools in PHP code.
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useMrRioShellWrap assh;
//List all files under the current file
echosh::ls();
//Check out a git branch
sh::git('checkout',
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//You can also pipe the output of one command to another command
//The following tracks the position through curl, and then filters the 'html' pipe through grep Download example.com website
echosh::grep('html', sh::curl('http://example.com',
array(
'location'=> true
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//Create a new file
sh::touch(' file.html');
//Remove file
sh::rm('file.html');
//Remove the file again (this time it failed and an exception was thrown because the file did not exist)
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When an exception occurs on the command line, this library throws an exception so you can react to it in time. It can also allow you to pipe the output of one command as the input of another command to achieve greater flexibility.
The above introduces 24 libraries that PHP developers should know, including relevant content. I hope it will be helpful to friends who are interested in PHP tutorials.
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