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Collect and organize some commonly used PHP libraries, resources and techniques. So that you can quickly find what you need at work...

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Learning Resources

PHP-related valuable community, blogs, websites, articles, books, videos and other resources

• PHP Websites
  • PHP The Right Way – A quick reference guide for PHP practice
  • PHP Best Practices – A PHP best practice
  • PHP Weekly News – A PHP weekly
  • Securing PHP – About PHP security
  • PHP FIG – PHP Framework Interactive Group
    • PSR Chinese Translation
  • PHP School – an open source PHP learning resource
  • PHPTrends – Some fast-developing PHP library searches
  • PHP Developer Practice
• Other Websites
  • The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) – an open source software security community
  • WebSec IO – a web security community
  • Semantic Versioning – semantic version
  • Atlassian Git Tutorials – A series of Git tutorials
  • Servers for Hackers – related to server operation and maintenance
• PHP Books
  • Modern PHP – The author is the initiator of The Tao of PHP and the author of the Slim framework
    • Modern PHP (Chinese version)
  • PHP Pandas
• Other Books
  • The Linux Command Line – Linux command line tutorial

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Dependency Management

Packages and frameworks for dependency management

• Composer / Packagist – A package and dependency manager.
• Composer Installers – A multi-framework Composer library installer
• pickle – PHP extension installer
• Melody – A tool to build one file Composer scripts.

Frameworks

Web Development Framework

• Symfony2 – a framework composed of independent components (SP2)
• Zend Framework 2 – also a framework composed of independent components (ZF2)
• Laravel 5 – Simple and elegant PHP web development framework (L5)
• Aura PHP – a framework for independent components
• Yii2 – A high-performance PHP framework for developing large-scale web applications
• Nette – also a framework composed of independent components
• PPI Framework 2 – an interactive framework
• CakePHP – an efficient application development framework (CP)
• Phalcon – a framework as a C extension
• Yaf – Brother Niao’s C extension framework
  • swoole-yaf – A development framework based on Swoole and Yaf
  • yaf – Another development framework based on Swoole and Yaf
• Zan PHP Framework – Youzan’s open source PHP framework

Components

• Aura Components – a PHP5.4 component package
• Hoa Project – a collection of PHP components

Configuration

Load class libraries and extensions for configuration files

• Yaconf – a high-performance configuration management extension
• config – A lightweight configuration loader that supports PHP, INI, XML, JSON, YAML files
• Zend-config

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routing

• Silex – a micro-framework based on Symphony2 components
  • Silex Skeleton – Project framework for Silex
  • Silex Web Profiler – Web debugging toolbar for Silex
• Slim – Another simple micro framework
  • Slim Skeleton – Framework for Slim
  • Slim View – Slim’s custom view set
  • Slim Middleware – Slim’s custom middleware collection
  • SlimMVC-Skeleton – Implements MVC and some components based on Slim
• Bullet PHP – A micro-framework for building REST APIs
• Lumen – Laravel based micro framework
• Proton – a micro PHP framework
• blink – A micro-high-performance web framework for building “long running” services

Routers

• Fast Route – an efficient routing library
• Route – Routing library based on Fast Route
• Pux – Another efficient routing library
• Klein – A flexible routing library
• Macaw – A simple PHP router that’s super lean, fast and sexy.

Template engine(Templating)

Libraries and tools for templates and lexical analysis

• Twig – a comprehensive template language
• Twig Cache Extension – Template fragment caching library for Twig
• Mustache – Mustache template language implemented in PHP
• Phly Mustache – Another PHP implementation of Mustache template language
• MtHaml – HAML template language implemented in PHP
• PHPTAL – TAL template language implemented in PHP
• Plates – An original PHP template library
• Lex – A lightweight template parser

Static Site Generators

Preprocessing tool for generating web page content

• Sculpin – Tool to convert Markdown and Twig to static HTML
• Phrozn – Another ithub tool to convert Textile, Markdown and Twig to HTML
• Spress
• Couscous – A tool to convert Markdown documents into HTML and publish them to Github Page

HTTP

Library for HTTP and scraping websites

• Guzzle – a complete HTTP client
• Buzz – Another HTTP client
• Requests – A simple HTTP library
• HTTPFul – A chained HTTP client
• Goutte – A simple web scraper
• PHP VCR – A library to record and playback HTTP requests
• php-curl-class – Curl class for PHP

Middlewares

Middleware for building application libraries

URL

Library for parsing URLs

• Purl – a URL manipulation library
• PHP Domain Parser – A local suffix parser
• Uri – A simple URL manipulation library

Email

Library for sending and parsing emails

• SwiftMailer – a mailer solution
• PHPMailer – Another mailer solution
• Nette Mail – A simple and elegant email sending module
• Fetch – an IMAP library
• Email Reply Parser – an email reply parser library
• Stampie – Library for email services, such as SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun and Mandrill
• CssToInlineStyles – An inline CSS library for email templates
• Email Validator – A compact email verification library

File operations (Files)

About file handling and MIME type checking

• Gaufrette – an abstraction layer for file streams
• Flysystem – Another abstraction layer for file streams
• Canal – A library for checking internet media types
• Apache MIME Types – A library for parsing Apache MIME types
• Ferret – A MIME detection library
• Hoa Mime – Another MIME detection library
• Lurker – an asset tracking library
• PHP File Locator – A library for locating files in large projects
• PHP FFmpeg – A library for FFmpeg video wrapping
• CSV – A CSV data manipulation library

Stream

Library for handling streams

• Streamer – A simple object-oriented stream wrapper library

Dependency Injection

Library that implements dependency injection design pattern

• Pimple – a small dependency injection container
• container-interop – Containers interoperability
• Auryn – Another small dependency injection container
• Container – Another flexible dependency injection container
• PHP DI – a dependency injection using annotations
• Acclimate – Common interface for dependency injection containers and service locators
• Symfony DI – a dependency injection component (SF2)
• Twitteree
• simple di container
• Ding

Imagery

Library for processing images

• Imagine – an image processing library
• PHP Image Workshop – Another image processing library
• Intervention Image – also an image processing library
• GIF Frame Extractor – A library for extracting GIF animation frame information
• GIF Creator – Library to create animated GIFs from multiple images
• Image With Text – A library to embed text in images
• Color Extractor – library to extract colors from images
• Glide – an on-demand image processing library
• Image Optimizer – a library for optimizing images
• PHPThumb – Thumbnail processing library
• phpqrcode – QR code generation library
• QrCode – Another QR code generation library

Testing

A library for testing code and generating test data

• PHPUnit – a unit testing framework
• DBUnit – PHPUnit’s code testing library
• ParaTest – Parallel testing library for PHPUnit
• PHPSpec – Specification-based unit testing library
• Codeception – a full stack testing framework
• AspectMock – PHPUnit/Codeception’s mocking framework
• Atoum – a simple testing library
• Mockery – A mock object library for testing
• Phake – Another mock object library for testing
• Prophecy – a powerful simulation framework
• Faker – a fake data generation library
• Samsui – Another fake data generation library
• Alice – library for generating complex data
• Behat – A testing framework for Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Pho – Another testing framework for behavior-driven development
• Mink – Web Acceptance Testing
• HTTP Mock – A library to mock HTTP requests in unit tests
• VFS Stream – A virtual file system stream wrapper for testing
• VFS – Another virtual file system for testing
• Locust – A modern load testing library developed in Python
• Peridot – an event-driven testing framework

Continuous Integration

Continuously integrated libraries and applications

• Travis CI – a continuous integration platform
• SemaphoreCI – A continuous integration platform for open source programs and private projects
• PHPCI – an open source continuous integration platform for PHP
• Sismo – A continuous testing server library
• Jenkins – PHP powered continuous integration platform
• JoliCi – Docker-powered continuous integration client developed in PHP

Documentation

Library for generating project documentation

• Sami – an API documentation generator
• APIGen – Another API documentation generator
• PHP Documentor 2 – Document Generator
• phpDox – A documentation generator for PHP projects (not just API documentation)

Security

Library for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data, scanning for vulnerabilities, and tokens

• HTML Purifier – a standard HTML filter
• RandomLib – library for generating random numbers and random strings
• True Random – A library for generating random numbers using www.random.org
• SecurityMultiTool – A PHP security library
• PHPSecLib – A pure PHP secure communication library
• TCrypto – A simple key-value encryption repository
• PHP IDS – A structured PHP security layer
• PHP SSH – Object-oriented SSH wrapper library
• IniScan – A tool to scan PHP INI file security
• SensioLabs Security Check – A web tool that checks Composer dependencies according to security recommendations
• Zed – Integrated penetration testing tool for web applications
• php-ratelimiter

Passwords

Libraries and tools for handling and storing passwords

• Password Compat – A compatibility library for the new PHP5.5 password functionality
• phpass – A portable password hashing framework
• PHP Password Lib – A library for generating and verifying passwords
• Password Policy – ​​A password rules library for PHP and JavaScript
• Password Validator – A library to verify and upgrade password hashes
• Zxcvbn PHP – A PHP display password strength estimation library based on Zxcvbn JS
• GenPhrase – A library for generating secure random passwords

Code Analysis

Tools for analyzing, parsing and manipulating code bases

• PHP Parser – A PHP parser written in PHP
• PHPPHP – A PHP virtual machine implemented by PHP
• PHPSandbox – PHP sandbox environment
• Dissect – a collection of lexical and syntactic analysis tools
• PHP Mess Detector – A library that scans code for bugs, suboptimal code and unused parameters
• PHP Code Sniffer – A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS code standards conflicts
• PHPCPD – A library to detect copied and pasted code
• PHP Analyser – A library for analyzing errors in PHP code
• PHP CS Fixer – a code standard library
• PHP Manipulator – Library for analyzing and modifying PHP source code
• PHP Metrics – a static measurement library
• PHP Refactoring Browser – A command line tool for refactoring PHP code
• php-semver-checker – A command line tool for version comparison
• UBench – A simple small benchmarking library
• Athletic – an annotation-based benchmarking library
• Mondrian – Code analysis tool using graph theory
• Scrutinizer – Web tool for inspecting PHP code
• PHPLOC – A tool to quickly estimate the size of your PHP project
• PHPCcheckstyle – A tool to help comply with specific coding rules
• PhpDependencyAnalysis – A tool to create customizable dependency diagrams
• Code Climate – automated code review
• PHP Error – used to convert standard PHP error messages, mainly used for debugging during the development process

Architectural

Libraries about design patterns, programming specifications and code organization

• PHP Option – A library of PHP option types
• Ruler – A simple stateless engine for generating environmental rules
• Finite – A simple PHP finite state machine
• Compose – a function combination library
• Monad PHP – A simple Monad library
• Patchwork – a function library that redefines users
• Galapagos – Language Switch Evolution
• Design Patterns PHP – A library of design pattern examples implemented using PHP
• Functional PHP – A functional programming library
• Lib Accessor – A library that simplifies access
• Iter – A library that provides iteration primitives using generators

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging code

• xDebug – A PHP debugging and analysis tool
• whoops
• PHP Debug Bar – a debugging toolbar
• PHP Console – Web debugging console
• Barbushin PHP Console – A web debugging control tool using Google Chrome
• PHPDBG – An interactive PHP debugger
• Tracy – A simple error detection, logging and time measurement library
• Z-Ray – a debugging and performance analysis tool
• xHprof – Facebook’s open source PHP performance evaluation tool
  • xhprof.io – implements UI for saving xhprof data and displaying data
  • xhgui – Another UI to save xhprof data and display data
• Blackfire.io – A low-overhead code profiler
• Kint – a debugging and performance analysis tool

Build Tools

Project building and automation tools

• Go – A simple PHP build tool
• Bob – A simple project automation tool
• Phake – a PHP clone library
• Box – Tool for building PHAR files
• Phing – PHP project build system based on Apache Ant

Task Runners

Library for automatically running tasks

• 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 – a menu library
• Cartographer – a sitemap generation library

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minimizing website resources

• Assetic – an asset management pipeline library
• Pipe – Another pipeline library for resource management
• Munee – a resource optimization library
• JShrink – A JavaScript compression library
• Puli – A library for detecting absolute paths to resources

Geolocation

Library for encoding addresses using latitude and longitude

• GeoCoder – a geocoding library
• GeoTools – a library related to geographical tools
• PHPGeo – a simple geography library
• GeoJSON – An implementation of GeoJSON

Date and Time

Library for handling dates and times

• Carbon – A simple date and time API extension
• ExpressiveDate – Another date and time API extension
• CalendR – a calendar management library

Event

Library for event-driven or non-blocking event loop implementation

• React – An event-driven non-blocking I/O library
• Rx.PHP – A React extension library
• phpsocket.io
• Ratchet – A web socket library
• Hoa WebSocket – Another web socket library
• Elephant.io – Another web socket library
• Hoa EventSource – an event source library
• Evenement – ​​an event scheduling library
• Event – ​​Event package for your app and/or domain.
• Cake Event – ​​an event scheduling library
• Broadway – an event source and CQRS library

Logging

Library for generating and processing log files

• Monolog – a comprehensive logging library
• KLogger – An easy-to-use PSR-3 logging class
• Analog – A micro-logging package with opportunistic closures
• SeasLog – an efficient logging extension

E-commerce

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

• OmniPay – A multi-gateway payment processing framework
• Payum – an abstraction library for payments
• Sylius – an open source e-commerce solution
• Thelia – Another open source e-commerce solution
• Money – Fowler money model implemented in PHP
• Sebastian Money – A library for handling monetary values
• Swap – an exchange rate library

PDF

Libraries and software for processing PDF files

• Snappy – a PDF and image generation library
• WKHTMLToPDF – A tool to convert HTML to PDF
• PHPPdf – A library to convert XML to PDF and images

Office

A variety of document processing libraries for Office suites

• PHPWord – Library for processing Word documents
• PHPExcel – Library for processing Excel documents
• PHPPowerPoint – Library for processing PPT slides
• ExcelAnt – a library for manipulating Excel documents

Database

Database interaction library using Object Relational Mapping (ORM) or data mapping technology

• Doctrine – a complete DBAL and ORM
• Doctrine Extensions – An extension collection of Doctrine behaviors
• Propel – A fast ORM, migration and query library
• Eloquent – ​​Laravel 5 ORM(L5)
• LazyRecord – A fast ORM
• Baum – An Eloquent nested collection
• Spot2 – ORM mapper for MySQL
• RedBean – A lightweight, easy-to-configure ORM
• Pomm – An object model manager for PostgreSQL
• ProxyManager – A collection of tools for data mapping to generate proxy objects
• Cake ORM – Object Relational Mapper, implements the use of data mapping pattern (CP)
• Medoo – A lightweight ORM that accelerates development

Migrations

Library for managing database schemas and migrations

• PHPMig – a migration management library
• Phinx – a database migration management library
• Migrations – Another migration management library
• Doctrine Migrations – migration library for Doctrine

Non-relational database (NoSQL)

Libraries for handling NoSQL backends

• MongoDB
  • mongo-php-library – MongoDB official PHP library
  • MongoQB – A query building library for MongoDB
  • Monga – an abstraction library for MongoDB
  • mongodm – MongoDB ORM
  • php-mongo – PHP ODM for MongoDB
• Redis
  • Predis – a fully functional Redis library

Queue

Library for handling events and task queues

• Pheanstalk – A Beanstalkd client library
• PHP AMQP – A pure PHP AMQP library
• Thumper – A RabbitMQ pattern library
• Bernard – a multi-backend abstraction library
• php-resque – redis-based message queue
• Gearman – Task distribution system

Search

Libraries and software for indexing and executing queries on data

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

Command Line

Library for building command line tools

• symfony/console – Symfony command line worker component
• Boris – A micro PHP REPL
• PsySH – Another PHP REPL
• Pecan – an event-driven, non-blocking shell
• GetOpt – A command line selection parser
• OptParse – Another command line options parser
• Commando – A simple command line selection parser
• GetOptionKit – also a command line option parser
• Cron Expression - Library to calculate cron run date
• ShellWrap – A simple command line wrapper library
• Hoa Console – Another command line library
• Shunt - A command line library that runs on multiple remote machines in parallel
• Cilex – A small framework for building command line tools
• CLImate – a framework for building command line tools (can output colors and special formats)
• Webmozart Console

Scheduled tasks (Crontab)

Scheduled task management crontab related packaging in PHP

• Dispatcher – Laravel-based scheduled task management
• swoole-crontab – A swoole-based timer program that supports second-level processing
• jobby – a PHP scheduled task manager
• cronlingo – Express crontabs as human friendly phrases

Authentication and Authorization

Library that implements authentication mode

• Sentinel – an authentication and authorization framework
• Sentinel Social – A library for social network authentication
• Opauth – Provides support for OAuth authentication and provides a unified standard access method
• OAuth2 Server – An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library
• OAuth2 Server – an OAuth2 server implementation
• PHP oAuthLib – Another OAuth library
• TwitterOAuth – A Twitter OAuth library
• TwitterSDK – A fully tested Twitter SDK
• Hawk – A Hawk HTTP authentication library
• HybridAuth – an open source social login library
• Lock – An Access Control Lists (ACL) system library.
• OAuth 1.0 Client – ​​An OAuth 1.0 client library.
• OAuth 2.0 Client – ​​An OAuth 2.0 client library.
• Sentry – Authentication and Authorization System
• EvaOAuth – Unified interface OAuth login PHP class library
• JSON Web Token – JSON Web Token Library
  • php-jwt
  • jwt
  • jose – JSON signing and encryption library
  • slim-jwt-auth
  • jwt-auth

Markup

Library for handling tags

• Decoda – A lightweight tag parsing library
• PHP Markdown – Markdown parser
• CommonMark PHP – A Markdown parser that supports CommonMark spec.
• Parsedown – a Markdown parser
• Ciconia – A Markdown parser that supports Github style
• Cebe Markdown – A fast, extensible Markdown parser
• HTML5 PHP – An HTML5 parsing and serialization library
• Emoji – A simple class library for processing emoji
• php-emoji – an emoji expression conversion library

Strings

Library for parsing and manipulating strings

• ANSI to HTML5 – A library to convert ANSI to HTML5
• Patchwork UTF-8 – A portable library for processing UTF-8 format strings
• Hoa String – Another UTF-8 format string library
• Stringy – A string manipulation library with multi-byte support
• Color Jizz – A library for processing and converting colors
• UUID – Library for generating UUIDs
• Slugify – A library that converts strings to slug format
• Urlify – A PHP port of Django URLify.js
• Text – a text processing library
• SQL Formatter – A library for formatting SQL statements
• UA Parser – A library for parsing UA (User Agent) strings
• Device Detector – Another library for parsing UA (User Agent) strings
• Mobile-Detect – A lightweight library for detecting mobile devices (including desktop devices)
• Browser – Detects information about the user’s browser environment

Numbers

Library for processing numbers

• Numbers PHP – A library for processing numbers
• Math – library for handling larger numbers
• ByteUnits – A library for parsing, formatting and converting byte units in binary and measurement systems
• PHP Units of Measure – A library for converting between measurement units
• PHP Conversion – Another library for converting between measurement units
• LibPhoneNumber for PHP – Google phone number processing system library implemented in PHP
• hashids.php – used to generate a unique string from an integer (for example: hiding the real ID by encrypting and decrypting the ID)

Filtering and Validation

Library for filtering and validating data

• Filterus – A simple PHP filtering library
• Respect Validation – A simple validation library
• Valitron – Another data validation library
• Cake Validation – Another data validation library
• php-readability – content analysis algorithm
• Upload – A library that handles file uploading and verification
• DMS Filter – an annotation-based filtering library
• MetaYaml – A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML
• ISO-codes – Library for validating different ISO and ZIP encodings

REST and API

Libraries and web frameworks for developing restful APIs

• Apigility – An API builder built with Zend Framework2
• Hateoas – A HATEOAS REST web service library
• HAL – A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) building library
• Negotiation – a content negotiation library
• Drest - A library that displays Doctrine entities as REST resource nodes
• Restler – A lightweight framework that exposes PHP methods as RESTful web API
• fractal – [Best Practice] Unified processing of data return

Caching

Library for caching data

• Alternative PHP Cache (APC) – Open source opcode cache for PHP
• Doctrine Cache – a caching library.
• Zend Cache – Another caching library
• Cake Cache – A library for caching
• Stash – Another caching library
• CacheTool – A command line tool to clear APC/opcode cache
• PhpFastCache – PHP caching library

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structures and storage technologies

• Ardent – ​​a data structure library
• PHP Collections – A simple collection library
• Serializer – Library for serializing and deserializing data
• Zend Serializer – Another library for serializing and deserializing data
• PHP Object Storage – A library for object storage
• Fractal – A library for converting complex data structures into JSON output
• Totem – A library for managing and creating data modification sets
• PINQ – PHP real-time Linq library
• JsonMapper – A library that maps embedded JSON structures to PHP classes
• Cake Collection – a simple collection library

Notifications

Library about notifications

• Nod – a notification library
• Notificato – A library for handling push messages
• Notification Pusher – an independent library for device push notifications
• Notificator – a lightweight notification library

Deployment

Library for project deployment

• Pomander – A deployment tool for PHP applications
• Rocketeer – Fast and simple deployer for PHP
• Envoy – Tool for running SSH tasks using PHP
• Plum – a deployment library
• Deployer – a deployment tool
• walle-web – an open source web code release management system

Internationalization and Localization

Library for internationalization (I18n) and localization (L10n)

• Aura Intl
• Cake I18n – Translate and localize messages

Third Party APIs

Libraries to access third-party APIs

• mailgun-php – Mailgun’s Official SDK for PHP

Extensions

Libraries to help build PHP extensions

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

PHP Installation

Help installing and managing PHP

• HomeBrew – A package management tool for OSX
• HomeBrew PHP – Installation package for PHP in HomeBrew
• PHP OSX – A PHP installer for OSX
• PHP Brew – A PHP version management tool and installer
• PHP Env – Another PHP version tool
• PHP Switch – Another PHP version tool
• PHP Build – Another PHP version tool
• VirtPHP – A tool to create and manage detached PHP environments

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating sandbox development environments

• Vagrant – a lightweight tool for creating development environments
• Ansible – a simple business process framework
• Puppet – Server automation framework and application
• PuPHPet – A virtual machine tool for building PHP development
• Protobox – Another virtual machine tool for building PHP development
• Phansible – Another virtual machine tool for building PHP development
• centstead – Laravel local development environment base on vagrant and homestead

Virtual Machines

Alternative PHP virtual machine

• HHVM – Facebook’s open source PHP virtual machine
• HippyVM – Another PHP virtual machine

Development Tools (Integrated Development Environment)

IDE that supports PHP

• Netbeans
• Eclipse for PHP Developers
• PhpStorm

Web Applications

Web-based apps and tools

• 3V4L – Online PHP shell
• DBV – Database version control application
• PHP Queue – Backend program that manages queues
• MailCatcher – A program to accept and view emails
• Cachet – an open source website status display system (such as: status.github.com)
• phpRedisAdmin – Redis management tool
• phpPgAdmin – PostgreSQL management tool
• phpMyAdmin – MySQL management tool
• rockmongo – MongoDB management tool

Infrastructure

Provides infrastructure for PHP applications and services

• appserver.io – PHP based multi-threaded application server

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries and tools that do not fall into the above categories

• pinyin – a library for converting Chinese characters into Pinyin
• Pinyin – a library for converting Chinese characters into Pinyin
• class.upload.php – File upload processing class
• php-paginator – Pagination processing class
• Underscore.php – PHP implementation of Underscore.js
• Flexihash – Consistent hash library
• Eden – A PHP rapid development library that contains many components for automatic loading, event-driven, file systems, caching, templates, internationalization, databases, web services, payment gateways, loading and cloud service technologies.
• html-parser – html parsing tool
• PHPCrawl – PHP crawler framework
• Tig – Git browser from the command line

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English version

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

Contributing

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

Table of Contents

• Awesome PHP
  • Dependency Management
  • Dependency Management Extras
  • Frameworks
  • Framework Extras
  • Components
  • Micro Frameworks
  • Micro Framework Extras
  • Routers
  • Templating
  • Static Site Generators
  • HTTP
  • Middlewares
  • URL
  • Email
  • Files
  • Streams
  • Dependency Injection
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Continuous Integration
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Passwords
  • Code Analysis
  • Architectural
  • Debugging and Profiling
  • Build Tools
  • Task Runners
  • Navigation
  • Asset Management
  • Geolocation
  • Date and Time
  • Event
  • Logging
  • E-commerce
  • PDF
  • Office
  • Database
  • Migrations
  • NoSQL
  • Queue
  • Search
  • Command Line
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Markup
  • Strings
  • Numbers
  • Filtering and Validation
  • API
  • Caching
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Internationalisation and Localisation
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • PHP Installation
  • Development Environment
  • Virtual Machines
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Web Applications
  • Infrastructure
• Resources
  • PHP Websites
  • Other Websites
  • PHP Books
  • PHP Videos
  • PHP Reading
  • PHP Internals Reading
• Contributing

Dependency Management

Libraries for dependency and package management.

• Composer Installers – A multi framework Composer library installer.
• Composer/Packagist – A package and dependency manager.
• Melody – A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
• 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 Checker – A tool to validate Composer configurations.
• Composer Merge Plugin – A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
• Composition – A library to check your Composer environment at runtime.
• NameSpacer – A library to convert from underscores to namespaces.
• Patch Installer – A library to install patches using Composer.
• Prestissimo – A composer plugin which enables parallel install process.
• 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.

• Aura PHP – A framework of independent components.
• CakePHP – A rapid application development framework (CP).
• Laravel 5 – Another PHP framework (L5).
• Nette – Another framework comprised of individual components.
• Phalcon – A framework implemented as a C extension.
• PPI Framework 2 – An interoperability framework.
• Symfony 2 – A framework comprised of individual components (SF2).
• Yii2 – Another PHP framework.
• Zend Framework 2 – Another framework comprised of individual components (ZF2).
• Radar – An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
• Ice – Another simple and fast PHP framework delivered as C-extension.

Framework Extras

Extras related to web development frameworks.

• CakePHP CRUD – A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
• Knp RAD Bundle – A Rapid Application Development (RAD) bundle for Symfony 2.
• Symfony CMF – A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS.

Components

Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.

• CakePHP Plugins – A directory of CakePHP plugins.
• Hoa Project – Another package of PHP components.
• League of Extraordinary Packages – A PHP package development group.
• Symfony2 Components – The components that make Symfony 2.
• Zend Framework 2 Components – The components that make Zend Framework.

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routers.

• Bullet PHP – A micro framework for building REST APIs.
• Lumen – A micro-framework by Laravel.
• Proton – A StackPHP compatible micro framework.
• Silex – A micro framework built around Symfony2 components.
• Slim – Another simple micro framework.

Micro Framework Extras

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

• Silex Skeleton – A project skeleton for Silex.
• Silex Web Profiler – A web debug toolbar for Silex.
• Slim Skeleton – A skeleton for Slim.
• Slim View – A collection of custom views for Slim.

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing.

• 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.

• Foil – Another native PHP templating library.
• Lex – A lightweight template parser.
• MtHaml – A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
• Mustache – A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
• Phly Mustache – Another 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.
• Tale Jade – A PHP implementation of the Jade template 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.
• Phrozn – Another tool that converts Textile, Markdown and Twig into HTML.
• 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.
• HTTPFul – A chainable HTTP client.
• 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.
• zend-diactoros – PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.

Scraping

Libraries for scraping websites.

• Embed – An information extractor from any web service or page.
• Goutte – A simple web scraper.
• PHP Spider – A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.

Middlewares

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

• Expressive – PSR-7 Middleware framework from Zend.
• PSR7-Middlewares – Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
• Relay – A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
• Stack – A library of stackable middleware for Silex/Symfony.
• zend-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.
• Stampie – A library for email services such as SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun and Mandrill.
• SwiftMailer – A mailer solution.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• Apache MIME Types – A library that parses Apache MIME types.
• Canal – A library to determine internet media types.
• CSV – A CSV data manipulation library.
• Ferret – A MIME detection library.
• Flysystem – Another filesystem abstraction layer.
• Gaufrette – A filesystem abstraction layer.
• Hoa Mime – Another MIME detection library.
• Lurker – A resource tracking library.
• PHP FFmpeg – A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

• Streamer – A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• Acclimate – A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
• Auryn – A recursive dependency injector.
• Container – Another flexible 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 (SF2).

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• Color Extractor – A library for extracting colours from images.
• GIF Creator – A library to create GIF animations from multiple images.
• GIF Frame Extractor – A library to extract GIF animation frame information.
• Glide – An on-demand image manipulation library.
• Image Hash – A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
• Image Optimizer – A library for optimizing images.
• Image With Text – A library for embedding text into 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.
• DBUnit – A database testing library for PHPUnit.
• Faker – A fake data generator library.
• HTTP Mock – A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
• 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.
• 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()).
• 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.
• Samsui – Another fake data generator library.
• VFS Stream – A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.
• VFS – Another virtual filesystem 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 continous 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.
• Sismo – A continuous testing server library.
• Travis CI – A continuous integration platform.
• Wercker – A continuous integration platform

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).
• Sami – An API documentation generator.

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning 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.
• PHP Encryption – Secure PHP Encryption Library.
• PHP IDS – A structured PHP security layer.
• PHP SSH – An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library.
• PHPSecLib – A pure PHP secure communications library.
• RandomLib – A library for generating random numbers and strings.
• SecurityMultiTool – A PHP security library.
• SensioLabs Security Check – A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories.
• TCrypto – A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
• True Random – A library that generates random numbers using www.random.org.
• VAddy – A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
• Zed – 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.

• Athletic – An annotation based benchmark framework.
• Code Climate – An automated code review.
• Dissect – A set of tools for lexical and syntactical analysis.
• Exakat – A static analysis engine for PHP.
• GrumPHP – A composer plugin to defend code quality.
• Mondrian – A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
• PHP Analyser – A library for analysing PHP code to find bugs and errors.
• PHP Code Sniffer – A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
• PHP CS Fixer – A coding standards fixer library.
• PHP Manipulator – A library for analysing and modifying PHP Source Code.
• PHP Mess Detector – A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
• PHP Metrics – A static metric library.
• PHP Migration – A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
• PHP Parser – A PHP parser written in PHP.
• PHP Refactoring Browser – A command line utility for refactoring PHP code.
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker – A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
• phan – A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
• PHPCheckstyle – A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
• PHPCPD – A library that detects copied and pasted code.
• PhpDependencyAnalysis – A tool to create customisable dependency graphs.
• 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).
• PHPPHP – A PHP VM implementation in PHP.
• PHPSandbox – A PHP sandbox environment.
• Qafoo Quality Analyzer – A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
• Scrutinizer – A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench – A simple micro benchmark library.

Architectural

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

• Compose – A function composition library.
• Design Patterns PHP – A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
• Finite – A simple PHP finite state machine.
• Functional PHP – A functional programming library.
• Galapagos – Evolutionary language transformation.
• Iter – A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
• Monad PHP – A simple Monad library.
• Patchwork – A library for redefining userland functions.
• PHP Option – An option type library.
• Pipeline – A pipeline pattern implementation.
• 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 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.
• PHP Console – A web debugging console.
• PHP Debug Bar – A debugging toolbar.
• PHPBench – A benchmarking Framework.
• PHPDBG – An interactive PHP debugger.
• Tideways.io – Monitoring and profiling tool
• Tracy – A simple error detection, logging and time measuring 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.

• Bob – A simple project automation tool.
• Box – A utility to build PHAR files.
• Construct – A PHP project/micro-package generator.
• Phake – A rake PHP clone library.
• Phing – A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.

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.

• Cartographer – A sitemap generation library.
• KnpMenu – A menu library.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• Assetic – An asset manager pipeline library.
• JShrink – A JavaScript minifier library.
• Munee – An asset optimiser library.
• Pipe – Another asset manager pipeline library.
• Puli – A library for determining assets absolute paths.
• BowerPHP – A PHP implementation of Bower. A package manager for the web

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• 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.
• ExpressiveDate – Another DateTime API extension.
• Moment.php – Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.

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.
• Cake Event – An event dispatcher library (CP).
• 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.
• Icicle – An asynchronous library with coroutines, non-blocking I/O, and multithreading.
• Prooph Event Store – An event source component to persist event messages
• Ratchet – A web socket library.
• React – An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
• Rx.PHP – A reactive extension library.
• Workerman – An event driven non-blocking I/O library.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Analog – A closure-based micro logging package.
• KLogger – An easy-to-use PSR-3 compliant logging class.
• 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.
• 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.

• ExcelAnt – A library for manipulating Microsoft Excel documents.
• PHPExcel – A library for working with Microsoft Excel documents.
• PHPPowerPoint – A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
• PHPWord – A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.

Database

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

• Baum – A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
• Cake ORM – Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern (CP).
• Doctrine Extensions – A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
• Doctrine – A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
• Eloquent – A simple ORM (L5).
• LazyRecord – A fast ORM designed for simplicity, extendability and performance.
• Pomm – An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
• Propel – A fast ORM, migration library and query builder.
• ProxyManager – A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
• RedBean – A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
• Spot2 – A MySQL datamapper ORM.