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Awesome PHP

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

Contributing and Collaborating

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Composer Repositories

Composer Repositories.

Firegento - Magento Module Composer Repository.
Packagist - The PHP Package Repository.
Packalyst - The Laravel 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 (⭐1.4k) - A multi-framework Composer library installer.
Composer - A package and dependency manager.
Pie (⭐382) - The official PHP installer for extensions.
Phive - A PHAR manager.
Pickle (⭐1.6k) - A PHP extension installer.

Dependency Management Extras

Extras related to dependency management.

Composed (⭐53) - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime.
Composer Merge Plugin (⭐938) - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
Composer Normalize (⭐1k) - A plugin for normalizing composer.json files.
Composer Patches (⭐1.5k) - A plugin for Composer to apply patches.
Composer Prefer Lowest Validator (⭐20) - A plugin to check if minimum dependencies can be installed and tested.
Composer Require Checker (⭐896) - CLI tool to analyze composer dependencies and verify that no unknown symbols are used in the sources of a package.
Composer Unused (⭐1.5k) - A CLI Tool to scan for unused composer packages.
Repman - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
Satis (⭐3.1k) - A static Composer repository generator.
Tooly (⭐101) - A library to manage PHAR files in a project using Composer.
Toran Proxy - A Composer proxy for speed and reliability. (⚠️ Toran Proxy is being phased out.)

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

CakePHP - A rapid application development framework.
CodeIgniter - A powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.
Laminas - A framework comprised of individual components (previously Zend Framework).
Laravel - A web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Nette - A web framework comprised of mature components.
Phalcon - A framework implemented as a C extension.
Spiral - A high-performance PHP/Go framework.
Symfony - A set of reusable components and a web framework.
Yii2 (⭐14k) - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework.

Framework Extras

Extras related to web development frameworks.

CakePHP CRUD (⭐376) - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
Knp RAD Components - A set of Rapid Application Development (RAD) components for Symfony.
LaravelS (⭐3.8k) - An out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole.
Livewire - Powerful, dynamic, front-end UIs without leaving PHP.

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 (⭐3.3k) - A flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.
Drupal - An enterprise level CMS.
Grav (⭐15k) - A modern flat-file CMS.
Joomla - Another leading CMS.
Kirby - A flat-file CMS that adapts to any project.
Magento (⭐12k) - The most popular e-commerce platform.
Moodle - An open-source learning platform.
Pico CMS - A stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
Statamic - Build beautiful, easy-to-manage websites.
Sulu - A user and developer friendly focused CMS and Platform based on the Symfony Framework.
WordPress (⭐20k) - 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.
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.
Mezzio - A micro-framework by Laminas.
Minicli (⭐1k) - Minimalist, dependency-free framework for building CLI-centric PHP applications.
Silly (⭐922) - A micro-framework for CLI applications.
Slim - Another simple micro framework.

Micro Framework Extras

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

Slim Skeleton (⭐1.6k) - A skeleton for Slim.
Slim Twig View (⭐305) - Integrate Twig into Slim.
Slim PHP View (⭐264) - A simple PHP renderer for Slim.

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing.

Aura.Router (⭐494) - A full-featured routing library.
Fast Route (⭐5.1k) - A fast routing library.
Klein (⭐2.7k) - A flexible router.
Pux (⭐1.3k) - Another fast routing library.
Route (⭐652) - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.

Templating

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

Latte - The safest and truly intuitive templates for PHP.
MtHaml (⭐359) - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
Mustache (⭐3.2k) - 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.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

Buzz (⭐1.9k) - Another HTTP client.
Guzzle (⭐23k) - A comprehensive HTTP client.
HTTPlug - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation.
Nyholm PSR-7 (⭐1.2k) - A super lightweight PSR-7 implementation. Very strict and very fast.
PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
Requests (⭐3.6k) - A simple HTTP library.
Retrofit (⭐157) - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
Symfony HTTP Client (⭐1.9k) - A component to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously.
Laminas Diactoros (⭐484) - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.

Scraping

Libraries for scraping websites and detecting crawlers.

Chrome PHP (⭐2.3k) - Instrument headless Chrome/Chromium instances from PHP.
CrawlerDetect (⭐2k) - A PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent.
DiDOM (⭐2.2k) - A super-fast HTML scrapper and parser.
Embed (⭐2.1k) - An information extractor from any web service or page.
PHP Spider (⭐1.3k) - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.
Symfony Panther (⭐2.9k) - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony.

Middlewares

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

PSR-7 Middlewares (⭐668) - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
Relay (⭐319) - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Symfony.
Laminas Stratigility (⭐55) - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs.

PHP Domain Parser (⭐1.2k) - A domain suffix parser library.
Purl (⭐907) - A URL manipulation library.
sabre/uri (⭐289) - A functional URI manipulation library.
Uri (⭐1k) - Another URL manipulation library.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

CssToInlineStyles (⭐5.8k) - A library to inline CSS in email templates.
Email Reply Parser (⭐640) - An email reply parser library.
Email Validator (⭐162) - A small email address validation library.
Fetch (⭐503) - An IMAP library.
Mautic (⭐7.4k) - Email marketing automation
PHPMailer (⭐21k) - Another mailer solution.
PHP IMAP (⭐1.7k) - A library to access mailboxes via POP3, IMAP and NNTP.
Stampie (⭐294) - A library for email services such as SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun and MailChimp.
SwiftMailer - A mailer solution.
Symfony Mailer (⭐1.5k) - A powerful library for creating and sending emails.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

CSV (⭐3.3k) - A CSV data manipulation library.
Flysystem (⭐13k) - Abstraction for local and remote filesystems.
Gaufrette (⭐2.5k) - A filesystem abstraction layer.
PHP FFmpeg (⭐4.9k) - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
UnifiedArchive (⭐275) - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.
Parquet (⭐19) - PHP implementation of Parquet file format

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

ByteStream - An asynchronous stream abstraction.
Streamer (⭐267) - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

Aura.Di (⭐349) - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more.
Acclimate (⭐220) - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
Auryn (⭐722) - A recursive dependency injector.
Container (⭐844) - Another flexible dependency injection container.
Disco (⭐139) - 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 (⭐4.1k) - A dependency injection container component.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

Color Extractor (⭐1.3k) - A library for extracting colours from images.
Glide (⭐2.5k) - An on-demand image manipulation library.
Image Hash (⭐2k) - A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
Image Optimizer (⭐911) - A library for optimizing images.
Imagine - An image manipulation library.
Intervention Image (⭐14k) - Another image manipulation library.
PHP Image Workshop (⭐862) - Another image manipulation library.
PHP QR Code (⭐2k) - QR Code generator and reader.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Alice (⭐2.5k) - An expressive fixture generation library.
Atoum (⭐1.4k) - A simple testing library.
Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
Codeception (⭐4.8k) - A full stack testing framework.
Faker (⭐3.6k) - A fake data generator library.
Foundry (⭐663) - A fixture factory generation library for Doctrine.
Infection (⭐2.1k) - An AST-based PHP Mutation testing framework.
Kahlan (⭐1.1k) - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
Mink - Web acceptance testing.
Mockery (⭐11k) - A mock object library for testing.
Nette Tester (⭐462) - A productive and enjoyable parallel unit testing framework.
ParaTest (⭐2.3k) - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
Pest - A testing framework with a focus on simplicity.
Phake (⭐479) - Another mock object library for testing.
PHP-Mock (⭐359) - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
PHP MySQL Engine (⭐549) - A MySQL engine written in pure PHP.
PHPSpec (⭐1.9k) - A design by specification unit testing library.
PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
PHPUnit (⭐20k) - A unit testing framework.
PHPUnit Polyfills (⭐173) - Simplifies running PHPUnit tests on multiple PHPUnit versions.
Prophecy (⭐8.5k) - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
VFS Stream (⭐1.4k) - 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 (⭐653) - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker.
PHPCI (⭐2.4k) - An open-source continuous integration platform for PHP.
SemaphoreCI - A continuous integration platform for open-source and private projects.
Shippable - A Docker based continuous integration platform for open source and private projects.
Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.
Setup PHP (⭐2.9k) - A GitHub Action for PHP.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

APIGen (⭐2.2k) - Another API documentation generator.
daux.io (⭐796) - A documentation generator that uses Markdown files.
phpDocumentor - A documentation generator.
phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
zircote/swagger-php (⭐5.1k) - Generate OpenAPI documentation for your RESTful API.

Security

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

AntiXSS (⭐679) - A library that tries to preventing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks by blacklisting.
Halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium (⭐12k).
Optimus (⭐1.3k) - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
OWASP - Explore the world of cyber security.
PHPGGC (⭐3.2k) - A library of PHP unserializable payloads along with a tool to generate them.
PHP Encryption (⭐3.8k) - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
random_compat (⭐8.2k) - PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()
Roave Security Advisories (⭐2.7k) - This package ensures that your application doesn't have installed dependencies with known security vulnerabilities.
Secure Headers (⭐507) - A package that adds security related headers to HTTP response.
Symfony Security Monitoring - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as "SensioLabs Security Check".
SQLMap (⭐33k) - An automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
Zap (⭐13k) - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

Passwords

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

GenPhrase (⭐115) - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
Password Compat (⭐2.1k) - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
Password Policy (⭐77) - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
Password Validator (⭐145) - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
Password-Generator (⭐293) - PHP library to generate random passwords.
PHP Password Lib (⭐373) - A library for generating and validating passwords.
phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
Zxcvbn PHP (⭐831) - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.

Better Reflection (⭐1.2k) - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
Code Climate - An automated code review.
Editorconfig-Checker (⭐64) - A command line utility which verifies that your files implement your .editorconfig rules.
GrumPHP (⭐4.1k) - A PHP code-quality tool.
PHP AST Viewer - A tool for viewing the Abstract Syntax Tree of PHP code.
PHP Magic Number Detector (⭐555) - A library that detects magic numbers in code.
PHP Parser (⭐17k) - A PHP parser written in PHP.
PHP Semantic Versioning Checker (⭐429) - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
Phpactor (⭐1.4k) - PHP completion, refactoring and introspection tool.
PHPLOC (⭐2.3k) - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project.
PHPQA (⭐565) - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
Rector (⭐8.7k) - A tool to upgrade and refactor code.
Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code (⭐444).
UBench (⭐568) - A simple micro-benchmark library.

Code Quality

Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.

CaptainHook (⭐1k) - An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library.
PHP CodeSniffer (⭐970) - A library that detects and can auto-fix PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
PHP CS Fixer (⭐13k) - A coding standards fixer library.
PHP CS Fixer Configurator - A web application to help configure PHP CS Fixer rule sets.
PHP Mess Detector (⭐2.3k) - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
PHPCheckstyle (⭐164) - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
PHPCPD (⭐2.2k) - A library that detects copied and pasted code.
Laravel Pint (⭐2.8k) - A coding standards fixer library for Laravel.

Static Analysis

Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.

Exakat (⭐379) - A static analysis engine for PHP.
Deptrac (⭐2.6k) - A static code analysis tool that helps to enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.
Mondrian (⭐397) - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
phan (⭐5.5k) - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
PHP Architecture Tester (⭐1.1k) - Easy-to-use architecture testing tool for PHP.
PHPCompatibility (⭐2.2k) - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
PhpDependencyAnalysis (⭐564) - A tool to create customizable dependency graphs.
PHPDoc Parser (⭐1.4k) - Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics
PHP Metrics (⭐2.5k) - A static metric library.
PHP Migration (⭐202) - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
PHPStan (⭐13k) - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
Psalm (⭐5.6k) - 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 (⭐22k) - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
Functional PHP (⭐2k) - A functional programming library.
Iter (⭐1.1k) - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
IterTools PHP (⭐141) - A library that provides functionality for working with iterable entities (similar to itertools library in Python).
Pipeline (⭐960) - A pipeline pattern implementation.
Porter (⭐612) - Data import abstraction library for consuming Web APIs and other data sources.
RulerZ (⭐873) - 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 (⭐1.3k) - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
Kint (⭐2.8k) - A debugging and profiling tool.
Metrics (⭐317) - A simple metrics API library.
PCOV (⭐702) - A self-contained code coverage compatible driver.
PHP Console (⭐529) - A web debugging console.
PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
PHPBench (⭐1.9k) - A benchmarking Framework.
PHPSpy (⭐1.4k) - A low-overhead sampling profiler.
Symfony VarDumper (⭐7.4k) - A variable dumper component.
Tracy (⭐1.8k) - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
Whoops (⭐13k) - A pretty error-handling library.
xDebug (⭐3.2k) - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
XHProf (⭐2.6k) - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.

Error Tracking and Monitoring Services

Self-hosted or cloud-based application performance monitoring & error tracking tools

Blackfire - A low-overhead code profiler.
BugSnag - Error and Real User Monitoring.
Honeybadger - Error Tracking & Application Monitoring for Developers.
Rollbar - Error Logging & Tracking Service for Software Teams.
Sentry - Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software.
Tideways - Monitoring and profiling tool.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

Box (⭐1.1k) - A utility to build PHAR files.
Construct (⭐266) - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.
RMT (⭐455) - 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 (⭐1k) - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
Robo (⭐2.7k) - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations.
Task - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.

Tools for building navigation structures.

KnpMenu (⭐1.4k) - A menu library.
Menu (⭐740) - A flexible menu library with a fluent interface.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

JShrink (⭐749) - A JavaScript minifier library.
Laravel Mix (⭐5.3k) - An elegant wrapper around Webpack for the 80% use case.
Symfony Asset (⭐3.1k) - Manages URL generation and versioning of web assets.
Symfony Encore (⭐2.2k) - 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 (⭐5.2k) - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
GeoJSON (⭐296) - A GeoJSON implementation.
GeoTools (⭐1.4k) - A library of geo-related tools.
PHPGeo (⭐1.6k) - A simple geo library.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

CalendR - A calendar management library.
Carbon (⭐17k) - A simple DateTime API extension.
Chronos (⭐1.4k) - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
Moment.php (⭐971) - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
Yasumi (⭐1k) - A library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays.

Event

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

Amp (⭐4.3k) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
Broadway (⭐1.5k) - An event source and CQRS library.
CakePHP Event (⭐22) - An event dispatcher library.
Elephant.io (⭐109) - Yet another web socket library.
Evenement (⭐1.3k) - An event dispatcher library.
Event (⭐1.5k) - An event library with a focus on domain events.
Fast CGI Client (⭐551) - A client to make synchronous/asynchronous requests through php-fpm socket.
FrankenPHP - A modern PHP app server written in Go.
Pawl (⭐583) - An asynchronous web socket client.
Prooph Event Store (⭐548) - An event source component to persist event messages
PHP Defer (⭐293) - Golang's defer statement for PHP.
Ratchet (⭐6.3k) - A web socket library.
ReactPHP (⭐8.9k) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
RxPHP (⭐1.7k) - A reactive extension library.
Swoole (⭐18k) - An event-driven asynchronous and concurrent networking communication framework with high performance for PHP written in C.
Workerman (⭐11k) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

Monolog (⭐21k) - A comprehensive logger.

E-commerce

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

Money (⭐4.6k) - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
Brick Money (⭐1.7k) - A money library for PHP, with support for contexts, cash roundings, currency conversion.
OmniPay (⭐5.9k) - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
Payum (⭐1.9k) - A payment abstraction library.
Shopsys Framework (⭐332) - An open source e-commerce platform for in-house development teams.
Shopware (⭐2.8k) - Highly customizable e-commerce software
Swap (⭐1.3k) - An exchange rates library.
Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

Browsershot (⭐4.9k) - Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string.
Dompdf (⭐11k) - A HTML to PDF converter.
Gotenberg (⭐226) - A PHP client for interacting with Gotenberg.
Snappy (⭐4.4k) - A PDF and image generation library.
TCPDF - An open source PHP class for generating PDF documents.

Office

Libraries for working with office suite documents.

PHPPowerPoint (⭐1.3k) - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
PHPWord (⭐7.3k) - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
PHPSpreadsheet (⭐13k) - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel).
OpenSpout (⭐836) - A community driven fork of box/spout, a PHP library to 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 (⭐428) - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.
Aura.Sql (⭐559) - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
Aura.SqlQuery (⭐452) - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Baum (⭐2.2k) - A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
CakePHP ORM (⭐149) - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern.
Cycle ORM (⭐1.2k) - PHP DataMapper, ORM.
Doctrine Extensions (⭐4k) - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
Doctrine - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
Laravel Eloquent (⭐2.7k) - A simple ORM.
Pomm (⭐164) - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
ProxyManager (⭐5k) - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
RedBean - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
Slimdump (⭐184) - An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
Spot2 (⭐601) - A MySQL datamapper ORM.

Migrations

Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.

Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
Migrations (⭐40) - A migration management library.
Phinx (⭐4.5k) - Another database migration library.
PHPMig (⭐568) - Another migration management library.
Ruckusing (⭐506) - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.

NoSQL

Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.

MongoDB (⭐889) - MongoDB PHP Driver.
PHPMongo (⭐242) - A MongoDB ORM.
Predis (⭐7.6k) - A feature-complete Redis library.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

Bernard (⭐1.2k) - A multibackend abstraction library.
BunnyPHP (⭐705) - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
Pheanstalk (⭐1.9k) - A Beanstalkd client library.
PHP AMQP (⭐4.5k) - A pure PHP AMQP library.
Tarantool Queue (⭐63) - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
Thumper (⭐276) - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
Enqueue (⭐2.2k) - 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 (⭐2.3k) - A client library for ElasticSearch.
ElasticSearch PHP (⭐40) - 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 (⭐104) - 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.
Cilex (⭐620) - A micro framework for building command line tools.
CLI Menu (⭐1.9k) - A library for building CLI menus.
CLIFramework (⭐437) - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
CLImate (⭐1.9k) - A library for outputting colors and special formatting.
Commando (⭐798) - Another simple command line opt parser.
Cron Expression (⭐4.9k) - A library to calculate cron run dates.
GetOpt (⭐337) - A command line opt parser.
GetOptionKit (⭐150) - Another command line opt parser.
PsySH (⭐9.7k) - Another PHP REPL.
ShellWrap (⭐746) - A simple command line wrapper library.

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.

Aura.Auth (⭐134) - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
SocialConnect Auth (⭐551) - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
Json Web Token (⭐7.3k) - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
OAuth 1.0 Client (⭐969) - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
OAuth 2.0 Client (⭐3.7k) - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
Opauth (⭐1.7k) - A multi-provider authentication framework.
Paseto (⭐3.3k) - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens.
PHP oAuthLib (⭐1.1k) - Another OAuth library.
Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
TwitterOAuth (⭐4.3k) - A Twitter OAuth library.

Markup and CSS

Libraries for working with markup and CSS formats.

Cebe Markdown (⭐1k) - A fast and extensible Markdown parser.
CommonMark PHP (⭐2.7k) - Highly-extensible Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark spec.
Decoda (⭐196) - A lightweight markup parser library.
Essence (⭐768) - A library for extracting web media.
Embera (⭐339) - An Oembed consumer library.
HTML to Markdown (⭐1.8k) - Converts HTML into Markdown.
HTML5 PHP (⭐1.6k) - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
Parsedown (⭐15k) - Another Markdown parser.
PHP CSS Parser (⭐1.8k) - A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP.
PHP Markdown (⭐3.4k) - A Markdown parser.
Shiki PHP (⭐284) - A Shiki (⭐10k) code highlighting package in PHP.
VObject (⭐570) - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.

JSON

Libraries for working with JSON.

JSON Lint (⭐1.3k) - A JSON lint utility.
JSONMapper (⭐211) - A library for mapping JSON to PHP objects.

Strings

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.

Agent (⭐4.5k) - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
ANSI to HTML5 (⭐238) - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
Color Jizz (⭐286) - A library for manipulating and converting colors.
Device Detector (⭐2.9k) - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
Hyphenation (⭐54) - Text-Hyphenation based on the TeX-hyphenation Algorithm
Jieba-PHP (⭐1.3k) - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
Mobile-Detect (⭐11k) - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
Patchwork UTF-8 (⭐79) - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
Portable ASCII (⭐532) - A library to convert strings to ASCII.
Portable UTF-8 (⭐510) - A string manipulation library with UTF-8 safe replacement methods.
Slugify (⭐2.9k) - A library to convert strings to slugs.
SQL Formatter (⭐3.9k) - A library for formatting SQL statements.
Stringy (⭐171) - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
UA Parser (⭐2k) - A library for parsing user agent strings.
URLify (⭐673) - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
UUID (⭐12k) - A library for generating UUIDs.

Numbers

Libraries for working with numbers.

Brick Math (⭐1.9k) - A library providing large number support: BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational.
ByteUnits (⭐163) - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
DecimalObject (⭐20) - A value object to handle decimals/floats easily and more precisely.
IP (⭐250) - An immutable value object for working with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
LibPhoneNumber for PHP (⭐4.8k) - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
PHP Conversion (⭐131) - Another library for converting between units of measure.
PHP Units of Measure (⭐22) - A library for converting between units of measure.
MathPHP (⭐2.3k) - A math library for PHP.

Filtering, Sanitizing and Validation

Libraries for filtering, sanitizing and validating data.

Assert (⭐2.4k) - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.
Aura.Filter (⭐160) - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
CakePHP Validation (⭐43) - Another validation library.
Filterus (⭐454) - A simple PHP filtering library.
HTML Purifier (⭐3.1k) - A standards compliant HTML filter.
ISO-codes (⭐792) - A library for validating inputs according to standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries.
JSON Schema (⭐3.5k) - A JSON Schema validation library.
MetaYaml (⭐104) - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
Respect Validation (⭐5.8k) - A simple validation library.
Symfony HTML Sanitizer (⭐238) - An HTML sanitizer library.
Upload (⭐1.7k) - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
Valitron (⭐1.6k) - Another validation library.
Valinor (⭐1.3k) - A library for mapping to strongly typed value objects.
Volan (⭐44) - Another simplified validation library.

API

Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.

API Platform - Expose in minutes a hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.
Laminas API Tool Skeleton (⭐50) - An API builder built with the Laminas Framework.
Drest (⭐87) - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
HAL (⭐203) - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
Hateoas (⭐1k) - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
Jane (⭐607) - An OpenApi client generator with validation support.
Negotiation (⭐1.4k) - A content negotiation library.
Restler (⭐1.4k) - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
PackageGenerator (⭐428) - Package Generator generates a PHP SDK from any WSDL.

Caching and Locking

Libraries for caching data and acquiring locks.

APIx Cache (⭐117) - A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasizing cache tagging and indexing.
CacheTool (⭐1.7k) - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line.
CakePHP Cache (⭐51) - A caching library.
Doctrine Cache (⭐7.8k) - A caching library.
Metaphore (⭐101) - Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect.
Stash (⭐962) - Another library for caching.
Laminas Cache (⭐103) - Another caching library.
Lock (⭐932) - A lock library to provide exclusive execution.

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

CakePHP Collection (⭐89) - A simple collections library.
Fractal (⭐3.5k) - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
Ginq (⭐193) - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.
JsonMapper (⭐1.6k) - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
JSON Machine (⭐1.1k) - Provides iteration over huge JSONs using simple foreach
Knapsack (⭐536) - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
msgpack.php (⭐389) - A pure PHP implementation of the MessagePack serialization format.
PINQ (⭐461) - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
Serializer (⭐2.3k) - A library for serializing and de-serializing data.
YaLinqo (⭐441) - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
Laminas Serializer (⭐33) - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data.

Notifications

Libraries for working with notification software.

JoliNotif (⭐1.4k) - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
Notification Pusher (⭐1.2k) - A standalone library for device push notifications.
Notificato (⭐224) - A library for handling push notifications.
Notificator (⭐193) - A lightweight notification library.
Php-pushwoosh (⭐65) - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.

Deployment

Libraries for project deployment.

Deployer (⭐11k) - A deployment tool.
Envoy (⭐1.6k) - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
Rocketeer (⭐2.7k) - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.

Internationalisation and Localisation

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

Aura.Intl (⭐90) - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
CakePHP I18n (⭐29) - 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 (⭐13k) - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
Symfony Dotenv (⭐3.7k)- Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
Yo! Symfony TOML (⭐200) - A PHP parser for TOML (⭐20k).

LLMs

Libraries for working with Large Language Models.

Instructor for PHP (⭐218) - Structured data outputs with LLMs, in PHP.
LLPhant (⭐871) - A comprehensive PHP Generative AI Framework using OpenAI GPT 4. Inspired by Langchain.
OpenAI Client (⭐5k) - OpenAI PHP is a supercharged community-maintained PHP API client that allows you to interact with OpenAI API.
OpenAI Client for Laravel (⭐2.8k) - OpenAI PHP for Laravel is a supercharged PHP API client that allows you to interact with OpenAI API.
PHP Mistral AI SDK (⭐6) - A powerful and easy-to-use PHP SDK for the Mistral AI API, allowing seamless integration of advanced AI-powered features into your PHP projects.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

Amazon Web Service SDK (⭐6k) - The official PHP AWS SDK library.
AsyncAWS - An unofficial asynchronous PHP AWS SDK.
Campaign Monitor - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
Github (⭐2.2k) - A library to interface with the Github API.
Mailgun (⭐1.1k) The official Mailgun PHP API.
Square (⭐114) - The official Square PHP SDK for payments and other Square APIs.
Stripe (⭐3.8k) - The official Stripe PHP library.
Twilio (⭐1.6k) - The official Twilio PHP REST API.

Extensions

Libraries to help build PHP extensions.

PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
Zephir (⭐3.3k) - 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 (⭐6.7k) - An annotation library (part of Doctrine).
BotMan (⭐6.1k) - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chatbots.
ClassPreloader (⭐361) - A library for optimizing autoloading.
Ganesha (⭐591) - A PHP implementation of Circuit Breaker pattern.
Hprose-PHP (⭐2k) - A cross-language RPC.
Laravel Serializable Closure (⭐526) - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.
noCAPTCHA (⭐359) - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
Pagerfanta (⭐1.6k) - A pagination library.
Safe (⭐2.4k) - All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false.

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

PHP Installation

Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.

Brew PHP Switcher (⭐963) - Brew PHP switcher.
HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
PHP Brew (⭐5.4k) - A PHP version manager and installer.
PHP Build (⭐1k) - Another PHP version installer.
Static PHP CLI (⭐1.3k) - Build or download static versions of PHP CLI and FPM.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating and sharing a development environment.

Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
DDEV (⭐2.8k) - a local web development environment system for PHP.
Docker - A containerization platform.
Docker PHP Extension Installer (⭐4.3k) - Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers.
Docksal (⭐690) - Unified, Docker 🐳 powered web development environments for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Expose (⭐4.2k) - An open-source PHP tunneling service.
Lando - Push-button development environments.
Laravel Homestead - A local development environment for Laravel.
Laravel Herd - A one click PHP development environment for macOS and Windows.
Laradock - A full PHP development environment based on Docker.
PHPMon - A macOS menu bar app for managing PHP installations (works with Laravel Valet).
Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
Takeout (⭐1.6k) - 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 (⭐18k) - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
PeachPie (⭐2.4k) - 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.
Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
Cachet (⭐14k) - The open source status page system.
DBV (⭐1.7k) - A database version control application.
Lychee (⭐6.3k) - An easy to use and great looking photo-management-system.
MailCatcher (⭐6.3k) - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
phpMyAdmin (⭐7.3k) - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
PHP Queue (⭐665) - An application for managing queueing backends.
phpRedisAdmin (⭐3.1k) - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
PHPSandbox - An online IDE for PHP in the browser.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.

appserver.io (⭐965) - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
php-pm (⭐6.6k) - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.
RoadRunner (⭐7.9k) - 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.

Nomad PHP - A online PHP learning resource.
Laravel News - The official Laravel blog.
PHP Annotated Monthly - A monthly digest of PHP news.
PHP FIG - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
PHP Package Development Standards - Package development standards for PHP.
PHP School - Open Source Learning for PHP.
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 Watch - PHP articles, news, upcoming changes, RFCs and more.
Unit Testing Tips - Unit Testing Tips by examples in PHP.

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.
PHP Cookbook - This cookbook provides code recipes to help you resolve a variety of coding issues.
Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
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.
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.

Laracasts - Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more.
Laravel YouTube Channel - The official Laravel YouTube channel.
Program With Gio - PHP 8 course by Gio.
Programming with Anthony - A video series by Anthony Ferrara.
SymfonyCasts - Screencasts and tutorials about PHP and Symfony.

PHP Conferences

PHP conferences.

Laracon EU - Laracon EU is a 2-day event for people who are interested in learning Laravel and related technologies, or who want to share their knowledge with others.
PHP[TEK] - The longest-running web developer conference in the United States that has a focus on the PHP programming language.
PHP UK Conference - A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference.

PHP Podcasts

Podcasts with a focus on PHP topics.

Laravel News Podcast - The Laravel News Podcast brings you all the latest news and events related to the Laravel PHP Framework.
Mostly Technical - Hosted by Ian Landsman and Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical is a lively discussion on Laravel, business, and an eclectic mix of related topics.
No Compromises - Two seasoned salty programming veterans talk best practices based on years of working with Laravel SaaS teams.
North Meets South Web Podcast - Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers.
Over Engineered - A podcast in mini-series where we explore unimportant programming questions in extreme detail.
PHP Internals News - A podcast about PHP internals.
PHP Town Hall - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
php[podcast] episodes from php[architect] - The official podcast of php[architect] the industry's leading tech magazine and publisher focused on PHP and web development.
PHPUgly - The ramblings of a few overworked PHP Developers.
The Laracasts Snippet - The Laracasts snippet, each episode, offers a single thought on some aspect of web development.
The Laravel Podcast - Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
The PHP Roundtable - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.
Voices of the ElePHPant - Interviews with the people who make the PHP community special.

PHP Newsletters

PHP-related news directly to your inbox.

PHP Weekly - A weekly newsletter about PHP.

PHP Reading

PHP-related 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 (⭐128) - Watch the latest PHP RFCs.
PHP Internals Book - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.