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Awesome PHP

A curated list of awesome PHP libraries, resources, and useful tools.

Contributing and Collaborating

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

Table of Contents

• Awesome PHP
  • Composer Repositories
  • Dependency Management
  • Dependency Management Extras
  • Frameworks
  • Framework Extras
  • Content Management Systems
  • Components
  • Micro Frameworks
  • Micro Framework Extras
  • Routers
  • Templating
  • Static Site Generators
  • HTTP
  • Scraping
  • Middlewares
  • URL
  • Email
  • Files
  • Streams
  • Dependency Injection
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Continuous Integration
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Passwords
  • Code Analysis
  • Code Quality
  • Static Analysis
  • Architectural
  • Debugging and Profiling
  • Error Tracking and Monitoring Services
  • 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 and CSS
  • JSON
  • Strings
  • Numbers
  • Filtering, Sanitizing and Validation
  • API
  • Caching and Locking
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Internationalisation and Localisation
  • Serverless
  • Configuration
  • LLMs
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • PHP Installation
  • Development Environment
  • Virtual Machines
  • Text Editors and IDEs
  • Web Applications
  • Infrastructure
• Resources
  • PHP Websites
  • PHP Books
  • PHP Videos
  • PHP Conferences
  • PHP Podcasts
  • PHP Newsletters
  • PHP Reading
  • PHP Internals Reading

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 - A package and dependency manager.
• Composer Installers - A multi-framework Composer library installer.
• Phive - A PHAR manager.
• Pickle - A PHP extension installer.
• Pie - The official PHP installer for extensions.

Dependency Management Extras

Extras related to dependency management.

• Composer Merge Plugin - A composer plugin to merge several [composer](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/composer).[json](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/json) files.
• Composer Normalize - A plugin for normalizing [composer](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/composer).[json](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/miscellaneous/json) files.
• Composer Patches - A plugin for Composer to apply patches.
• Composer Prefer Lowest Validator - A plugin to check if minimum dependencies can be installed and tested.
• Composer Require Checker - CLI tool to analyze composer dependencies and verify that no unknown symbols are used in the sources of a package.
• Composer Unused - A CLI Tool to scan for unused composer packages.
• Repman - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
• Satis - A static Composer repository generator.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• CakePHP - A rapid application development framework.
• CodeIgniter - A powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.
• Ecotone - A Service Bus for PHP based on architectural principles of DDD CQRS and Event Sourcing.
• 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.
• Tempest - A framework that gets out of your way.
• Yii2 - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework.

Framework Extras

Extras related to web development frameworks.

• CakePHP CRUD - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
• Filament PHP - A powerful open source UI framework for Laravel.
• Inertia.js - An adapter for building single-page applications using server-side routing and controllers, without a separate API.
• LaravelS - 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 - A flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.
• Drupal - An enterprise level CMS.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
• Joomla - Another leading CMS.
• Kirby - A flat-file CMS that adapts to any project.
• Magento - A widely used open-source e-commerce platform.
• Moodle - An open-source learning platform.
• OctoberCMS - A CMS built on Laravel.
• OpenMage - Fork of EoL Magento 1 e-commerce platform.
• Pico CMS - A lightweight flat-file CMS.
• Silverstripe - A simple, flexible, and secure CMS.
• Statamic - A flat-file and Git-based CMS built on Laravel.
• Sulu - A user- and developer-friendly CMS built on the Symfony Framework.
• TYPO3 - An enterprise level CMS.
• WinterCMS - A community-maintained fork of OctoberCMS built on Laravel.
• WordPress - A blogging platform and CMS.

Components

Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.

• Aura - Independent components, fully decoupled from each other and from any framework.
• CakePHP Plugins - A directory of CakePHP plugins.
• Laminas Components - The components that make the Laminas Framework.
• 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 Packages - Decoupled libraries for PHP applications.

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routers.

• Laravel Zero - A micro-framework for console applications.
• Mezzio - A micro-framework by Laminas.
• Minicli - Minimalist, dependency-free framework for building CLI-centric PHP applications.
• Silly - A micro-framework for CLI applications.
• Slim - Another simple micro framework.

Micro Framework Extras

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

• Slim Skeleton - A skeleton for Slim.
• Slim PHP View - A simple PHP renderer for Slim.

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing.

• Aura.Router - A full-featured routing library.
• Fast Route - A fast routing library.
• Klein - A flexible router.
• Route - 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 - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
• Mustache - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
• PHPTAL - A PHP implementation of the TAL templating language.
• Plates - A native PHP templating library.
• Smarty - A template engine to complement PHP.
• Twig - A comprehensive templating language.

Static Site Generators

Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.

• Cecil - A simple and powerful content-driven static site generator.
• Couscous - A tool for converting Markdown documentation into websites.
• 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 - Another HTTP client.
• Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client.
• HTTPlug - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation.
• Nyholm PSR-7 - A super lightweight PSR-7 implementation. Very strict and very fast.
• PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
• Requests - A simple HTTP library.
• Retrofit - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
• Saloon - A framework for building beautiful API integrations and SDKs.
• Symfony HTTP Client - A component to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously.
• Laminas Diactoros - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.

Scraping

Libraries for scraping websites and detecting crawlers.

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

Middlewares

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

• PSR-15 Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
• Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Symfony.
• Laminas Stratigility - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• PHP Domain Parser - A domain suffix parser library.
• 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.
• ddeboer/imap - Object-oriented, fully tested PHP IMAP library.
• Email Reply Parser - An email reply parser 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 MailChimp.
• Symfony Mailer - A powerful library for creating and sending emails.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• CSV - A CSV data manipulation library.
• Flysystem - Abstraction for local and remote filesystems.
• Gaufrette - A filesystem abstraction layer.
• PHP FFmpeg - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.
• UnifiedArchive - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.
• Parquet - PHP implementation of Parquet file format.

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

• ByteStream - An asynchronous stream abstraction.

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• Aura.Di - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more.
• Acclimate - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
• Auryn - A recursive dependency injector.
• Container - Another flexible dependency injection container.
• Disco - A PSR-11 compatible, annotation-based dependency injection container.
• PHP-DI - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
• Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
• Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

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

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Alice - An expressive fixture generation library.
• Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
• Codeception - A full stack testing framework.
• Faker - A fake data generator library.
• Foundry - A fixture factory generation library for Doctrine.
• Infection - An AST-based PHP Mutation testing framework.
• Kahlan - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
• Mink - Web acceptance testing.
• Mockery - A mock object library for testing.
• Nette Tester - A productive and enjoyable parallel unit testing framework.
• ParaTest - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
• Pest - A testing framework with a focus on simplicity.
• Phake - Another mock object library for testing.
• PHP-Mock - A mock library for built-in PHP functions (e.g. time()).
• [PHP MySQL Engine](https://github.com/vimeo/php-mysql-engine) - A MySQL engine written in pure PHP.
• PHPSpec - A design by specification unit testing library.
• PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
• PHPUnit - A unit testing framework.
• PHPUnit Polyfills - Simplifies running PHPUnit tests on multiple PHPUnit versions.
• Prophecy - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
• VFS Stream - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.

Continuous Integration

Libraries and applications for continuous integration.

• CircleCI - A continuous integration platform.
• GitLab CI - A continuous integration platform.
• Jenkins - A continuous integration platform with PHP support.
• SemaphoreCI - A continuous integration platform for open-source and private projects.
• Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.
• Setup PHP - A GitHub Action for PHP.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• APIGen - Another API documentation generator.
• daux.io - A documentation generator that uses Markdown files.
• phpDocumentor - A documentation generator.
• phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
• Scramble - Automatically generates OpenAPI documentation from your code without annotations.
• zircote/swagger-php - Generate OpenAPI documentation for your RESTful API.

Security

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

• AntiXSS - A library that tries to preventing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks by blacklisting.
• Halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium.
• Optimus - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
• OWASP - Explore the world of cyber security.
• PHPGGC - A library of PHP unserializable payloads along with a tool to generate them.
• PHP Encryption - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
• PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
• [Roave Security Advisories](https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories) - This package ensures that your application doesn't have installed dependencies with known security vulnerabilities.
• Secure Headers - A package that adds security related headers to HTTP response.
• SQLMap - An automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
• Zap - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

Passwords

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

• GenPhrase - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
• Password Validator - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
• Password-Generator - PHP library to generate random passwords.
• phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
• Zxcvbn PHP - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.

• Better Reflection - An AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code.
• Bladestan - A PHPStan extension for static analysis of Blade templates.
• Code Climate - An automated code review.
• Editorconfig-Checker - A command line utility which verifies that your files implement your .editorconfig rules.
• GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool.
• PHP AST Viewer - A tool for viewing the Abstract Syntax Tree of PHP code.
• PHP Magic Number Detector - A library that detects magic numbers in code.
• PHP Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP.
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
• Phpactor - PHP completion, refactoring and introspection tool.
• PHPQA - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
• Rector - A tool to upgrade and refactor code.
• Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench - A simple micro-benchmark library.

Code Quality

Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.

• CaptainHook - An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library.
• Laravel Pint - A coding standards fixer library for Laravel.
• PHP CodeSniffer - A library that detects and can auto-fix PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
• PHP CS Fixer - A coding standards fixer library.
• PHP CS Fixer Configurator - A web application to help configure PHP CS Fixer rule sets.
• PHP Mess Detector - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
• PHPCheckstyle - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.

Static Analysis

Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.

• Dead Code Detector - A PHPStan extension for finding unused PHP code.
• Deptrac - A static analysis tool for enforcing dependency rules between architectural layers.
• Exakat - A static analysis engine for PHP.
• Larastan - A PHPStan wrapper for Laravel that adds static analysis to Laravel projects.
• Mago - A toolchain for PHP that aims to improve the developer experience.
• phan - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
• PHP Architecture Tester - Easy-to-use architecture testing tool for PHP.
• PHPCompatibility - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
• PHPDoc Parser - Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics.
• PHP Metrics - A static metric library.
• PHPStan - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
• Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications.

Architectural

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

• Design Patterns PHP - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
• Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
• Functional PHP - A functional programming library.
• Iter - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
• IterTools PHP - A library that provides functionality for working with iterable entities (similar to itertools library in Python).
• Pipeline - A pipeline pattern implementation.
• Porter - Data import abstraction library for consuming Web APIs and other data sources.
• RulerZ - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging errors and profiling code.

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

Error Tracking and Monitoring Services

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

• Blackfire - A low-overhead code profiler.
• Buggregator - A debug server that aggregates var-dumps, profiling data, emails, logs and Sentry events.
• 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 - A utility to build PHAR files.
• PHPacker - A PHAR builder that compiles PHP apps to standalone executables.
• Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.
• RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software.

Task Runners

Libraries for automating and running tasks.

• Jobby - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
• Robo - A PHP task runner with object-oriented configurations.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

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

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

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

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

truncated — full list on GitHub