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PHP Internals Reading

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Table of Contents

API

• Laminas API Tool Skeleton - An API builder built with the Laminas Framework.
• HAL - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
• Hateoas - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
• Negotiation - A content negotiation library.
• Restler - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
• PackageGenerator - Package Generator generates a PHP SDK from any WSDL.
• Jane - An OpenApi client generator with validation support.

Architectural

• 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.

Asset Management

• 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.

Authentication and Authorization

• Aura.Auth - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
• SocialConnect Auth - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
• Json Web Token - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
• OAuth 1.0 Client - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
• OAuth 2.0 Client - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
• Paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens.
• PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library.
• TwitterOAuth - A Twitter OAuth library.

Build Tools

• Box - A utility to build PHAR files.
• RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software.
• PHPacker - A PHAR builder that compiles PHP apps to standalone executables.

Caching and Locking

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

Code Analysis

• Better Reflection - An AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code.
• Editorconfig-Checker - A command line utility which verifies that your files implement your .editorconfig rules.
• GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool.
• 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.
• UBench - A simple micro-benchmark library.
• Bladestan - A PHPStan extension for static analysis of Blade templates.

Code Quality

• CaptainHook - An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library.
• 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 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.
• Laravel Pint - A coding standards fixer library for Laravel.

Command Line

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

Components

• Laravel Components - The Laravel Framework components.

Configuration

• PHP Dotenv - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Symfony Dotenv - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Toml - A TOML parser and encoder with AST access and error recovery.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

• CraftCMS - A flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
• Magento - A widely used open-source e-commerce platform.
• WordPress - A blogging platform and CMS.
• OpenMage - Fork of EoL Magento 1 e-commerce platform.

Continuous Integration

• Setup PHP - A GitHub Action for PHP.

Database

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

Data Structure and Storage

• CakePHP Collection - A simple collections library.
• Fractal - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
• JsonMapper - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
• JSON Machine - Provides iteration over huge JSONs using simple foreach.
• msgpack.php - A pure PHP implementation of the 🌎 MessagePack serialization format.
• Serializer - A library for serializing and de-serializing data.
• YaLinqo - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
• Laminas Serializer - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data.

Date and Time

• CalendR - A calendar management library.
• Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension.
• Chronos - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
• Moment.php - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
• Yasumi - A library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays.
• Business Time - A Carbon extension for handling business hours and working days.
• PHP RRule - A library for working with recurring dates and times based on the iCalendar RRule spec.

Debugging and Profiling

• Barbushin PHP Console - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
• Kint - A debugging and profiling tool.
• Metrics - A simple metrics API library.
• PCOV - A self-contained code coverage compatible driver.
• PHP Console - A web debugging console.
• 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.
• Whoops - A pretty error-handling library.
• xDebug - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
• XHProf - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
• LaraDumps - A debugging tool for Laravel with a dedicated desktop application.
• Trap - An extended variable dumper with a web interface and IDE plugin.

Dependency Injection

• 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.
• Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
• Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component.

Dependency Management

• Composer Installers - A multi-framework Composer library installer.
• Pie - The official PHP installer for extensions.
• Pickle - A PHP extension installer.

Dependency Management Extras

• Composer Merge Plugin - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files.
• Composer Normalize - A plugin for normalizing composer.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.
• Satis - A static Composer repository generator.

Deployment

• Deployer - A deployment tool.
• Envoy - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.

Development Environment

• DDEV - A local web development environment system for PHP.
• Docker PHP Extension Installer - Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers.
• Docksal - Unified, Docker 🐳 powered web development environments for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Expose - An open-source PHP tunneling service.
• Takeout - A Docker-based development-only dependency manager.
• Solo - A terminal application to manage processes for a Laravel application.

Documentation

• APIGen - Another API documentation generator.
• daux.io - A documentation generator that uses Markdown files.
• zircote/swagger-php - Generate OpenAPI documentation for your RESTful API.
• Scramble - Automatically generates OpenAPI documentation from your code without annotations.

E-commerce

• Money - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
• Brick Money - A money library for PHP, with support for contexts, cash roundings, currency conversion.
• OmniPay - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
• Payum - A payment abstraction library.
• Shopware - Highly customizable e-commerce software.
• Swap - An exchange rates library.
• Shopsys Framework - An open source e-commerce platform for in-house development teams.

Email

• CssToInlineStyles - A library to inline CSS in email templates.
• 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.
• ddeboer/imap - Object-oriented, fully tested PHP IMAP library.

Event

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

Extensions

• Zephir - A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions.

Files

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

Filtering, Sanitizing and Validation

• LibPhoneNumber for PHP - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
• Assert - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.
• Aura.Filter - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
• CakePHP Validation - Another validation library.
• Filterus - A simple PHP filtering library.
• HTML Purifier - A standards compliant HTML filter.
• ISO-codes - 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 - A 🌎 JSON Schema validation library.
• MetaYaml - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
• Respect Validation - A simple validation library.
• Symfony HTML Sanitizer - An HTML sanitizer library.
• Valitron - Another validation library.
• Valinor - A library for mapping to strongly typed value objects.
• Volan - Another simplified validation library.

Framework Extras

• CakePHP CRUD - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
• LaravelS - An out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole.

Frameworks

• Yii2 - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework.
• Tempest - A framework that gets out of your way.