Configuration

Development Environment

• Docker - A containerization platform.
• Docker PHP Extension Installer - Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers.
• Lando - Push-button development environments.
• Laravel Homestead - A local development environment for Laravel.
• Takeout - A Docker-based development-only dependency manager.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Expose - An open-source PHP tunneling service.

Extensions

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

Infrastructure

• appserver.io - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
• php-pm - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.
• RoadRunner - High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager.

Miscellaneous

• Annotations - An annotation library (part of Doctrine).
• BotMan - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chatbots.
• ClassPreloader - A library for optimizing autoloading.
• Hprose-PHP - A cross-language RPC.
• noCAPTCHA - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
• Pagerfanta - A pagination library.
• Safe - All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false.
• SuperClosure - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.

PHP 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.
• Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
• PHP 7 Upgrade Guide - An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O'Dell.
• PHP Pandas - A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees.
• 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.
• The Grumpy Programmer's Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications - A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes.
• 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.
• Mastering Object-Orientated PHP - A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage.
• Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices - A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart.
• Scaling PHP Applications - An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona.

PHP Installation

• Brew PHP Switcher - Brew PHP switcher.
• HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
• Laravel Valet - A development environment for macOS.
• PHP Brew - A PHP version manager and installer.
• PHP Build - Another PHP version installer.

PHP Internals Reading

• PHP RFCs - The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments).
• Externals - PHP internal discussions.
• PHP RFC Watch - Watch the latest PHP RFCs.
• PHP Internals Book - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.

PHP Newsletters

• PHP Weekly - A weekly newsletter about PHP.

PHP Podcasts

• The Laravel Podcast - Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
• Laravel News Podcast - The Laravel News Podcast brings you all the latest news and events related to the Laravel PHP Framework.
• The PHP Roundtable - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.
• PHP Town Hall - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
• Voices of the ElePHPant - Interviews with the people who make the PHP community special.
• php[podcast - The official podcast of php[architect] the industry's leading tech magazine and publisher focused on PHP and web development.
• Over Engineered - A podcast in mini-series where we explore unimportant programming questions in extreme detail.
• PHPUgly - The ramblings of a few overworked PHP Developers.
• 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.
• PHP Internals News - A podcast about PHP internals.
• The Laracasts Snippet - The Laracasts snippet, each episode, offers a single thought on some aspect of web development.

PHP Reading

• php[architect - A monthly magazine dedicated to PHP.

PHP Videos

• Taking PHP Seriously - A talk outlining PHP's strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook.
• Laracasts - Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more.
• SymfonyCasts - Screencasts and tutorials about PHP and Symfony.

PHP Websites

• Nomad PHP - A online PHP learning resource.
• Laravel News - The official Laravel blog.
• PHP Annotated Monthly - A monthly digest of PHP news.
• PHP Best Practices - A PHP best practice guide.
• PHP FIG - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
• PHP School - Open Source Learning for PHP.
• PHP Security - A guide to PHP security.
• PHP The Right Way - A PHP best practice quick reference guide.
• PHP Versions - Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts.
• PHP Watch - PHP articles, news, upcoming changes, RFCs and more.
• PHP Weekly - A weekly PHP newsletter.
• Seven PHP - A website that interviews members of the PHP community.
• PHP UG - A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG).

Serverless

• PHP Dotenv - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Symfony Dotenv - Parse and load environment variables from .env files.
• Yo! Symfony TOML - A PHP parser for TOML.

Text Editors and IDEs

• Eclipse for PHP Developers - A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
• PhpStorm - A commercial PHP IDE.
• VS Code - An open source code editor.

Third Party APIs

• Amazon Web Service SDK - The official PHP AWS SDK library.
• AsyncAWS - An unofficial asynchronous PHP AWS SDK.
• Campaign Monitor - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
• Github - A library to interface with the Github API.
• Mailgun
• Square - The official Square PHP SDK for payments and other Square APIs.
• Stripe - The official Stripe PHP library.
• Twilio - The official Twilio PHP REST API.

Virtual Machines

• Hack - A programming language for HHVM.
• HHVM - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
• PeachPie - PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core.

Web Applications

• 3V4L - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
• Cachet - The open source status page system.
• DBV - A database version control application.
• Lychee - An easy to use and great looking photo-management-system.
• MailCatcher - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
• phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
• PHP Queue - An application for managing queueing backends.
• phpRedisAdmin - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases.
• PHPSandbox - An online IDE for PHP in the browser.
• Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.

Contributing and Collaborating

• CONTRIBUTING - OF-CONDUCT](https://github.com/php-collective/awesome-php/blob/master/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md) and COLLABORATING for details.

Table of Contents

API

• Laminas API Tool Skeleton - An API builder built with the Laminas Framework.
• Drest - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
• 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.
• wsdl2phpgenerator - A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files.
• Jane - An OpenApi client generator with validation support.
• API Platform - Expose in minutes a hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.

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.
• Patchwork - A library for redefining userland functions.
• 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.
• OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
• OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
• Opauth - A multi-provider authentication framework.
• Paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens.
• PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library.
• Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
• Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
• TwitterOAuth - A Twitter OAuth library.

Build Tools

• Box - A utility to build PHAR files.
• Construct - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
• Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.
• RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software.

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 - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
• GrumPHP - A PHP code-quality tool.
• 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.
• 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).
• Qafoo Quality Analyzer - A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
• Rector - A tool to upgrade and refactor code.
• Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench - A simple micro-benchmark library.
• Code Climate - An automated code review.

Code Quality

• CaptainHook - An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library.
• PHP CodeSniffer - A library that detects 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.
• PHPCPD - A library that detects copied and pasted code.

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.
• Boris - A tiny PHP REPL.
• Cilex - A micro framework for building command line tools.
• CLI Menu - A library for building CLI menus.
• CLIFramework - A command-line framework 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

• 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.
• Laminas Components - The components that make the Laminas Framework.
• Symfony Components - The components that make Symfony.

Composer Repositories

• Firegento - Magento Module Composer Repository.
• Packagist - The PHP Package Repository.
• Private Packagist - Composer package archive as a service for PHP.
• WordPress Packagist - Manage your plugins with Composer.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

• 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.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS.
• Joomla - Another leading CMS.
• Kirby - A flat-file CMS that adapts to any project.
• Magento - 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.
• WordPress - A blogging platform and CMS.
• Drupal - An enterprise level CMS.
• Backdrop - A CMS targeting small-to-medium-sized business and non-profits (a fork of Drupal).