Table of Contents

• Debugging and Profiling

  • PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
  • Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.
  • 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.
  • PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
  • 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

  • PHP-DI - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
  • Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
  • 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.
  • Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component.
  • Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.

• Dependency Management

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

• Dependency Management Extras

  • Repman - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
  • Composed - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime.
  • 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.
  • Tooly - A library to manage PHAR files in a project using Composer.
  • Toran Proxy - A Composer proxy for speed and reliability. (:warning: Toran Proxy is being phased out.)

• Deployment

  • Deployer - A deployment tool.
  • Envoy - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
  • Rocketeer - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.

• Development Environment

  • Docker - A containerization platform.
  • Lando - Push-button development environments.
  • Laravel Homestead - A local development environment for Laravel.
  • DDEV - A local web development environment system for PHP.
  • Docker PHP Extension Installer - Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers.
  • Docksal - Unified, Docker :whale: powered web development environments for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
  • Takeout - A Docker-based development-only dependency manager.
  • PHPMon - A macOS menu bar app for managing PHP installations (works with [Laravel Valet](https://laravel.com/docs/master/valet)).
  • Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
  • Expose - An open-source PHP tunneling service.
  • Laravel Herd - A one click PHP development environment for macOS and Windows.
  • Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
  • Laradock - A full PHP development environment based on Docker.
  • Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.
  • Solo - A terminal application to manage processes for a Laravel application.

• Documentation

  • phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
  • APIGen - Another API documentation generator.
  • daux.io - A documentation generator that uses Markdown files.
  • PHP Documentor 2 - A documentation generator.
  • zircote/swagger-php - Generate OpenAPI documentation for your RESTful API.
  • phpDocumentor - A documentation generator.
  • Scramble - Automatically generates OpenAPI documentation from your code without annotations.

• E-commerce

  • Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.
  • 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.

• Email

  • SwiftMailer - A mailer solution.
  • CssToInlineStyles - A library to inline CSS in email templates.
  • Email Reply Parser - An email reply parser library.
  • Email Validator - A small email address validation library.
  • Fetch - An IMAP library.
  • Mautic - Email marketing automation.
  • PHPMailer - Another mailer solution.
  • PHP IMAP - A library to access mailboxes via POP3, IMAP and NNTP.
  • Stampie - A library for email services such as [SendGrid](https://www.twilio.com/en-us/sendgrid), [PostMark](https://postmarkapp.com), [MailGun](https://www.mailgun.com/) and [MailChimp](https://mailchimp.com/features/transactional-email/).
  • Symfony Mailer - A powerful library for creating and sending emails.
  • ddeboer/imap - Object-oriented, fully tested PHP IMAP library.

• Error Tracking and Monitoring Services

  • Tideways - Monitoring and profiling tool.
  • 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.
  • Blackfire - A low-overhead code profiler.
  • Buggregator - A debug server that aggregates var-dumps, profiling data, emails, logs and Sentry events.

• 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.
  • FrankenPHP - A modern PHP app server written in Go.

• Extensions

  • PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP 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](https://www.ffmpeg.org/) video library.

• Filtering, Sanitizing and Validation

  • HTML Purifier - A standards compliant HTML filter.
  • 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.
  • 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](https://json-schema.org/) validation library.
  • MetaYaml - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
  • Respect Validation - A simple validation library.
  • Upload - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
  • Valitron - Another validation library.
  • Volan - Another simplified validation library.
  • Symfony HTML Sanitizer - An HTML sanitizer library.
  • Valinor - A library for mapping to strongly typed value objects.

• Framework Extras

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

• 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 - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework.
  • Ecotone - A Service Bus for PHP based on architectural principles of DDD CQRS and Event Sourcing.
  • Tempest - A framework that gets out of your way.

• Geolocation

  • GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
  • Country List - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
  • GeoJSON - A GeoJSON implementation.
  • GeoTools - A library of geo-related tools.
  • PHPGeo - A simple geo library.

• HTTP

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

• Imagery

  • Imagine - An image manipulation library.
  • 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.
  • Intervention Image - Another image manipulation library.
  • PHP Image Workshop - Another image manipulation library.
  • PHP QR Code - QR Code generator and reader.

• 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.

• Internationalisation and Localisation

  • Aura.Intl - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
  • CakePHP I18n - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers.

• JSON

  • JSON Lint - A JSON lint utility.
  • JSONMapper - A library for mapping JSON to PHP objects.
  • Lazy JSON - A memory-efficient lazy parser for large JSON files.

• LLMs

  • Instructor for PHP - Structured data outputs with LLMs, in PHP.
  • OpenAI Client - OpenAI PHP is a supercharged community-maintained PHP API client that allows you to interact with OpenAI API.
  • OpenAI Client for Laravel - OpenAI PHP for Laravel is a supercharged PHP API client that allows you to interact with OpenAI API.
  • PHP Mistral AI SDK - 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.
  • LLPhant - A comprehensive PHP Generative AI Framework using OpenAI GPT 4. Inspired by Langchain.
  • Anthropic - A PHP client for the Anthropic API, supporting messages, streaming, tool use, and batch processing.
  • Anthropic for Laravel - A Laravel wrapper for the Anthropic PHP client with Facades, config publishing, and testing fakes.

• Logging

  • Monolog - A comprehensive logger.

• Markup and CSS

  • Cebe Markdown - A fast and extensible Markdown parser.
  • CommonMark PHP - Highly-extensible Markdown parser which fully supports the [CommonMark spec](https://spec.commonmark.org/).
  • Decoda - A lightweight markup parser library.
  • Essence - A library for extracting web media.
  • Embera - An Oembed consumer library.
  • HTML to Markdown - Converts HTML into Markdown.
  • HTML5 PHP - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
  • Parsedown - Another Markdown parser.
  • PHP CSS Parser - A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP.
  • PHP Markdown - A Markdown parser.
  • Shiki PHP - A [Shiki](https://github.com/shikijs/shiki) code highlighting package in PHP.
  • VObject - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.
  • Djot - A PHP parser for [Djot](https://djot.net/), a modern light markup language (successor of Markdown).