Table of Contents

• Micro Framework Extras

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

• Micro Frameworks

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

• Middlewares

  • Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Symfony.
  • PSR-7 Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
  • Relay - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
  • Laminas Stratigility - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.
  • PSR-15 Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.

• Migrations

  • Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
  • Migrations - A migration management library.
  • Phinx - Another database migration library.
  • PHPMig - Another migration management library.
  • Ruckusing - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.

• 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.
  • Ganesha - A PHP implementation of Circuit Breaker pattern.
  • 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.
  • Laravel Serializable Closure - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.

• Navigation

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

• NoSQL

  • MongoDB - MongoDB PHP Driver.
  • PHPMongo - A MongoDB ORM.
  • Predis - A feature-complete Redis library.
  • MongoDB PHP Library - The official high-level MongoDB PHP library built on top of the MongoDB PHP Driver.

• Notifications

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

• Numbers

  • Brick Math - A library providing large number support: `BigInteger`, `BigDecimal` and `BigRational`.
  • ByteUnits - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
  • DecimalObject - A value object to handle decimals/floats easily and more precisely.
  • IP - An immutable value object for working with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
  • PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure.
  • PHP Units of Measure - A library for converting between units of measure.
  • MathPHP - A math library for PHP.
  • PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure.

• Office

  • PHPPowerPoint - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
  • PHPWord - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
  • PHPSpreadsheet - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel).
  • OpenSpout - 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.

• Passwords

  • phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
  • GenPhrase - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
  • Password Compat - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
  • Password Policy - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
  • Password Validator - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
  • Password-Generator - PHP library to generate random passwords.
  • PHP Password Lib - A library for generating and validating passwords.
  • Zxcvbn PHP - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS.

• PDF

  • TCPDF - An open source PHP class for generating PDF documents.
  • Browsershot - Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string.
  • Dompdf - A HTML to PDF converter.
  • Gotenberg - A PHP client for interacting with Gotenberg.
  • Snappy - A PDF and image generation library.

• PHP Books

  • Domain-Driven Design in PHP - Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles.
  • Functional Programming in PHP - A book on applying functional programming principles and techniques in PHP.
  • Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
  • 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.
  • 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.

• PHP Conferences

  • PHP[TEK - The longest-running web developer conference in the United States that has a focus on the PHP programming language.
  • 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 Installation

  • Homebrew - A package manager for macOS.
  • Brew PHP Switcher - Brew PHP switcher.
  • PHP Brew - A PHP version manager and installer.
  • PHP Build - Another PHP version installer.
  • Static PHP CLI - Build or [download](https://dl.static-php.dev/static-php-cli/) static versions of PHP CLI and FPM.

• PHP Internals Reading

  • PHP RFCs - The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments).
  • Externals - PHP internal discussions.
  • PHP Internals Book - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.
  • PHP RFC Watch - Watch the latest PHP [RFCs](https://wiki.php.net/rfc).

• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • PHP Internals News - A podcast about PHP internals.

• PHP Reading

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

• PHP Videos

  • SymfonyCasts - Screencasts and tutorials about PHP and Symfony.
  • Laracasts - Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more.
  • Program With Gio - PHP 8 course by Gio.

• 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 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 Watch - PHP articles, news, upcoming changes, RFCs and more.
  • Unit Testing Tips - Unit Testing Tips by examples in PHP.

• Queue

  • Bernard - A multibackend abstraction library.
  • BunnyPHP - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
  • Pheanstalk - A Beanstalkd client library.
  • PHP AMQP - A pure PHP AMQP library.
  • Tarantool Queue - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
  • Thumper - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
  • Enqueue - A message queue package for PHP that supports RabbitMQ, AMQP, STOMP, Amazon SQS, Redis and Doctrine transports.

• Routers

  • Aura.Router - A full-featured routing library.
  • Fast Route - A fast routing library.
  • Klein - A flexible router.
  • Pux - Another fast routing library.
  • Route - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.

• Scraping

  • 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.
  • Embed - An information extractor from any web service or page.

• Search

  • Solarium - A client library for [Solr](https://solr.apache.org/).
  • Elastica - A client library for ElasticSearch.
  • ElasticSearch PHP - The official client library for [ElasticSearch](https://www.elastic.co/).
  • SphinxQL Query Builder - A query library for the [Sphinx](https://sphinxsearch.com/) and [Manticore](https://manticoresearch.com/) search engines.

• Security

  • Halite - A simple library for encryption using [libsodium](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium).
  • PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
  • Symfony Security Monitoring - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as "SensioLabs Security Check".
  • VAddy - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
  • OWASP - Explore the world of cyber security.
  • AntiXSS - A library that tries to preventing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks by blacklisting.
  • Optimus - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
  • PHPGGC - A library of PHP unserializable payloads along with a tool to generate them.
  • PHP Encryption - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
  • random_compat - PHP 5.x support for `random_bytes()` and `random_int()`
  • Roave Security Advisories - 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.
  • PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
  • PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.

• Serverless

  • 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.

• Static Analysis

  • Exakat - A static analysis engine for PHP.
  • Deptrac - A static analysis tool for enforcing dependency rules between architectural layers.
  • Mondrian - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
  • 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.
  • PhpDependencyAnalysis - A tool to create customizable dependency graphs.
  • PHPDoc Parser - Next-gen phpDoc parser with support for intersection types and generics.
  • PHP Metrics - A static metric library.
  • PHP Migration - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
  • PHPStan - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
  • Psalm - A static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications.
  • Dead Code Detector - A PHPStan extension for finding unused PHP code.
  • 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.
  • Deptrac - A static analysis tool for enforcing dependency rules between architectural layers.

• Static Site Generators

  • 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.
  • Spress - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML.
  • Cecil - A simple and powerful content-driven static site generator.

• Streams

  • ByteStream - An asynchronous stream abstraction.
  • Streamer - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

• Strings

  • UA Parser - A library for parsing user agent strings.
  • Agent - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
  • ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
  • Color Jizz - A library for manipulating and converting colors.
  • Device Detector - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
  • Hyphenation - Text hyphenation based on the TeX hyphenation algorithm.
  • Jieba-PHP - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
  • Mobile-Detect - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
  • Patchwork UTF-8 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
  • Portable ASCII - A library to convert strings to ASCII.
  • Portable UTF-8 - A string manipulation library with UTF-8 safe replacement methods.
  • Slugify - A library to convert strings to slugs.
  • Stringy - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
  • URLify - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
  • UUID - A library for generating UUIDs.
  • Url highlight - A library for parsing URLs from text and converting them into clickable links.
  • SQL Formatter - A library for formatting SQL statements.

• Task Runners

  • Bldr - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
  • Task - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.
  • Jobby - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
  • Robo - A PHP task runner with object-oriented configurations.

• Templating

  • Latte - The safest and truly intuitive templates for PHP.
  • PHPTAL - A PHP implementation of the [TAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language) templating language.
  • Plates - A native PHP templating library.
  • Smarty - A template engine to complement PHP.