awesome-php/README.md

# Awesome PHP ![](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/workflows/Awesome%20Bot/badge.svg)

A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources, and shiny things.

## Contributing and Collaborating

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), [CODE-OF-CONDUCT](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md) and [COLLABORATING](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/COLLABORATING.md) for details.

## Table of Contents

- [Awesome PHP](#awesome-php-)
  - [Contributing and Collaborating](#contributing-and-collaborating)
  - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
    - [Docx](#docx)
    - [Composer Repositories](#composer-repositories)
    - [Dependency Management](#dependency-management)
    - [Dependency Management Extras](#dependency-management-extras)
    - [Frameworks](#frameworks)
    - [Framework Extras](#framework-extras)
    - [Content Management Systems (CMS)](#content-management-systems-cms)
    - [Components](#components)
    - [Micro Frameworks](#micro-frameworks)
    - [Micro Framework Extras](#micro-framework-extras)
    - [Routers](#routers)
    - [Templating](#templating)
    - [Static Site Generators](#static-site-generators)
    - [HTTP](#http)
    - [Scraping](#scraping)
    - [Middlewares](#middlewares)
    - [URL](#url)
    - [Email](#email)
    - [Files](#files)
    - [Streams](#streams)
    - [Dependency Injection](#dependency-injection)
    - [Imagery](#imagery)
    - [Testing](#testing)
    - [Continuous Integration](#continuous-integration)
    - [Documentation](#documentation)
    - [Security](#security)
    - [Passwords](#passwords)
    - [Code Analysis](#code-analysis)
    - [Code Quality](#code-quality)
    - [Static Analysis](#static-analysis)
    - [Architectural](#architectural)
    - [Debugging and Profiling](#debugging-and-profiling)
    - [Build Tools](#build-tools)
    - [Task Runners](#task-runners)
    - [Navigation](#navigation)
    - [Asset Management](#asset-management)
    - [Geolocation](#geolocation)
    - [Date and Time](#date-and-time)
    - [Event](#event)
    - [Logging](#logging)
    - [E-commerce](#e-commerce)
    - [PDF](#pdf)
    - [Office](#office)
    - [Database](#database)
    - [Migrations](#migrations)
    - [NoSQL](#nosql)
    - [Queue](#queue)
    - [Search](#search)
    - [Command Line](#command-line)
    - [Authentication and Authorization](#authentication-and-authorization)
    - [Markup and CSS](#markup-and-css)
    - [JSON](#json)
    - [Strings](#strings)
    - [Numbers](#numbers)
    - [Filtering and Validation](#filtering-and-validation)
    - [API](#api)
    - [Caching and Locking](#caching-and-locking)
    - [Data Structure and Storage](#data-structure-and-storage)
    - [Notifications](#notifications)
    - [Deployment](#deployment)
    - [Internationalisation and Localisation](#internationalisation-and-localisation)
    - [Serverless](#serverless)
  - [Configuration](#configuration)
    - [Third Party APIs](#third-party-apis)
    - [Extensions](#extensions)
    - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
- [Software](#software)
      - [PHP Installation](#php-installation)
      - [Development Environment](#development-environment)
      - [Virtual Machines](#virtual-machines)
      - [Text Editors and IDEs](#text-editors-and-ides)
      - [Web Applications](#web-applications)
      - [Infrastructure](#infrastructure)
- [Resources](#resources)
      - [PHP Websites](#php-websites)
      - [PHP Books](#php-books)
      - [PHP Videos](#php-videos)
      - [PHP Podcasts](#php-podcasts)
      - [PHP Newsletters](#php-newsletters)
      - [PHP Reading](#php-reading)
      - [PHP Internals Reading](#php-internals-reading)

#### Docx

- [Docx](https://blog.groupdocs.cloud/pl/viewer/display-word-document-in-html-page-using-php/)

#### Composer Repositories

*Composer Repositories.*

- [Firegento](https://packages.firegento.com/) - Magento Module Composer Repository.
- [Packagist](https://packagist.org/) - The PHP Package Repository.
- [Private Packagist](https://packagist.com/) - Composer package archive as a service for PHP.
- [WordPress Packagist](https://wpackagist.org/) - Manage your plugins with Composer.

#### Dependency Management

*Libraries for dependency and package management.*

- [Composer Installers](https://github.com/composer/installers) - A  multi-framework Composer library installer.
- [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) - A package and dependency manager.
- [Phive](https://phar.io/) - A PHAR manager.
- [Pickle](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/pickle) - A PHP extension installer.

#### Dependency Management Extras

*Extras related to dependency management.*

- [Composed](https://github.com/joshdifabio/composed) - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime.
- [Composer Merge Plugin](https://github.com/wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin) - A composer plugin to merge several `composer.json` files.
- [Composer Normalize](https://github.com/ergebnis/composer-normalize) - A plugin for normalizing `composer.json` files.
- [Composer Patches](https://github.com/cweagans/composer-patches) - A plugin for Composer to apply patches.
- [Composer Prefer Lowest Validator](https://github.com/dereuromark/composer-prefer-lowest) - A plugin to check if minimum dependencies can be installed and tested.
- [Composer Require Checker](https://github.com/maglnet/ComposerRequireChecker) - CLI tool to analyze composer dependencies and verify that no unknown symbols are used in the sources of a package.
- [Composer Unused](https://github.com/composer-unused/composer-unused) - A CLI Tool to scan for unused composer packages.
- [Repman](https://repman.io) - A private PHP package repository manager and Packagist proxy.
- [Satis](https://github.com/composer/satis) - A static Composer repository generator.
- [Tooly](https://github.com/tommy-muehle/tooly-composer-script) - A library to manage PHAR files in a project using Composer.
- [Toran Proxy](https://toranproxy.com) - A Composer proxy for speed and reliability. (:warning: Toran Proxy is being phased out.)

#### Frameworks

*Web development frameworks.*

- [CakePHP](https://cakephp.org/) - A rapid application development framework.
- [CodeIgniter](https://codeigniter.com/) - A powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.
- [Laminas](https://getlaminas.org/) - A framework comprised of individual components (previously Zend Framework).
- [Laravel](https://laravel.com/) - A web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
- [Nette](https://nette.org) - A web framework comprised of mature components.
- [Phalcon](https://phalcon.io/en-us) - A framework implemented as a C extension.
- [Spiral](https://spiral.dev/) - A high-performance PHP/Go framework.
- [Symfony](https://symfony.com/) - A set of reusable components and a web framework.
- [Yii2](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/) - A fast, secure, and efficient web framework.

#### Framework Extras

*Extras related to web development frameworks.*

- [CakePHP CRUD](https://github.com/friendsofcake/crud) - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP.
- [Knp RAD Components](https://rad.knplabs.com/) - A set of Rapid Application Development (RAD) components for Symfony.
- [LaravelS](https://github.com/hhxsv5/laravel-s) - An out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole.
- [Livewire](https://livewire.laravel.com/) - Powerful, dynamic, front-end UIs without leaving PHP.

#### Content Management Systems (CMS)

*Tools for managing digital content.*

- [Backdrop](https://backdropcms.org) - A CMS targeting small-to-medium-sized business and non-profits (a fork of Drupal).
- [Concrete5](https://www.concretecms.com/) - A CMS targeting users with a minimum of technical skills.
- [CraftCMS](https://github.com/craftcms/cms) - A flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.
- [Drupal](https://www.drupal.org) - An enterprise level CMS.
- [Grav](https://github.com/getgrav/grav) - A modern flat-file CMS.
- [Joomla](https://www.joomla.org/) - Another leading CMS.
- [Kirby](https://getkirby.com/) - A flat-file CMS that adapts to any project.
- [Magento](https://business.adobe.com/products/magento/magento-commerce.html) - The most popular e-commerce platform.
- [Moodle](https://moodle.org/) - An open-source learning platform.
- [Pico CMS](https://picocms.org/) - A stupidly simple, blazing fast, flat file CMS.
- [Statamic](https://statamic.com/) - Build beautiful, easy-to-manage websites.
- [WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) - A blogging platform and CMS.

#### Components

*Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.*

- [Aura](https://auraphp.com/) - Independent components, fully decoupled from each other and from any framework.
- [CakePHP Plugins](https://plugins.cakephp.org/) - A directory of CakePHP plugins.
- [Laravel Components](https://github.com/illuminate) - The Laravel Framework components.
- [League of Extraordinary Packages](https://thephpleague.com/) - A PHP package development group.
- [Spatie Open Source](https://spatie.be/open-source) - A collection of open-source PHP and Laravel packages.
- [Symfony Components](https://symfony.com/components) - The components that make Symfony.
- [Laminas Components](https://docs.laminas.dev/components/) - The components that make the Laminas Framework.

#### Micro Frameworks

*Micro frameworks and routers.*

- [Laravel-Zero](https://laravel-zero.com) - A micro-framework for console applications.
- [Lumen](https://lumen.laravel.com/) - A micro-framework by Laravel.
- [Mezzio](https://getexpressive.org/) - A micro-framework by Laminas.
- [Radar](https://github.com/radarphp/Radar.Adr) - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP.
- [Silly](https://github.com/mnapoli/silly) - A micro-framework for CLI applications.
- [Slim](https://www.slimframework.com/) - Another simple micro framework.

#### Micro Framework Extras

*Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.*

- [Slim Skeleton](https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Skeleton) - A skeleton for Slim.
- [Slim Twig View](https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Views) - Integrate Twig into Slim.
- [Slim PHP View](https://github.com/slimphp/PHP-View) - A simple PHP renderer for Slim.

#### Routers

*Libraries for handling application routing.*

- [Aura.Router](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Router) - A full-featured routing library.
- [Fast Route](https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute) - A fast routing library.
- [Klein](https://github.com/klein/klein.php) - A flexible router.
- [Pux](https://github.com/c9s/Pux) - Another fast routing library.
- [Route](https://github.com/thephpleague/route) - A routing library built on top of Fast Route.

#### Templating

*Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.*

- [Latte](https://latte.nette.org/) - The safest and truly intuitive templates for PHP.
- [MtHaml](https://github.com/arnaud-lb/MtHaml) - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language.
- [Mustache](https://github.com/bobthecow/mustache.php) - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language.
- [PHPTAL](https://phptal.org/) - A PHP implementation of the [TAL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language) templating language.
- [Plates](http://platesphp.com/) - A native PHP templating library.
- [Smarty](https://www.smarty.net/) - A template engine to complement PHP.
- [Twig](https://twig.symfony.com/) - A comprehensive templating language.

#### Static Site Generators

*Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.*

- [Couscous](http://couscous.io) - Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.
- [Jigsaw](https://jigsaw.tighten.com/) - Simple static sites with Laravel's Blade.
- [Sculpin](https://sculpin.io) - A tool that converts Markdown and Twig into static HTML.
- [Spress](http://spress.yosymfony.com) - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML.

#### HTTP

*Libraries for working with HTTP.*

- [Buzz](https://github.com/kriswallsmith/Buzz) - Another HTTP client.
- [Guzzle]( https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) - A comprehensive HTTP client.
- [HTTPlug](http://httplug.io) - An HTTP client abstraction without binding to a specific implementation.
- [Nyholm PSR-7](https://github.com/Nyholm/psr7) - A super lightweight PSR-7 implementation. Very strict and very fast.
- [PHP VCR](https://php-vcr.github.io/) - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
- [Requests](https://github.com/WordPress/Requests) - A simple HTTP library.
- [Retrofit](https://github.com/tebru/retrofit-php) - A library to ease creation of REST API clients.
- [Symfony HTTP Client](https://github.com/symfony/http-client) - A component to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously.
- [Laminas Diactoros](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-diactoros) - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation.

#### Scraping

*Libraries for scraping websites.*

- [Chrome PHP](https://github.com/chrome-php/chrome) - Instrument headless Chrome/Chromium instances from PHP.
- [DiDOM](https://github.com/Imangazaliev/DiDOM) - A super-fast HTML scrapper and parser.
- [Embed](https://github.com/oscarotero/Embed) - An information extractor from any web service or page.
- [Goutte](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte) - A simple web scraper.
- [Symfony Panther](https://github.com/symfony/panther) - A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony.
- [PHP Spider](https://github.com/mvdbos/php-spider) - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider.

#### Middlewares

*Libraries for building application using middlewares.*

- [PSR-7 Middlewares](https://github.com/oscarotero/psr7-middlewares) - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares.
- [Relay](https://github.com/relayphp/Relay.Relay) - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
- [Stack](https://github.com/stackphp) - A library of stackable middleware for Symfony.
- [Laminas Stratigility](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-stratigility) - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7.

#### URL

*Libraries for parsing URLs.*

- [PHP Domain Parser](https://github.com/jeremykendall/php-domain-parser) - A domain suffix parser library.
- [Purl](https://github.com/jwage/purl) - A URL manipulation library.
- [sabre/uri](https://github.com/sabre-io/uri) - A functional URI manipulation library.
- [Uri](https://github.com/thephpleague/uri) - Another URL manipulation library.

#### Email

*Libraries for sending and parsing email.*

- [CssToInlineStyles](https://github.com/tijsverkoyen/CssToInlineStyles) - A library to inline CSS in email templates.
- [Email Reply Parser](https://github.com/willdurand/EmailReplyParser) - An email reply parser library.
- [Email Validator](https://github.com/nojacko/email-validator) - A small email address validation library.
- [Fetch](https://github.com/tedious/Fetch) - An IMAP library.
- [Mautic](https://github.com/mautic/mautic) - Email marketing automation
- [PHPMailer](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) - Another mailer solution.
- [PHP IMAP](https://github.com/barbushin/php-imap) - A library to access mailboxes via POP3, IMAP and NNTP.
- [Stampie](https://github.com/Stampie/Stampie) - A library for email services such as [SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com/), [PostMark](https://postmarkapp.com), [MailGun](https://www.mailgun.com/) and [MailChimp](https://mailchimp.com/features/transactional-email/).
- [SwiftMailer](https://swiftmailer.symfony.com) - A mailer solution.
- [Symfony Mailer](https://github.com/symfony/mailer) - A powerful library for creating and sending emails.

#### Files

*Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.*

- [CSV](https://github.com/thephpleague/csv) - A CSV data manipulation library.
- [Flysystem](https://github.com/thephpleague/Flysystem) - Abstraction for local and remote filesystems.
- [Gaufrette](https://github.com/KnpLabs/Gaufrette) - A filesystem abstraction layer.
- [PHP FFmpeg](https://github.com/PHP-FFmpeg/PHP-FFmpeg/) - A wrapper for the [FFmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/) video library.
- [UnifiedArchive](https://github.com/wapmorgan/UnifiedArchive) - A unified reader and writer of compressed archives.

#### Streams

*Libraries for working with streams.*

- [ByteStream](https://amphp.org/byte-stream) - An asynchronous stream abstraction.
- [Streamer](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Streamer) - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library.

#### Dependency Injection

*Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.*

- [Aura.Di](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Di) - A serializable dependency injection container with constructor and setter injection, interface and trait awareness, configuration inheritance, and much more.
- [Acclimate](https://github.com/AcclimateContainer/acclimate-container) - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators.
- [Auryn](https://github.com/rdlowrey/Auryn) - A recursive dependency injector.
- [Container](https://github.com/thephpleague/container) - Another flexible dependency injection container.
- [Disco](https://github.com/bitExpert/disco) - A PSR-11 compatible, annotation-based dependency injection container.
- [PHP-DI](https://php-di.org/) - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
- [Pimple](https://pimple.symfony.com/) - A tiny dependency injection container.
- [Symfony DI](https://github.com/symfony/dependency-injection) - A dependency injection container component.

#### Imagery

*Libraries for manipulating images.*

- [Color Extractor](https://github.com/thephpleague/color-extractor) - A library for extracting colours from images.
- [Glide](https://github.com/thephpleague/glide) - An on-demand image manipulation library.
- [Image Hash](https://github.com/jenssegers/imagehash) - A library for generating perceptual image hashes.
- [Image Optimizer](https://github.com/psliwa/image-optimizer) - A library for optimizing images.
- [Imagine](https://imagine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) - An image manipulation library.
- [Intervention Image](https://github.com/Intervention/image) - Another image manipulation library.
- [PHP Image Workshop](https://github.com/Sybio/ImageWorkshop) - Another image manipulation library.

#### Testing

*Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*

- [Alice](https://github.com/nelmio/alice) - An expressive fixture generation library.
- [AspectMock](https://github.com/Codeception/AspectMock) - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception.
- [Atoum](https://github.com/atoum/atoum) - A simple testing library.
- [Behat](https://docs.behat.org/en/latest/) - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
- [Codeception](https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception) - A full stack testing framework.
- [Faker](https://github.com/fakerphp/faker) - A fake data generator library.
- [Foundry](https://github.com/zenstruck/foundry) - A fixture factory generation library for Doctrine.
- [HTTP Mock](https://github.com/InterNations/http-mock) - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests.
- [Infection](https://github.com/infection/infection) - An AST-based PHP Mutation testing framework.
- [Kahlan](https://github.com/kahlan/kahlan) - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support.
- [Mink](https://mink.behat.org/en/latest/) - Web acceptance testing.
- [Mockery](https://github.com/mockery/mockery) - A mock object library for testing.
- [ParaTest](https://github.com/paratestphp/paratest) - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit.
- [Pest](https://pestphp.com/) - A testing framework with a focus on simplicity.
- [Peridot](https://github.com/peridot-php/peridot) - An event-driven test framework.
- [Phake](https://github.com/phake/phake) - Another mock object library for testing.
- [Pho](https://github.com/danielstjules/pho) - Another behavior-driven development testing framework.
- [PHP-Mock](https://github.com/php-mock/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](https://github.com/phpspec/phpspec) - A design by specification unit testing library.
- [PHPT](https://qa.php.net/write-test.php) - A test tool used by PHP itself.
- [PHPUnit](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit) - A unit testing framework.
- [Prophecy](https://github.com/phpspec/prophecy) - A highly opinionated mocking framework.
- [VFS Stream](https://github.com/bovigo/vfsStream) - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing.

#### Continuous Integration

*Libraries and applications for continuous integration.*

- [CircleCI](https://circleci.com) - A continuous integration platform.
- [GitlabCi](https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/continuous-integration/) - Let GitLab CI test, build, deploy your code. TravisCi like.
- [Jenkins](https://www.jenkins.io/) - A continuous integration platform with [PHP support](https://www.jenkins.io/solutions/php/).
- [JoliCi](https://github.com/jolicode/JoliCi) - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker.
- [PHPCI](https://github.com/dancryer/phpci) - An open-source continuous integration platform for PHP.
- [SemaphoreCI](https://semaphoreci.com) - A continuous integration platform for open-source and private projects.
- [Shippable](https://jfrog.com/blog/weve-acquired-shippable-to-complete-devops-pipeline-automation-from-code-to-production/) - A Docker based continuous integration platform for open source and private projects.
- [Travis CI](https://www.travis-ci.com) - A continuous integration platform.
- [Setup PHP](https://github.com/shivammathur/setup-php) - A GitHub Action for PHP.

#### Documentation

*Libraries for generating project documentation.*

- [APIGen](https://github.com/apigen/apigen) - Another API documentation generator.
- [daux.io](https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io) - A documentation generator that uses Markdown files.
- [PHP Documentor 2](https://github.com/phpDocumentor/phpDocumentor) - A documentation generator.
- [phpDox](https://phpdox.net/) - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
- [zircote/swagger-php](https://github.com/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.*

- [Halite](https://paragonie.com/project/halite) - A simple library for encryption using [libsodium](https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium).
- [HTML Purifier](https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier) - A standards compliant HTML filter.
- [IniScan](https://github.com/psecio/iniscan) - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security.
- [Optimus](https://github.com/jenssegers/optimus) - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method.
- [PHPGGC](https://github.com/ambionics/phpggc) - A library of PHP unserializable payloads along with a tool to generate them.
- [PHP Encryption](https://github.com/defuse/php-encryption) - Secure PHP Encryption Library.
- [PHP SSH](https://github.com/Herzult/php-ssh) - An experimental object-orientated SSH wrapper library.
- [PHPSecLib](https://phpseclib.sourceforge.net) - A pure PHP secure communications library.
- [random_compat](https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat) - PHP 5.x support for `random_bytes()` and `random_int()`
- [RandomLib](https://github.com/ircmaxell/RandomLib) - A library for generating random numbers and strings.
- [Symfony Security Monitoring](https://security.symfony.com/) - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories, previously known as "SensioLabs Security Check".
- [SQLMap](https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap) - An automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
- [TCrypto](https://github.com/timoh6/TCrypto) - A simple encrypted key-value storage library.
- [VAddy](https://vaddy.net/) - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
- [Zap](https://github.com/OWASP/www-project-zap) - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

#### Passwords

*Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.*

- [GenPhrase](https://github.com/timoh6/GenPhrase) - A library for generating secure random passphrases.
- [Password Compat](https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat) - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions.
- [Password Policy](https://github.com/ircmaxell/password-policy) - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript.
- [Password Validator](https://github.com/jeremykendall/password-validator) - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes.
- [Password-Generator](https://github.com/hackzilla/password-generator) - PHP library to generate random passwords.
- [PHP Password Lib](https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHP-PasswordLib) - A library for generating and validating passwords.
- [phpass](https://www.openwall.com/phpass/) - A portable password hashing framework.
- [Zxcvbn PHP](https://github.com/bjeavons/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](https://github.com/Roave/BetterReflection) - AST-based reflection library that allows analysis and manipulation of code
- [Code Climate](https://codeclimate.com) - An automated code review.
- [GrumPHP](https://github.com/phpro/grumphp) - A PHP code-quality tool.
- [PHP Parser](https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser) - A PHP parser written in PHP.
- [PHP Semantic Versioning Checker](https://github.com/tomzx/php-semver-checker) - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply.
- [Phpactor](https://github.com/phpactor/phpactor) - PHP completion, refactoring and introspection tool.
- [PHPLOC](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phploc) - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project.
- [PHPQA](https://github.com/EdgedesignCZ/phpqa) - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics).
- [Qafoo Quality Analyzer](https://github.com/Qafoo/QualityAnalyzer) - A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
- [Rector](https://github.com/rectorphp/rector) - A tool to upgrade and refactor code.
- [Scrutinizer](https://scrutinizer-ci.com/) - A web tool to [scrutinise PHP code](https://github.com/scrutinizer-ci/php-analyzer).
- [UBench](https://github.com/devster/ubench) - A simple micro-benchmark library.

#### Code Quality

*Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.*

- [CaptainHook](https://github.com/captainhookphp/captainhook) - An easy-to-use and flexible Git hook library.
- [PHP CodeSniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer) - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations.
- [PHP CS Fixer](https://github.com/PHP-CS-Fixer/PHP-CS-Fixer) - A coding standards fixer library.
- [PHP Mess Detector](https://github.com/phpmd/phpmd) - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
- [PHPCheckstyle](https://github.com/PHPCheckstyle/phpcheckstyle) - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions.
- [PHPCPD](https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd) - A library that detects copied and pasted code.

#### Static Analysis

*Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.*

- [Exakat](https://github.com/exakat/exakat) - A static analysis engine for PHP.
- [Deptrac](https://github.com/qossmic/deptrac) - A static code analysis tool that helps to enforce rules for dependencies between software layers.
- [Mondrian](https://github.com/Trismegiste/Mondrian) - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory.
- [phan](https://github.com/phan/phan) - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension.
- [PHP Architecture Tester](https://github.com/carlosas/phpat) - Easy-to-use architecture testing tool for PHP.
- [PHPCompatibility](https://github.com/PHPCompatibility/PHPCompatibility) - A PHP compatibility checker for PHP CodeSniffer.
- [PhpDependencyAnalysis](https://github.com/mamuz/PhpDependencyAnalysis) - A tool to create customizable dependency graphs.
- [PHP Metrics](https://github.com/phpmetrics/PhpMetrics) - A static metric library.
- [PHP Migration](https://github.com/monque/PHP-Migration) - A static analyzer for PHP version migration.
- [PHPStan](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) - A PHP Static Analysis Tool.
- [Psalm](https://github.com/vimeo/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](https://github.com/DesignPatternsPHP/DesignPatternsPHP ) - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP.
- [Finite](https://yohan.giarel.li/Finite/) - A simple PHP finite state machine.
- [Functional PHP](https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php) - A functional programming library.
- [Iter](https://github.com/nikic/iter) - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators.
- [IterTools PHP](https://github.com/markrogoyski/itertools-php) - A library that provides functionality for working with iterable entities (similar to itertools library in Python).
- [Patchwork](https://patchwork2.org/) - A library for redefining userland functions.
- [Pipeline](https://github.com/thephpleague/pipeline) - A pipeline pattern implementation.
- [Porter](https://github.com/ScriptFUSION/Porter) - Data import abstraction library for consuming Web APIs and other data sources.
- [RulerZ](https://github.com/K-Phoen/rulerz) - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern.

#### Debugging and Profiling

*Libraries and tools for debugging errors and profiling code.*

- [APM](https://pecl.php.net/package/APM) - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
- [Barbushin PHP Console](https://github.com/barbushin/php-console) - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome.
- [Blackfire.io](https://www.blackfire.io) - A low-overhead code profiler.
- [Kint](https://github.com/kint-php/kint) - A debugging and profiling tool.
- [Metrics](https://github.com/beberlei/metrics) - A simple metrics API library.
- [PCOV](https://github.com/krakjoe/pcov) - A self-contained code coverage compatible driver.
- [PHP Console](https://github.com/Seldaek/php-console) - A web debugging console.
- [PHP Debug Bar](http://phpdebugbar.com/) - A debugging toolbar.
- [PHPBench](https://github.com/phpbench/phpbench) - A benchmarking Framework.
- [PHPSpy](https://github.com/adsr/phpspy) - A low-overhead sampling profiler.
- [Symfony VarDumper](https://github.com/symfony/var-dumper) - A variable dumper component.
- [Tideways.io](https://tideways.com/) - Monitoring and profiling tool.
- [Tracy](https://github.com/nette/tracy) - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library.
- [Whoops](https://github.com/filp/whoops) - A pretty error-handling library.
- [xDebug](https://github.com/xdebug/xdebug) - A debug and profile tool for PHP.
- [XHProf](https://github.com/phacility/xhprof) - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook.
- [Z-Ray](https://www.zend.com/products/z-ray) - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.

#### Build Tools

*Project build and automation tools.*

- [Box](https://github.com/box-project/box) - A utility to build PHAR files.
- [Construct](https://github.com/jonathantorres/construct) - A PHP project/micro-package generator.
- [Phing](https://www.phing.info/) - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.
- [RMT](https://github.com/liip/RMT) - A library for versioning and releasing software.

#### Task Runners

*Libraries for automating and running tasks.*

- [Bldr](https://bldr.io/) - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
- [Jobby](https://github.com/jobbyphp/jobby) - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab.
- [Robo](https://github.com/consolidation/Robo) - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations.
- [Task](https://taskphp.github.io/) - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.

#### Navigation

*Tools for building navigation structures.*

- [KnpMenu](https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu) - A menu library.
- [Menu](https://github.com/spatie/menu) - A flexible menu library with a fluent interface.

#### Asset Management

*Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.*

- [JShrink](https://github.com/tedious/JShrink) - A JavaScript minifier library.
- [Laravel Mix](https://github.com/laravel-mix/laravel-mix ) - An elegant wrapper around Webpack for the 80% use case.
- [Symfony Asset](https://github.com/symfony/asset) - Manages URL generation and versioning of web assets.
- [Symfony Encore](https://github.com/symfony/webpack-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.*

- [Country List](https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list) - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes.
- [GeoCoder](https://geocoder-php.org/) - A geocoding library.
- [GeoJSON](https://github.com/jmikola/geojson) - A GeoJSON implementation.
- [GeoTools](https://github.com/thephpleague/geotools) - A library of geo-related tools.
- [PHPGeo](https://github.com/mjaschen/phpgeo) - A simple geo library.

#### Date and Time

*Libraries for working with dates and times.*

- [CalendR](https://yohan.giarel.li/CalendR/) - A calendar management library.
- [Carbon](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon) - A simple DateTime API extension.
- [Chronos](https://github.com/cakephp/chronos) - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time.
- [Moment.php](https://github.com/fightbulc/moment.php) - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support.
- [Yasumi](https://github.com/azuyalabs/yasumi) - A library to help you calculate the dates and names of holidays.

#### Event

*Libraries that are event-driven or implement non-blocking event loops.*

- [Amp](https://github.com/amphp/amp) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
- [Broadway](https://github.com/broadway/broadway) - An event source and CQRS library.
- [CakePHP Event](https://github.com/cakephp/event) - An event dispatcher library.
- [Elephant.io](https://github.com/Wisembly/Elephant.io) - Yet another web socket library.
- [Evenement](https://github.com/igorw/evenement) - An event dispatcher library.
- [Event](https://github.com/thephpleague/event) - An event library with a focus on domain events.
- [Pawl](https://github.com/ratchetphp/Pawl) - An asynchronous web socket client.
- [Prooph Event Store](https://github.com/prooph/event-store) - An event source component to persist event messages
- [PHP Defer](https://github.com/php-defer/php-defer) - Golang's defer statement for PHP.
- [Ratchet](https://github.com/ratchetphp/Ratchet) - A web socket library.
- [ReactPHP](https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.
- [RxPHP](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPHP) - A reactive extension library.
- [Swoole](https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src) - An event-driven asynchronous and concurrent networking communication framework with high performance for PHP written in C.
- [Workerman](https://github.com/walkor/Workerman) - An event driven non-blocking I/O library.

#### Logging

*Libraries for generating and working with log files.*

- [Monolog](https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog) - A comprehensive logger.

#### E-commerce

*Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.*

- [Money](https://github.com/moneyphp/money) - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern.
- [Brick\Money](https://github.com/brick/money) - A money library for PHP, with support for contexts, cash roundings, currency conversion.
- [OmniPay](https://github.com/thephpleague/omnipay) - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library.
- [Payum](https://github.com/payum/payum) - A payment abstraction library.
- [Shopware](https://github.com/shopware/shopware) - Highly customizable e-commerce software
- [Swap](https://github.com/florianv/swap) - An exchange rates library.
- [Sylius](https://sylius.com/) - An open source e-commerce solution.

#### PDF

*Libraries and software for working with PDF files.*

- [Browsershot](https://github.com/spatie/browsershot) - Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string.
- [Dompdf](https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf) - A HTML to PDF converter.
- [Gotenberg](https://github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg-php) - A PHP client for interacting with Gotenberg.
- [Snappy](https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy) - A PDF and image generation library.

#### Office

*Libraries for working with office suite documents.*

- [PHPPowerPoint](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPPresentation) - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations.
- [PHPWord](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord) - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents.
- [PHPSpreadsheet](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet) - A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files (successor of PHPExcel).
- [OpenSpout](https://github.com/openspout/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.

#### Database

*Libraries for interacting with databases using object-relational mapping (ORM) or datamapping techniques.*

- [Atlas.Orm](https://github.com/atlasphp/Atlas.Orm) - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.
- [Aura.Sql](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Sql) - Provides an extension to the native PDO along with a profiler and connection locator.
- [Aura.SqlQuery](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.SqlQuery) - Independent query builders for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- [Baum](https://github.com/etrepat/baum) - A nested set implementation for Eloquent.
- [CakePHP ORM](https://github.com/cakephp/orm) - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern.
- [Cycle ORM](https://github.com/cycle/orm) - PHP DataMapper, ORM.
- [Doctrine Extensions](https://github.com/doctrine-extensions/DoctrineExtensions ) - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions.
- [Doctrine](https://www.doctrine-project.org/) - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
- [Laravel Eloquent](https://github.com/illuminate/database) - A simple ORM.
- [Pomm](https://github.com/chanmix51/Pomm) - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL.
- [ProxyManager](https://github.com/Ocramius/ProxyManager) - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers.
- [RedBean](https://redbeanphp.com/index.php) - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
- [Slimdump](https://github.com/webfactory/slimdump) - An easy dumper tool for MySQL.
- [Spot2](https://github.com/spotorm/spot2) - A MySQL datamapper ORM.

#### Migrations

Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.

- [Doctrine Migrations](https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/migrations.html) - A migration library for Doctrine.
- [Migrations](https://github.com/icomefromthenet/Migrations) - A migration management library.
- [Phinx](https://github.com/cakephp/phinx) - Another database migration library.
- [PHPMig](https://github.com/davedevelopment/phpmig) - Another migration management library.
- [Ruckusing](https://github.com/ruckus/ruckusing-migrations) - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite.

#### NoSQL

*Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.*

- [MongoDB](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver) - MongoDB PHP Driver.
- [PHPMongo](https://github.com/sokil/php-mongo) - A MongoDB ORM.
- [Predis](https://github.com/predis/predis) - A feature-complete Redis library.

#### Queue

*Libraries for working with event and task queues.*

- [Bernard](https://github.com/bernardphp/bernard) - A multibackend abstraction library.
- [BunnyPHP](https://github.com/jakubkulhan/bunny) - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library.
- [Pheanstalk](https://github.com/pheanstalk/pheanstalk) - A Beanstalkd client library.
- [PHP AMQP](https://github.com/php-amqplib/php-amqplib) - A pure PHP AMQP library.
- [Tarantool Queue](https://github.com/tarantool-php/queue) - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue.
- [Thumper](https://github.com/php-amqplib/Thumper) - A RabbitMQ pattern library.
- [Enqueue](https://github.com/php-enqueue/enqueue-dev) - A message queue packages for PHP that supports RabbitMQ, AMQP, STOMP, Amazon SQS, Redis and Doctrine transports.

#### Search

*Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.*

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

#### Command Line

*Libraries related to the command line.*

- [Aura.Cli](https://github.com/auraphp/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](https://github.com/borisrepl/boris) - A tiny PHP REPL.
- [Cilex](https://github.com/Cilex/Cilex) - A micro framework for building command line tools.
- [CLI Menu](https://github.com/php-school/cli-menu) - A library for building CLI menus.
- [CLIFramework](https://github.com/c9s/CLIFramework) - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew.
- [CLImate](https://github.com/thephpleague/climate) - A library for outputting colors and special formatting.
- [Commando](https://github.com/nategood/commando) - Another simple command line opt parser.
- [Cron Expression](https://github.com/mtdowling/cron-expression) - A library to calculate cron run dates.
- [GetOpt](https://github.com/getopt-php/getopt-php) - A command line opt parser.
- [GetOptionKit](https://github.com/c9s/GetOptionKit) - Another command line opt parser.
- [PsySH](https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh) - Another PHP REPL.
- [ShellWrap](https://github.com/MrRio/shellwrap) - A simple command line wrapper library.

#### Authentication and Authorization

*Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.*

- [Aura.Auth](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Auth) - Provides authentication functionality and session tracking using various adapters.
- [SocialConnect Auth](https://github.com/socialConnect/auth) - An open source social sign (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect).
- [Json Web Token](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt) - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information.
- [OAuth 1.0 Client](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth1-client) - An OAuth 1.0 client library.
- [OAuth 2.0 Client](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-client) - An OAuth 2.0 client library.
- [OAuth2 Server](https://bshaffer.github.io/oauth2-server-php-docs/) - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
- [OAuth2 Server](https://oauth2.thephpleague.com/) - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
- [Opauth](https://github.com/opauth/opauth) - A multi-provider authentication framework.
- [Paseto](https://github.com/paragonie/paseto) - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens.
- [PHP oAuthLib](https://github.com/daviddesberg/PHPoAuthLib) - Another OAuth library.
- [Sentinel Social](https://cartalyst.com/manual/sentinel-social/2.0) - A library for social network authentication.
- [Sentinel](https://cartalyst.com/manual/sentinel/2.0) - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
- [TwitterOAuth](https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth) - A Twitter OAuth library.

#### Markup and CSS

*Libraries for working with markup and CSS formats.

- [Cebe Markdown](https://github.com/cebe/markdown) - A fast and extensible Markdown parser.
- [CommonMark PHP](https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark) - Highly-extensible Markdown parser which fully supports the [CommonMark spec](https://spec.commonmark.org/).
- [Decoda](https://github.com/milesj/decoda) - A lightweight markup parser library.
- [Essence](https://github.com/essence/essence) - A library for extracting web media.
- [Embera](https://github.com/mpratt/Embera) - An Oembed consumer library.
- [HTML to Markdown](https://github.com/thephpleague/html-to-markdown) - Converts HTML into Markdown.
- [HTML5 PHP](https://github.com/Masterminds/html5-php) - An HTML5 parser and serializer library.
- [Parsedown](https://github.com/erusev/parsedown) - Another Markdown parser.
- [PHP CSS Parser](https://github.com/sabberworm/PHP-CSS-Parser) - A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP.
- [PHP Markdown](https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown) - A Markdown parser.
- [Shiki PHP](https://github.com/spatie/shiki-php) - A [Shiki](https://github.com/shikijs/shiki) code highlighting package in PHP.
- [VObject](https://github.com/sabre-io/vobject) - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects.

#### JSON

*Libraries for working with JSON.*

- [JSON Lint](https://github.com/Seldaek/jsonlint) - A JSON lint utility.
- [JSONMapper](https://github.com/JsonMapper/JsonMapper) - A library for mapping JSON to PHP objects.

#### Strings

*Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.*

- [Agent](https://github.com/jenssegers/agent) - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect.
- [ANSI to HTML5](https://github.com/sensiolabs/ansi-to-html) - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library.
- [Color Jizz](https://github.com/mikeemoo/ColorJizz-PHP) - A library for manipulating and converting colors.
- [Device Detector](https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector) - Another library for parsing user agent strings.
- [Jieba-PHP](https://github.com/fukuball/jieba-php) - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing.
- [Mobile-Detect](https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect) - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
- [Patchwork UTF-8](https://github.com/nicolas-grekas/Patchwork-UTF8) - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings.
- [Portable ASCII](https://github.com/voku/portable-ascii) - A library to convert strings to ASCII.
- [Portable UTF-8](https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8) - A string manipulation library with UTF-8 safe replacement methods.
- [Slugify](https://github.com/cocur/slugify) - A library to convert strings to slugs.
- [SQL Formatter](https://github.com/jdorn/sql-formatter/) - A library for formatting SQL statements.
- [Stringy](https://github.com/voku/Stringy) - A string manipulation library with multibyte support.
- [UA Parser](https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser/tree/master/php) - A library for parsing user agent strings.
- [URLify](https://github.com/jbroadway/urlify) - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js.
- [UUID](https://github.com/ramsey/uuid) - A library for generating UUIDs.

#### Numbers

*Libraries for working with numbers.*

- [Brick\Math](https://github.com/brick/math) - A library providing large number support: `BigInteger`, `BigDecimal` and `BigRational`.
- [ByteUnits](https://github.com/gabrielelana/byte-units) - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems.
- [DecimalObject](https://github.com/php-collective/decimal-object) - A value object to handle decimals/floats easily and more precisely.
- [IP](https://github.com/darsyn/ip) - An immutable value object for working with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
- [LibPhoneNumber for PHP](https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php) - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library.
- [PHP Conversion](https://github.com/Crisu83/php-conversion) - Another library for converting between units of measure.
- [PHP Units of Measure](https://github.com/triplepoint/php-units-of-measure) - A library for converting between units of measure.
- [MathPHP](https://github.com/markrogoyski/math-php) - A math library for PHP.

#### Filtering and Validation

*Libraries for filtering and validating data.*

- [Assert](https://github.com/beberlei/assert) - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.
- [Aura.Filter](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Filter) - Provides tools to validate and sanitize objects and arrays.
- [CakePHP Validation](https://github.com/cakephp/validation) - Another validation library.
- [Filterus](https://github.com/ircmaxell/filterus) - A simple PHP filtering library.
- [ISO-codes](https://github.com/ronanguilloux/IsoCodes) - 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](https://github.com/justinrainbow/json-schema) - A [JSON Schema](https://json-schema.org/) validation library.
- [MetaYaml](https://github.com/romaricdrigon/MetaYaml) - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML.
- [Respect Validation](https://github.com/Respect/Validation) - A simple validation library.
- [Upload](https://github.com/brandonsavage/Upload) - A library for handling file uploads and validation.
- [Valitron](https://github.com/vlucas/valitron) - Another validation library.
- [Volan](https://github.com/serkin/Volan) - Another simplified validation library.

#### API

*Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.*

- [API Platform](https://api-platform.com ) - Expose in minutes a hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.
- [Laminas API Tool Skeleton](https://github.com/laminas-api-tools/api-tools-skeleton) - An API builder built with the Laminas Framework.
- [Drest](https://github.com/leedavis81/drest) - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints.
- [HAL](https://github.com/blongden/hal) - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library.
- [Hateoas](https://github.com/willdurand/Hateoas) - A HATEOAS REST web service library.
- [Jane](https://github.com/janephp/janephp/) - An OpenApi client generator with validation support.
- [Negotiation](https://github.com/willdurand/Negotiation) - A content negotiation library.
- [Restler](https://github.com/Luracast/Restler) - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API.
- [PackageGenerator](https://github.com/WsdlToPhp/PackageGenerator) - Package Generator generates a PHP SDK from any WSDL.

#### Caching and Locking

*Libraries for caching data and acquiring locks.*

- [APIx Cache](https://github.com/apix/cache) - A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasizing cache tagging and indexing.
- [CacheTool](https://github.com/gordalina/cachetool) - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line.
- [CakePHP Cache](https://github.com/cakephp/cache) - A caching library.
- [Doctrine Cache](https://github.com/doctrine/cache) - A caching library.
- [Metaphore](https://github.com/sobstel/metaphore) - Cache slam defense using a semaphore to prevent dogpile effect.
- [Stash](https://github.com/tedious/Stash) - Another library for caching.
- [Laminas Cache](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-cache) - Another caching library.
- [Lock](https://github.com/php-lock/lock) - A lock library to provide exclusive execution.

#### Data Structure and Storage

*Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.*

- [CakePHP Collection](https://github.com/cakephp/collection) - A simple collections library.
- [Fractal](https://github.com/thephpleague/fractal) - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output.
- [Ginq](https://github.com/akanehara/ginq) - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ.
- [JsonMapper](https://github.com/cweiske/jsonmapper) - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
- [JSON Machine](https://github.com/halaxa/json-machine) - Provides iteration over huge JSONs using simple `foreach`
- [Knapsack](https://github.com/DusanKasan/Knapsack) - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
- [msgpack.php](https://github.com/rybakit/msgpack.php) - A pure PHP implementation of the [MessagePack](https://msgpack.org/) serialization format.
- [PINQ](https://github.com/TimeToogo/Pinq) - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query).
- [Serializer](https://github.com/schmittjoh/serializer) - A library for serializing and de-serializing data.
- [YaLinqo](https://github.com/Athari/YaLinqo) - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP.
- [Laminas Serializer](https://github.com/laminas/laminas-serializer) - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data.

#### Notifications

*Libraries for working with notification software.*

- [JoliNotif](https://github.com/jolicode/JoliNotif) - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc)
- [Notification Pusher](https://github.com/Ph3nol/NotificationPusher) - A standalone library for device push notifications.
- [Notificato](https://github.com/mac-cain13/notificato) - A library for handling push notifications.
- [Notificator](https://github.com/namshi/notificator) - A lightweight notification library.
- [Php-pushwoosh](https://github.com/gomoob/php-pushwoosh) - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services.

#### Deployment

*Libraries for project deployment.*

- [Deployer](https://github.com/deployphp/deployer) - A deployment tool.
- [Envoy](https://github.com/laravel/envoy) - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP.
- [Rocketeer](https://github.com/rocketeers/rocketeer) - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world.

#### Internationalisation and Localisation

*Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).*

- [Aura.Intl](https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Intl) - Provides internationalization (I18N) tools, specifically package-oriented per-locale message translation.
- [CakePHP I18n](https://github.com/cakephp/i18n) - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers.

#### Serverless

*Libraries and tools to help build serverless web applications.*

- [Bref](https://bref.sh/) - Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda.
- [OpenWhisk](https://openwhisk.apache.org/) - An open-source serverless cloud platform.
- [Serverless Framework](https://www.serverless.com/framework) - An open-source framework for building serverless applications.
- [Laravel Vapor](https://vapor.laravel.com/) - A serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS.

## Configuration

*Libraries and tools for configuration.*

- [PHP Dotenv](https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv) - Parse and load environment variables from `.env` files.
- [Symfony Dotenv](https://github.com/symfony/dotenv)- Parse and load environment variables from `.env` files.
- [Yo! Symfony TOML](https://github.com/yosymfony/toml) - A PHP parser for [TOML](https://github.com/toml-lang/toml).

#### Third Party APIs

*Libraries for accessing third party APIs.*

- [Amazon Web Service SDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php) - The official PHP AWS SDK library.
- [AsyncAWS](https://async-aws.com/) - An unofficial asynchronous PHP AWS SDK.
- [Campaign Monitor](https://campaignmonitor.github.io/createsend-php/) - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
- [Github](https://github.com/KnpLabs/php-github-api) - A library to interface with the Github API.
- [Mailgun](https://github.com/mailgun/mailgun-php) The official Mailgun PHP API.
- [Square](https://github.com/square/connect-php-sdk) - The official Square PHP SDK for payments and other Square APIs.
- [Stripe](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-php) - The official Stripe PHP library.
- [Twilio](https://github.com/twilio/twilio-php) - The official Twilio PHP REST API.

#### Extensions

*Libraries to help build PHP extensions.*

- [PHP CPP](https://www.php-cpp.com/) - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
- [Zephir](https://github.com/zephir-lang/zephir ) - A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions.

#### Miscellaneous

*Useful libraries or utilities that don't fit into the categories above.*

- [Annotations](https://github.com/doctrine/annotations) - An annotation library (part of Doctrine).
- [BotMan](https://github.com/botman/botman) - A framework agnostic PHP library to build cross-platform chatbots.
- [ClassPreloader](https://github.com/ClassPreloader/ClassPreloader) - A library for optimizing autoloading.
- [Hprose-PHP](https://github.com/hprose/hprose-php) - A cross-language RPC.
- [noCAPTCHA](https://github.com/ARCANEDEV/noCAPTCHA) - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA).
- [Pagerfanta](https://github.com/whiteoctober/Pagerfanta) - A pagination library.
- [Safe](https://github.com/thecodingmachine/safe) - All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false.
- [SuperClosure](https://github.com/jeremeamia/super_closure) - A library that allows Closures to be serialized.

# Software

*Software for creating a development environment.*

#### PHP Installation

*Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.*

- [Brew PHP Switcher](https://github.com/philcook/brew-php-switcher) - Brew PHP switcher.
- [HomeBrew](https://brew.sh/) - A package manager for OSX.
- [Laravel Valet](https://laravel.com/docs/master/valet) - A development environment for macOS.
- [PHP Brew](https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew) - A PHP version manager and installer.
- [PHP Build](https://github.com/php-build/php-build) - Another PHP version installer.

#### Development Environment

*Software and tools for creating and sharing a development environment.*

- [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) - A radically simple orchestration framework.
- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) - A containerization platform.
- [Docker PHP Extension Installer](https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer) - Easily install PHP extensions in Docker containers.
- [Expose](https://github.com/beyondcode/expose) - An open-source PHP tunneling service.
- [Lando](https://lando.dev/) - Push-button development environments.
- [Laravel Homestead](https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead) - A local development environment for Laravel.
- [Laradock](http://laradock.io/) - A full PHP development environment based on Docker.
- [Puppet](https://www.puppet.com) - A server automation framework and application.
- [Takeout](https://github.com/tighten/takeout) - A Docker-based development-only dependency manager.
- [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) - A portable development environment utility.

#### Virtual Machines

*Alternative PHP virtual machines.*

- [Hack](https://hacklang.org/) - A programming language for HHVM.
- [HHVM](https://github.com/facebook/hhvm) - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook.
- [PeachPie](https://github.com/peachpiecompiler/peachpie) - PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core.

#### Text Editors and IDEs

*Text Editors and Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with support for PHP.*

- [Eclipse for PHP Developers](https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) - A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
- [Apache NetBeans](https://netbeans.apache.org/) - An IDE with support for PHP and HTML5.
- [PhpStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/) - A commercial PHP IDE.
- [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - An open source code editor.

#### Web Applications

*Web-based applications and tools.*

- [3V4L](https://3v4l.org/) - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
- [Adminer](https://www.adminer.org/) - Database management in a single PHP file.
- [Cachet](https://github.com/cachethq/cachet) - The open source status page system.
- [DBV](https://github.com/victorstanciu/dbv) - A database version control application.
- [Lychee](https://github.com/electerious/Lychee) - An easy to use and great looking photo-management-system.
- [MailCatcher](https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher) - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails.
- [phpMyAdmin](https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin) - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB.
- [PHP Queue](https://github.com/CoderKungfu/php-queue) - An application for managing queueing backends.
- [phpRedisAdmin](https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/phpRedisAdmin) - A simple web interface to manage [Redis](https://redis.io/) databases.
- [PHPSandbox](https://phpsandbox.io) - An online IDE for PHP in the browser.

#### Infrastructure

*Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.*

- [appserver.io](https://github.com/appserver-io/appserver) - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
- [php-pm](https://github.com/php-pm/php-pm) - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications.
- [RoadRunner](https://github.com/roadrunner-server/roadrunner) - High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager.

# Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your PHP development skills and knowledge.

#### PHP Websites

*Useful PHP-related websites.*

- [Nomad PHP](https://nomadphp.com/) - A online PHP learning resource.
- [Laravel News](https://laravel-news.com/) - The official Laravel blog.
- [PHP Annotated Monthly](https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/tag/php-annotated-monthly/) - A monthly digest of PHP news.
- [PHP Best Practices](https://phpbestpractices.org/) - A PHP best practice guide.
- [PHP FIG](https://www.php-fig.org/) - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
- [PHP Package Development Standards](http://php-pds.com) - Package development standards for PHP.
- [PHP School](https://www.phpschool.io/) - Open Source Learning for PHP.
- [PHP Security](https://phpsecurity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) - A guide to PHP security.
- [PHP The Right Way](https://phptherightway.com/) - A PHP best practice quick reference guide.
- [PHP UG](https://php.ug) - A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG).
- [PHP Versions](http://phpversions.info/) - Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts.
- [PHP Watch](https://php.watch/) - PHP articles, news, upcoming changes, RFCs and more.
- [PHP Weekly](https://www.phpweekly.com/archive.html) - A weekly PHP newsletter.
- [Seven PHP](https://7php.com/) - A website that interviews members of the PHP community.

#### PHP Books

*Fantastic PHP-related books.*

- [Domain-Driven Design in PHP](https://leanpub.com/ddd-in-php) - Real examples written in PHP showcasing DDD Architectural Styles.
- [Functional Programming in PHP](https://www.functionalphp.com/) - This book will show you how to leverage these new PHP5.3+ features by understanding functional programming principles
- [Grumpy PHPUnit](https://leanpub.com/grumpy-phpunit) - A book about unit testing with PHPUnit by Chris Hartjes.
- [Mastering Object-Orientated PHP](https://brandonsavage.net) - A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage.
- [Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491905173/) - A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart.
- [Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP](https://leanpub.com/mlaphp) - A book about modernizing legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
- [PHP 7 Upgrade Guide](https://leanpub.com/php7) - An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O'Dell.
- [PHP Pandas](https://daylerees.com/php-pandas/) - A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees.
- [Scaling PHP Applications](https://www.scalingphpbook.com) - An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona.
- [Securing PHP: Core Concepts](https://leanpub.com/securingphp-coreconcepts) - A book about common security terms and practices for PHP by Chris Cornutt.
- [Signaling PHP](https://leanpub.com/signalingphp) - A book about catching PCNTL signals in CLI scripts by Cal Evans.
- [The Grumpy Programmer's Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications](https://leanpub.com/grumpy-testing) - A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes.
- [XML Parsing with PHP](https://www.phparch.com/books/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.

#### PHP Videos

*Fantastic PHP-related videos.*

- [Nomad PHP Lightning Talks](https://www.youtube.com/c/nomadphp) - 10 to 15 minute Lightning Talks by PHP community members.
- [PHP UK Conference](https://www.youtube.com/user/phpukconference/videos) - A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference.
- [Programming with Anthony](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-218uGSX3DQ3KsB5NJnuOqPqc5CW2kW) - A video series by Anthony Ferrara.
- [Taking PHP Seriously](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history/) - A talk outlining PHP's strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook.
- [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com) - Screencasts about Laravel, Vue JS and more.
- [Laravel YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfO2GiQwb-cwJTb1CuRSkwg) - The official Laravel YouTube channel.
- [SymfonyCasts](https://symfonycasts.com/) - Screencasts and tutorials about PHP and Symfony.

#### PHP Podcasts

*Podcasts with a focus on PHP topics.*

- [The Laravel Podcast](https://laravelpodcast.com/) - Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
- [Laravel News Podcast](https://podcast.laravel-news.com/) - The Laravel News Podcast brings you all the latest news and events related to the Laravel PHP Framework.
- [PHP Internals News](https://phpinternals.news) - A podcast about PHP internals.
- [The PHP Roundtable](https://phproundtable.com/) - The PHP Roundtable is a casual gathering of developers discussing topics that PHP nerds care about.
- [PHP Town Hall](https://phptownhall.com/) - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
- [Voices of the ElePHPant](https://voicesoftheelephpant.com/) - Interviews with the people who make the PHP community special.
- [The Laracasts Snippet](https://laracasts.simplecast.com) - The Laracasts snippet, each episode, offers a single thought on some aspect of web development.
- [php[podcast] episodes from php[architect]](https://www.phparch.com/podcast/) - The official podcast of php[architect] the industry's leading tech magazine and publisher focused on PHP and web development.
- [Over Engineered](https://overengineered.fm/) - A podcast in mini-series where we explore unimportant programming questions in extreme detail.
- [PHPUgly](https://www.phpugly.com/) - The ramblings of a few overworked PHP Developers.
- [No Compromises](https://show.nocompromises.io/) - Two seasoned salty programming veterans talk best practices based on years of working with Laravel SaaS teams.
- [North Meets South Web Podcast](https://www.northmeetssouth.audio/) - Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers.

#### PHP Newsletters

*PHP-related news directly to your inbox.*

- [PHP Weekly](https://www.phpweekly.com/) - A weekly newsletter about PHP.

#### PHP Reading

*PHP-related reading materials.*

- [php[architect]](https://www.phparch.com/magazine/) - A monthly magazine dedicated to PHP.

#### PHP Internals Reading

*Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.*

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