awesome-php.md

Awesome PHP

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

Contributing

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Table of Contents

• Awesome PHP
  • Dependency Management
  • Dependency Management Extras
  • Frameworks
  • Framework Extras
  • Components
  • Micro Frameworks
  • Micro Framework Extras
  • Routers
  • Templating
  • Static Site Generators
  • HTTP
  • Middlewares
  • URL
  • Email
  • Files
  • Streams
  • Dependency Injection
  • Imagery
  • Testing
  • Continuous Integration
  • Documentation
  • Security
  • Passwords
  • Code Analysis
  • Architectural
  • Debugging and Profiling
  • Build Tools
  • Task Runners
  • Navigation
  • Asset Management
  • Geolocation
  • Date and Time
  • Event
  • Logging
  • E-commerce
  • PDF
  • Office
  • Database
  • Migrations
  • NoSQL
  • Queue
  • Search
  • Command Line
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Markup
  • Strings
  • Numbers
  • Filtering and Validation
  • API
  • Caching
  • Data Structure and Storage
  • Notifications
  • Deployment
  • Internationalisation and Localisation
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • PHP Installation
  • Development Environment
  • Virtual Machines
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Web Applications
  • Infrastructure
• Resources
  • PHP Websites
  • Other Websites
  • PHP Books
  • PHP Videos
  • PHP Reading
  • PHP Internals Reading
• Contributing

Dependency Management

Libraries for dependency and package management.

• Composer Installers - A multi framework Composer library installer. ^{★ 541, pushed 134 days ago}
• Composer / Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
• Melody - A tool to build one file Composer scripts.
• Pickle - A PHP extension installer. ^{★ 745, pushed 154 days ago}

Dependency Management Extras

Extras related to dependency management.

• Composed - A library to parse your project's Composer environment at runtime. ^{★ 10, pushed 194 days ago}
• Composer Checker - A tool to validate Composer configurations. ^{★ 8, pushed 705 days ago}
• Composer Merge Plugin - A composer plugin to merge several composer.json files. ^{★ 120, pushed 134 days ago}
• Composition - A library to check your Composer environment at runtime. ^{★ 93, pushed 171 days ago}
• NameSpacer - A library to convert from underscores to namespaces. ^{★ 54, pushed 1280 days ago}
• Patch Installer - A library to install patches using Composer. ^{★ 47, pushed 1234 days ago}
• Prestissimo - A composer plugin which enables parallel install process. ^{★ 1698, pushed 129 days ago}
• Satis - A static Composer repository generator. ^{★ 1072, pushed 137 days ago}
• Toran Proxy - A static Composer repository and proxy.

Frameworks

Web development frameworks.

• Aura PHP - A framework of independent components.
• CakePHP - A rapid application development framework (CP).
• Laravel 5 - Another PHP framework (L5).
• Nette - Another framework comprised of individual components.
• Phalcon - A framework implemented as a C extension.
• PPI Framework 2 - An interoperability framework.
• Symfony 2 - A framework comprised of individual components (SF2).
• Yii2 - Another PHP framework.
• Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components (ZF2).
• Radar - An Action-Domain-Responder implementation for PHP. ^{★ 37, pushed 153 days ago}
• Ice - Another simple and fast PHP framework delivered as C-extension.

Framework Extras

Extras related to web development frameworks.

• CakePHP CRUD - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) plugin for CakePHP. ^{★ 220, pushed 126 days ago}
• Knp RAD Bundle - A Rapid Application Development (RAD) bundle for Symfony 2.
• Symfony CMF - A Content Management Framework to create custom CMS. ^{★ 705, pushed 135 days ago}

Components

Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.

• CakePHP Plugins - A directory of CakePHP plugins.
• Hoa Project - Another package of PHP components.
• League of Extraordinary Packages - A PHP package development group.
• Symfony2 Components - The components that make Symfony 2.
• Zend Framework 2 Components - The components that make Zend Framework.

Micro Frameworks

Micro frameworks and routers.

• Bullet PHP - A micro framework for building REST APIs.
• Lumen - A micro-framework by Laravel.
• Proton - A StackPHP compatible micro framework ^{★ 241, pushed 251 days ago}
• Silex - A micro framework built around Symfony2 components.
• Slim - Another simple micro framework.

Micro Framework Extras

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

• Silex Skeleton - A project skeleton for Silex. ^{★ 663, pushed 262 days ago}
• Silex Web Profiler - A web debug toolbar for Silex. ^{★ 166, pushed 145 days ago}
• Slim Skeleton - A skeleton for Slim. ^{★ 375, pushed 147 days ago}
• Slim View - A collection of custom views for Slim. ^{★ 278, pushed 301 days ago}

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing.

• Fast Route - A fast routing library. ^{★ 1604, pushed 128 days ago}
• Klein - A flexible router. ^{★ 1765, pushed 192 days ago}
• Pux - Another fast routing library. ^{★ 1155, pushed 134 days ago}
• Route - A routing library built on top of Fast Route. ^{★ 196, pushed 128 days ago}

Templating

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• Foil - Another native PHP templating library. ^{★ 78, pushed 176 days ago}
• Lex - A lightweight template parser. ^{★ 80, pushed 753 days ago}
• MtHaml - A PHP implementation of the HAML template language. ^{★ 296, pushed 263 days ago}
• Mustache - A PHP implementation of the Mustache template language. ^{★ 2306, pushed 150 days ago}
• Phly Mustache - Another PHP implementation of the Mustache template language. ^{★ 126, pushed 369 days ago}
• PHPTAL - A PHP implementation of the TAL templating language.
• Plates - A native PHP templating library.
• Smarty - A template engine to complement PHP.
• Twig - A comprehensive templating language.
• Tale Jade - A PHP implementation of the Jade template language.

Static Site Generators

Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.

• Couscous - Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.
• Phrozn - Another tool that converts Textile, Markdown and Twig into HTML. ^{★ 484, pushed 738 days ago}
• Sculpin - A tool that converts Markdown and Twig into static HTML.
• Spress - An extensible tool that converts Markdown and Twig into HTML.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• Buzz - Another HTTP client. ^{★ 1233, pushed 151 days ago}
• Guzzle - A comprehensive HTTP client. ^{★ 6799, pushed 129 days ago}
• HTTPFul - A chainable HTTP client. ^{★ 1039, pushed 137 days ago}
• PHP VCR - A library for recording and replaying HTTP requests.
• Requests - A simple HTTP library. ^{★ 2057, pushed 139 days ago}
• Retrofit - A library to ease creation of REST API clients. ^{★ 65, pushed 143 days ago}
• zend-diactoros - PSR-7 HTTP Message implementation. ^{★ 269, pushed 130 days ago}

Scraping

Libraries for scraping websites.

• Embed - An information extractor from any web service or page. ^{★ 768, pushed 130 days ago}
• Goutte - A simple web scraper. ^{★ 3930, pushed 154 days ago}
• PHP Spider - A configurable and extensible PHP web spider. ^{★ 401, pushed 214 days ago}

Middlewares

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

• Expressive - PSR-7 Middleware framework from Zend
• PSR7-Middlewares - Inspiring collection of handy middlewares. ^{★ 285, pushed 137 days ago}
• Relay - A PHP 5.5 PSR-7 middleware dispatcher ^{★ 155, pushed 258 days ago}
• Slim Middleware - A collection of custom middleware for Slim. ^{★ 35, pushed 1082 days ago}
• Stack - A library of stackable middleware for Silex/Symfony.
• zend-stratigility - Middleware for PHP built on top of PSR-7 ^{★ 134, pushed 131 days ago}

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• PHP Domain Parser - A domain suffix parser library. ^{★ 350, pushed 201 days ago}
• Purl - A URL manipulation library. ^{★ 573, pushed 144 days ago}
• sabre/uri - A functional URI manipulation library. ^{★ 90, pushed 174 days ago}
• Uri - Another URL manipulation library. ^{★ 118, pushed 127 days ago}

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• CssToInlineStyles - A library to inline CSS in email templates. ^{★ 621, pushed 145 days ago}
• Email Reply Parser - An email reply parser library. ^{★ 385, pushed 193 days ago}
• Email Validator - A small email address validation library. ^{★ 41, pushed 264 days ago}
• Fetch - An IMAP library. ^{★ 353, pushed 130 days ago}
• Mautic - Email marketing automation ^{★ 661, pushed 129 days ago}
• PHPMailer - Another mailer solution. ^{★ 6090, pushed 125 days ago}
• Stampie - A library for email services such as SendGrid , PostMark , MailGun and Mandrill . ^{★ 22, pushed 348 days ago}
• SwiftMailer - A mailer solution.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• Apache MIME Types - A library that parses Apache MIME types. ^{★ 34, pushed 926 days ago}
• Canal - A library to determine internet media types. ^{★ 23, pushed 1210 days ago}
• CSV - A CSV data manipulation library. ^{★ 825, pushed 130 days ago}
• Ferret - A MIME detection library. ^{★ 14, pushed 661 days ago}
• Flysystem - Another filesystem abstraction layer. ^{★ 2771, pushed 130 days ago}
• Gaufrette - A filesystem abstraction layer. ^{★ 1667, pushed 143 days ago}
• Hoa Mime - Another MIME detection library. ^{★ 60, pushed 234 days ago}
• Lurker - A resource tracking library. ^{★ 4, pushed 314 days ago}
• PHP FFmpeg - A wrapper for the FFmpeg video library.

Streams

Libraries for working with streams.

• Streamer - A simple object-orientated stream wrapper library. ^{★ 177, pushed 420 days ago}

Dependency Injection

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

• Acclimate - A common interface to dependency injection containers and service locators. ^{★ 150, pushed 186 days ago}
• Auryn - A recursive dependency injector. ^{★ 347, pushed 175 days ago}
• Container - Another flexible dependency injection container. ^{★ 184, pushed 143 days ago}
• PHP-DI - A dependency injection container that supports autowiring.
• Pimple - A tiny dependency injection container.
• Symfony DI - A dependency injection container component (SF2). ^{★ 78, pushed 129 days ago}

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• Color Extractor - A library for extracting colours from images. ^{★ 475, pushed 144 days ago}
• GIF Creator - A library to create GIF animations from multiple images. ^{★ 168, pushed 1095 days ago}
• GIF Frame Extractor - A library to extract GIF animation frame information. ^{★ 68, pushed 460 days ago}
• Glide - An on-demand image manipulation library. ^{★ 737, pushed 151 days ago}
• Image Hash - A library for generating perceptual image hashes. ^{★ 438, pushed 195 days ago}
• Image Optimizer - A library for optimizing images. ^{★ 149, pushed 233 days ago}
• Image With Text - A library for embedding text into images. ^{★ 67, pushed 1020 days ago}
• Imagine - An image manipulation library.
• Intervention Image - Another image manipulation library. ^{★ 3485, pushed 132 days ago}
• PHP Image Workshop - Another image manipulation library. ^{★ 694, pushed 224 days ago}

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Alice - An expressive fixture generation library. ^{★ 1007, pushed 129 days ago}
• AspectMock - A mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception. ^{★ 413, pushed 150 days ago}
• Atoum - A simple testing library. ^{★ 837, pushed 127 days ago}
• Behat - A behaviour driven development (BDD) testing framework.
• Codeception - A full stack testing framework. ^{★ 2132, pushed 125 days ago}
• DBUnit - A database testing library for PHPUnit. ^{★ 144, pushed 174 days ago}
• Faker - A fake data generator library. ^{★ 8400, pushed 125 days ago}
• HTTP Mock - A library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests. ^{★ 232, pushed 130 days ago}
• Kahlan - Full stack Unit/BDD testing framework with built-in stub, mock and code-coverage support. ^{★ 357, pushed 126 days ago}
• Mink - Web acceptance testing.
• Mockery - A mock object library for testing. ^{★ 1889, pushed 128 days ago}
• ParaTest - A parallel testing library for PHPUnit. ^{★ 360, pushed 145 days ago}
• Peridot - An event driven test framework. ^{★ 162, pushed 136 days ago}
• Phake - Another mock object library for testing. ^{★ 376, pushed 157 days ago}
• Pho - Another behaviour driven development testing framework. ^{★ 240, pushed 165 days ago}
• PHPSpec - A design by specification unit testing library. ^{★ 979, pushed 132 days ago}
• PHPT - A test tool used by PHP itself.
• PHPUnit - A unit testing framework. ^{★ 5159, pushed 129 days ago}
• Prophecy - A highly opinionated mocking framework. ^{★ 689, pushed 129 days ago}
• Samsui - Another fake data generator library. ^{★ 29, pushed 748 days ago}
• VFS Stream - A virtual filesystem stream wrapper for testing. ^{★ 596, pushed 149 days ago}
• VFS - Another virtual filesystem for testing. ^{★ 275, pushed 133 days ago}

Continuous Integration

Libraries and applications for continuous integration.

• CircleCI - A continuous integration platform.
• GitlabCi - Let GitLab CI test, build, deploy your code. TravisCi like.
• Jenkins - A continous integration platform with PHP support .
• JoliCi - A continuous integration client written in PHP and powered by Docker. ^{★ 529, pushed 197 days ago}
• PHPCI - An open source continuous integration platform for PHP.
• SemaphoreCI - A continuous integration platform for open source and private projects.
• Shippable - A docker based continious integration platform for open source and private projects.
• Sismo - A continuous testing server library.
• Travis CI - A continuous integration platform.
• Wercker - A continuous integration platform

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• APIGen - Another API documentation generator. ^{★ 1202, pushed 177 days ago}
• daux.io - A documentation generator which uses Markdown files. ^{★ 3946, pushed 127 days ago}
• PHP Documentor 2 - A documentation generator. ^{★ 1692, pushed 134 days ago}
• phpDox - A documentation generator for PHP projects (that is not limited to API documentation).
• Sami - An API documentation generator. ^{★ 1139, pushed 138 days ago}

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.

• Halite - A simple library for encryption using libsodium .
• HTML Purifier - A standards compliant HTML filter. ^{★ 700, pushed 157 days ago}
• IniScan - A tool that scans PHP INI files for security. ^{★ 1016, pushed 165 days ago}
• Optimus - Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method. ^{★ 447, pushed 197 days ago}
• PHP Encryption - Secure PHP Encryption Library. ^{★ 655, pushed 128 days ago}
• PHP IDS - A structured PHP security layer. ^{★ 451, pushed 366 days ago}
• PHP SSH - An experimental object orientated SSH wrapper library. ^{★ 220, pushed 339 days ago}
• PHPSecLib - A pure PHP secure communications library.
• RandomLib - A library for generating random numbers and strings. ^{★ 452, pushed 196 days ago}
• SecurityMultiTool - A PHP security library. ^{★ 108, pushed 306 days ago}
• SensioLabs Security Check - A web tool to check your Composer dependencies for security advisories.
• TCrypto - A simple encrypted key-value storage library. ^{★ 48, pushed 276 days ago}
• True Random - A library that generates random numbers using www.random.org . ^{★ 35, pushed 1139 days ago}
• VAddy - A continuous security testing platform for web applications.
• Zed - An integrated penetration testing tool for web applications.

Passwords

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

• GenPhrase - A library for generating secure random passphrases. ^{★ 34, pushed 276 days ago}
• Password Compat - A compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions. ^{★ 1685, pushed 146 days ago}
• Password Policy - A password policy library for PHP and JavaScript. ^{★ 37, pushed 159 days ago}
• Password Validator - A library for validating and upgrading password hashes. ^{★ 127, pushed 180 days ago}
• Password-Generator - PHP library to generate random passwords. ^{★ 37, pushed 125 days ago}
• PHP Password Lib - A library for generating and validating passwords. ^{★ 330, pushed 579 days ago}
• phpass - A portable password hashing framework.
• Zxcvbn PHP - A realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS. ^{★ 217, pushed 145 days ago}

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.

• Athletic - An annotation based benchmark framework. ^{★ 299, pushed 147 days ago}
• Code Climate - An automated code review.
• Dissect - A set of tools for lexical and syntactical analysis. ^{★ 166, pushed 529 days ago}
• Exakat - A static analysis engine for PHP. ^{★ 9, pushed 128 days ago}
• GrumPHP - A composer plugin to defend code quality. ^{★ 957, pushed 126 days ago}
• Mondrian - A code analysis tool using Graph Theory. ^{★ 292, pushed 376 days ago}
• PHP Analyser - A library for analysing PHP code to find bugs and errors. ^{★ 443, pushed 489 days ago}
• PHP Code Sniffer - A library that detects PHP, CSS and JS coding standard violations. ^{★ 2270, pushed 130 days ago}
• PHP CS Fixer - A coding standards fixer library. ^{★ 3204, pushed 126 days ago}
• PHP Manipulator - A library for analysing and modifying PHP Source Code. ^{★ 102, pushed 709 days ago}
• PHP Mess Detector - A library that scans code for bugs, sub-optimal code, unused parameters and more.
• PHP Metrics - A static metric library. ^{★ 793, pushed 153 days ago}
• PHP Parser - A PHP parser written in PHP. ^{★ 2252, pushed 138 days ago}
• PHP Refactoring Browser - A command line utility for refactoring PHP code. ^{★ 494, pushed 510 days ago}
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - A command line utility that compares two source sets and determines the appropriate semantic versioning to apply. ^{★ 312, pushed 207 days ago}
• phan - A static analyzer based on PHP 7+ and the php-ast extension. ^{★ 926, pushed 130 days ago}
• PHPCheckstyle - A tool to help adhere to certain coding conventions. ^{★ 55, pushed 422 days ago}
• PHPCPD - A library that detects copied and pasted code. ^{★ 992, pushed 141 days ago}
• PhpDependencyAnalysis - A tool to create customisable dependency graphs. ^{★ 173, pushed 192 days ago}
• PHPLOC - A tool for quickly measuring the size of a PHP project. ^{★ 897, pushed 132 days ago}
• PHPQA - A tool for running QA tools (phploc, phpcpd, phpcs, pdepend, phpmd, phpmetrics). ^{★ 25, pushed 129 days ago}
• PHPPHP - A PHP VM implementation in PHP. ^{★ 596, pushed 416 days ago}
• PHPSandbox - A PHP sandbox environment.
• Qafoo Quality Analyzer - A tool to visualize metrics and source code.
• Scrutinizer - A web tool to scrutinise PHP code.
• UBench - A simple micro benchmark library. ^{★ 352, pushed 461 days ago}

Architectural

Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.

• Compose - A function composition library. ^{★ 67, pushed 937 days ago}
• Design Patterns PHP - A repository of software patterns implemented in PHP. ^{★ 9377, pushed 151 days ago}
• Finite - A simple PHP finite state machine.
• Functional PHP - A functional programming library. ^{★ 655, pushed 143 days ago}
• Galapagos - Evolutionary language transformation. ^{★ 9, pushed 547 days ago}
• Iter - A library that provides iteration primitives using generators. ^{★ 460, pushed 320 days ago}
• Monad PHP - A simple Monad library. ^{★ 172, pushed 361 days ago}
• Patchwork - A library for redefining userland functions.
• PHP Option - An option type library. ^{★ 437, pushed 202 days ago}
• Pipeline - A pipeline pattern implementation. ^{★ 215, pushed 159 days ago}
• Ruler - A simple stateless production rules engine. ^{★ 657, pushed 467 days ago}
• RulerZ - A powerful rule engine and implementation of the Specification pattern. ^{★ 308, pushed 139 days ago}

Debugging and Profiling

Libraries and tools for debugging and profiling code.

• APM - Monitoring extension collecting errors and statistics into SQLite/MySQL/StatsD.
• Barbushin PHP Console - Another web debugging console using Google Chrome. ^{★ 782, pushed 199 days ago}
• Blackfire.io - A low-overhead code profiler.
• Kint - A debugging and profiling tool. ^{★ 1489, pushed 133 days ago}
• PHP Console - A web debugging console. ^{★ 363, pushed 233 days ago}
• PHP Debug Bar - A debugging toolbar.
• PHPBench - A benchmarking Framework. ^{★ 320, pushed 131 days ago}
• PHPDBG - An interactive PHP debugger.
• Tideways.io - Monitoring and profiling tool
• Tracy - A simple error detection, logging and time measuring library. ^{★ 437, pushed 137 days ago}
• xDebug - A debug and profile tool for PHP. ^{★ 838, pushed 128 days ago}
• XHProf - A profiling tool originally developed by Facebook. ^{★ 1569, pushed 187 days ago}
• Z-Ray - A debug and profile tool for Zend Server.

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools.

• Bob - A simple project automation tool. ^{★ 90, pushed 1012 days ago}
• Box - A utility to build PHAR files. ^{★ 826, pushed 127 days ago}
• Phake - A rake PHP clone library. ^{★ 377, pushed 522 days ago}
• Phing - A PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant.

Task Runners

Libraries for automating and running tasks.

• Bldr - A PHP Task runner built on Symfony components.
• Jobby - A PHP cron job manager without modifying crontab. ^{★ 411, pushed 143 days ago}
• Robo - A PHP Task runner with object-orientated configurations.
• Task - A pure PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp.

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures.

• Cartographer - A sitemap generation library. ^{★ 270, pushed 179 days ago}
• KnpMenu - A menu library. ^{★ 402, pushed 241 days ago}

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• Assetic - An asset manager pipeline library. ^{★ 3270, pushed 137 days ago}
• JShrink - A JavaScript minifier library. ^{★ 405, pushed 382 days ago}
• Munee - An asset optimiser library. ^{★ 740, pushed 130 days ago}
• Pipe - Another asset manager pipeline library. ^{★ 119, pushed 957 days ago}
• Puli - A library for determining assets absolute paths. ^{★ 413, pushed 213 days ago}

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• GeoCoder - A geocoding library.
• GeoJSON - A GeoJSON implementation. ^{★ 102, pushed 146 days ago}
• GeoTools - A library of geo-related tools. ^{★ 634, pushed 175 days ago}
• PHPGeo - A simple geo library. ^{★ 624, pushed 140 days ago}

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• CalendR - A calendar management library.
• Carbon - A simple DateTime API extension. ^{★ 4251, pushed 125 days ago}
• Chronos - A DateTime API extension supporting both mutable and immutable date/time. ^{★ 132, pushed 137 days ago}
• ExpressiveDate - Another DateTime API extension. ^{★ 242, pushed 389 days ago}
• Moment.php - Moment.js inspired PHP DateTime handler with i18n support. ^{★ 267, pushed 126 days ago}

Event

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

• Amp - An event driven non-blocking I/O library. ^{★ 318, pushed 150 days ago}
• Broadway - An event source and CQRS library. ^{★ 640, pushed 137 days ago}
• Cake Event - An event dispatcher library (CP). ^{★ 9, pushed 133 days ago}
• Elephant.io - Yet another web socket library. ^{★ 747, pushed 152 days ago}
• Evenement - An event dispatcher library. ^{★ 447, pushed 161 days ago}
• Event - An event library with a focus on domain events. ^{★ 190, pushed 168 days ago}
• Hoa EventSource - An event source library. ^{★ 58, pushed 234 days ago}
• Hoa WebSocket - Another web socket library. ^{★ 184, pushed 130 days ago}
• Icicle - An asynchronous library with coroutines, non-blocking I/O, and multithreading. ^{★ 827, pushed 158 days ago}
• Prooph Event Store - An event source component to persist event messages ^{★ 108, pushed 136 days ago}
• Ratchet - A web socket library. ^{★ 2855, pushed 132 days ago}
• React - An event driven non-blocking I/O library. ^{★ 4174, pushed 327 days ago}
• Rx.PHP - A reactive extension library. ^{★ 206, pushed 225 days ago}
• Workerman - An event driven non-blocking I/O library. ^{★ 2391, pushed 148 days ago}

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• Analog - A closure-based micro logging package. ^{★ 222, pushed 160 days ago}
• KLogger - An easy-to-use PSR-3 compliant logging class. ^{★ 646, pushed 304 days ago}
• Monolog - A comprehensive logger. ^{★ 4660, pushed 133 days ago}

E-commerce

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

• Money - A PHP implementation of Fowler's money pattern. ^{★ 798, pushed 133 days ago}
• OmniPay - A framework agnostic multi-gateway payment processing library. ^{★ 2805, pushed 137 days ago}
• Payum - A payment abstraction library. ^{★ 648, pushed 128 days ago}
• Shopware - Highly customizable e-commerce software ^{★ 427, pushed 129 days ago}
• Swap - An exchange rates library. ^{★ 438, pushed 138 days ago}
• Sylius - An open source e-commerce solution.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

• Dompdf - A HTML to PDF converter. ^{★ 2679, pushed 127 days ago}
• PHPPdf - A library for generating PDFs and images from XML. ^{★ 261, pushed 183 days ago}
• Snappy - A PDF and image generation library. ^{★ 1889, pushed 157 days ago}
• WKHTMLToPDF - A tool to convert HTML to PDF. ^{★ 4050, pushed 129 days ago}

Office

Libraries for working with office suite documents.

• ExcelAnt - A library for manipulating Microsoft Excel documents. ^{★ 45, pushed 881 days ago}
• PHPExcel - A library for working with Microsoft Excel documents. ^{★ 5973, pushed 130 days ago}
• PHPPowerPoint - A library for working with Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations. ^{★ 397, pushed 145 days ago}
• PHPWord - A library for working with Microsoft Word documents. ^{★ 1596, pushed 132 days ago}

Database

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

• Baum - A nested set implementation for Eloquent. ^{★ 965, pushed 165 days ago}
• Cake ORM - Object-Relational Mapper, implemented using the DataMapper pattern (CP). ^{★ 105, pushed 133 days ago}
• Doctrine Extensions - A collection of Doctrine behavioural extensions. ^{★ 1556, pushed 127 days ago}
• Doctrine - A comprehensive DBAL and ORM.
• Eloquent - A simple ORM (L5). ^{★ 729, pushed 127 days ago}
• LazyRecord - A fast ORM designed for simplicity, extendability and performance.
• Pomm - An Object Model Manager for PostgreSQL. ^{★ 158, pushed 334 days ago}
• Propel - A fast ORM, migration library and query builder.
• ProxyManager - A set of utilities to generate proxy objects for data mappers. ^{★ 550, pushed 173 days ago}
• RedBean - A lightweight, configuration-less ORM.
• Spot2 - A MySQL datamapper ORM. ^{★ 347, pushed 129 days ago}

Migrations

Libraries to help manage database schemas and migrations.

• Doctrine Migrations - A migration library for Doctrine.
• Migrations - A migration management library. ^{★ 36, pushed 162 days ago}
• Phinx - Another database migration library. ^{★ 2092, pushed 130 days ago}
• PHPMig - Another migration management library. ^{★ 379, pushed 136 days ago}
• Ruckusing - Database migrations for PHP ala ActiveRecord Migrations with support for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite. ^{★ 445, pushed 181 days ago}

NoSQL

Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.

• Monga - A MongoDB abstraction library. ^{★ 239, pushed 143 days ago}
• MongoQB - A MongoDB query builder library. ^{★ 182, pushed 420 days ago}
• PHPMongo - A MongoDB ORM. ^{★ 104, pushed 131 days ago}
• Predis - A feature complete Redis library. ^{★ 2662, pushed 130 days ago}

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• Bernard - A multibackend abstraction library. ^{★ 497, pushed 126 days ago}
• BunnyPHP - A performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync and also async (ReactPHP) library. ^{★ 165, pushed 138 days ago}
• Pheanstalk - A Beanstalkd client library. ^{★ 931, pushed 136 days ago}
• PHP AMQP - A pure PHP AMQP library. ^{★ 1164, pushed 131 days ago}
• Tarantool Queue - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue. ^{★ 20, pushed 217 days ago}
• Thumper - A RabbitMQ pattern library. ^{★ 182, pushed 131 days ago}

Search

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

• Elastica - A client library for ElasticSearch. ^{★ 1217, pushed 130 days ago}
• ElasticSearch PHP - The official client library for ElasticSearch . ^{★ 1070, pushed 129 days ago}
• Solarium - A client library for Solr .
• Sphinx Search - Sphinx Search library provides SphinxQL indexing and searching features ^{★ 37, pushed 130 days ago}
• SphinxQL query builder - A query library for the Sphinx search engine.

Command Line

Libraries related to the command line.

• Boris - A tiny PHP REPL. ^{★ 2100, pushed 318 days ago}
• Cilex - A micro framework for building command line tools. ^{★ 484, pushed 168 days ago}
• CLI Menu - A library for building CLI menus. ^{★ 512, pushed 166 days ago}
• CLIFramework - A command-line framework supports zsh/bash completion generation, subcommands and option constraints. It also powers phpbrew. ^{★ 230, pushed 171 days ago}
• CLImate - A library for outputting colours and special formatting. ^{★ 997, pushed 153 days ago}
• Commando - Another simple command line opt parser. ^{★ 383, pushed 180 days ago}
• Cron Expression - A library to calculate cron run dates. ^{★ 830, pushed 130 days ago}
• GetOpt - A command line opt parser. ^{★ 108, pushed 164 days ago}
• GetOptionKit - Another command line opt parser. ^{★ 79, pushed 202 days ago}
• Hoa Console - Another command line library. ^{★ 193, pushed 194 days ago}
• OptParse - Another command line opt parser. ^{★ 14, pushed 1324 days ago}
• Pecan - An event-driven, non-blocking shell. ^{★ 37, pushed 724 days ago}
• PsySH - Another PHP REPL. ^{★ 1354, pushed 128 days ago}
• ShellWrap - A simple command line wrapper library. ^{★ 576, pushed 664 days ago}
• Shunt - A library for running commands in parallel on multiple remote machines. ^{★ 403, pushed 448 days ago}

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.

• Hawk - A Hawk HTTP authentication library. ^{★ 52, pushed 312 days ago}
• HybridAuth - An open source social sign on library. ^{★ 2120, pushed 128 days ago}
• Json Web Token - Json Tokens to authenticate and transmit information. ^{★ 585, pushed 141 days ago}
• Lock - A library for implementing Access Control Lists (ACL) systems. ^{★ 875, pushed 314 days ago}
• OAuth 1.0 Client - An OAuth 1.0 client library. ^{★ 101, pushed 133 days ago}
• OAuth 2.0 Client - An OAuth 2.0 client library. ^{★ 1182, pushed 129 days ago}
• OAuth2 Server - Another OAuth2 server implementation.
• OAuth2 Server - An OAuth2 authentication server, resource server and client library.
• Opauth - A multi-provider authentication framework. ^{★ 1387, pushed 208 days ago}
• PHP oAuthLib - Another OAuth library. ^{★ 877, pushed 133 days ago}
• Sentinel Social - A library for social network authentication.
• Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorisation library.
• TwitterOAuth - A Twitter OAuth library. ^{★ 55, pushed 818 days ago}
• TwitterSDK - A fully tested Twitter SDK. ^{★ 36, pushed 591 days ago}

Markup

Libraries for working with markup.

• Cebe Markdown - An fast and extensible Markdown parser. ^{★ 478, pushed 171 days ago}
• Ciconia - Another Markdown parser that supports Github flavoured Markdown. ^{★ 366, pushed 181 days ago}
• CommonMark PHP - A Markdown parser which supports the full CommonMark spec . ^{★ 680, pushed 162 days ago}
• Decoda - A lightweight markup parser library. ^{★ 159, pushed 187 days ago}
• Emoji - A library that converts unicode characters and names into emoji images. ^{★ 22, pushed 457 days ago}
• HTML to Markdown - Converts HTML into Markdown. ^{★ 365, pushed 134 days ago}
• HTML5 PHP - An HTML5 parser and serializer library. ^{★ 351, pushed 136 days ago}
• Parsedown - Another Markdown parser. ^{★ 3180, pushed 176 days ago}
• PHP Markdown - A Markdown parser. ^{★ 2122, pushed 175 days ago}

Strings

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.

• Agent - A PHP desktop/mobile user agent parser, based on Mobiledetect. ^{★ 911, pushed 180 days ago}
• ANSI to HTML5 - An ANSI to HTML5 converter library. ^{★ 89, pushed 411 days ago}
• Color Jizz - A library for manipulating and converting colours. ^{★ 190, pushed 251 days ago}
• Device Detector - Another library for parsing user agent strings. ^{★ 429, pushed 131 days ago}
• Hoa String - Another UTF-8 string library. ^{★ 5, pushed 238 days ago}
• Jieba-PHP - A PHP port of Python's jieba. Chinese text segmentation for natural language processing. ^{★ 135, pushed 172 days ago}
• Mobile-Detect - A lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets). ^{★ 5874, pushed 130 days ago}
• Patchwork UTF-8 - A portable library for working with UTF-8 strings. ^{★ 43, pushed 265 days ago}
• Slugify - A library to convert strings to slugs. ^{★ 760, pushed 128 days ago}
• SQL Formatter - A library for formatting SQL statements.
• Stringy - A string manipulation library with multibyte support. ^{★ 1411, pushed 126 days ago}
• Text - A text manipulation library. ^{★ 37, pushed 1107 days ago}
• UA Parser - A library for parsing user agent strings.
• URLify - A PHP port of Django's URLify.js. ^{★ 464, pushed 273 days ago}
• UUID - A library for generating UUIDs. ^{★ 1567, pushed 131 days ago}

Numbers

Libraries for working with numbers.

• ByteUnits - A library to parse, format and convert byte units in binary and metric systems. ^{★ 32, pushed 256 days ago}
• LibPhoneNumber for PHP - A PHP implementation of Google's phone number handling library. ^{★ 1367, pushed 128 days ago}
• Math - A library for working with large numbers. ^{★ 74, pushed 268 days ago}
• Numbers PHP - A library for working with numbers. ^{★ 145, pushed 144 days ago}
• PHP Conversion - Another library for converting between units of measure. ^{★ 57, pushed 182 days ago}
• PHP Units of Measure - A library for converting between units of measure. ^{★ 2, pushed 256 days ago}

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data.

• Cake Validation - Another validation library (CP). ^{★ 11, pushed 133 days ago}
• DMS Filter - An annotation filtering library. ^{★ 68, pushed 188 days ago}
• Filterus - A simple PHP filtering library. ^{★ 315, pushed 140 days ago}
• ISO-codes - A library for validating inputs according standards from ISO, International Finance, Public Administrations, GS1, Book Industry, Phone numbers & Zipcodes for many countries ^{★ 267, pushed 131 days ago}
• MetaYaml - A schema validation library that supports YAML, JSON and XML. ^{★ 45, pushed 189 days ago}
• Respect Validation - A simple validation library. ^{★ 3049, pushed 127 days ago}
• Upload - A library for handling file uploads and validation. ^{★ 1093, pushed 186 days ago}
• Valitron - Another validation library. ^{★ 637, pushed 163 days ago}
• Volan - Another simplified validation library. ^{★ 23, pushed 185 days ago}

API

Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.

• API Platform - Expose in minutes an hypermedia REST API that embraces JSON-LD, Hydra format.
• Apigility - An API builder built with Zend Framework 2. ^{★ 431, pushed 159 days ago}
• Drest - A library for exposing Doctrine entities as REST resource endpoints. ^{★ 71, pushed 181 days ago}
• HAL - A Hypertext Application Language (HAL) builder library. ^{★ 164, pushed 161 days ago}
• Hateoas - A HATEOAS REST web service library. ^{★ 628, pushed 160 days ago}
• Negotiation - A content negotiation library. ^{★ 319, pushed 180 days ago}
• Restler - A lightweight framework to expose PHP methods as RESTful web API. ^{★ 1074, pushed 129 days ago}
• wsdl2phpgenerator - A tool to generate PHP classes from SOAP WSDL files. ^{★ 426, pushed 131 days ago}

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• Alternative PHP Cache (APC) - Open opcode cache for PHP.
• APIx Cache - A thin PSR-6 cache wrapper to various caching backends emphasising cache tagging and indexing. ^{★ 26, pushed 168 days ago}
• CacheTool - A tool to clear APC/opcode caches from the command line. ^{★ 179, pushed 130 days ago}
• Cake Cache - A caching library (CP). ^{★ 7, pushed 133 days ago}
• Doctrine Cache - A caching library. ^{★ 240, pushed 140 days ago}
• Stash - Another library for caching. ^{★ 634, pushed 198 days ago}
• Zend Cache - Another caching library (ZF2). ^{★ 16, pushed 136 days ago}

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

• Ardent - A library of data structures. ^{★ 539, pushed 285 days ago}
• Cake Collection - A simple collections library (CP). ^{★ 18, pushed 133 days ago}
• Collections - Collections Abstraction library for PHP. ^{★ 38, pushed 126 days ago}
• Fractal - A library for converting complex data structures to JSON output. ^{★ 1351, pushed 140 days ago}
• Ginq - Another PHP library based on .NET's LINQ. ^{★ 135, pushed 275 days ago}
• JsonMapper - A library that maps nested JSON structures onto PHP classes. ^{★ 399, pushed 143 days ago}
• Knapsack - Collection library inspired by Clojure's sequences.
• PHP Collections - A simple collections library. ^{★ 219, pushed 477 days ago}
• PINQ - A PHP library based on .NET's LINQ (Language Integrated Query). ^{★ 289, pushed 249 days ago}
• Serializer - A library for serialising and de-serialising data. ^{★ 468, pushed 129 days ago}
• Totem - A library to manage and create data changesets. ^{★ 61, pushed 216 days ago}
• YaLinqo - Yet Another LINQ to Objects for PHP. ^{★ 196, pushed 186 days ago}
• Zend Serializer - Another library for serialising and de-serialising data (ZF2). ^{★ 3, pushed 140 days ago}

Notifications

Libraries for working with notification software.

• JoliNotif - A cross-platform library for desktop notification (support for Growl, notify-send, toaster, etc) ^{★ 600, pushed 163 days ago}
• Nod - A notification library (e.g., Growl). ^{★ 43, pushed 1468 days ago}
• Notification Pusher - A standalone library for device push notifications. ^{★ 716, pushed 132 days ago}
• Notificato - A library for handling push notifications. ^{★ 175, pushed 206 days ago}
• Notificator - A lightweight notification library. ^{★ 113, pushed 260 days ago}
• Php-pushwoosh - A PHP Library to easily send push notifications with the Pushwoosh REST Web Services. ^{★ 34, pushed 178 days ago}

Deployment

Libraries for project deployment.

• Deployer - A deployment tool. ^{★ 2332, pushed 126 days ago}
• Envoy - A tool to run SSH tasks with PHP. ^{★ 739, pushed 132 days ago}
• Plum - A deployer library. ^{★ 90, pushed 237 days ago}
• Pomander - A deployment tool for PHP applications. ^{★ 197, pushed 171 days ago}
• Rocketeer - A fast and easy deployer for the PHP world. ^{★ 2005, pushed 135 days ago}

Internationalisation and Localisation

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

• Aura Intl ^{★ 47, pushed 185 days ago}
• Cake I18n - Message translation and localization for dates and numbers (CP) ^{★ 6, pushed 133 days ago}

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• Amazon Web Service SDK - The official PHP AWS SDK library. ^{★ 1981, pushed 128 days ago}
• Campaign Monitor - The official Campaign Monitor PHP library.
• Digital Ocean - A library to interface with the Digital Ocean API. ^{★ 150, pushed 627 days ago}
• Dropbox SDK - The official PHP Dropbox SDK library. ^{★ 174, pushed 191 days ago}
• Github - A library to interface with the Github API. ^{★ 60, pushed 1136 days ago}
• Mailgun The official Mailgun PHP API. ^{★ 370, pushed 138 days ago}
• PHP Github API - Another library to interface with the Github API. ^{★ 838, pushed 126 days ago}
• S3 Stream Wrapper - A stream wrapper library for Amazon S3. ^{★ 15, pushed 1021 days ago}
• Stripe - The official Stripe PHP library. ^{★ 847, pushed 142 days ago}
• Twilio - The official Twilio PHP REST API. ^{★ 688, pushed 132 days ago}
• Twitter OAuth - A library to interface with Twitter's OAuth workflow. ^{★ 6, pushed 940 days ago}
• Twitter REST - A library to interact with Twitter's REST API. ^{★ 21, pushed 940 days ago}

Extensions

Libraries to help build PHP extensions.

• PHP CPP - A C++ library for developing PHP extensions.
• Zephir - A compiled language between PHP and C++ for developing PHP extensions. ^{★ 1445, pushed 127 days ago}

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• Annotations - An annotations library (part of Doctrine). ^{★ 137, pushed 156 days ago}
• Cake Utility - Utility classes such as Inflector, String, Hash, Security and Xml (CP). ^{★ 24, pushed 133 days ago}
• Chief - A command bus library. ^{★ 29, pushed 172 days ago}
• ClassPreloader - A library for optimising autoloading. ^{★ 197, pushed 225 days ago}
• Country List - A list of all countries with names and ISO 3166-1 codes. ^{★ 2347, pushed 163 days ago}
• Embera - An Oembed consumer library. ^{★ 98, pushed 136 days ago}
• Essence - A library for extracting web media. ^{★ 513, pushed 204 days ago}
• Flux - A regular expression building library. ^{★ 296, pushed 271 days ago}
• Graphviz - A Graphviz library. ^{★ 30, pushed 325 days ago}
• Hprose-PHP - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now. ^{★ 274, pushed 147 days ago}
• JSON Lint - A JSON lint utility. ^{★ 190, pushed 136 days ago}
• JSONPCallbackValidator - A library for validating JSONP callbacks. ^{★ 37, pushed 193 days ago}
• Jumper - A remote service executor library. ^{★ 36, pushed 899 days ago}
• LadyBug - A dumper library. ^{★ 373, pushed 257 days ago}
• Lambda PHP - A Lambda calculus interpreter in PHP. ^{★ 17, pushed 833 days ago}
• LiteCQRS - A CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Separation) library. ^{★ 395, pushed 736 days ago}
• Metrics - A simple metrics API library. ^{★ 153, pushed 215 days ago}
• noCAPTCHA - Helper for Google's noCAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA). ^{★ 82, pushed 134 days ago}
• Nmap - A PHP wrapper around Nmap . ^{★ 50, pushed 189 days ago}
• Opengraph - An opengraph library. ^{★ 70, pushed 231 days ago}
• Pagerfanta - A pagination library. ^{★ 548, pushed 133 days ago}
• PHP Expression - A PHP expression language. ^{★ 27, pushed 1099 days ago}
• PHP PassBook - A PHP library for iOS PassBook. ^{★ 137, pushed 133 days ago}
• PHP-GPIO - A library for playing with the Raspberry PI's GPIO pins. ^{★ 155, pushed 214 days ago}
• PHPCR - A PHP port of the Java Content Repository (JCR). ^{★ 352, pushed 187 days ago}
• PHPStack - A TCP/IP stack proof of concept written in PHP.
• print_o - An object graph visualizer. ^{★ 53, pushed 137 days ago}
• Procrastinator - A library for running time consuming tasks. ^{★ 38, pushed 403 days ago}
• Prooph Service Bus - Lightweight message bus supporting CQRS and Micro Services ^{★ 90, pushed 126 days ago}
• RMT - A library for versioning and releasing software. ^{★ 284, pushed 140 days ago}
• sabre/vobject - A library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects. ^{★ 271, pushed 132 days ago}
• Slimdump - An easy dumper tool for MySQL. ^{★ 9, pushed 234 days ago}
• Spork - A process forking library. ^{★ 558, pushed 172 days ago}
• Sslurp - A library that makes dealing with SSL suck less. ^{★ 57, pushed 486 days ago}
• SuperClosure - A library that allows Closures to be serialized. ^{★ 502, pushed 189 days ago}
• Symfony VarDumper - A variable dumper component (SF2).
• Underscore - A PHP port of the Underscore JS library.
• Whoops - A pretty error handling library. ^{★ 3137, pushed 151 days ago}

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

PHP Installation

Tools to help install and manage PHP on your computer.

• HomeBrew PHP - A PHP tap for HomeBrew. ^{★ 1980, pushed 127 days ago}
• HomeBrew - A package manager for OSX.
• PHP Brew - A PHP version manager and installer. ^{★ 2224, pushed 127 days ago}
• PHP Build - Another PHP version installer. ^{★ 574, pushed 129 days ago}
• PHP Env - Another PHP version manager. ^{★ 460, pushed 233 days ago}
• PHP OSX - A PHP installer for OSX.
• PHP Switch - Another version manager. ^{★ 90, pushed 732 days ago}
• VirtPHP - A tool for creating and managing isolated PHP environments.

Development Environment

Software and tools for creating a sandboxed development environment.

• Ansible - A radically simple orchestration framework.
• Phansible - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines with Ansible.
• Protobox - Another web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
• PuPHPet - A web tool for building PHP development virtual machines.
• Puppet - A server automation framework and application.
• Vagrant - A portable development environment utility.

Virtual Machines

Alternative PHP virtual machines.

• Hack - A programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP.
• HHVM - A Virtual Machine, Runtime and JIT for PHP by Facebook. ^{★ 13515, pushed 125 days ago}
• HippyVM - Another PHP virtual machine. ^{★ 860, pushed 131 days ago}

Integrated Development Environment

Integrated Development Environments with support for PHP.

• Eclipse for PHP Developers - A PHP IDE based on the Eclipse platform.
• Netbeans - An IDE with support for PHP and HTML5.
• PhpStorm - A commercial PHP IDE.

Web Applications

Web-based applications and tools.

• 3V4L - An online PHP & HHVM shell.
• DBV - A database version control application.
• PHP Queue - An application for managing queueing backends. ^{★ 498, pushed 205 days ago}
• MailCatcher - A web tool for capturing and viewing emails. ^{★ 3287, pushed 135 days ago}
• Cachet - The open source status page system. ^{★ 4168, pushed 127 days ago}
• phpBeanstalkdAdmin - Monitoring and administration interface for Beanstalkd.
• phpRedisAdmin - A simple web interface to manage Redis databases. ^{★ 1109, pushed 134 days ago}
• phpPgAdmin - A web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. ^{★ 164, pushed 144 days ago}
• phpMyAdmin - A web interface for MySQL/MariaDB. ^{★ 1640, pushed 129 days ago}
• Adminer - Database management in a single PHP file.
• Grav - A modern flat-file CMS. ^{★ 4241, pushed 128 days ago}

Infrastructure

Infrastructure for providing PHP applications and services.

• appserver.io - A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.
• php-pm - A process manager, supercharger and load balancer for PHP applications. ^{★ 1963, pushed 127 days ago}

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 - A online PHP learning resource.
• PHP Best Practices - A PHP best practice guide.
• PHP FIG - The PHP Framework Interoperability Group.
• PHP Mentoring - Peer to peer PHP mentorship organization.
• PHP School - Open Source Learning for PHP.
• PHP Security - A guide to PHP security.
• PHP The Right Way - A PHP best practice quick reference guide.
• PHP UG - A website to help people locate their nearest PHP user group (UG).
• PHP Versions - Lists which versions of PHP are available on several popular web hosts.
• PHP Weekly - A weekly PHP newsletter.
• PHPTrends - An overview of fastest growing PHP libraries.
• Securing PHP - A newsletter about PHP security and library recommendations.
• Seven PHP - A website that interviews members of the PHP community.

Other Websites

Useful websites related to web development.

• Atlassian Git Tutorials - A series of Git tutorials.
• Hg Init - A series of Mercurial tutorials.
• Semantic Versioning - A website explaining semantic versioning.
• Servers for Hackers - A newsletter about server management.
• The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) - An open software security community.
• WebSec IO - A web security community resource.

PHP Books

Fantastic PHP-related books.

• Functional Programming in PHP - This book will show you how to leverage these new PHP5.3+ features by understanding functional programming principles
• Grumpy PHPUnit - A book about unit testing with PHPUnit by Chris Hartjes.
• Mastering Object-Orientated PHP - A book about object-orientated PHP by Brandon Savage.
• Modern PHP New Features and Good Practices - A book about new PHP features and best practices by Josh Lockhart.
• Modernising Legacy Applications in PHP - A book about modernising legacy PHP applications by Paul M. Jones.
• PHP 7 Upgrade Guide - An ebook covering all of the features and changes in PHP 7 by Colin O'Dell.
• PHP Pandas - A book about learning to write PHP by Dayle Rees.
• Scaling PHP Applications - An ebook about scaling PHP applications by Steve Corona.
• Securing PHP: Core Concepts - A book about common security terms and practices for PHP by Chris Cornutt.
• Signaling PHP - A book about catching PCNTL signals in CLI scripts by Cal Evans.
• The Grumpy Programmer's Guide to Building Testable PHP Applications - A book about building testing PHP applications by Chris Hartjes.
• XML Parsing with PHP - This book covers parsing and validating XML documents, leveraging XPath expressions, and working with namespaces as well as how to create and modify XML files programmatically.

Other Books

Books related to general computing and web development.

• Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide - A guide to working with Elasticsearch by Clinton Gormley and Zachary Tong.
• Eloquent JavaScript - A book about JavaScript programming by Marijn Haverbeke.
• Head First Design Patterns - A book that expains software design patterns.
• Pro Git - A book about Git by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
• The Linux Command Line - A book about the Linux command line by William Shotts.
• The Tangled Web — Securing Web Applications - A book about securing web applications by Michal Zalewski.
• Understanding Computation - A book about computation theory by Tom Stuart.
• Vagrant Cookbook - A book about creating Vagrant environments by Erika Heidi.

PHP Videos

Fantastic PHP-related videos.

• PHP Town Hall - A casual PHP podcast by Ben Edmunds and Phil Sturgeon.
• PHP UK Conference - A collection of videos from the PHP UK Conference.
• Programming with Anthony - A video series by Anthony Ferrara.
• Taking PHP Seriously - A talk outlining PHP's strengths by Keith Adams of Facebook.

PHP Reading

PHP-releated reading materials.

• Composer Primer - A Composer primer.
• Composer Stability Flags - An article about Composer stability flags.
• Composer Versioning - An article about Composer versioning.
• Create Your Own PHP Framework - A series of articles on how to make your own PHP framework by Fabien Potencier.
• Don't Worry About BREACH - An article about the BREACH hack and CSRF tokens.
• On PHP 5.3, Lambda Functions and Closures - An article about lambda functions and closures.
• PHP Is Much Better Than You Think - An article about the PHP language and ecosystem.
• PHP Package Checklist - A checklist for successful PHP package development.
• PHP Sucks! But I Like It! - An article about the pros and cons of PHP.
• Preventing CSRF Attacks - An article on preventing CSRF attacks.
• Seven Ways to Screw Up BCrypt - An article about correct BCrypt implementation.
• Use Env - An article about using the unix environment helper.

PHP Internals Reading

Reading materials related to the PHP internals or performance.

• Disproving the Single Quotes Myth - An article about performance of single and double quoted strings.
• How Big Are PHP Arrays (And Values) Really? - An article about array internals.
• How Foreach Works - A detailed StackOverflow answer about foreach.
• How Long is a Piece of String - An article about string internals.
• PHP Evaluation Order - An article about evaluation order in PHP.
• PHP Internals Book - An online book about PHP internals, written by three core developers.
• PHP RFCs - The home of PHP RFCs (Request for Comments).
• Print vs Echo, Which One is Faster? - An article about print and echo performance.
• The PHP Ternary Operator. Fast or Not? - An article ternary performance.
• Understanding OpCodes - An article about opcodes.
• When Does Foreach Copy? - An article about the internals of foreach.
• Why Objects (Usually) Use Less Memory Than Arrays - An article about object and array internals.
• You're Being Lied To - An article about internal ZVALs.
• Collecting Garbage: 1 2 3 - A series about the PHP garbage collection internals.
• PHP Source Code for Developers: 1 2 3 4 - A series about the PHP source code.

PHP Magazines

Fantastic PHP-related magazines.

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