Ultimate PHP Resource List: Libraries, Frameworks, Tools & More

A PHP resource list covering libraries, frameworks, templating engines, security tools, code analysis utilities, logging solutions, third‑party APIs, configuration helpers, web tools, books, e‑books, classic blog posts and more.

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The awesome-php-zh_CN project on GitHub is regularly updated based on the awesome-php project.

Dependency Management

Dependency and package management libraries

Composer/Packagist – a package and dependency manager

Composer Installers – a multi‑framework Composer library installer

Pickle – a PHP extension installer

Dependency Management Extras

Other related dependency management tools

Satis – a static Composer repository generator

Toran Proxy – a static Composer repository and proxy

Composition – a library for runtime Composer environment checks

Version – a semantic version parsing and comparison library

NameSpacer – a library that converts underscores to namespaces

Patch Installer – a library for installing patches via Composer

Composer Checker – a tool for validating Composer configurations

Frameworks

Web development frameworks

Symfony2 – a framework composed of independent components

Zend Framework 2 – another component‑based framework

Laravel 5 – a popular PHP framework

Aura PHP – a framework of independent components

Yii2 – another PHP framework

Nette – a framework built from individual components

PPI Framework 2 – an interoperability framework

CakePHP – a rapid application development framework

Phalcon – a framework implemented via a C extension

Framework Extras

Other web development frameworks

Symfony CMF – a content‑management framework for building custom CMSs

Knp RAD Bundle – a rapid‑application‑development bundle for Symfony 2

Components

Standalone components from web development frameworks

Symfony2 Components – Symfony2 components

Zend Framework 2 Components – ZF2 components

Aura Components – a PHP 5.4 component package

Hoa Project – another PHP component package

League of Extraordinary Packages – a PHP software development group

Micro Frameworks

Micro‑frameworks and routing

Silex – a micro‑framework based on Symfony2 components

Slim – another simple micro‑framework

Bullet PHP – a micro‑framework for building REST APIs

Micro Framework Extras

Other related micro‑frameworks and routing tools

Silex Skeleton – project skeleton for Silex

Silex Web Profiler – a debugging tool for Silex web applications

Slim Skeleton – Slim project skeleton

Slim View – a collection of custom views for Slim

Routers

Libraries for handling application routing

Fast Route – a fast routing library

Route – a routing library based on Fast Route

Pux – another fast routing library

Klein – a flexible routing library

Templating

Templating and lexical analysis libraries and tools

Twig – a comprehensive templating language

Twig Cache Extension – a fragment‑caching library for Twig

Mustache – a PHP implementation of the Mustache templating language

Phly Mustache – another Mustache implementation

MtHaml – a PHP implementation of the HAML templating language

PHPTAL – a PHP implementation of the TAL templating language

Plates – a native PHP templating library

Lex – a lightweight template parser

Static Site Generators

Tools for pre‑processing content to generate web pages

Sculpin – converts Markdown and Twig to static HTML

Phrozn – another tool that converts Textile, Markdown and Twig to HTML

HTTP

Libraries for HTTP and web crawling

Guzzle – a comprehensive HTTP client

Buzz – another HTTP client

Requests – a simple HTTP library

HTTPFul – a chainable HTTP library

Goutte – a simple web crawler

PHP VCR – a library for recording and replaying HTTP requests

Middlewares

Libraries for building applications with middleware

Stack – a stackable middleware library for Silex/Symfony

Slim Middleware – a collection of custom middleware for Slim

Conduit – a port of Sencha Connect to PHP

URL

Libraries for parsing URLs

Purl – a URL handling library

PHP Domain Parser – a library for parsing domain prefixes

Url – a simple URL handling library

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email

SwiftMailer – an email solution

PHPMailer – another email solution

Fetch – an IMAP library

Email Reply Parser – a library for parsing email replies

Stampie – an email service library (SendGrid, PostMark, MailGun, Mandrill)

CssToInlineStyles – a library for inlining CSS in email templates

Files

File handling and MIME type detection libraries

Gaufrette – a filesystem abstraction layer

Flysystem – another filesystem abstraction layer

Canal – a library for detecting internet media types

Apache MIME Types – a library for parsing Apache MIME types

Ferret – a MIME detection library

Hoa Mime – another MIME detection library

Lurker – a resource tracking library

PHP File Locator – a library for locating files in large projects

PHP FFmpeg – a library for wrapping FFmpeg video processing

CSV – a CSV data handling library

Streams

Libraries for handling streams

Streamer – a simple object‑oriented stream wrapper library

Dependency Injection

Libraries implementing the dependency injection design pattern

Pimple – a small dependency injection container

Auryn – another dependency injection container

Container – a scalable dependency injection container

PHP DI – a dependency injection container using annotations

Acclimate – a generic interface for dependency injection containers and service locators

Imagery

Image processing libraries

Imagine – an image processing library

PHP Image Workshop – another image processing library

Intervention Image – another image processing library

GIF Frame Extractor – a library for extracting GIF animation frame information

GIF Creator – a library for creating GIF animations from multiple images

Image With Text – a library for embedding text into images

Color Extractor – a library for extracting colors from images

Glide – an on‑demand image processing library

Testing

Libraries for testing code and generating test data

PHPUnit – a unit testing framework

DBUnit – a database testing library for PHPUnit

ParaTest – a parallel testing library for PHPUnit

PHPSpec – a behavior‑driven unit testing library

Codeception – a full‑stack testing framework

AspectMock – a mocking framework for PHPUnit/Codeception

Atoum – a simple testing library

Mockery – a library for mock objects in testing

Phake – another mock object library

Prophecy – a highly expressive mocking framework

Faker – a fake data generation library

Samsui – another fake data generation library

Alice – an expressive data generation library

Behat – a behavior‑driven development (BDD) testing framework

Pho – another BDD testing framework

Mink – web acceptance testing

HTTP Mock – a library for mocking HTTP requests in unit tests

VFS Stream – a virtual file system stream wrapper for testing

VFS – another virtual file system library

Locust – a modern load testing library written in Python

Peridot – an event‑driven testing framework

Continuous Integration

Libraries and applications for continuous integration

Travis CI – a continuous integration platform

PHPCI – an open‑source CI platform for PHP

Sismo – a service library for continuous testing

Jenkins – a CI platform with PHP support

JoliCi – a Docker‑based CI client written in PHP

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation

Sami – an API documentation generator

APIGen – another API documentation generator

PHP Documentor 2 – an API documentation generator

phpDox – a documentation generator for PHP projects (not limited to APIs)

Security

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

HTML Purifier – a standards‑compliant HTML filter

RandomLib – a library for generating random numbers and strings

True Random – a library that uses www.random.org to generate random numbers

SecurityMultiTool – a PHP security library

PHPSecLib – a pure‑PHP secure communications library

TCrypto – a simple key‑value encryption storage library

PHP IDS – a structured PHP security layer

PHP SSH – an experimental object‑oriented SSH wrapper library

IniScan – a library for scanning PHP INI files for security

SensioLabs Security Check – a web tool that provides security advice for Composer dependencies

Zed – an integrated web application penetration testing tool

Passwords

Libraries and tools for handling and storing passwords

Password Compat – a compatibility library for the new PHP 5.5 password functions

phpass – a portable password hashing framework

PHP Password Lib – a library for generating and verifying passwords

Password Policy – a password policy library for PHP and JavaScript

Password Validator – a library for validating and upgrading password hashes

Zxcvbn PHP – a realistic PHP password strength estimator based on the Zxcvbn JS library

Code Analysis

Libraries and tools for analyzing, parsing, and processing codebases

PHP Parser – a PHP parser written in PHP

PHPPHP – a PHP virtual machine implemented in PHP

PHPSandbox – a PHP sandbox environment

Dissect – a collection of lexical and syntactic analysis tools

PHP Mess Detector – a library that scans for code defects, sub‑optimal code, unused parameters, etc.

PHP Code Sniffer – a library that detects coding standard violations in PHP, CSS and JS

PHPCPD – a library that detects copied and pasted code

PHP Analyser – a library that analyzes PHP code for defects and errors

PHP CS Fixer – a coding standards library

PHP Manipulator – a library for analyzing and modifying PHP source code

PHP Metrics – a static measurement library

PHP Refactoring Browser – a command‑line toolset for refactoring PHP code

UBench – a simple micro‑benchmarking library

Athletic – a benchmark library based on annotations

Mondrian – a code analysis tool using graph theory

Scrutinizer – a web tool for reviewing PHP code

PHPLOC – a fast tool for measuring PHP project size

xHprof – another PHP profiling tool

PHPCheckstyle – a tool that helps enforce specific coding conventions

Debugging

Libraries and tools for debugging code

xDebug – a debugging and profiling tool for PHP

PHP Debug Bar – a debugging toolbar

PHP Console – a web debugging console

Barbushin PHP Console – another web debugging console using Google Chrome

PHPDBG – an interactive PHP debugger

Tracy – a simple error detection, logging and timing library

Z‑Ray – a tool for debugging and configuring Zend Server

Build Tools

Project build and automation tools

Go – a simple PHP build tool

Bob – a simple project automation tool

Phake – a PHP cloning library

Box – a tool for building PHAR files

Phing – a PHP project build system inspired by Apache Ant

Task Runners

Libraries for automatically running tasks

Task – a pure‑PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Gulp

Robo – an object‑oriented PHP task runner

Bldr – a PHP task runner built on Symfony components

Navigation

Tools for building navigation structures

KnpMenu – a menu library

Cartographer – a sitemap generation library

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying web site assets

Assetic – an asset management pipeline library

Pipe – another asset management pipeline library

Munee – an asset optimization library

JShrink – a JavaScript minification library

Puli – a library for detecting absolute paths of assets

Geolocation

Geocoding address and latitude/longitude libraries

GeoCoder – a geocoding library

GeoTools – a library of geographic tools

PHPGeo – a simple geographic library

GeoJSON – an implementation of GeoJSON

Date and Time

Libraries for handling dates and times

Carbon – a simple date‑time API extension

ExpressiveDate – another date‑time API extension

CalendR – a calendar management library

Event

Libraries and software for indexing and executing queries on data

ElasticSearch PHP – the official client library for ElasticSearch

Elastica – an ElasticSearch client library

Solarium – a client library for Solr

SphinxQL query builder – a query library for the Sphinx search engine

Command Line

Libraries for building command‑line tools

Boris – a micro PHP REPL

PsySH – another PHP REPL

Pecan – an event‑driven and non‑blocking shell

GetOpt – a command‑line option parser

OptParse – another command‑line option parser

Commando – another simple command‑line option parser

GetOptionKit – another command‑line option parser

Cron Expression – a library for calculating cron run dates

ShellWrap – a simple command‑line wrapper library

Hoa Console – another command‑line library

Shunt – a library for running commands in parallel on multiple remote machines

Cilex – a micro‑framework for building command‑line tools

CLImate – a library for colored and specially formatted output

Authentication and Authorization

Libraries for implementing authentication and authorization

Sentry – a mixed authentication and authorization framework library

Sentry Social – a social network authentication library

Opauth – a multi‑channel authentication framework

OAuth2 Server – an OAuth2 authentication service, resource server and client library

OAuth2 Server – another OAuth2 server implementation

PHP oAuthLib – another OAuth library

TwitterOAuth – a Twitter OAuth library

TwitterSDK – a fully tested Twitter SDK

Hawk – a Hawk HTTP authentication library

HybridAuth – an open‑source social login library

Lock – a library implementing an access‑control‑list (ACL) system

OAuth 1.0 Client – an OAuth 1.0 client library

OAuth 2.0 Client – an OAuth 2.0 client library

Markup

Libraries for handling markup

Decoda – a lightweight markup parsing library

PHP Markdown – a Markdown parser

CommonMark PHP – a fully spec‑compliant Markdown parser

Dflydev Markdown – another Markdown parser

Parsedown – another Markdown parser

Ciconia – a Markdown parser supporting GitHub‑flavored Markdown

Cebe Markdown – a fast, extensible Markdown parser

HTML5 PHP – an HTML5 parsing and serialization library

Strings

Libraries for parsing and handling strings

ANSI to HTML5 – a library that converts ANSI to HTML5

Patchwork UTF‑8 – a portable library for handling UTF‑8 strings

Hoa String – another UTF‑8 string library

Stringy – a multibyte‑aware string handling library

Color Jizz – a library for handling and converting colors

UUID – a library for generating UUIDs

Slugify – a library for converting strings to slugs

Urlify – a PHP port of the Urlify.js library from Django

Text – a text handling library

SQL Formatter – a library for formatting SQL statements

UA Parser – a library for parsing user‑agent strings

Numbers

Libraries for handling numbers

Numbers PHP – a library for handling numbers

Math – a library for handling huge numbers

ByteUnits – a library for parsing, formatting and converting byte units in binary and metric systems

PHP Units of Measure – a library for converting measurement units

PHP Conversion – another measurement unit conversion library

LibPhoneNumber for PHP – a PHP implementation of Google’s phone number handling library

Filtering and Validation

Libraries for filtering and validating data

Filterus – a simple PHP filtering library

Respect Validate – a simple validation library

Valitron – another validation library

Upload – a library for handling file uploads and validation

DMS Filter – an annotation‑based filtering library

MetaYaml – a schema validation library supporting YAML, JSON and XML

ISO‑codes – a library for validating various ISO and ZIP codes (IBAN, SWIFT/BIC, BBAN, VAT, SSN, UKNIN)

REST and API

Libraries and web tools for developing REST‑ful APIs

Apigility – an API builder using Zend Framework 2

Hateoas – a HATEOAS REST web service library

HAL – a Hypertext Application Language (HAL) building library

Negotiation – a content negotiation library

Drest – a library that exposes Doctrine entities as REST resources

Restler – a lightweight framework that exposes PHP methods as RESTful web APIs

Caching

Libraries for caching data

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) – enables PHP opcode caching

Cache – a caching library (part of Doctrine)

Stash – another caching library

Data Structure and Storage

Libraries implementing data structures and storage techniques

Ardent – a data‑structure library

PHP Collections – a simple collections library

Serializer – a library for serializing and deserializing data

PHP Object Storage – an object storage library

Fractal – a library for transforming complex data structures into JSON output

Totem – a library for managing and creating data exchange sets

PINQ – a LINQ library implemented in PHP

JsonMapper – a library that maps embedded JSON structures to PHP classes

Notifications

Libraries for handling notification software

Nod – a notification library (Growl, etc.)

Notificato – a library for handling push notifications

Notification Pusher – a standalone library for device push notifications

Notificator – a lightweight notification library

Deployment

Project deployment libraries

Pomander – a PHP application deployment tool

Rocketeer – a fast, simple deployment tool for the PHP world

Envoy – a tool for running SSH tasks with PHP

Plum – a deployment library

Deployer – a deployment tool

Internationalisation and Localisation

Libraries for internationalisation (I18n) and localisation (L10n)

Aura Intl

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third‑party APIs

Amazon Web Service SDK – the official PHP AWS SDK

S3 Stream Wrapper – an Amazon S3 stream wrapper library

Stripe – the official PHP Stripe library

Campaign Monitor – the official PHP Campaign Monitor library

Digital Ocean – a Digital Ocean API client library

Github – a Github API interaction library

PHP Github API – another Github API interaction library

Twitter OAuth – a Twitter OAuth workflow library

Twitter REST – a Twitter REST API interaction library

Dropbox SDK – the official Dropbox SDK for PHP

Twilio – the official Twilio PHP REST API

Mailgun – the official Mailgun PHP REST API

Extensions

Libraries that help build PHP extensions

Zephir – a compiled language for developing PHP extensions, sitting between PHP and C++

PHP CPP – a C++ library for developing PHP extensions

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries and tools that don’t fit into the above categories

Spork – a library for handling forking

JSON Lint – a JSON lint tool

JSONPCallbackValidator – a library for validating JSONP callbacks

Pagerfanta – a pagination library

Ruler – a simple stateless production‑environment rule engine

LiteCQRS – a CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) library

Sslurp – a library that reduces SSL handling complexity

PHP Option – an optional type library

Metrics – a simple metrics API library

Sabre VObject – a library for parsing VCard and iCalendar objects

Annotations – an annotation library (part of Doctrine)

Whoops – a nice error handling library

Finite – a simple PHP finite state machine

LadyBug – a dumper library

Procrastinator – a library for running time‑consuming tasks

Compose – a function composition library

SuperClosure – a library that allows closure serialization

Jumper – a remote service execution library

Underscore – a PHP implementation of the Underscore.js library

PHP PassBook – an iOS PassBook PHP library

PHP Expression – a PHP expression language

RMT – a library for writing version and release software

Wise – a configuration manager

Opengraph – an open‑graph library

Essence – a library for extracting web media

Embera – an Oembed consumer library

Graphviz – a graph library

Monad PHP – a simple monad library

Flux – a regular expression building library

Patchwork – a library for redefining user functions

Galapagos – language conversion evolution

Design Patterns PHP – a repository of design patterns implemented in PHP

PHPCR – a PHP implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR)

Functional PHP – a functional programming library

ClassPreloader – a library for optimizing autoloading

Lib Country – a library of country and region data

Lib Accessor – a library that simplifies access

PHPStack – a concept of a TCP/IP stack written in PHP

Nmap – a PHP wrapper for Nmap

Code Mover – a library for moving code

Iter – a library that provides iteration primitives using generators

Lambda PHP – a parser for lambda calculus in PHP

Country List – a list of all countries with names and ISO 3166‑1 codes

PHP‑GPIO – a library for GPIO pins on Raspberry PI

print_o – an object‑graph visualizer

Alias – a class alias library