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phpmetrics/PhpMetrics

Beautiful and understandable static analysis tool for PHP

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#ci #metrics #php #quality #static-analyzer

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

2,618

stars

Forks: 261
Commits: 952 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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phacility/xhprof

XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.

Stack

PHP

Updated: 2019-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-17
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 34 open

2,595

stars

Forks: 902
Commits: 87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nelmio/alice

Expressive fixtures generator

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#alice #expression-language #faker #fixture #fixtures #manage-fixtures

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

2,539

stars

Forks: 328
Commits: 1,159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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paratestphp/paratest

:computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

2,510

stars

Forks: 261
Commits: 1,574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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thecodingmachine/safe

All PHP functions, rewritten to throw exceptions instead of returning false

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#exceptions #functions #php

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

2,496

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 750 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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peachpiecompiler/peachpie

PeachPie - the PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core

Stack

C# ASP.NET Core .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aspnet-core #coreclr #dotnet #dotnetcore #microsoft #netstandard

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-05
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 90 open

2,481

stars

Forks: 211
Commits: 7,358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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KnpLabs/Gaufrette

PHP library that provides a filesystem abstraction layer − will be a feast for your files!

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#filesystem #gaufrette #hacktoberfest #php

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-18
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

2,466

stars

Forks: 352
Commits: 1,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

phpmd/phpmd

PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#clean-code #hacktoberfest #mess-detector #php #pmd #static-analysis

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-16
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 55 open

2,465

stars

Forks: 361
Commits: 2,959 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

markrogoyski/math-php

Powerful modern math library for PHP: Features descriptive statistics and regressions; Continuous and discrete probability distributions; Linear algebra with matrices and vectors, Numerical analysis; special mathematical functions; Algebra

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#algebra #combinatorics #distributions #finance #information-theory #linear-algebra

Updated: 2026-03-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

2,411

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 3,445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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JayBizzle/Crawler-Detect

🕷 CrawlerDetect is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#bots #crawler #detect #hacktoberfest #php #spider

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-23
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

2,410

stars

Forks: 280
Commits: 997 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

schmittjoh/serializer

Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity (supports JSON, and XML)

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer pip

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-27
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 172 open

2,341

stars

Forks: 588
Commits: 2,354 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ruflin/Elastica

Elastica is a PHP client for elasticsearch

AI dev

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#elasticsearch #hacktoberfest #php

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-19
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 106 open

2,270

stars

Forks: 722
Commits: 3,464 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

etrepat/baum

Baum is an implementation of the Nested Set pattern for Laravel's Eloquent ORM.

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2024-06-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-29
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 161 open

2,221

stars

Forks: 447
Commits: 258 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

KnpLabs/php-github-api

A simple PHP GitHub API client, Object Oriented, tested and documented.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#github-api #hacktoberfest #php

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-02-13
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 53 open

2,206

stars

Forks: 586
Commits: 1,735 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Imangazaliev/DiDOM

Simple and fast HTML and XML parser

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#dom #html #html-parser #parser #xml #xml-parser

Updated: 2026-01-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

2,196

stars

Forks: 197
Commits: 311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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brick/math

Arbitrary-precision arithmetic library for PHP

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#arbitrary-precision #bcmath #bigdecimal #biginteger #bigrational #gmp

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-31
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

2,177

stars

Forks: 102
Commits: 805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ApiGen/ApiGen

PHP 7.1 ready Smart and Simple Documentation for your PHP project

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#apidoc #apigen #documentation #generator #php #php71

Updated: 2025-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-06
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

2,168

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 3,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

php-embed/Embed

Get info from any web service or page

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#embeds #oembed #opengraph #scraping #twitter-cards

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-09
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 74 open

2,140

stars

Forks: 324
Commits: 1,359 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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symfony/http-client

Provides powerful methods to fetch HTTP resources synchronously or asynchronously

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#component #http #php #symfony #symfony-component

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-27
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

2,031

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 1,993 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

phpbench/phpbench

PHP Benchmarking framework

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer pip

GitHub topics

#benchmark-framework #benchmarking #performance #performance-testing

Updated: 2026-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 39 open

2,029

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 1,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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lstrojny/functional-php

Primitives for functional programming in PHP

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-23
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

1,984

stars

Forks: 201
Commits: 610 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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hprose/hprose-php

Hprose is a cross-language RPC. This project is Hprose 3.0 for PHP

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#composer #cross-device #cross-domain #cross-language #cross-platform #hprose

Updated: 2024-02-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-13
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 42 open

1,978

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 738 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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crazywhalecc/static-php-cli

Build standalone portable PHP binaries on Linux, macOS, Windows, with PHP project together, with popular extensions included.

AI dev

Stack

PHP Symfony Vite Vue Composer npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#alpine #binary #frankenphp #php #php-cli #php-src

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-26
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 40 open

1,949

stars

Forks: 420
Commits: 4,120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

php-school/cli-menu

🖥 Build beautiful PHP CLI menus. Simple yet Powerful. Expressive DSL.

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-menu #menu #terminal

Updated: 2025-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

1,942

stars

Forks: 103
Commits: 814 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

brick/money

A money and currency library for PHP

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#currency #currency-converter #exchange-rates #money #php

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-31
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 121
Commits: 710 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pheanstalk/pheanstalk

PHP client for beanstalkd queue

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-14
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,919

stars

Forks: 281
Commits: 480 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

kriswallsmith/Buzz

PHP's lightweight HTTP client

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-25
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

1,917

stars

Forks: 248
Commits: 514 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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phpspec/phpspec

SpecBDD Framework for PHP

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer pip

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-24
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 137 open

1,905

stars

Forks: 287
Commits: 3,324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

thephpleague/climate

PHP's best friend for the terminal.

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

1,894

stars

Forks: 127
Commits: 645 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nette/tracy

😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it.

AI dev

Stack

PHP Composer npm

GitHub topics

#ajax #debugger #dump-variables #dumper #error-handling #nette

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-23
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 27 open

1,837

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 1,960 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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