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Roave/BetterReflection

:crystal_ball: Better Reflection is a reflection API that aims to improve and provide more features than PHP's built-in reflection API.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,248

stars

Forks: 138
Commits: 4,676 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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jeremykendall/php-domain-parser

Public Suffix List based domain parsing implemented in PHP

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2026-01-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-11
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,244

stars

Forks: 126
Commits: 819 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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kahlan/kahlan

:heavy_check_mark: PHP Test Framework for Freedom, Truth, and Justice

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#bdd #coverage #monkey-patching #php #spec #tdd

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-18
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,146

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 1,061 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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nikic/iter

Iteration primitives using generators

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-01
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

1,145

stars

Forks: 71
Commits: 116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ergebnis/composer-normalize

🎵 Provides a composer plugin for normalizing composer.json.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#composer #composer-plugin #json #normalizer

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,127

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 3,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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captainhook-git/captainhook

CaptainHook is a very flexible git hook manager for software developers that makes sharing git hooks with your team a breeze.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#automation #code-quality #git #git-hooks #hacktoberfest #php

Updated: 2026-03-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-05
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,124

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 1,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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minicli/minicli

A minimal framework for command-line applications in PHP. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/hY5UNC4XPf

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #command-line-tools #hacktoberfest #php

Updated: 2026-02-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-20
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,085

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 280 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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daviddesberg/PHPoAuthLib

PHP 5.3+ oAuth 1/2 Client Library

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2024-01-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-02
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 167 open

1,074

stars

Forks: 447
Commits: 874 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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php-build/php-build

Builds PHP so that multiple versions can be used side by side.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

1,049

stars

Forks: 157
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jobbyphp/jobby

Manage all your cron jobs without modifying crontab. Handles locking, logging, error emails, and more.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2024-03-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-10-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 36 open

1,046

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 231 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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willdurand/Hateoas

A PHP library to support implementing representations for HATEOAS REST web services.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#hateoas #json #php #rest #serializer

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,042

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cebe/markdown

A super fast, highly extensible markdown parser for PHP

Stack

HTML Composer

GitHub topics

#gfm #hacktoberfest #markdown #markdown-converter #markdown-extra #markdown-flavors

Updated: 2022-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

1,012

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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maglnet/ComposerRequireChecker

A CLI tool to check whether a specific composer package uses imported symbols that aren't part of its direct composer dependencies

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#ci-tools #code-quality

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-24
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,012

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 1,397 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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thephpleague/oauth1-client

OAuth 1 Client

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-05-09
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

994

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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fightbulc/moment.php

Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in PHP w/ i18n support. Inspired by moment.js

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#calendar #date #formatter #i18n #internationalization #moment

Updated: 2025-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-30
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

967

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 554 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tedious/Stash

The place to keep your cache.

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#caching #php

Updated: 2025-12-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-16
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 34 open

964

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 871 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

appserver-io/appserver

A multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP.

Stack

JavaScript Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#application #container #message #persistence #php #queue

Updated: 2023-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-01
History: 1 history point
License: OSL-3.0
Issues: 90 open

960

stars

Forks: 99
Commits: 2,162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mnapoli/silly

Silly CLI micro-framework based on Symfony Console

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#cli #micro-framework #php #symfony-console

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

932

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 177 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OpenMage/magento-lts

Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.

AI dev

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#composer #ecommerce #ecommerce-framework #ecommerce-platform #hacktoberfest #magento

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-17
History: 1 history point
License: OSL-3.0
Issues: 286 open

932

stars

Forks: 458
Commits: 3,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mongodb/mongo-php-driver

The Official MongoDB PHP driver

AI dev

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#mongodb #mongodb-driver #php

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-06
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

925

stars

Forks: 219
Commits: 4,791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ddeboer/imap

Object-oriented, fully tested PHP IMAP library

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#email #imap #php

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-25
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 73 open

919

stars

Forks: 253
Commits: 574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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K-Phoen/rulerz

Powerful implementation of the Specification pattern in PHP

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#business-rules #library #php #ruler #rules #rules-engine

Updated: 2022-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-29
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

876

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 534 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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bjeavons/zxcvbn-php

Realistic PHP password strength estimate library based on Zxcvbn JS

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-08
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 25 open

871

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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thephpleague/container

Small but powerful dependency injection container

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#dependency-injection #php

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

866

stars

Forks: 104
Commits: 511 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Sybio/ImageWorkshop

ImageWorkshop is a PHP5.3+ library that helps you to manage images based on GD library

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2023-06-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-24
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 23 open

852

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dauxio/daux.io

Daux.io is an documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer .NET SDK Yarn

GitHub topics

#documentation-generator #documentation-tool #markdown #markdown-to-html

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-03
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

830

stars

Forks: 189
Commits: 1,417 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nategood/commando

An Elegant CLI Library for PHP

Stack

PHP Composer

Updated: 2024-05-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-17
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 34 open

801

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

krakjoe/pcov

PCOV - CodeCoverage compatible driver for PHP

Stack

C Composer

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-16
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 36 open

792

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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spatie/menu

Html menu generator

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#html #menus #php

Updated: 2025-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-09
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

755

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 369 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jakubkulhan/bunny

Performant pure-PHP AMQP (RabbitMQ) sync/async (ReactPHP) library

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#amqp #amqp-client #amqp0-9-1 #php #php-library #rabbitmq

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-13
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 44 open

749

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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