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PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser
A php based DOM parser.
A simple PHP HTML DOM parser written in PHP5+, supports invalid HTML, and provides a very easy way to find, extract and modify the HTML elements of the dom. jquery like syntax allow sophisticated finding methods for locating the elements you care about. -
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PHPMailer
The classic email sending library for PHP
PHPMailer – A full-featured email creation and transfer class for PHP. Support for UTF-8 content and 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encodings. SMTP authentication with LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, and XOAUTH2 mechanisms over SMTPS and SMTP+STARTTLS transports. Validates email addresses automatically. Many PHP developers need to send email from their code. The only PHP function that supports this directly is mail(). However, it does not provide any assistance for making use of popular features such as encryption, authentication, HTML messages, and attachments. Formatting email correctly is surprisingly difficult. There are myriad overlapping (and conflicting) standards, requiring tight adherence to horribly complicated formatting and encoding rules – the vast majority of code that you'll find online that uses the mail() function directly is just plain wrong, if not unsafe! -
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Dompdf
HTML to PDF converter for PHP
dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer, it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro. (Some important changes have been made to the R&OS class, however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class, though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF libraries. -
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mPDF
PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
mPDF is a PHP library that generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. The original author, Ian Back, wrote mPDF to output PDF files ‘on-the-fly’ from his website, handling different languages. It is slower than the original scripts e.g. HTML2FPDF and produces larger files when using Unicode fonts, but support for CSS styles etc. and has been much enhanced. Supports almost all languages including RTL (Arabic and Hebrew), and CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). Nested block-level elements (e.g. P, DIV) including margins, borders, padding, line height, background colors, etc. Right-to-left languages are supported, with automatic detection of RTL characters within a document. Transposes tables, lists, text justification, and table cell alignment, as well as a full-text reversal for RTL characters. Automatically detects non-RTL characters and displays these in the original order. -
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PhpSpreadsheet
A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files
PhpSpreadsheet is a library written in pure PHP and offers a set of classes that allow you to read and write various spreadsheet file formats such as Excel and LibreOffice Calc. PhpSpreadsheet is a library written in pure PHP and offers a set of classes that allow you to read and write various spreadsheet file formats such as Excel and LibreOffice Calc. Support for PHP versions will only be maintained for a period of six months beyond the end of life of that PHP version. Use composer to install PhpSpreadsheet into your project. Or also download the documentation and samples if you plan to use them. A good way to get started is to run some of the samples. Don't forget to download them via --prefer-source composer flag. And then serve them via PHP built-in webserver. PhpSpreadsheet relies on Composer autoloader. So before working with PhpSpreadsheet in standalone, be sure to run composer install. -
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PHPExcel
Library offering classes to read from and write to spreadsheet formats
PHPExcel is a comprehensive library for reading, writing, and manipulating Excel spreadsheets in PHP, supporting multiple formats like XLS, XLSX, CSV, and more. Developers can create complex spreadsheets with styled cells, formulas, charts, images, and multiple sheets programmatically. It also supports reading existing files, iterating through cells, applying data validation, and converting between formats. Because it handles the details of Excel file structures—including relationships, themes, and various metadata—users don’t need to manage proprietary file internals themselves. The API allows for cell access using row/column indexes or column letters, batch updates, and streaming writes to reduce memory usage. As a mature library, it’s used in reporting, migrations, invoice generation, and any scenario where dynamic, server-side spreadsheet generation is needed in PHP applications. -
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ProxiTok
Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made using PHP
ProxiTok is a self-hosted, privacy-respecting alternative frontend for TikTok, built to let users browse TikTok content without tracking or ads. It acts as a proxy that fetches and displays TikTok videos through a cleaner interface, enhancing user privacy and allowing developers to build integrations without using TikTok's official SDK. ProxiTok supports basic features like search, profiles, video playback, and hashtags. -
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PHPWord
PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents
PHPWord is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set of classes to write to and read from different document file formats. The current version of PHPWord supports Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML or OpenXML), OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument or ODF), and Rich Text Format (RTF). PHPWord is an open source project licensed under the terms of LGPL version 3. PHPWord is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating continuous integration and unit testing. Set document properties, e.g. title, subject, and creator. Create document sections with different settings, e.g. portrait/landscape, page size, and page numbering. Create header and footer for each sections, set default font type, font size, and paragraph style. Use UTF-8 and East Asia fonts/characters. Define custom font styles (e.g. bold, italic, color) and paragraph styles (e.g. centered, multicolumns, spacing) either as named style or inline in text. -
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OAuth 2.0 Client
Easy integration with OAuth 2.0 service providers
The PHP League's OAuth 2.0 Client is a robust library for integrating OAuth 2.0 authentication in PHP applications. It simplifies the process of connecting with OAuth providers like Google, Facebook, and GitHub, allowing secure and standardized user authentication. The library is designed with extensibility in mind, making it easy to add support for new providers through custom adapters. -
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DO180-apps
DO180 Repository for Sample Applications
DO180-apps is an open source repository maintained by Red Hat Training that provides sample applications for the DO180 course, which focuses on container basics using Red Hat OpenShift. The repository includes multiple small applications written in different languages, such as Node.js, PHP, and simple front-end examples, designed to demonstrate containerization, deployment, and scaling on OpenShift. Learners use these apps to practice building, deploying, and managing workloads in a containerized environment. Each example is lightweight and structured to highlight specific OpenShift capabilities without unnecessary complexity. The repository plays a key role in hands-on labs and exercises for container training. -
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Directory Lister
Directory Lister exposes the contents of any web folder
Directory Lister is a simple, self-hosted PHP application that lets users browse and share the contents of directories over the web. It creates a web interface to list files and folders on a server, complete with download links, breadcrumb navigation, and optional themes. Ideal for file sharing and public repositories, it requires no database and can be deployed quickly on any PHP-compatible server. -
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JWT
A simple library to work with JSON Web Token and JSON Web Signature
lcobucci/jwt is a framework-agnostic PHP library that allows you to issue, parse, and validate JSON Web Tokens based on the RFC 7519. The package is available on Packagist, you can install it using Composer. A simple library to work with JSON Web Token and JSON Web Signature based on RFC 7519. Once the library has been installed, you are able to issue and parse JWTs. To reduce the chance of having flaky tests on your test suite, the facade supports the usage of a clock object. That allows passing an implementation that always returns the same point in time. -
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reCAPTCHA
PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service
reCAPTCHA is Google’s human-verification system that helps websites distinguish real users from automated abuse while keeping friction low for legitimate traffic. The project bundles client and server examples, language-specific helpers, and documentation patterns for integrating reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 flows into web forms and APIs. Its design philosophy is “risk-based”: most users pass silently based on behavioral signals, while higher-risk interactions may be challenged with an image, checkbox, or other verification step. Site owners register keys, embed a small client script, and verify tokens on the server to protect actions like sign-ups, logins, and form submissions. The ecosystem supports mobile and enterprise variants, but the repo focuses on common web integrations and best practices for verifying the token securely. Deployed correctly, reCAPTCHA reduces credential stuffing, bot sign-ups, and scraping without degrading the experience for typical users. -
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Mobile Detect
Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices
Mobile-Detect is a lightweight PHP library that inspects the HTTP user agent string and HTTP headers to detect whether a request comes from a mobile, tablet, or desktop device. It includes a rich set of detection rules covering device brands, operating systems, and browser engines so developers can tailor responses (views, assets, or layouts) based on client form factor. Its API is simple: isMobile(), isTablet(), or deviceFamily() methods make branching logic intuitive. The library is used in server-rendered PHP apps, CMS themes, and frameworks to serve mobile-friendly templates or redirect users to mobile versions. Because it is pattern-driven and optimized for fast matching, it adds minimal runtime overhead to request handling. By abstracting away the complexity of UA sniffing, Mobile-Detect helps teams gracefully support multi-device clients without duplicating detection logic. -
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PHP XLSX Writer
Lightweight XLSX Excel Spreadsheet Writer in PHP
A fast and memory-efficient PHP library for writing XLSX (Excel) files. It supports large datasets and is ideal for exporting tabular data without using high-level libraries like PHPExcel, providing an efficient alternative for lightweight data export. -
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CloudSchool
Another School Management System
Another School Management System was built with Laravel and PHP 7. -
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Fast Artificial Neural Network Library is a free open source neural network library, which implements multilayer artificial neural networks in C with support for both fully connected and sparsely connected networks. Cross-platform execution in both fixed and floating point are supported. It includes a framework for easy handling of training data sets. It is easy to use, versatile, well documented, and fast. Bindings to more than 15 programming languages are available. An easy to read introduction article and a reference manual accompanies the library with examples and recommendations on how to use the library. Several graphical user interfaces are also available for the library.
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Jigsaw
Simple static sites with Laravel’s Blade
Jigsaw is a static site generator for PHP developers, created by Tighten. It provides a Laravel-inspired development environment for building static websites and documentation sites using Blade templates and Markdown content. Jigsaw is particularly suited for developers familiar with Laravel who want to create simple, fast, and maintainable sites. -
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Spatie Crawler
An easy to use, powerful crawler implemented in PHP
Spatie Crawler is a PHP library that allows developers to crawl websites and extract information efficiently. It can be used for web scraping, link checking, or automated testing of web pages. The library is simple to use and supports customizable crawling strategies, including controlling crawl depth and handling redirects. It’s suitable for building crawlers that navigate large or dynamically generated websites. -
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Swoole
Coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP
Build high-performance, scalable, concurrent TCP, UDP, Unix Socket, HTTP, WebSocket services with PHP and easy to use coroutine, fiber API. Write your next scalable async application server with PHP coroutine and PHP fiber API. Compared with other async programming frameworks or softwares such as Nginx, Tornado, Node.js, Swoole has the built-in PHP coroutine, fiber and async support, multiple threads I/O modules. You can use sync or async, coroutine, fiber API to write the applications or create thousands of light weight fibers within one Linux process. Swoole PHP network framework enhances the efficiency of development team. The network layer in Swoole is event-based and takes full advantage of the underlying epoll/kqueue implementation, making it really easy to serve millions of requests. Swoole 4.x uses a brand new engine kernel and now it has a full-time developer team, so we are entering an unprecedented period in PHP history which offers a unique possibility for rapid evolution. -
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CodeIgniter RestServer
RESTful server implementation for CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter RestServer is a fully RESTful server implementation for CodeIgniter using one library, one config file and one controller. CodeIgniter Rest Server is available on Packagist (using semantic versioning), and installation via composer is the recommended way to install Codeigniter Rest Server. Note that you will need to copy rest.php to your config directory (e.g. application/config) -
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DeviceDetector
The Universal Device Detection library will parse any User Agent
Device Detector is a PHP library for parsing user-agent strings to detect devices, operating systems, and browsers, widely used in analytics and tracking. -
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Faker
A PHP library that generates fake data for you
Faker is a PHP library designed to generate fake data. It can create fake data by accessing properties named after the type of data you want. Faker’s generators have several packaged generator properties, known as formatters. These bundled formatters can be found in the default locale, and include person, address, phone number, company, date-time and more. Faker is also capable of localization, taking a locale as an argument and returning localized data. It can also populate entities using an ORM or an ODM, and features language-specific formatters as well. If you need to bootstrap your database, fill-in your persistence for stress testing, or anonymize data taken from a production service, Faker is a great choice for you. -
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Google Translate PHP
Free Google Translate API PHP Package
A simple and effective PHP library for translating text using Google Translate without needing an API key. It allows developers to integrate real-time translation features into their applications with minimal setup and supports multiple languages, leveraging Google Translate’s unofficial endpoint. -
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Guzzle Promises
A library for PHP with synchronous support
Promises/A+ implementation that handles promise chaining and resolution iteratively, allowing for "infinite" promise chaining while keeping the stack size constant. A promise represents the eventual result of an asynchronous operation. The primary way of interacting with a promise is through its then method, which registers callbacks to receive either a promise's eventual value or the reason why the promise cannot be fulfilled. Callbacks are registered with the then method by providing an optional $onFulfilled followed by an optional $onRejected function. Resolving a promise means that you either fulfill a promise with a value or reject a promise with a reason. Resolving a promises triggers callbacks registered with the promises's then method. These callbacks are triggered only once and in the order in which they were added.
