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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Doctrine Annotations
Annotations docblock parser
Doctrine Annotations allows to implement custom annotation functionality for PHP classes. Annotations aren't implemented in PHP itself which is why this component offers a way to use the PHP doc-blocks as a place for the well known annotation syntax using the @ char. Annotations in Doctrine are used for the ORM configuration to build the class mapping, but it can be used in other projects for other purposes too. You can install the Annotation component with composer. The access to the annotations happens by reflection of the class containing them. There are multiple reader-classes implementing the Doctrine\Common\Annotations\Reader interface, that can access the annotations of a class. A common one is Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationReader. Note that AnnotationRegistry::registerLoader('class_exists') only works if you already have an autoloader configured (i.e. composer autoloader). Otherwise, please take a look to the other annotation autoload mechanisms. -
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Open Source Social Network
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests. It is available in 17 international languages. OSSN Licensed under the Open Source Social Network License (4.0) / Cryptographic Autonomy License version 1.0. OSSN must be installed into a directory writable by the webserver, or it will not function properly. For most Linux servers running Apache v2, making the parent directory writable is very simple. If you are not running Apache v2 or are using a different type of webserver, you'll need to read your system's documentation or speak to your server administrator before proceeding. -
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The ReflectionDocBlock Component
Component of phpDocumentor provides a DocBlock parser
ReflectionDocBlock is a PHP component for parsing PHPDoc-style DocBlocks. It lets libraries and tools read structured documentation comments and extract information such as descriptions, tags, types, parameters, return values, and annotations. The component is associated with phpDocumentor and is designed to be compatible with the PHPDoc standard. It is useful for documentation generators, static analysis tools, IDE helpers, annotation systems, and frameworks that depend on metadata stored in comments. Developers can install it through Composer and use it as a reusable parser rather than writing custom DocBlock handling. The project helps PHP tooling turn human-written comments into structured data that software can inspect. -
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Doctrine Collections
Collections abstraction library
Doctrine Collections is a library that contains classes for working with arrays of data. Doctrine Collections provides an interface named Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection that resembles the nature of a regular PHP array. That is, it is essentially an ordered map that can also be used like a list. A Collection has an internal iterator just like a PHP array. In addition, a Collection can be iterated with external iterators, which is preferable. To use an external iterator simply use the foreach language construct to iterate over the collection, which calls getIterator() internally, or explicitly retrieve an iterator though getIterator() which can then be used to iterate over the collection. You can not rely on the internal iterator of the collection being at a certain position unless you explicitly positioned it before. -
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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. -
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Laravel Socialite
Laravel wrapper around OAuth 1 & OAuth 2 libraries
Laravel Socialite provides an expressive, fluent interface to OAuth authentication with Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. It handles almost all of the boilerplate social authentication code you are dreading writing. Laravel Socialite provides an expressive, fluent interface to OAuth authentication with Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. It handles almost all of the boilerplate social authentication code you are dreading writing. To get started with Socialite, use the Composer package manager to add the package to your project's dependencies. When upgrading to a new major version of Socialite, it's important that you carefully review the upgrade guide. Before using Socialite, you will need to add credentials for the OAuth providers your application utilizes. -
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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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Carbon for DateTime
A simple PHP API extension for DateTime
The easiest and recommended method to install Carbon is via composer. If you're using Laravel, Carbon is provided out of the box. You may now check our Laravel configuration and best-practices recommendations. If you're using Symfony, you may check our Symfony configuration and best-practices recommendations. Each version of Laravel has its own range of Carbon compatibility, you have to take 2.42.0 as the real used version, then pick an alias among versions Laravel supports. You may have other dependencies with other Carbon restrictions. To be sure an alias will be compatible with all of your current dependencies, you can choose the version of Carbon you have before upgrading to Carbon 2. The library also provides CarbonInterface interface extends DateTimeInterface and JsonSerializable, CarbonInterval class extends DateInterval, CarbonTimeZone class extends DateTimeZone and CarbonPeriod class polyfills DatePeriod. -
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Requests for PHP
Requests for PHP is a humble HTTP request library
Requests is a HTTP library written in PHP, for human beings. It is roughly based on the API from the excellent Requests Python library. Requests is ISC Licensed (similar to the new BSD license) and has no dependencies, except for PHP 5.6+. Despite PHP’s use as a language for the web, its tools for sending HTTP requests are severely lacking. cURL has an interesting API, to say the least, and you can’t always rely on it being available. Sockets provide only low-level access and require you to build most of the HTTP response parsing yourself. Requests allows you to send HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and PATCH HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with basic arrays, and access the response data in the same way. Requests uses cURL and fsockopen, depending on what your system has available, but abstracts all the nasty stuff out of your way, providing a consistent API. -
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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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PHPCompatibility
PHP Compatibility check for PHP_CodeSniffer
PHPCompatibility is a set of rules for PHP_CodeSniffer that checks for PHP version compatibility in codebases. It helps developers identify features or syntax not supported in specific versions of PHP, which is critical for maintaining backward compatibility or upgrading PHP versions safely. It supports a wide range of PHP versions and is often used in CI workflows to ensure version compliance. -
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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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BotMan
A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots
Write your chatbot logic once and connect it to one of the available messaging services, including Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram or even your own Website. BotMan is framework agnostic, which means you can use it in your existing codebase, whatever framework you might use. Starting a new chatbot project? BotMan Studio is a Laravel 5.5 boiler project to get you started in no time! BotMan is all about having an expressive, yet powerful syntax that allows you to focus on the business logic, not on framework code. BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library that is designed to simplify the task of developing innovative bots for multiple messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework, Nexmo, HipChat, Facebook Messenger and WeChat. -
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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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Hamcrest PHP
The PHP Hamcrest implementation
Hamcrest is a matching library originally written for Java, but subsequently ported to many other languages. hamcrest-php is the PHP port of Hamcrest and essentially follows a literal translation of the original Java API for Hamcrest, with a few Exceptions, mostly down to PHP language barriers. Unless it would be non-semantic for a matcher to do so, hamcrest-php allows dynamic typing for it's input, in "the PHP way". Exception are where semantics surrounding the type itself would suggest otherwise, such as stringContains() and greaterThan(). Several matchers have not been ported because they don't make sense or don't apply in PHP. When most of the collections matchers are finally ported, PHP-specific aliases will probably be created due to a difference in naming conventions between Java's Arrays, Collections, Sets and Maps compared with PHP's Arrays. -
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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.
