PHP Library Categories

Useful libraries or utilities that don't fit into the categories above.

Web development frameworks.

Tools for managing digital content.

Libraries and web tools for developing APIs.

Libraries for implementing user authentication and authorization.

Libraries for interacting with databases using object-relational mapping (ORM) or datamapping techniques.

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

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

Libraries for manipulating images.

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulating codebases.

Libraries related to the command line.

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Project build and automation tools.

Libraries and tools for debugging errors and profiling code.

Libraries for working with HTTP.

Libraries and applications for taking payments and building online e-commerce stores.

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

Libraries for working with notification software.

Libraries for parsing and manipulating strings.

Libraries for caching data and acquiring locks.

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

Libraries for working with markup and CSS formats.

Libraries that are event-driven or implement non-blocking event loops.

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

Libraries that implement data structure or storage techniques.

Libraries for filtering, sanitizing and validating data.

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

Libraries for handling application routing.

Libraries for generating project documentation.

Libraries for parsing URLs.

Libraries for Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n).

Libraries for automating and running tasks.

Libraries for working with dates and times.

Libraries for scraping websites and detecting crawlers.

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

Libraries for dependency and package management.

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

Libraries for working with office suite documents.

Micro frameworks and routers.

Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.

Libraries and applications for continuous integration.

Standalone components from web development frameworks and development groups.

Libraries for performing static analysis of PHP code.

Libraries related to design patterns, programming approaches and ways to organize code.

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

Libraries for working with numbers.

Extras related to dependency management.

Self-hosted or cloud-based application performance monitoring & error tracking tools

Libraries for building application using middlewares.

Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.

Libraries and tools for working with and storing passwords.

Libraries for project deployment.

Libraries for managing code quality, formatting and linting.

Libraries and tools to help build serverless web applications.

PHP libraries for migrations

Composer Repositories.

Libraries for working with Large Language Models.

Extras related to web development frameworks.

Libraries for working with "NoSQL" backends.

Extras related to micro frameworks and routers.

Libraries for working with streams.

Tools for building navigation structures.

Libraries for working with JSON.

Libraries to help build PHP extensions.