Some I’ve starred because they might be useful to me at some point. Others I’ve starred just because they’re cool or funny or worth sharing for some reason.
Each category is sorted by most-recently-starred.
Useful projects
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thephpleague/plates
PHP templating system whose templates are written in native PHP -
google/material-design-lite
Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS. Add a Material Design look and feel to your static content websites. -
Roave/StrictPhp
A development tool aimed at bringing stricter runtime assertions into PHP applications and libraries -
codepath/ios_guides
Comprehensive open-source iOS development guides -
bernardphp/bernard
multi-backend PHP library for creating background jobs for later processing -
nategood/commando
beautifies and simplifies writing PHP scripts intended for command line use -
paragonie/awesome-appsec
A curated list of resources for learning about application security -
nikic/PHP-Parser
A PHP parser written in PHP -
dunglas/api-platform
API-first web framework on top of Symfony -
jlevy/the-art-of-command-line
Learn your way around the Linux command line, all in one page -
drewm/morse-php
Lets you easily sniff for PHP feature availability in code that needs to run in different environments -
amphp/artax
A HTTP/1.1 client in code. Async and built on amp, not curl. -
CoolOppo/GDIPP
GDIPP brings better font rendering (like that of OS X) to Windows. -
kenjis/user-agent-parser-benchmarks
Benchmark of UA parsers -
kenjis/php-orm-benchmark
Benchmark of PHP ORMs -
radarphp/Radar.Project
An ADR-pattern project skeleton aka framework -
psecio/gatekeeper
An Authentication & Authorization Library -
thephpleague/climate
Allows you to easily output colored text, special formats, and more in a CLI environment -
equip/framework
A tiny, yet powerful, PHP micro-framework. Attempts to be PSR-1/2/4/7 compliant. Also uses the ADR pattern. -
phergie/phergie-irc-bot-react
The latest incarnation of the definitive PHP IRC bot framework. -
polyfractal/athletic
Allows developers to benchmark their code without littering microtime() calls everywhere (or hassling with XDebug profiling) -
brandonwamboldt/wp-orm
Adds a basic ORM into WordPress, which is easily extendable. Genius! -
amphp/amp
A non-blocking concurrency framework for PHP applications. Supposedly this is the best thing since sliced bread, but I wouldn’t know since I haven’t used it. -
nikic/FastRoute
A very popular regex-based router -
raveren/kint
A powerful and modern PHP debugging tool. Improves on var_dump() and its ilk. -
theseer/phpdox
Documentation generator for PHP Code using standard technology (SRC, DOCBLOCK, XML and XSLT). IIRC this makes prettier docs than the old standard. -
phacility/phabricator
A collection of web applications which help software companies build better software -
vhf/free-programming-books
A massive resource of coding learning -
computeiros/Tardis
Almost-zero-config caching library -
morrisonlevi/Algorithm
Definitions for common PHP algorithms that can operate on any foreach-able type, are lazy, and less cumbersome to compose -
Zikula framework
A cool new PHP framework based on Symfony and Doctrine -
nikic/scalar_objects
Extension that adds support for method calls on primitive types in PHP -
MASNathan/Browser.php
A PHP Class to detect a user’s Browser (the most updated fork of the original) -
FriendsOfPHP/Sami
Presumably an improved successor to phpDocumentor -
PixelsCommander/HTML-GL
Speed up HTML/CSS animations by rendering them in WebGL -
bearsunday/BEAR.Sunday
A very RESTful resource-oriented framework -
jeremeamia/super_closure
PHP library that lets you serialize closures -
icicleio/Icicle
PHP library for writing asynchronous code using synchronous coding techniques (coroutines, promises, …) -
blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload
A jQuery file upload widget thingy -
hail2u/html-best-practices
A thing what lerns ya how to HTML all proper-like. -
ThematoSoup/THA-Hooks-Interface
A WordPress plugin that gives you more [standardized] theme hooks to work with -
zamoose/themehookalliance
…and you put this in your theme to use them. -
iFixit/Matryoshka
Another caching lib, probably not as good
Potentially useful … someday
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ua-parser/uap-php
The PHP UA parser implementation of the regexes below -
analogueorm/analogue
An up-and-coming Doctrine competitor -
ua-parser/uap-core
The core regexes used to build a UA parser -
marcj/css-element-queries
CSS-Element-Queries Polyfill. proof-of-concept for high-speed element dimension/media queries in valid css. -
NativeScript/NativeScript
Open Source framework for building cross-platform, truly native iOS, Android and Windows mobile apps using JavaScript -
cockroachdb/cockroach
A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore -
samayo/country-data
TONS of data about countries, in JSON format -
kevinswiber/siren
Like another JSON API spec -
relayphp/Relay.Relay
A Request/Response (PSR-7) middleware dispatcher -
imanee/imanee
php image manipulation library based on Imagemagick -
m6w6/pharext
Distribute a PHP extension as a self-installing phar executable -
padraic/phar-updater
A thing to make PHAR self-updates easy and secure -
fieryprophet/php-sandbox
Lets you run PHP code in a sandboxed environment. Not sure if I’ll ever need this, but maybe good to know. -
krakjoe/pthreads
Need honest-to-goodness threads in PHP? You finally get your wish! -
qw3rtman/ri-php
Algorithm – helps you see trends in your data by sorting values into tiers that are generated relative to each other -
jeremeamia/mu
A PHP micro-framework in 4 lines of code -
yefim/HIDTB
Useful for preventing stupid people from accumulating lots of duplicate downloads (Chrome ext) -
widmogrod/php-functional
Implementation of some functional programming concepts in PHP (Functors, Applicative Functors and Monads) -
gherkins/regexpbuilderphp
Build human-readable regexes in PHP -
kahun/awesome-sysadmin
Collection of open-source sysadmin resources -
ziadoz/awesome-php
Collection of awesome PHP stuff -
ilya-dev/belt
A handful of tools for PHP developers -
cachethq/Cachet
An open-source (network/server) status page system -
williamjacksn/tilde-description-protocol
A JSON document structure for providing general information about a tilde.club-like server and its users -
sametmax/0bin
A client-side encrypted pastebin that can run without a database -
phanan/htaccess
Just some useful .htaccess snippets -
reSRC
Free programming learning resources -
ligurio/free-software-testing-books
List of free software testing books -
ssola/enabler
A way to display/hide your awesome new features to customers in order to do things like controlled rollouts and such -
dseguy/clearPHP
Reference for writing clear PHP code
Just interesting
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cfenollosa/os-tutorial
Tutorial on how to write an OS! -
thephpleague/skeleton
Skeleton repo for developing League packages -
STJrInuyasha/XIRC2
XIRC2 IRC Bot framework, used for Fortuna (badniknet/#fortune) and Kikyo (esper/#srb2fun) -
container-interop
tries to identify and standardize features in container objects (service locators, dependency injection containers, etc.) to achieve interopererability. Questionable aim, at best. -
IcecaveStudios/archer (also forked at one point by another user)
Library for standardizing PHP unit testing, continuous integration, and documentation behavior across multiple projects. Only interesting because it only supports PHPUnit. -
zeroedin-bill/flip
A PHP class that uses special chars to actually flip the table like the meme -
illacceptanything/illacceptanything
Just like it says. All PRs accepted and merged. A repo for the masses. -
mathiasbynens/dotfiles
Sensible hacker defaults for OS X -
badges/shields
The standard for GitHub badges