PHP packages

Here is a collection of some useful libraries, packages and scripts you will find useful when developing with PHP.

Administration

• EasyAdminBundle - Administration panel for Symfony based projects.
• Laravel-Administrator - Administration interface package for Laravel based projects.

Images

• Imagine - Image manipulation library.
• ImageWorkshop - ImageWorkshop is a PHP5.3+ library that helps you to manage images based on GD library.
• Zebra Image - lightweight, image manipulation PHP library.

Pagination

• PagerFanta - Pagination library for PHP.

Payment gateways

• Omnipay - Multi-gateway payment processing library.
• Stripe - PHP bindings fro Stripe
• Paypal PHP SDK - PHP SDK for PayPal RESTful APIs
• Stripe - PHP bindings fro Stripe

Excel

• PHPExcel

Authentication

• HybridAuth - OAuth login library for various social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Google…
• oauth2-server-php - OAuth 2 login Library to make your own OAuth 2 Appliction
• auth0-PHP - PHP SDK for auth0 service

Bitcoin/Altcoin

• Bitcoin data explorer - Altcoin/Bitcoin data Explorer. This package can get transaction information with Bitcoin protocol.

Serialization

• Flatbuffers - Serialization library for games and other memory constrained apps.

Encryption

• Time lock encryption - This class can encrypt data using key generated for a time period.
• Fernet - Fernet takes a user-provided message (an arbitrary sequence of bytes), a key (256 bits), and the current time, and produces a token, which contains the message in a form that can’t be read or altered without the key

MySQLi

• MysqliDb - Simple MySQLi wrapper and object mapper with prepared statements
• simple-mysqli - PHP class to access MySQL database wrapper using MySQLi.

PDO

• salebab/database - PHP/MySQL database wrapper, extends PDO and PDOStatement.
• nikic/DB - PDO wrapper class

ORM

• Doctrine2 - Doctrine 2 Object Relational Mapper (ORM) (Symfony projects)
• Propel2 - Propel2 is an open-source high-performance Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for modern PHP

PDF

• FPDF - Easy to use PDF generation library
• TCPDF - Same as FPDF but a little bit more advanced

Sanitization

• HTML Purifier - A standards-compliant HTML sanitization library.

MarkDown

• PHP Markdown - PHP Markdown parser.

Geometry

• geoPHP - Advanced geometry operations in PHP.
• PHP-GPX-Ingest - Simple class to ingest a basic GPX file and extract data/stats from it.
• phpGPX - PHP library for manipulation with GPX files (read, write, stats calculation).