List of PHP software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the PHP programming language, which includes libraries, debuggers, compilers, integrated development environments, frameworks, and related projects.

Libraries and tools

Backdrop CMS – content management system^[1]
BioPHP – bioinformatics^[2]
CakePHP – open-source web framework model–view–controller^[3]
CodeIgniter – open-source rapid web development framework for building dynamic web sites^[4]
Doctrine Project – libraries primarily focused on providing persistence services and related functionality^[5]
Drupal – open-source web content management system^[6]
Fat-Free Framework – web framework^[7]
FuelPHP – open-source web application framework^[8]
GetSimple CMS – web content management system^[9]
Guzzle — HTTP client library^[10]
Gyroscope – framework and a code template system for building web backend systems
Horde – web application framework^[11]
Intelephense - a cross platform, cross editor PHP coding tool adhering to the Language Server Protocol (LSP)
ImpressPages – content management system, MVC engine, inline editing, and drag&drop interface.
Jamroom – web content management system
Joomla – content management system
Laminas Project – open-source object-oriented web application framework^[12]
Laravel — web application framework
li₃ – full-stack web framework
MODX – open-source content management system and web application framework^[13]
Monolog — logging library
Neos Flow – web application framework
Novius OS – content management system designed for internet publishing
Phalcon – web framework based on the model–view–controller pattern
PHP-Fusion – web framework based on PHP and MySQL & MariaDB that has an integrated content management system^[14]
PHP-GTK – language bindings which allow GTK GUI applications to be written in PHP
phpDocumentor – documentation generator that automatically parses PHP source code and produces readable documentation^[15]
PHPEclipse – development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework^[16]
PHPMailer — library for sending email
Pop PHP Framework – web framework
PRADO – open-source, object-oriented, event-driven, component-based PHP web framework.
Predis^[17] — client library for Redis
ProcessWire – open source content management system, content management framework, and web application framework.
ReactPHP^[18] — event-driven non-blocking I/O library
RedBeanPHP — lightweight ORM for PHP simplifying database access
RoadRunner – open-source application server and load-balancer for rapid application development^[19]
Silverstripe CMS – content management system
SimpleXML – extension that allows users to easily manipulate/use XML data
Slim^[20] — micro-framework
Smart Framework PHP – web framework
Symfony — reusable PHP components and web framework
Textpattern – open-source content management system for PHP and MySQL
Twig — template engine
TYPO3 – content management framework and content management system
wxPHP – extension that wraps the wxWidgets library
XHP – augmentation of PHP and Hack to allow XML syntax to create custom and reusable HTML elements
XOOPS - content management system
Yii – open source, object-oriented, component-based, MVC, web application framework.^[21]
Zend Engine – compiler and runtime environment
Zend Framework — open-source framework for building web applications and services
Zend Server – certified PHP distribution stack originally developed by Zend Technologies^[22]

Integrated development environments

CodeCharge Studio — rapid application development IDE for building database-driven web applications
PhpStorm — commercial IDE for PHP from JetBrains
Eclipse PDT — PHP Development Tools plugin for Eclipse
NetBeans IDE — open-source IDE supporting PHP
Visual Studio Code — general-purpose editor with PHP extensions
Zend Studio

Online IDEs

Solution Stacks

XAMPP
MAMP
FlyEnv
ServBay

Compilers

HipHop Virtual Machine — open-source virtual machine for executing programs written in PHP and Hack^[24]
PeachPie — modern PHP compiler to .NET, successor to Phalanger.^[25]
Phalanger — PHP compiler to .NET framework (discontinued)

Debugging tools

Blackfire Profiler – SaaS service for Valgrind and tracks server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O operations.
PHP Console — Chrome extension for PHP error logging^[26]
Xdebug — debugger and profiler using DBGp^[27]
Zend Debugger — debugger integrated with Zend Studio^[28]

Unit testing

Behat — behavior-driven development testing framework for PHP^[29]
Lime – unit testing and functional testing framework built specifically for the Symfony
PHPUnit — unit testing framework^[30]

Package managers

Composer — application-level dependency manager^[31]
PEAR package manager – legacy way to install, uninstall, or upgrade with new PEAR packages or PECL extensions^[32]

PHP dialects

Hack – dialect of PHP and compiles on the HipHop Virtual Machine
Quercus — implementation of PHP in Java^[33]