Rankings
Top 20 repos in each star tier, ranked by AI quality score.
PHP-Parser: The foundational AST library powering PHP's static analysis ecosystem
Carbon remains PHP's de facto DateTime extension after 13 years of production use
PHPStan: The de-facto standard static analyzer catching PHP bugs before runtime
PHP CS Fixer: The mature, widely-used automatic code style enforcer for PHP projects
Sage brings Laravel Blade templating and Vite builds to WordPress theme development
ramsey/uuid: The de facto PHP library for UUID generation, now over a decade in production
Pest brings Jest-style syntax to PHP testing, now on v4 with browser testing
PSR-3 Logger Interface: The PHP interoperability standard every framework relies on
PSR-11: The PHP standard interface that unified dependency injection containers
Laravel Debugbar: The de-facto development toolbar for Laravel, now at 19K+ stars
BookStack: self-hosted wiki platform for teams that want simple, structured documentation
Koel: self-hosted personal music streaming server built on Laravel and Vue, now with a paid Plus tier
Flarum: a lean, extensible PHP forum platform that has matured into a stable community tool
Grav: a mature flat-file PHP CMS that trades databases for filesystem simplicity
FreshRSS: A mature, self-hosted RSS aggregator with 13+ years of active development
Parsedown: The dominant single-file Markdown parser for PHP, powering major CMSs for over a decade
Laravel IDE Helper generates PHPDoc files so editors can autocomplete facades, models, and container bindings
Intervention Image: PHP's most-used image processing library adds libvips support in v4
Yii 2: A mature PHP framework with a loyal base entering maintenance-mode era
PhpSpreadsheet: The de facto PHP library for reading and writing Excel and Calc files