List of PHP software and tools

Libraries and tools

• Backdrop CMS – content management system
• BioPHP – bioinformatics
• CakePHP – open-source web framework model–view–controller
• CodeIgniter – open-source rapid web development framework for building dynamic web sites
• Doctrine Project – libraries primarily focused on providing persistence services and related functionality
• Drupal – open-source web content management system
• Fat-Free Framework – web framework
• FuelPHP – open-source web application framework
• GetSimple CMS – web content management system
• Guzzle — HTTP client library
• Gyroscope – framework and a code template system for building web backend systems
• Horde – web application framework
• 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
• Laravel — web application framework
• li₃ – full-stack web framework
• MODX – open-source content management system and web application framework
• 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
• 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
• PHPEclipse – development plugin for the Eclipse IDE Framework
• PHPMailer — library for sending email
• Pop PHP Framework – web framework
• PRADO – open-source, object-oriented, event-driven, component-based PHP web framework.
• Predis — client library for Redis
• ProcessWire – open source content management system, content management framework, and web application framework.
• ReactPHP — 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
• Silverstripe CMS – content management system
• SimpleXML – extension that allows users to easily manipulate/use XML data
• Slim — 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.
• 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

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

• GitHub Codespaces
• Replit
• JDoodle

Compilers

• HipHop Virtual Machine — open-source virtual machine for executing programs written in PHP and Hack
• PeachPie — modern PHP compiler to .NET, successor to Phalanger.
• Phalanger — PHP compiler to .NET framework

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
• Xdebug — debugger and profiler using DBGp
• Zend Debugger — debugger integrated with Zend Studio

Unit testing

• Behat — behavior-driven development testing framework for PHP
• Lime – unit testing and functional testing framework built specifically for the Symfony
• PHPUnit — unit testing framework

Package managers

• Composer — application-level dependency manager
• PEAR package manager – legacy way to install, uninstall, or upgrade with new PEAR packages or PECL extensions

PHP dialects

• Hack – dialect of PHP and compiles on the HipHop Virtual Machine
• Quercus — implementation of PHP in Java