PHP Resources

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🛰️ Important articles and links

PHP: a fractal of bad design Infamous PHP Critique written in 2012, helped language evolve a lot since.
Re-visiting »PHP: a fractal of bad design« in 2020
PHP 8 Features Overview
PHP Delusions - PHP evolves and improves because it accepts criticism gracefully.
OWASP - PHP Security Cheat Sheet

PHP Official docs
PHP-FIG - Standards matter
A brief introduction to PHP Namespacing
ziadoz/awesome-php - A curated list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries, resources and shiny things.
PHP RFCs - For keeping up with proposed changes.
PHPStan - Popular tool for type safety and static analysis.
Psalm - Popular tool for type safety and static analysis.
sitepoint-editors/awesome-symfony - A list of awesome Symfony bundles, utilities and resources.
chiraggude/awesome-laravel - A curated list of bookmarks, packages, tutorials, videos and other cool resources from the Laravel ecosystem.
codeigniter-id/awesome-codeigniter - A list of awesome CodeIgniter core, helpers, hooks, language, libraries, third_party and other cool resources for CodeIgniter.

Laravel - Most popular PHP web framework, developed by Taylor Otwell.
Lumen - Micro-framework based on Laravel for building APIs quickly.
Symfony - Another highly used PHP framework, inspired by Java's spring.
CodeIgniter - Another great PHP framework, created by Ellis Labs and presently maintained by British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
Slim - Lightweight micro-framework for APIs.
yii - Developed by Yahoo Inc., the word literally means "simple and evolutionary" in Chinese language, and is also an acronym for "Yes, It Is!".
cakephp - Based on the MVC approach, modeled after Ruby on Rails.
Laminas Project (formerly zend framework) - An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 7 and licensed under the New BSD License.

Wordpress - Blogging CMS, powers many websites on this planet.
Drupal - Multi-purpose CMS, used to be very popular at one time.
Backdrop CMS - Fork of Drupal 7, lighter-weight for smaller sites.
Fuelcms - Built with CodeIgniter, FuelCMS is a popular and reputed name in the PHP world.
Joomla - CMS helping both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites and applications.
Magento - Powers many shopping carts.
Limesurvey - Wonderful survey tool/CMS.
CraftCMS - Flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.

phpunit - Standard unit testing framework in the php world.
prophecy - Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP.
Carbon - Popular date/time handling library.
mockery - Simple yet flexible PHP mock object framework.
php-parser - PHP parser written in PHP.
guzzle - HTTP client library for PHP.
PHP-Websockets - An open implementation of WebSockets in php.
PHPMailer - The classic email sending library for PHP.
swiftmailer - Another feature-right php mailer library.
twig - The flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP.
PHPExcel - A pure php library to export/import data in Microsoft Excel format.
phpList - Mailing list software.
php-markdown - A handy markdown-converter (to/from html) in php.
Archon - Data Analysis package for PHP, the rought equivalent of Python's PANDAS.

Laravel News - Laravel News is the official blog of Laravel.
PHPWeekly - Weekly newsletter of PHP news, tutorials, and packages.
PHP Gurukul - PHP Programming Blog with many examples and sample projects, started by a Delhiite named Anuj Kumar.
www.phpclasses.org - PHP Classes Repository.
php[architect] - A magazine dedicated to PHP programming language. It was founded in 2002 by Marco Tabini and his group The BlueParabola.
phpmagazine.net - Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and developments in PHP programming with PHPMagazine.net.