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CodeIgniter
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
CodeIgniter is a lightweight PHP web framework that focuses on simplicity, performance, and minimal configuration to get started quickly. It adopts an MVC-style or loosely structured approach depending on developer preference, with core components for routing, input handling, output views, and database abstraction. The framework provides convenience libraries for sessions, form validation, encryption, email, file uploads, and more, all optional so the footprint stays small. Because it doesn’t force heavy conventions, CodeIgniter is flexible for both small projects and larger modular applications where you may want to craft your own architecture. Its documentation and clarity of code make the learning curve gentle for PHP newcomers. In production, CodeIgniter’s efficiency and minimal overhead make it a steady option when performance and stability are priorities. -
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CodeIgniter 4
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
CodeIgniter4 is a powerful PHP framework designed for building web applications. It is a next-generation version of the popular CodeIgniter framework, offering enhanced features and improved performance. CodeIgniter4 follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern and is built to be lightweight, with a focus on simplicity and speed. It comes with a rich set of libraries and tools for developing dynamic web applications. -
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This is the home of the old MindTouch Platform and Core. This project was turned over to the community in 2010. Please visit www.MindTouch.com for the most up to date version of MindTouch--software that accelerates customer success. More info on the old Core and Platform: http://mndt.ch/oss-dep Thanks for your interest and for making the old MindTouch open source one of the most popular (top 5) open source projects in the world from 2007-2010. Some key terms commonly associated with this project are: customer support, self service support, customer success center, help center, enterprise wiki, etc
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concretecms
Repository for Concrete CMS development
Do you want a CMS that both developers and editors love? You will spend less time building, managing extensions, and training clients with Concrete CMS. Your clients know how to use a word processor without any training. Would you like their website editing experience to be just as simple? Concrete CMS was designed as an extendable platform for building beautiful websites clients love to manage on their own. The core has lots of built-in features, so you’re not forced to use an ecosystem of incompatible extensions. It’s all offered under the MIT Open Source License. It's secure and stable, trusted by governments and Fortune 500 companies around the world. Join us in building a web for the greatest good. Concrete CMS is packed with powerful features to make it easy for a team to run even the most complex websites. -
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Elgg
A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL
Introducing a powerful open-source social networking engine. Providing you with the core components needed to build a socially aware web application. Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus-wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients. Learn about the requirements and steps needed to install Elgg on your server. Find detailed information about Elgg's architecture, approach and features. Get inspiration from other projects powered by Elgg. This is a handy resource to search and find out what functions exist within Elgg. Find the ideal plugins and themes in our repository of community-sourced projects. -
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Pterodactyl Panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users. Stop settling for less. Make game servers a first-class citizen on your platform. Security is a first-class citizen on this platform with bcrypt hashing, AES-256-CBC encryption, and HTTPS support out of the box. Built on a modern stack utilizing the best design practices that make it easy to jump in and make modifications. All servers run in isolated Docker containers that limit attack vectors, provide strict resource limits, and provide environments tailored to each specific game. Pterodactyl is 100% free and licensed under a MIT license. All of our code is completely open source as well. -
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Hyperf
A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility
Hyperf is an extremely performant and flexible PHP CLI framework, powered by a state-of-the-art coroutine server and a large number of battle-tested components. Aside from decisively beating PHP-FPM frameworks in benchmarks, Hyperf is unique in its focus on flexibility and composition. Hyperf ships with an AOP-enabling (aspect-oriented programming) dependency injector to ensure components and classes are pluggable and meta-programmable. All of Hyperf's core components strictly follow PSR standards and can be used in other frameworks. Although there are many new PHP frameworks, we still haven't found a framework that matches an elegant design with ultra-high performance, nor have we found a framework that paves the way for PHP microservices. With this vision in mind, we will continue to invest in the future of this framework, and you are welcome to join us in contributing to the open-source development of Hyperf. -
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Laravel Framework
Elegant PHP web application framework with expressive syntax
Laravel is a popular open-source PHP web framework designed for building modern web applications with an elegant and readable syntax. It emphasizes developer productivity, offering features like routing, Eloquent ORM, blade templating, and an extensive ecosystem of packages. Laravel makes common tasks like authentication, caching, and session management simple and intuitive, making it a top choice for PHP developers. -
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Laravel Installer
The Laravel application installer
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. A web framework provides a structure and starting point for creating your application, allowing you to focus on creating something amazing while we sweat the details. Laravel strives to provide an amazing developer experience while providing powerful features such as thorough dependency injection, an expressive database abstraction layer, queues, and scheduled jobs, unit and integration testing, and more. There are a variety of tools and frameworks available to you when building a web application. However, we believe Laravel is the best choice for building modern, full-stack web applications. Before creating your first Laravel project, make sure that your local machine has PHP and Composer installed. If you are developing on macOS or Windows, PHP and Composer can be installed in minutes via Laravel Herd. In addition, we recommend installing Node and NPM. -
MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Laravel Package Tools
Tools for creating Laravel packages
This package contains a PackageServiceProvider that you can use in your packages to easily register config files, migrations, and more. This package is opinionated on how you should structure your package. To get started easily, consider using our package-skeleton repo to start your package. The skeleton is structured perfectly to work perfectly with the PackageServiceProvider in this package. -
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Spiral Framework
High-Performance PHP Framework for large scale applications
Born out of real-world software development projects, Spiral Framework is a modern PHP framework designed to power faster, cleaner, superior software development. Due to its design and sophisticated application server, Spiral Framework will execute your code up to 10 times faster than Laravel or Symfony without compromising code quality or compatibility with commonly-used libraries. Spiral Framework provides all the tools you need to write secure applications with embedded encryption, CSRF protection, cookie anti-tampering, RBAC authorization, token-based authentication, validation, and more. 10+ years of R&D and design-verification at Spiral Scout has delivered a high-performing framework that already serves dozens of applications on production and drives functionality for millions of users. Scale your application quickly with integrated tools for Queue, GRPC, Event broadcasting and more. -
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any-agent
A single interface to use and evaluate different agent frameworks
any-agent is a Python library that provides a unified interface for working with multiple agent frameworks, allowing developers to create, run, and evaluate AI agents without being locked into a single ecosystem. It abstracts the differences between frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents, and others, enabling users to switch between them with minimal configuration changes. The library is designed to simplify experimentation and benchmarking, making it easier to compare agent behavior, performance, and reliability across different implementations. It includes built-in evaluation tools such as LLM-as-a-judge and agent-as-a-judge methodologies, which help developers assess output quality systematically. any-agent also supports advanced capabilities like tracing, callbacks, and standardized observability through OpenTelemetry, ensuring consistent monitoring across frameworks. Additionally, it allows agents to be deployed using protocols like MCP. -
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Eloquent Power Joins
The Laravel magic you know, now applied to joins.
The Laravel magic you know, now applied to joins. Joins are very useful in a lot of ways. If you are here, you most likely know about and use them. Eloquent is very powerful, but it lacks a bit of the "Laravel way" when using joins. This package make your joins in a more Laravel way, with more readable with less code while hiding implementation details from places they don't need to be exposed. -
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LibreNMS
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Welcome to LibreNMS, a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP-based network monitoring that includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP, and many more. -
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Arianne RPG
Arianne is an engine to develop multiplayer online games like Stendhal
Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world -
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EasyZSwoole
swoole, easyswoole, swoole framework
EasySwoole is a distributed swoole framework with a permanent memory. It is born specifically for API and supports the simultaneous monitoring of HTTP, WebSocket, self-defined TCP, UDP protocol, and has rich components, such as collaboration Connect Pool, TP style co-process ORM, co-process microcredit SDK, co-process Kafka client, co-process ElasticSearch client, co-process Consul client, co-process Redis client, co-process Apollo client, co-process NSQ client, co-process self-definition queue、 Many components such as the Memcached client, the co-process view engine, JWT, the co-process RPC, the co-process SMTP client, the co-process HTTP client, the co-process Actor, and the Crontab timer. Let developers write multi-process, step-by-step, and high-available application services with the lowest learning cost and effort. -
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Laravel Octane
Supercharge your Laravel application's performance
Laravel Octane supercharges your application's performance by serving your application using high-powered application servers, including FrankenPHP, Open Swoole, Swoole, and RoadRunner. Octane boots your application once, keeps it in memory, and then feeds it requests at supersonic speeds. -
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PHP-Casbin
An authorization library that supports access control models
An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC for Golang, Java, C/C++, Node.js, Javascript, PHP, Laravel, Python, .NET (C#), Delphi, Rust, Ruby, Swift (Objective-C), Lua (OpenResty), Dart (Flutter) and Elixir. In Casbin, an access control model is abstracted into a CONF file based on the PERM metamodel (Policy, Effect, Request, Matchers). So switching or upgrading the authorization mechanism for a project is just as simple as modifying a configuration. Besides memory and file, Casbin policy can be stored into lots of places. Currently, dozens of databases are supported, from MySQL, Postgres, Oracle to MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, AWS S3. Check the full supported list at: adapters. Casbin is implemented in Golang, Java, PHP and Node.js. All implementations share the same API and behaviors. You can learn Casbin once and use it everywhere. -
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GraphQL Lighthouse
A framework for serving GraphQL from Laravel
A framework for serving GraphQL from Laravel. Use the GraphQL Schema Definition Language to describe your data and add functionality through server-side directives. Build a GraphQL server on top of an existing Laravel application. Maximize code reuse and work with concepts you already know. Lighthouse leverages your existing models and creates optimized database queries out of the box. Define your schema without any boilerplate by using the GraphQL Schema Definition Language. In a GraphQL query, the client can get all the data they need - and no more - all in a single request. A GraphQL server can tell clients about its schema, so they will always know exactly what they will get. Updating between minor versions will not require changes to PHP code or the GraphQL schema and cause no breaking behavioural changes for consumers of the GraphQL API. -
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Production-ready Docker PHP
Production-ready Docker images for PHP. Optimized for Laravel
serversideup/php is an optimized set of Docker Images for running PHP applications in production. Everything is designed around improving the developer experience with PHP and Docker. Gone are the days of configuring each environment differently, and gone are the days of trying to figure out why your code works in one environment and not the other. These images are highly optimized to run modern PHP applications, no matter where you want your application to run. Ditch FPM for a modern way of running PHP. Designed for containers from the ground up. All logs are directed to STDOUT & STDERR for centralized output. Our FPM-Apache & FPM-NGINX images use this intelligent init system. -
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Component library to extend Zend Framework. MVC with implicit CRUD. Tutorial in PDF available in download page. Project leader: FGSL. Homepage: www.fgsl.eti.br
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Pines
Feature packed web application framework.
A full featured web application framework with an advanced object-relational mapper, extensive method hooking functionality, an advanced package management system (like those found on Linux), and MVC architecture. It emphasizes speed and flexible/extensible structures. -
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Laravel Livewire Tables
A dynamic table component for Laravel Livewire
We will do our best to document all features and configurations of this plugin. Laravel Livewire Tables is a plugin built for Laravel Livewire that allows you to create simple or advanced dynamic data tables. -
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PEST
Pest is an elegant PHP Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity
Pest is a Testing Framework with a focus on simplicity. It was carefully crafted to bring the joy of testing to PHP. Pest gives you the most beautiful test reporting in the world, straight from the console! Also, the readable errors and stack traces make debugging lightning fast. Pest makes testing a breeze. Tests are easy to read and understand. Also, it's powered by PHPUnit, just run your current PHPUnit test suite with Pest and it will just work. You won't have to change a thing. Pest is framework agnostic and it can be used in any PHP project. This project contains several Laravel examples just because the author has a close relationship with the Laravel community. Pest is a progressive testing framework! You can have both PHPUnit test classes and Pest test files in the same test suite. Also, you can reuse your Test Case classes in Pest test files. To make your life easier. Pest is a testing framework built for humans — it's simple, minimal, and elegant. -
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ThinkPHP 6.1
ThinkPHP Framework
ThinkPHPIt is an open source free, fast and simple target-oriented lightweight PHP development framework, which was born to agile WEB application development and simplify enterprise application development. Follow at the same timeApache2The release of the open source license agreement means that you can use ThinkPHP for free, and even allow the release/sale of your application open source or commercial products based on ThinkPHP development.ThinkPHPThe trademark holder is Shanghai Top Want Information Technology Co., Ltd. For sixteen years, we have insisted on improvement and iterative renewal, with a leading market occupancy rate and good user reputation in China. I believe it is your trusted PHP framework. ThinkPHPNavigation as an official unified resource and promotion entrance is designed to buildThinkPHPEcology and cooperation win-win, we will show the products or services of ecological and cooperative manufacturers in the navigation station.
