PHP libraries

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, providing routing, an ORM, queues, caching, authentication, validation and testing in one coherent package.

Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a full-stack framework, favoured for large, long-lived enterprise applications.

Doctrine is a Data Mapper ORM for PHP with a Unit of Work, its own query language (DQL), and a migrations system.

PHPUnit is the standard testing framework for PHP, with assertions, test doubles, data providers and code coverage reporting.

PHPStan is a static analysis tool for PHP that finds type errors, undefined methods and impossible conditions without running the code.

Guzzle is PHP's standard HTTP client, with PSR-7 message support, middleware, concurrent requests and streaming.

Monolog is PHP's standard logging library, implementing PSR-3 with handlers for files, syslog, Slack, Sentry, Elasticsearch and dozens more.

Carbon extends PHP's DateTime with a fluent API, human-readable differences, localisation and testing helpers.

Pest is a testing framework built on PHPUnit with a concise closure-based syntax, expectations API and built-in parallel execution.

PHP-DI is a dependency injection container with autowiring, PHP-based configuration and support for the PSR-11 container interface.