Ultimate Collection of PHP Libraries

Having a collection of php libraries in one places will help you get your job done faster. It help me, so I share my list. I’ll keep update the list with more libraries.

Template Engine

Smarty – php template engine with many features, such as caching, filter, plugin system and many more.
PHPTAL
eZ components
Dwoo
Calypso
Twig
H2O

GeoIP

Use this geoip library to locate your user.

Maxmind GeoIP

Payment

Dealing with an e-commerce site? Need payment solution? Don’t worry. Let this library help you.

PHP Payment Library – PHP Payment Library for Paypal, Authorize.net and 2Checkout (2CO)

Microformat

JSON

Unit Testing

For Test-driven development lover, these library will help you get your heart at home.

SimpleTest – PHP unit test and web test framework.
PHPUnit – Member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results.

Excel

Need to generate your report in Excel file. Well, you better have this library on your side.

php-excel – Very simple library for generating excel documents from php on-the-fly.
PHP Excel Reader – Parse and retrieve information from XLS files.

Twitter

My Twitter by Andres Scheffer.
Twitter by Felix Oghina.
TwitterLibPHP by Justin Poliey.
Arc90_Service_Twitter by Matt Williams.
PHP Twitter by Aaron Brazell, original code from David Billingham.
PEAR Services_Twitter by Joe Stump and David Jean Louis.
PHP Twitter by Tijs Verkoyen. BSD Licensed.
Twitter-async by Jaisen Mathai.
API CodeIgniter Library by Eliot Haughin.
Phirehose by Fenn Bailey.
Zend_Service_Twitter from Zend Framework

Flickr

phpFlickr

RSS

Database Abstraction/ORM

Writing SQL Query isn’t really exciting. These library let you smile more.

ADOdb – Database abstraction library for PHP.
Doctrine – Object relational mapper (ORM) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL).
Propel – Object-Relational Mapping framework for PHP5
Outlet – an Open source object-to-relational mapping tool for PHP.

OpenID

More and more website use OpenID as login system, so why don’t you?

Email

Don’t like PHP mail function? Put this library on your project, and you have more features when dealing with email.

Swift Mailer – Free Feature-rich PHP Mailer.
PHPMailer - Powerful email transport class with a big features and small footprint.

Web Services

Want to build web service? Take some look at this libraries.

XML-RPC

Amazon S3

CAPTCHA

Filtering spam? These libraries will help you.

ReCaptcha

Last.fm

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Great list.
Knew some of them already, – others will certainly be investigated later.
Thanks!

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For Amazon the library of use is Tarzan http://tarzan-aws.com/

Comment by Gafitescu Daniel — October 19, 2009 @ 1:35 am
@Gafitescu, I’ve added Tarzan to my list, thanks for the information.

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