PHP Top 50

Top 49 most starred PHP repositories on GitHub

PHP rankings: how to read the ecosystem behind the stars

PHP powers over 75% of websites with known server-side languages, including WordPress, which alone runs 40% of the web. Modern PHP (8.x) with its JIT compiler, union types, and frameworks like Laravel has shed its legacy reputation to become a productive, well-designed language.

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Laravel has revitalized the PHP ecosystem, offering an elegant developer experience comparable to Rails. Combined with WordPress, Drupal, and Symfony, PHP remains the most pragmatic choice for web development, especially for content management and e-commerce platforms.

Use the language page to compare projects that share the same runtime, syntax, and toolchain assumptions. The ranking is strongest as a shortlist generator: it helps you spot the repositories that keep defining the language community, but you still need to confirm maintenance, release cadence, and whether the project solves your actual use case.

For the source rules behind this language view, review Methodology & Editorial Standards

An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.

53K stars·4K forks·Today

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.

34.6K stars·11.8K forks·2 days ago

☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

34.6K stars·4.8K forks·Today

The Symfony PHP framework

31K stars·9.8K forks·Today

File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. Works with any server-side platform (Google App Engine, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.

30.8K stars·7.8K forks·4 days ago

A powerful open-source UI framework for Laravel • Build and ship apps & admin panels fast with Livewire

30.2K stars·4.1K forks·Today

Dependency Manager for PHP

29.4K stars·4.8K forks·4 days ago

Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you

26.7K stars·3.6K forks·2 years ago

Free and open source laravel eCommerce platform

26.4K stars·3K forks·2 days ago

Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and business relationships.

24.5K stars·2.4K forks·1 weeks ago

A full-stack framework for Laravel that takes the pain out of building dynamic UIs.

23.5K stars·1.7K forks·Yesterday

Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client

23.4K stars·2.4K forks·1 months ago

Firefly III: a personal finances manager

22.9K stars·2.1K forks·2 days ago

Sample code for several design patterns in PHP 8.x

22.2K stars·4.5K forks·1 years ago

The classic email sending library for PHP

22.1K stars·9.8K forks·6 days ago

Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

21.4K stars·2.8K forks·Today

Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services

21.4K stars·1.9K forks·3 days ago

WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop and patches to https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ instead.

21K stars·12.9K forks·Yesterday

The PHP Unit Testing framework.

20K stars·2.2K forks·Today

Debugbar for Laravel (Integrates PHP Debug Bar)

19.2K stars·1.6K forks·2 days ago

A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

18.6K stars·2.4K forks·Yesterday

程序员如何优雅的挣零花钱,2.0版,升级为小书了。Most of this not work outside China , so no English translate

18.5K stars·1.8K forks·2 years ago

Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

18.2K stars·7.6K forks·1 years ago

A PHP parser written in PHP

17.4K stars·1.1K forks·1 months ago

Music streaming solution that works.

17.1K stars·2.1K forks·2 days ago

A simple PHP API extension for DateTime.

16.6K stars·1.3K forks·Today

Simple forum software for building great communities.

16.2K stars·1.7K forks·2 weeks ago

Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

15.5K stars·1.4K forks·1 weeks ago

Better Markdown Parser in PHP

15K stars·1.1K forks·1 months ago

🚦 Cachet, the open-source, self-hosted status page system.

15K stars·1.6K forks·1 weeks ago

IDE Helper for Laravel

14.9K stars·1.2K forks·1 weeks ago

《一人企业方法论》第二版,也适合做其他副业(比如自媒体、电商、数字商品)的非技术人群。

14.8K stars·1.7K forks·Today

A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

14.7K stars·1.1K forks·3 days ago

PHP Image Processing

14.3K stars·1.5K forks·Yesterday

Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework

14.3K stars·6.8K forks·Yesterday

A pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files

13.9K stars·3.6K forks·2 days ago

PHP Static Analysis Tool - discover bugs in your code without running it!

13.9K stars·949 forks·Today

A free open source IT asset/license management system

13.6K stars·3.8K forks·Yesterday

Abstraction for local and remote filesystems

13.6K stars·848 forks·2 weeks ago

Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.

13.5K stars·657 forks·3 months ago

A tool to automatically fix PHP Coding Standards issues

13.5K stars·1.6K forks·Today

PHP errors for cool kids

13.2K stars·599 forks·4 months ago

WordPress starter theme with Laravel Blade components and templates, Tailwind CSS, and block editor support

13.2K stars·3K forks·1 weeks ago

Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA)

12.9K stars·4.7K forks·3 weeks ago

Associate users with roles and permissions

12.9K stars·1.8K forks·5 days ago

QloApps is a Free and Open-source hotel management and reservation system to take a hotel business online. QloApps offers a Property Management System (PMS), a Booking Engine, and an attractive Hotel Website. Elevate hotel operations with QloApps to streamline processes and provide an enhanced experience for both hoteliers and guests.

12.9K stars·736 forks·4 days ago

ShowDoc is a tool greatly applicable for an IT team to share documents online一个非常适合IT团队的在线API文档、技术文档工具

12.8K stars·2.2K forks·Yesterday

🚀 Supercharged Excel exports and imports in Laravel

12.7K stars·2K forks·3 weeks ago

wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.

12.6K stars·867 forks·2 days ago

Ranking methodology

We rank the top 50 PHP repositories by total GitHub stars. The prominence of Laravel and WordPress projects reflects PHP's dominance in content-driven web development.

Data is sourced from the GitHub REST API and updated daily. Rankings reflect cumulative star counts across each repository's lifetime and should be read as a discovery aid rather than a quality certification. See Methodology & Editorial Standards.