7 Useful PHP Libraries You Should Use in Your Next Project
Power up your PHP development
Why write custom functionality when we can easily achieve the same result by using a library? A developer’s best friends and lifesaver are libraries. I believe a good project makes use of some of the best libraries available. PHP is a popular and widely used server-side scripting language that is specially used for web development.
This article is a part of a series on the awesome libraries for PHP in which I always compiled a list of 7 PHP libraries that will help you in your development journey.
1. PhpSpreadsheet
This is one of the most starred libraries on GitHub with more than 11k stars on GitHub. As the name suggests, this is a library written entirely in PHP that provides a number of classes that let you read and write a variety of spreadsheet file formats, including Excel and LibreOffice Calc. It also supports various file formats like CSV, BIFF 8 (.xls) Excel 97 and above, HTML, etc.
