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. PHP-Parser
This is one of the most starred PHP libraries with more than 15.6k stars. As you have guessed by the name this is a PHP 5.2 to PHP 8.1 parser written in PHP. Its purpose is to simplify static code analysis and manipulation. It includes lots of features like parsing PHP 5, PHP 7, and PHP 8 code into an abstract syntax tree (AST), Dumping the AST in human-readable form, converting an AST into JSON and back, and many more.
