7 Useful PHP Libraries You Should Use in Your Next Project

Power up your PHP development

Farhan Tanvir
CodeX

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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. whoops

This is one of the most starred libraries with more than 12.5k stars on GitHub. Handling error is one of the most important tasks for a developer. This library will help you with this task. It provides a pretty error interface that helps you debug your web projects. It includes lots of features like flexible, stack-based error handling, stand-alone library with (currently) no required dependencies, simple API for dealing with exceptions, trace frames & their data, and many more.

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Farhan Tanvir
CodeX
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