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Top 23 C PHP Projects
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So far we have simply installed the Redis server in our computer, but we need to have a way to connect from a PHP application. For this there are two options, using phpredis, a PHP extension, or predis, a library. None is better than the other, they just have different objectives and scopes. phpredis has the advantage that it allows you to connect to Redis from any PHP project that is executed in that computer, whereas phpredis, being a library, only allows to connect from the projects where it's installed. In my case, I have experience with phpredis, so let's see how to install it.
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Project mention: People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-03
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Project mention: PHP-SPX: profiling extension with its built-in web UI for PHP | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-05
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Themis
Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
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memprof — Memory profiler for PHP. Helps finding memory leaks in PHP scripts.
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ngx-php
ngx-php - Embedded php7 or php8 scripting language for nginx module. Mainline development version of the ngx-php.
Project mention: The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-30Pasir is like frankenphp, but in Rust. Very promising, but still early in development:
https://github.com/el7cosmos/pasir
Which uses the following Zend API bindings for Rust:
https://github.com/davidcole1340/ext-php-rs
There's also all sorts of interesting experiments, like ngx-php, which basically embeds PHP via Zend API inside an nginx binary: https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php
And workerman, which has a hybrid backend of asio libraries, so you can get pretty fast runtimes: https://github.com/walkor/workerman
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php-glfw
🪐A fully-featured OpenGL and GLFW extension for PHP. 🔋Batteries included (Math Functions, Texture Loaders, etc..)
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swoole-cli
SWOOLE-CLI is a php binary distribution composed swoole & php-core & cli & fpm and mostly of common extensions.
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Project mention: Merecat Httpd – A Tiny (~140 KiB) Web Server with HTTPS and PHP Support | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-13
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source PHP projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | phpredis | 10,144 |
| 2 | Weechat | 3,126 |
| 3 | php-spx | 2,436 |
| 4 | php-ext-xlswriter | 2,362 |
| 5 | php-rdkafka | 2,160 |
| 6 | ext-ds | 2,142 |
| 7 | Themis | 1,934 |
| 8 | PHPSpy | 1,460 |
| 9 | swow | 1,289 |
| 10 | php-memory-profiler | 920 |
| 11 | ngx-php | 687 |
| 12 | imagick | 592 |
| 13 | php-glfw | 525 |
| 14 | Ice | 340 |
| 15 | gherkin | 251 |
| 16 | php-psr | 237 |
| 17 | phpmicro | 232 |
| 18 | swoole-cli | 220 |
| 19 | merecat | 171 |
| 20 | php-sdl | 117 |
| 21 | php-opengl | 111 |
| 22 | php-firebird | 73 |
| 23 | pdo_snowflake | 66 |
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