PHP Communication systems

Open-source PHP projects categorized as Communication systems

Top 23 PHP Communication system Projects

Communication systems
  1. Flarum

    Simple forum software for building great communities.

    Project mention: Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-26

    Flarum is great [1].

    Looks good, works on mobile, continuously updated.

    Try it out.

    Edit: Oh wow, downvoted for posting a good recommendation?

    1: https://flarum.org/

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. PixelFed

    Photo Sharing. For Everyone.

    Project mention: Any social platforms not focused on algorithms? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-21
  4. HumHub

    HumHub is an Open Source Enterprise Social Network. Easy to install, intuitive to use and extendable with countless freely available modules.

  5. Roundcube

    The Roundcube Webmail suite

    Project mention: Roundcubemail: Open-Source Webmail Suite with Modern UX and Full IMAP Support | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-30
  6. LibreNMS

    Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system

    Project mention: OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and remote networks | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-19

    I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms), which is Open source and free.

  7. AnonAddy

    Anonymous email forwarding

    Project mention: Free, Open-Source Anonymous Email Forwarding – Addy.io | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-12
  8. Vanilla Forums

    Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. Live Helper Chat

    Live Helper Chat - live support for your website. Featuring web and mobile apps, Voice & Video & ScreenShare. Supports Telegram, Twilio (whatsapp), Facebook messenger including building a bot.

  11. phpBB

    phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.

    Project mention: RIP BotsIn.Space | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-30

    Hmh, that's a drawback to me. I like to have different accounts for different things and keep them more or less strictly separated. I use two subreddits and each has its own account.

    On average I'd say account creation has become harder because everybody and her child tries to shunt you into some social sign-in but it still is not difficult to make accounts. "Modern" password managers make it a breeze to juggle many accounts, and frankly, what Netscape Navigator could do almost 30 years ago was already enough for that.

    Same goes for forums. phpbb [1] can run on any LAMP potato and you get a whole boatload of potatoes for 2 EUR/month at Hetzner. I don't know what HN requires, but I guess it's not much more. The hard part of forums are the people needed to keep order and Reddit is not helping there, quite the opposite.

    Sorry, I notice I'm grumpy.

    [1] https://www.phpbb.com/

  12. Elgg

    A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL

  13. Friendica

    Friendica Communications Platform

    Project mention: Any social platforms not focused on algorithms? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-21
  14. MyBB

    MyBB is a free and open source forum software.

  15. OSSN

    Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is a social networking software written in PHP. It allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests. It is available in 19 international languages.

    Project mention: Welcome to Coding Standards for Open Source Social Network (OSSN) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-15
  16. Cypht

    Cypht: Lightweight Open Source webmail aggregator [PHP, JS]. Supports IMAP/SMTP, JMAP and EWS (Exchange Web Services)

  17. FusionPBX

    Official FusionPBX - A full-featured domain based multi-tenant PBX and voice switch for FreeSwitch.

  18. phpList

    Fully functional Open Source email marketing manager for creating, sending, integrating, and analysing email campaigns and newsletters.

    Project mention: The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software | dev.to | 2024-07-10

    GitHub: phpList GitHub Repository

  19. Simple Machines Forum

    Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes! (by SimpleMachines)

  20. FluxBB

    FluxBB is a fast, light, user-friendly forum application for your website.

  21. Mibew

    Mibew Messenger - open-source live support application

  22. WebMail Lite

    AfterLogic WebMail Lite PHP. Fast and easy-to-use webmail front-end for your existing IMAP mail server, Plesk or cPanel.

  23. Anahita

    Anahita is a platform and framework for developing open science and knowledge sharing applications on a social networking foundation.

  24. BuddyPress

    BuddyPress DEVELOPMENT repo. This repository is just a mirror of the development SVN at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.

  25. Zusam

    Private groups to share messages, photos, videos, links with friends and family.

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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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What are some of the best open-source Communication system projects in PHP? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 Flarum 15,694
2 PixelFed 6,546
3 HumHub 6,421
4 Roundcube 6,205
5 LibreNMS 4,162
6 AnonAddy 3,732
7 Vanilla Forums 2,923
8 Live Helper Chat 2,050
9 phpBB 1,910
10 Elgg 1,652
11 Friendica 1,547
12 MyBB 1,138
13 OSSN 1,116
14 Cypht 1,076
15 FusionPBX 843
16 phpList 784
17 Simple Machines Forum 641
18 FluxBB 522
19 Mibew 474
20 WebMail Lite 447
21 Anahita 441
22 BuddyPress 233
23 Zusam 200

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