Top 9 PHP Community Projects

Flarum Core

3 6,174 9.1 PHP

Simple forum software for building great communities. (by flarum)
Vanilla Forums

5 2,818 5.0 PHP

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

Project mention: Ask HN: What forum software do you recommend? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-23

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
laravel.io

12 2,392 9.2 PHP

The Laravel.io Community Portal.
spotweb

4 521 5.6 PHP

Decentralized community

Project mention: Stopweb not indexing old spots on Truenas Scale | /r/usenet | 2023-07-06

Have you tried this? https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/issues/805

BuddyPress

15 223 9.3 PHP

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.
core

5 173 9.3 PHP

The core Waterhole package. (by waterholeforum)

Project mention: Waterhole – modern Laravel-powered community forum software | /r/laravel | 2023-05-23

Thank you :) Extensibility is really important because every community is different. I've worked hard to make sure Waterhole is not only highly extensible, but also really easy to extend. There are some examples about halfway down the homepage, and much more detail in the docs.

libarea

3 86 9.2 PHP

A platform for collective blogs and social media platform, forum, question and answer service (Q&A). Catalog of sites (programs), site navigation and directories - facets. A community based on the PHP HLEB micro-framework.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
nitro-porter

1 51 7.5 PHP

The only multi-platform community migration tool. Free your forum!

Project mention: Waterhole – modern Laravel-powered community forum software | /r/laravel | 2023-05-23

Yep, planning to integrate with Nitro Porter which will open up migrations from a whole range of platforms.

neucore

1 23 8.7 PHP

Neucore - Alliance Core Services

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). The latest post mention was on 2023-07-23.