PHP Documentation

Open-source PHP projects categorized as Documentation

Top 20 PHP Documentation Projects

Documentation
  1. BookStack

    A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

    Project mention: Self-hosting with Podman | dev.to | 2025-04-15

    Additionally at some point people behind this product decided to change the licensing model, and allow the use of community editions for up to 5 nodes. It wasn't my case, but that pushed me to use something more independent. So I started using dockge, then added another service for docker logs, version monitor, and keeps adding applications that are fun to use, for example homebox or bookstack. It was fun until I released the cost of energy and maintenance effort need to keep it running, at my home. Every internet issue, or power issue takes my setup down. Maybe it was not happening very often, but when I wasn’t home, and the hardware was down, there was no chance to fix it remotely. And I started relaying on that service. That is why I simply decided to migrate to hetzner, and podman at the same time, and use remote NFS. However, let's start from the beginning.

  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. Flarum Core

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

  4. swagger-php

    A php swagger annotation and parsing library

    Project mention: swagger-php VS doc2html - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/swagger-php | 2024-07-25
  5. PHP Documentor 3

    Documentation Generator for PHP

    Project mention: PHP Documentor 3 VS doc2html - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/phpDocumentor | 2024-07-24
  6. L5-Swagger

    OpenApi or Swagger integration to Laravel

  7. APIGen

    PHP 7.1 ready Smart and Simple Documentation for your PHP project (by ApiGen)

    Project mention: APIGen VS doc2html - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/ApiGen/ApiGen | 2024-07-25
  8. awesome-magento2

    Curated list of awesome Magento 2 Extensions, Resources and other Highlights

  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. Couscous

    Couscous is good.

  11. itflow

    All in One PSA for MSPs, which Unifies client, contact, vendor, asset, license, domain, ssl certificate, password, documentation, file, network and location management with ticketing and billing capabilities, with a client portal on the side.

  12. phpDox

    Documentation generator for PHP Code using standard technology (SRC, DOCBLOCK, XML and XSLT)

  13. laravel-openapi

    Generate OpenAPI specification for Laravel Applications

  14. doctum

    A php API documentation generator, fork of Sami

    Project mention: doctum VS doc2html - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/doctum | 2024-07-25
  15. PunBB

    PunBB forum

  16. PineDocs

    A fast and lightweight site for viewing files

  17. libarea

    A platform for collective blogs and social media platform, forum, question and answer service (Q&A). A community based on the PHP HLEB micro-framework.

  18. SteamworksDocumentation

    📜 Scraper for Steamworks documentation

    Project mention: Microsoft Says Apple's 30% Fee Makes Xbox Cloud Gaming iOS App 'Impossible' | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-03

    Part of what is missing with those raw numbers, is what you get for it as a developer.

    I don't know about the others (And Nintendo's in particular is probably ironclad in NDAs and lawyers if their attitude towards their userbase is anything to go by), but for Steam you can read all about the technical, financial and sales/marketing features you get through the platform here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/home

    EGS and MS Store compete on a lower %, partly because they offer less of this.

  19. Documentation

    KumbiaPHP documentation (by KumbiaPHP)

  20. phpDocumentor-markdown

    Generate Markdown documentation from PHP code

  21. php-docbloc

    Create and keep updated docBlock of your project files fetching details from composer.json and Git. Supported filetypes: *.php, *.ini, *.sh, *.bat, *.md (No Composer or PEAR need to be installed to use this tool).

  22. doc2html

    A PHP library that enables to convert PHP docs in HTML files.

    Project mention: swagger-php VS doc2html - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/swagger-php | 2024-07-25
  23. 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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Index

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

# Project Stars
1 BookStack 16,443
2 Flarum Core 6,527
3 swagger-php 5,172
4 PHP Documentor 3 4,194
5 L5-Swagger 2,754
6 APIGen 2,163
7 awesome-magento2 1,148
8 Couscous 836
9 itflow 677
10 phpDox 601
11 laravel-openapi 425
12 doctum 324
13 PunBB 190
14 PineDocs 142
15 libarea 115
16 SteamworksDocumentation 30
17 Documentation 22
18 phpDocumentor-markdown 18
19 php-docbloc 3
20 doc2html 2

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