PHP Documentation

Open-source PHP projects categorized as Documentation

Top 18 PHP Documentation Projects

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  1. BookStack

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    Project mention: BookStack Moves from GitHub to Codeberg | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-28
  2. SaaSHub

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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

  5. PHP Documentor 3

    Documentation Generator for PHP

  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)

  8. awesome-magento2

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

  9. Couscous

    Couscous is good.

  10. phpDox

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

  11. laravel-openapi

    Generate OpenAPI specification for Laravel Applications

  12. doctum

    A PHP API documentation generator

  13. PunBB

    PunBB forum

  14. PineDocs

    A fast and lightweight site for viewing files

  15. 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.

  16. SteamworksDocumentation

    📜 Tracking Steamworks documentation

  17. Documentation

    KumbiaPHP documentation (by KumbiaPHP)

  18. docs

    Open-source self-hosted documentation platform. Free GitBook alternative — 4 files, no database, no build process. (by webstudio-ltd)

    Project mention: Self-hosted docs platform – 4 PHP files, no database, free GitBook alternative | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-09
  19. 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).

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 18,884
2 Flarum Core 6,733
3 swagger-php 5,301
4 PHP Documentor 3 4,338
5 L5-Swagger 2,925
6 APIGen 2,167
7 awesome-magento2 1,176
8 Couscous 839
9 phpDox 601
10 laravel-openapi 462
11 doctum 356
12 PunBB 197
13 PineDocs 143
14 libarea 126
15 SteamworksDocumentation 42
16 Documentation 24
17 docs 6
18 php-docbloc 3

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