Top 23 PHP Framework Projects

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1. Laravel

   1 257 34,955 9.9 PHP

   Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.

   

   Project mention: Laravel Queues: Redis vs Database Driver | dev.to | 2026-10-14

   References: Laravel: Queues, Laravel: Horizon, Laravel: Deployment and DatabaseQueue source.

2. AppSignal

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3. Symfony

   2 193 31,181 10.0 PHP

   The Symfony PHP framework

   

   Project mention: This Week in PHP Internals | Oct 1, 2026 | dev.to | 2026-10-01

   Links: Io\Terminal RFC · thread · implementation · reference extension · Symfony Console PR using it

4. Yii2

   3 32 14,279 9.0 PHP

   Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework

   

5. Slim Framework

   4 11 12,277 6.9 PHP

   Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. (by slimphp)

   

6. Pest

   5 43 11,733 9.6 PHP

   The elegant testing framework for PHP developers and AI agents.

   

   Project mention: Copy-Pasting HTTP Fakes by Hand? Laravel Http Automock Can Do It For You | dev.to | 2026-03-10

   Requires PHP 8.2+, Laravel 11+, and Pest Works only with Laravel's HTTP client.

7. october

   6 21 11,145 9.4 PHP

   Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

   

8. Phalcon

   7 38 10,817 10.0 PHP

   High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension.

   

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10. API Platform

    8 55 9,188 6.7 PHP

    🕸️ Create REST and GraphQL APIs, scaffold Jamstack webapps, stream changes in real-time.

    

11. Sylius

    9 31 8,556 9.8 PHP

    Headless open-source eCommerce platform on top of PHP/Symfony/API Platform

    

    Project mention: Sylius – open-source Headless eCommerce Platform | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-28

12. web-frameworks

    10 26 7,092 9.9 PHP

    Which is the fastest web framework?

    

13. hyperf

    11 10 6,906 8.7 PHP

    🚀 A coroutine framework that focuses on hyperspeed and flexibility. Building microservice or middleware with ease.

    

14. swoft

    12 1 5,536 0.0 PHP

    🚀 PHP Microservice Full Coroutine Framework

    

15. wp-cli

    13 15 5,160 9.4 PHP

    ⚙️ WP-CLI framework

    

    Project mention: WordPress security hardening: a practical checklist for 2026 | dev.to | 2026-10-02

    Before changing anything, find out where you stand. If you have WP-CLI on the server, these read-only commands tell you a lot:

16. Laravel-Zero

    14 10 4,010 7.0 PHP

    A PHP framework for console artisans

    

17. huge

    15 1 2,160 0.0 PHP

    Simple user-authentication solution, embedded into a small framework.

    

18. Spiral Framework

    16 16 2,067 8.4 PHP

    High-Performance PHP Framework (by spiral)

    

19. mix

    17 1 1,927 2.8 PHP

    ☄️ PHP CLI mode development framework, supports Swoole, WorkerMan, FPM, CLI-Server / PHP 命令行模式开发框架，支持 Swoole、Swow、WorkerMan、FPM、CLI-Server (by mix-php)

    

20. Elgg

    18 11 1,677 9.5 PHP

    A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL

    

21. framework

    19 2 1,669 9.4 PHP

    :gem: Go! AOP PHP - modern aspect-oriented framework for the new level of software development (by goaop)

    

22. lumen-framework

    20 2 1,510 5.8 PHP

    The Laravel Lumen Framework.

    

23. Restler

    21 0 1,385 6.2 PHP

    Zero-boilerplate REST API framework for PHP 8+. Auto-generates routes, docs, validation.

    

24. php-casbin

    22 1 1,341 5.0 PHP

    An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in PHP .

    

    Project mention: One-Line Defense Against BOLA: Killing Data-Level if-else Hell with PHP-Casbin | dev.to | 2026-09-10

    Stop cluttering your business logic with defensive, error-prone ownership checks. By leveraging object-level ABAC in PHP-Casbin, you can extract permission rules into a clean declarative model. You will shut down BOLA vulnerabilities before they hit production, and you will save your team countless hours of frustrating bug-hunting down the road.

25. leaf

    23 14 1,323 7.6 PHP

    🍁 Go from idea to launch with clean and elegant PHP that grows with you. The framework for makers (by leafsphp)

    

26. SaaSHub

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