Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries. Learn more →
Top 23 PHP HacktoberFest Projects
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Project mention: 2025 Best PHP Micro Frameworks: Slim, Flight, Fat-Free, Lumen, and More! | dev.to | 2025-02-27
Silex: A Symfony-backed micro framework that's sadly deprecated and no longer support. You gave it your all Silex!
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There's an extension called floccus [1] that can sync bookmarks between numerous different browsers (including both Firefox/Gecko and Chromium/Blink based) and plug into a user-controlled NextCloud [2] or Linkwarden [3] instance running on a local homelab server.
However, I try to minimize the number of installed extensions to reduce my own browser fingerprint. As others have replied, Firefox sync works across most of today's popular downstream shadow-forks of Firefox (as in, forks that shadow the Firefox releases rather than truly forking the code). If you don't want to give Mozilla's enshittified corpse your email (I don't either), just use an email service that supports aliases to sign up for Firefox Sync... Which is in any case a good idea generally: no two of your important online accounts should point to the same email, even if behind the scenes the aliases are all routing emails back to you.
[1]: https://floccus.org/
[2]: https://nextcloud.com/
[3]: https://linkwarden.app/
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Project mention: Deliver Emails Safely with PHP: A Guide to Using SMTP for Spam-Free Emails | dev.to | 2024-09-27
If you don’t have Composer, you can download PHPMailer manually from GitHub and include it in your project.
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Matomo
Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!
Analytical tools like Matomo provide critical insights into user behavior and site performance.
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Without further ado, here we have it: a Debugbar integration built on top of Laravel Debugbar for Next.js. While there is still a long way to go for it to be perfect, it works for me and the project I am currently working on.
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Nutrient
Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
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Laravel can confuse LSPs, which is where Laravel IDE Helper package comes in. It is a CLI that generates helper files that improve auto-completion and solves diagnostic errors.
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Project mention: PhpSpreadsheet: A Pure PHP Library for Handling Excel and CSV Files | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-02
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PHP Dotenv
Loads environment variables from `.env` to `getenv()`, `$_ENV` and `$_SERVER` automagically.
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speedtest
Self-hosted Speed Test for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more
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Magento
Prior to making any Submission(s), you must sign an Adobe Contributor License Agreement, available here at: https://opensource.adobe.com/cla.html. All Submissions you make to Adobe Inc. and its affiliates, assigns and subsidiaries (collectively “Adobe”) are subject to the terms of the Adobe Contributor License Agreement.
Project mention: Contribute to Adobe's Open Source Magento 2 with Contributor License Agreement | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-02 -
Project mention: Show HN: Yourls – The de facto standard self-hosted URL shortener | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-18
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Wallabag
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
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WooCommerce
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Platforms like WordPress combined with WooCommerce allow for seamless website and e-commerce management.
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https://www.liip.ch/en/blog/doctrine-and-generated-columns This was not working anymore as Doctrine DBAL removes the event manager on DBAL 4. (ref)
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Project mention: Akaunting is free, open-source online accounting software for small businesses | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23
Invoice Ninja license is even worse: https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/v5-stable/...
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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 HacktoberFest projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Symfony | 30,088 |
| 2 | Nextcloud | 28,884 |
| 3 | Monica | 22,324 |
| 4 | PHPMailer | 21,317 |
| 5 | Monolog | 21,177 |
| 6 | Matomo | 20,300 |
| 7 | laravel-debugbar | 18,050 |
| 8 | Bagisto | 17,334 |
| 9 | koel | 16,296 |
| 10 | laravel-ide-helper | 14,449 |
| 11 | Yii2 | 14,266 |
| 12 | PhpSpreadsheet | 13,540 |
| 13 | PHP Dotenv | 13,293 |
| 14 | speedtest | 12,767 |
| 15 | Magento | 11,718 |
| 16 | YOURLS | 11,062 |
| 17 | Wallabag | 11,022 |
| 18 | Phalcon | 10,809 |
| 19 | Doctrine | 10,011 |
| 20 | WooCommerce | 9,618 |
| 21 | dbal | 9,562 |
| 22 | CakePHP | 8,722 |
| 23 | Invoice Ninja | 8,654 |
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