Top 23 PHP Middleware Projects

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1. laravel-caffeine

   1 1 937 6.3 PHP

   Keeping Your Laravel Forms Awake.

   

2. SaaSHub

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3. soap-client

   2 3 889 6.1 PHP

   A general purpose SOAP client for PHP

   

4. dispatch

   3 4 537 1.5 PHP

   a tiny library for quick and easy PHP apps (by noodlehaus)

   

5. mezzio

   4 2 388 8.4 PHP

   PSR-15 Middleware Microframework

   

6. laravel-rate-limited-job-middleware

   5 3 356 5.5 PHP

   A job middleware to rate limit jobs

   

7. laravel-authz

   6 2 331 4.8 PHP

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

   

8. Real-Time monitoring package for Laravel

   7 19 234 8.6 PHP

   Code Execution Monitoring for Laravel applications

   

   Project mention: Monitoring Laravel Livewire Components | dev.to | 2025-09-11

   Inspector is a Code Execution Monitoring tool specifically designed for PHP developers. You don't need to install anything on the server level, just install the Laravel package and you are ready to go.

9. JsonMapper

   8 7 219 4.6 PHP

   Map nested JSON structures to PHP classes (by JsonMapper)

   

10. request-migrations

    9 1 184 0.0 PHP

    HTTP Request Migrations for API Versioning like Stripe

    

11. chubbyphp-framework

    10 1 135 7.1 PHP

    A minimal, highly performant middleware PSR-15 microframework built with as little complexity as possible, aimed primarily at those developers who want to understand all the vendors they use.

    

12. authorization

    11 1 74 6.1 PHP

    PSR7 Middleware for authorization

    

13. Laminas Stratigility

    12 0 57 7.8 PHP

    PSR-7 middleware foundation for building and dispatching middleware pipelines

    

14. Laravel Permission Manager

    13 0 38 2.3 PHP

    A comprehensive and advanced permission management system for Laravel applications. This package provides a robust role-based access control (RBAC) system with support for wildcard permissions, blade directives, Artisan commands, and a fluent API.

    

15. atomic-locks-middleware

    14 1 34 3.0 PHP

    A package designed to ensure that only one request is processed at a time.

    

16. trailing-slash

    15 1 32 5.4 PHP

    PSR-15 middleware to normalize the trailing slash of the uri path

    

17. rate-limiter

    16 1 30 2.5 PHP

    RateLimiter helps to prevent abuse by limiting the number of requests that could be me made consequentially.

    

18. csrf

    17 1 27 5.4 PHP

    PSR-15 middleware implementing CSRF protection (by yiisoft)

    

19. request-callback

    18 2 26 0.0 PHP

    ➰ Swoole request callback for PSR compliant handlers.

    

20. laravel-threat-detection

    19 1 24 3.2 PHP

    Passive threat detection middleware for Laravel. Logs SQL injection, XSS, RCE, bot scanners, 404 probes & 175+ attack patterns. Built-in dashboard, fail2ban export, Slack alerts, and REST API. IDS, not WAF.

    

    Project mention: I Built a Free WAF for Laravel — Here's How It Works | dev.to | 2026-03-03

21. error-handler

    20 1 22 6.9 PHP

    Framework independent advanced error handler

    

22. Limber

    21 1 20 3.4 PHP

    A super minimal HTTP framework that doesn't get in your way. (by nimbly)

    

23. t3languageredirection

    22 1 2 2.2 PHP

    This TYPO3 package provides a middleware that automatically redirects users to the preferred language URL based on their browser's Accept-Language header.

    

24. bamise

    23 1 1 - PHP

    Bamise is a secure enterprise crud library that act like an automatic CRUD framework/library where developers only provide a form URL and minimal configuration.

    

    Project mention: Why I Built Bamise Instead of Using Laravel | dev.to | 2026-05-28

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