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Top 12 PHP Web Application Projects
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
Project mention: My blog doesn't need quality, it needs to look like it's from the 90s | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-06Perhaps "polish" or "a sleek, modern UI" would have been slightly better wording on my part in regards to the look, but otherwise I'm quite happy that I settled on Grav and also the idea of versioning everything in Git, alongside a CI/CD pipeline, instead of one long lived instance on the server.
Grav is pretty cool: https://getgrav.org/
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Cachet is a popular open-source status page system with a clean, responsive interface built on Bootstrap. It offers incident tracking, metric charts, and detailed incident timelines. While powerful, it requires a bit of technical setup like PHP, a database, and Node.js to get started.
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To be fair it's the actual releases that are in a single file.
Development evidently happens in the traditional sense with the project in a nicely defined tree.
The build process looks pretty gnarly, but it works! https://github.com/vrana/adminer/blob/master/compile.php
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pH7-Social-Dating-CMS
😻 pH7Builder (formerly pH7CMS) is a Professional & Open Source Social Dating CMS written in PHP 8 🚀 This Social Dating Script aims to be low resource-intensive, powerful and secure. pH7Builder includes over 40 modules. It is the first Professional, Free & Open Source Social Dating Site Builder Software and the first choice for enterprise level Da
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PHP Queue
A unified front-end for different queuing backends. Includes a REST server, CLI interface and daemon runners.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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BraincraftedBootstrapBundle
BraincraftedBootstrapBundle integrates Bootstrap into Symfony2 by providing templates, Twig extensions, services and commands.
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NumberNine CMS
NumberNine is a full-featured CMS built with Symfony. It fills the gaps with the Symfony ecosystem which lacks super fast development for small to medium scale projects. (by numberninecms)
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Chat Application In PHP with file sharing system
Chat Application In PHP using AJAX with file transferring system. Download free source code of real time chat application in PHP using AJAX with file transfer system
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 Web Application projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Grav | 14,958 |
| 2 | Cachet | 14,451 |
| 3 | Adminer | 6,770 |
| 4 | phpRedisAdmin | 3,153 |
| 5 | pH7-Social-Dating-CMS | 986 |
| 6 | phpPgAdmin | 822 |
| 7 | PHP Queue | 665 |
| 8 | Flextype | 582 |
| 9 | BraincraftedBootstrapBundle | 395 |
| 10 | Monstra | 395 |
| 11 | NumberNine CMS | 20 |
| 12 | Chat Application In PHP with file sharing system | 17 |
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