PHP Toolkit (draft)

Components, libraries, extensions

Archives

• eZc Archive - provides a generic API for creating and extracting archives, supports the Tar and Zip formats and indirectly GZip and BZip2.
• PHP/PECL Zip - transparently reads or writes ZIP compressed archives and the files inside them.

BBCode

• PHP BBCode
• PEAR HTML_BBCodeParser

Charts, graphs

• ezcGraph - creates line, pie and bar charts.

Cache

• Zend_Cache - provides a generic way to cache any data.

Controllers, frameworks

• Symfony - top PHP framework
• Komposite Controller

Date and time

• PHP DateTime, PHP DateTimeZone
• Zend_Date - offers a detailed, but simple API for manipulating dates and times (uses DateTime and DateTimeZone).
• PEAR Calendar - provides an API for building Calendar data structures.

Database, ORMs

• PHP PDO - defines a lightweight, consistent interface for accessing databases in PHP.
• Doctrine - an ORM for PHP 5.2+ that sits on top of a powerful DBAL.

Documents

• PEAR OpenDocument - reads, creates or modifies office documents in open document format.
• PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer - generates Excel spreadsheets.

Error handling, debugging, benchmarks

• xdebug - helps debugging a script by providing a lot of valuable debug information.
• Komposite Debug
• ezcDebug - writes debug messages and measures the execution time.
• ezcExecution - catches fatal errors and uncaught exceptions.
• Zend_Log - general purpose logging that supports multiple log backends, formatting messages sent to the log, and filtering messages from being logged.

Files

• PEAR File_SearchReplace - performs search and replace routines.

Forms

• Komposite Form

HTTP

• PECL/PHP Http - eases handling of HTTP URLs, dates, redirects, headers and messages, provides means for negotiation of clients preferred language and charset, as well as a convenient way to send any arbitrary data with caching and resuming capabilities.
• Zend_HTTP - performs HTTP requests.
• PHP curl - allows to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols.

Highlighters

• GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter
• PEAR Text_Highlighter - provides functionality to perform syntax highlighting for different file formats.

Images

• ezcImageConversion - image manipulation tools, perform filter actions (such as scaling, changing the colorspace, adding a swirl effect) and convert between different MIME image types.
• class5.filemagick - reads basic info about files + additional info for audio files (id3v1/id3v2), images (exif), ISO images, movies and BitTorrent files
• PEAR Image_Transform - provides a standard interface to manipulate images using different libraries.
• PECL imagick - creates and modifies images using the ImageMagick API.
• PHP GD2

I18N

• Zend_Locale, Zend_Currency, Zend_Measure, Zend_Translate

Information

• class5.scout - parses HTTP_USER_AGENT and HTTP_REFERER
• ezcSystemInfo - provides access to common system variables, such as CPU type and speed and amount of available memory
• PHP GeoIP, PEAR Net_GeoIP

Mail

• ezcMail - provides functionality to send, retrieve and parse mail messages.
• Zend_Mail - provides generalized functionality to compose and send both text and MIME-compliant multipart e-mail messages.

Multimedia

• ffmpeg-php - an extension for PHP that adds an easy to use, object-oriented API for accessing and retrieving information from video and audio files.
• getID3() - extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats.

PDF

• Zend_PDF - loads existing documents, creates new, modifies and saves modified documents.
• PEAR File_PDF - PDF generation using only PHP,

RSS

• Zend_Feed - provides functionality for consuming RSS and Atom feeds with extensive support for modifying feed and entry structure

Search engines

• Sphinx - a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications, specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages.
• Sphider - a lightweight web spider and search engine written in PHP, using MySQL as its back end database.

Security

• HTML Purifier - a standards-compliant HTML filter that removes all malicious code with a whitelist and makes sure the documents are standards compliant.
• PHP Filter - validates and filters data coming from some insecure source, such as user input.
• Komposite Filter
• Zend_Filter, Zend_Filter_Input, Zend_Validate

Sessions

• Komposite Session

Spell check

• PHP Pspell - checks the spelling of a word and offers suggestions.

Torrent

• class5.filemagick
• PEAR File_Bittorrent2

Web Services

• Zend_Rest - provides both Client and Server REST capabilities
• PHP SoapClient
• PHP SoapServer

Ready-to-use full featured scripts (just neat ones :P)

Forums

• punbb - simple, but powerful
• bbPress - plain and simple, tag-oriented forum software,

Shops

• Magento - eCommerce solution based on Zend Framework.
• OpenCart - simple online shopping cart system - easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.
• Quick.Cart - very simple shopping cart solution