Essential PHP Libraries for Developers
Essential PHP Libraries for Developers
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PHP is a powerful backend language used in more than 80% of the global web applications. The simplicity of PHP makes it one of the top programming
languages (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/how-to-start-with-php/), as it uses an easy-to-understand programming structure and developer-friendly web
functionalities. Yes, Like every other Language PHP uses libraries. PHP Libraries are collections of prewritten code that users can use to optimize tasks.
The Standard PHP Library (https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.spl.php) (SPL) is a collection of interfaces and classes that are meant to solve common
problems.
But, writing PHP code (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/top-ide-and-code-editors-php-development/) often becomes a tedious job. Because, in many
cases, PHP requires coding from scratch for every single function. This becomes a bit of a hassle for the developers and is a time-consuming process.
To ease this out, built-in PHP libraries got introduced in the market to effectively reduce developers’ load while coding the project. Using these PHP
libraries, several developmental functions can be configured in the project easily, allowing developers to focus more on the other complex operations.
Library functions, such as array_push (https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_array_push.asp) are part of the PHP libraries and can be accessed and used
by anybody. However, you can compose your own function and utilize that in your code as well.
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Symfony Finder Component
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Psr/log
PHP
Monolog
Libraries
Guzzle Every
Assert Developer
Symfony/translation Should
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PHPUnit
libraries/&via=cloudways)
PHP-code-coverage
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Faker
PHPseclib
Laravel Tinker
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Laravel-Permission Library
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OAuth 2.0
Laravel Backup
PHP Rector
Lighthouse
Laravel/Passport MongoDB
Stripe-PHP
Omnipay
Laravel Cashier
Sylius
Laravel Aimeos
Elastica
Intervention/image
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Swap
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PHP
Libraries
Every
Developer
So, hereby we have compiled the top 30 PHP libraries which every developer should know. Using these, developers can lessen up their functional work as
they come preconfigured with several functions. Let’s take a look at someShould
of the top PHP libraries below:
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libraries/&via=cloudways)
Best PHP Libraries To Integrate with Web Apps
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Symfony Console Component (https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/console)
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Command-line interface (https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/command-line-interface-CLI#) (CLI) is one of the core elements of
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major PHP frameworks (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/best-php-frameworks/) including Laravel (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/laravel-9/), Symfony
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(https://www.cloudways.com/blog/install-symfony-on-server/), CodeIgniter (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/install-codeigniter/), and others. This library
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provides easy to understand command-line interface in Symfony. Its integration in the application is also quite simple and is precisely made to build
testable command-line interfaces.
Implementation
First, you need to create a PHP script and define console like this:
1. <?php
2.
3. // application.php
4.
5.
6.
7. require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
8.
9. use Symfony\Component\Console\Application;
10.
11. $application = new Application();
12.
13. $application->run();
1. $application->add(new GenerateAdminCommand());
Implementation
Let’s suppose you need to find all files and folders in the root directory. You can do it as:
Psr/log (https://packagist.org/packages/psr/log)
If you want to find all the interfaces, classes, traits, etc. related to PS-3, this PHP logging library helps you find all those resources with just a few clicks. The
library isn’t a logger itself but is an interface that forms a logging system. This PHP logging library comes up with full documentation so that developers can
easily work with it.
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You can use the logger for logging like below code snippet: PHP
Libraries
1. <?php
2. Every
3. use Psr\Log\LoggerInterface;
4.
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5. class Foo Should
6.
7. { Know,&url=https://www.cloudways.com/blog/php-
8.
9. private $logger;
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10.
11. public function __construct(LoggerInterface $logger = null)
12.
13.
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20.
21. {
22.
23. if ($this->logger) {
24.
25. $this->logger->info('Doing work');
26.
27. }
28.
29. // do something useful
30.
31. }
32.
33. }
Monolog (https://packagist.org/packages/monolog/monolog)
It is necessary to save the logs to particular files or folders. Saving them at a certain place often seems to be a difficult job, but using this PHP logging
library you can easily save your logs to the defined locations. Monolog helps you to send you logs to defined files, sockets, inboxes, databases, and other
web services. It uses a PSR-3 interface which allows you to type-hint logs against your PHP libraries to keep maximum interoperability.
Implementation
The basic usage to log an error and warning with PSR log can be defined as:
1. <?php
2.
3.
4.
5. use Monolog\Logger;
6.
7. use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;
8.
9.
10.
11. // create a log channel
12.
13. $log = new Logger('name');
14.
15. $log->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('path/to/your.log', Logger::WARNING));
16.
17.
18.
19. // add records to the log
20.
21. $log->warning('Foo');
22.
23. $log->error('Bar');
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Guzzle (https://packagist.org/packages/guzzlehttp/guzzle)
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Guzzle works as a particular PHP client for sending HTTP requests to the web
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servers. Using this library, developers can easily send HTTP requests to
integrate with web services. The library provides a simple interface for building query strings, POST requests, HTTP cookies, and other attributes. It also
PHP
allows developers to send both synchronous and asynchronous requests from the same interface.
Libraries
Composer Command: composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle Every
Developer
Should
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libraries/&via=cloudways)
Implementation
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Previously we have written some articles consuming Cloudways API in Guzzle. Let me show the example usage of Guzzle API to get authentication and
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then run different methods to get servers and applications. You can read the complete article here (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/how-to-create-and-
delete-applications-via-cloudways-api/). Let’s look at the example:
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Assert (https://packagist.org/packages/webmozart/assert)
PHP
Libraries
Using the Assert library, developers can easily test the input and output of the methods within minutes. It’s a simple PHP library that reduces the need for
extensive coding in web applications. The integration of the library withinEvery
the project is also quite easy, as it provides complete documentation for the
integration. It features some built-in error messages by default, which youDeveloper
can later change according to custom error requirements.
Should
Composer Command: composer require webmozart/assert
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libraries/&via=cloudways)
Symfony/translation (https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/translation)
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This translation package is really handy for developers who want to build multilingual apps supported by various languages. It is the growing demand of
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the modern world to build a multilingual product, and using this library developers can easily create desired projects with different languages. The library
comes up with complete documentation and is easy to work
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Implementation
You need to define the locale in the constructor class to translate pages automatically.
1. use Symfony\Component\Translation\Translator;
2.
3. $translator = new Translator('fr_FR');
PHPUnit (https://packagist.org/packages/phpunit/phpunit)
PHPUnit is perhaps the best PHP library for performing unit testing in PHP (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/getting-started-with-unit-testing-php/) web
applications. It is used to test the application’s code for possible errors and bugs. While performing the unit testing with PHPUnit, developers can resolve
various application bugs that may arise during the run-time execution. Hence, the library is vital to assess the cores of the application and fixing it timely
with the required solutions.
PHP-code-coverage (https://packagist.org/packages/phpunit/php-code-coverage)
If you want to measure how much source code of a program is executed during a particular test, this library helps you out in measuring that degree of
code. The library provides you a collection and rendering functionality of the executed PHP code so that you can get a better idea about the tested chunk
of code and how to resolve the errors in it.
Swiftmailer (https://packagist.org/packages/swiftmailer/swiftmailer)
Swiftmailer is a feature-rich PHP email library primarily built to ease out mailing operation in any web application. The library provides advanced object-
oriented-approach combined with a multitude of mailing features to send emails over the web. The most significant feature of Swiftmailer
(https://www.cloudways.com/blog/create-contact-form-symfony-with-swiftmailer/) is that it protects the mails from header injection attacks without
removing the request data content, which is what makes it a very efficient mailing system.
Implementation
1. require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';
2.
3.
4.
5. // Create the Transport
6.
7. $transport = (new Swift_SmtpTransport('smtp.example.org', 25))
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9. ->setUsername('your username')
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11. ->setPassword('your password');
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12.
13. PHP
14.
15. // Create the Mailer using your created Transport Libraries
16.
Every
17. $mailer = new Swift_Mailer($transport);
18. Developer
19.
20. Should
21. // Create a message
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22.
23. $message = (new Swift_Message('Wonderful Subject'))
libraries/&via=cloudways)
24.
25. ->setFrom(['[email protected]' => 'John Doe'])
26.
27.
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->setTo(['[email protected]', '[email protected]' => 'A name'])
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34.
35. $result = $mailer->send($message);
Email-validator (https://packagist.org/packages/egulias/email-validator)
Email-validator is a specialized PHP validation (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/custom-php-mysql-contact-form/) library used to validate emails via
several chosen validation features. The library provides multiple types of validation for emails including RFC Validation, NoRFCWarningsValidation,
SpoofCheckValidation, and others. The library also provides a DNS validation feature through which you can validate and spam out emails with the DNS
verification.
Implementation
You need to define the validation strategy or method to follow in the code. Right now you have 6 types of available validations which you can see in the
official documentation:
1. use Egulias\EmailValidator\EmailValidator;
2.
3. use Egulias\EmailValidator\Validation\RFCValidation;
4.
5. $validator = new EmailValidator();
6.
7. $validator->isValid("[email protected]", new RFCValidation()); //true
Implementation
First, you need to create a .env file on the root level of your directory. Next, add variable and values in it like this:
1. S3_BUCKET="devbucket"
2.
3. SECRET_KEY="abc123"
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Now you can access the variables created in the env file with these three methods. You can use any one of them.
PHP
1. $s3_bucket = getenv('S3_BUCKET');
Libraries
2.
3. $s3_bucket = $_ENV['S3_BUCKET']; Every
4.
5. $s3_bucket = $_SERVER['S3_BUCKET']; Developer
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Know,&url=https://www.cloudways.com/blog/php-
libraries/&via=cloudways)
Symfony Filesystem Component (https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/filesystem)
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This Filesystem library provides basic utilities for the filesystem. Using this library, developers can easily create directories, files, and much more in just a
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few steps. It also allows you to change the edit rights of the file and create a symlink with it. To install the library, you just have to use the composer for the
installation which is a quite straight forward process.
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Twig (https://packagist.org/packages/twig/twig)
Twig is a fast, efficient, and secure templating engine for PHP (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/twig-templates-in-slim/). It compiles templates to simple
PHP code which is easily understandable to the developers. This reduces the overhead of complex backend code and gives the application a boost in
performance. Moreover, it is also super-customizable, as it allows you to define your tags, filters, and custom DSL according to the needs of the
application.
Faker (https://packagist.org/packages/fzaninotto/faker)
Faker is a handy PHP library that allows developers to generate dummy content for web applications. Whether you want to fill up the application database
with mock data or want to create sample XML documents, Faker does the job for you with good looking testing data. It supports all PHP 5+ versions and
requires easy composer installation just once.
Implementation
You need to use Faker\Factory::create() to create and initialize a fake generator that can generate data by accessing properties.
1. <?php
2.
3. // require the Faker autoloader
4.
5. require_once '/path/to/Faker/src/autoload.php';
6.
7. // alternatively, use another PSR-4 compliant autoloader
8.
9.
10.
11. // use the factory to create a Faker\Generator instance
12.
13. $faker = Faker\Factory::create();
14.
15.
16.
17. // generate data by accessing properties
18.
19. echo $faker->name;
20.
21. // 'Lucy Cechtelar';
22.
23. echo $faker->address;
24.
25. // "426 Jordy Lodge
26.
27. // Cartwrightshire, SC 88120-6700"
28.
29. echo $faker->text; (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?
30.
31. // Dolores sit sint laboriosam dolorem culpa et autem. Beataetext=Top
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33. // et sit et mollitia sed.
34. PHP
35. // Fuga deserunt tempora facere magni omnis. Omnis quia temporibus laudantium
36. Libraries
37. // sit minima sint.
Every
Developer
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libraries/&via=cloudways)
AWS SDK for PHP (https://packagist.org/packages/aws/aws-sdk-php)
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This particular AWS library allows developers to use Amazon Web Services in PHP (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/host-php-on-aws-cloud/) applications.
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Using this AWS SDK, you can build desired web applications associated with Amazon S3 (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/), Glacier
(https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/), DynamoDB
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(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Introduction.html), and other Amazon services. Simply install this SDK using
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composer or download a zip file, all the Amazon services come pre-configured in it and are ready to be deployed with your PHPMigrations
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But, since you are on Cloudways (https://www.cloudways.com/), you won’t gonna need this library for your PHP applications. Cloudways provides PHP
website hosting (https://www.cloudways.com/en/php-hosting.php) on completely managed AWS services for its deployed applications combined with the
integrated stack of optimized web tools.
Implementation
First, you need to initialize the SDK by including vendor files, and then you can create different use cases like maybe you want to upload files. Let’s see
how you can do this.
1. <?php
2.
3. // Require the Composer autoloader.
4.
5. require 'vendor/autoload.php';
6. use Aws\S3\S3Client;
7.
8.
9. // Instantiate an Amazon S3 client.
10.
11. $s3 = new S3Client([
12.
13. 'version' => 'latest',
14.
15. 'region' => 'us-west-2'
16.
17. ]);
1. <?php
2.
3. // Upload a publicly accessible file. The file size and type are determined by the SDK.
4.
5. try {
6.
7. $s3->putObject([
8.
9. 'Bucket' => 'my-bucket',
10.
11. 'Key' => 'my-object',
12.
13. 'Body' => fopen('/path/to/file', 'r'),
14.
15. 'ACL' => 'public-read',
16.
17. ]);
18.
19. } catch (Aws\S3\Exception\S3Exception $e) {
20.
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21. echo "There was an error uploading the file.\n";
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23. }
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PHP
PHPseclib (https://packagist.org/packages/phpseclib/phpseclib)
Libraries
Transferring files from one server to another always remains a risky process, because hackers can intervene in between the route and can steal
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confidential information. To fortify this process, PHPSeclib provides fully secure data transmission between the servers using SFTP protocol. This PHP
Developer
SFTP library (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/connect-sftp-with-phpseclib-symfony/) is compatible with all the latest versions of PHP and is easy to
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integrate into web applications.
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Composer Command: composer require phpseclib/phpseclib
libraries/&via=cloudways)
Laravel Tinker (https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/tinker)
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Laravel Tinker is a powerful Laravel package built to give users the ease to interact with Laravel applications directly from the command line. It is perfect to
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use with Eloquent ORM to manage jobs, events, and more. It is a built-in artisan tool and can be easily accessed using the Tinker artisan command in the
composer.
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Predis (https://packagist.org/packages/predis/predis)
Predis is a Redis client for PHP (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/setup-redis-as-session-handler-php/) applications. It is a very effective caching tool
precisely made to reduce the overhead of caching in web applications. You can use it for clustering, master-slave replication setups, transparent key
prefixing, and many more optimization operations. It also supports different custom connection classes for providing different network and protocol
backends.
Implementation
For implementing predis in your PHP project you first need to load the library in the project.
Several OS is being supported by RabbitMQ, and has several official client libraries available, one of them is php-amqplib. It is a message-oriented
middleware whose main features are: Queuing and Orientation.
Implementation
1. <?php
2. Include (__DIR__ . '/config.php');
3. use PhpAmqpLib\Connection\AMQPStreamConnection;
4. use PhpAmqpLib\Connection\AMQPSocketConnection;
5. use PhpAmqpLib\Connection\AMQPSSLConnection;
6. define ('CERTS_PATH', '/git/rabbitmqinaction/av_scratchwork/openssl');
7. $sslOptions = array (
8. $ssl_options = array (
9. 'cafile' => CERTS_PATH . '/rmqca/cacert.pem',
10. 'local_cert' => CERTS_PATH . '/phpcert.pem',
11. 'verify_peer' => true
12. ); (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?
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Laravel-Permission Library (https://github.com/spatie/laravel-permission)
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PHP
This library is for Laravel 5.8 and later versions (https://www.cloudways.com/blog/laravel-9/) . This package allows you to manage the user’s role and
permissions in a database. Libraries
Every
Composer command: composer require spatie/laravel-permission
Developer
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publishers to design and take control without restricting anything. It also gives the freedom to produce a powerful admin without undermining the
developer’s controls with the configuration.
Composer command:
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The examples here demonstrate its usage with the Slim Framework. Slim is not a requirement to use this library, you just need something that generates
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When the library is first implemented, you can execute a dry run and then permanently change your code through the following commands.
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GraphQL is a query language for the APIs. It fulfills the queries on your existing data and gives an extensive understanding of the data in APIs. It also gives
the client the power to specify the needs and evolves the API over time.
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By the following artisan command, you can get the default Lighthouse Schema:
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1. <?php
2.
3. namespace JeroenNoten\LaravelAdminLte;
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65. ) {
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77. }
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95.
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119. $builder = new Builder($this->buildFilters());
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This payment processing PHP library allows a fast connection to Omnipay web services. It deploys a very smooth web API that is fully unit-tested,
advanced, and comes with full documentation to ease out the configuration process. The package itself uses the powerful PHP-HTTP library to make HTTP
requests so that all the transactions become secure and reliable.
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If you want to integrate Sylius with your PHP application, this library will help you in building a secure web connection. It is built with a strong API structure
to connect web applications safely with the Sylius ecommerce platform. Just navigate to the composer and install the Sylius library, all the payment
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links, multiple columns (if needed), text rendering, and various other features. In short, it’s a fine tool to work and manage PDF documents on the go.
Final Words
This brings us to the end of this article. I have listed in detail all the popular PHP libraries to work with. You can also read about the PHP benchmarks
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focus more on the core functional tasks. Moreover, it helps developers to configure several operations quickly, coupled with the best functionalities.
If you want to suggest some more libraries/packages to this list, or want to share your thoughts on the topic, feel free to write them in the comments
section below.
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