Development & DevOps Software for PHP
Flarum
A free and open-source modern forum software written in PHP. With Flarum you can eaisly setup your own discussion froum and host it online.
Simple Machines Forum
Simple Machines Forum or SMF in short is a free and open-source forum software. SMF can be used to build your own online community that you self-host on a host of your choice. Simple Machines Forum comes packed with features for customization, extension and management of your community. The template engine puts you in control of the design of your community. The plugin architecture makes it easy to extend and provide further feautres though third-party built packages.
CakePHP
CakePHP is a free and open source web framework for the programming language PHP. With CakePHP you can with ease, develop, deploy and maintain web applcations. CakePHP provides a sound structure that allow you to create organized applications that can scale and adapt as your project grows. Out of the box, CakePHP provides features like bake script, a rich query API, short RL syntax, database support for MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle and more. It also includes features that make you app easier to develop such as automatic code generation, database migrations, fast and flexible templating language, and localization.
vBulletin
vBulletin is a powerful commercial forum software written in PHP. The software is built to be easily extended through plguins and customized with themes. vBulletin is used to power many of the largest forum, communities and social site across the web. Over 100,000 sites are currenty powered by vBulletin.
PHP Microsite Boilerplate
PHP Microsite Boilerplate is a PHP framework to create simple, yet strongly functional, fast, and secure websites on basically every environment. PHP Microsite Boilerplate provides a simple starting block without installation of multiple dependencies and exhausting setup and configuration process. Allowing people to focus on building their website and simply host on cheap share hosting, cloud instances and hardware.
LayerBB
LayerBB is a small yet feature rich, free and open-source community software written in PHP. LayerBB enables you to quickly and easily start your own community while providing great flexibility and customisability.
ProcessWire
With ProcessWire you can connect all your content seamlessly and making content management fast, easy and fun. ProcessWire is a free and open-source content management system and framework released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. The CMS is built around an API wit similar naming connventions to that of jQuery, which makes it easier to use for JavaScript developers. It also provides a secure foundation, proven scalability and the performance needed to manage content online sucessfully.
BookStack
BookStack is a free and open-source, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for documenting, organizing and storing information. BookStack is written in PHP, on-top of the Laravel Framework and can be hosted on most web hosting platforms, VPSs and cloud instances. The software is configurable and allow you to setup BookStack for your particular user case. It allows you to change, the name, logo, theme and registration options. It also provides a page editor with a simple WYSIWYG interface that can be used to edit content by anyone. BookStack is developed as a truly free and open software and is released under the MIT license.
Laravel Livewire
Laravel Livewire is a free and open-source, full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple. The framework allows you to build modern web applications faster, without leaving the comfort of Laravel. In a world where building modern web applications has become significantly more complex over time, Laravel Livewire can facilitate some of the functionallity brough about by frameworks like Angular, React, Vue and Svelte, without having to write JavaScript.