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| Library | Version | License | Description | Authors |
|---|
| composer/installers | 1.12.0 | MIT | A multi-framework Composer library installer | Kyle Robinson Young |
| composer/package-versions-deprecated | 1.11.99.4 | MIT | Composer plugin that provides efficient querying for installed package versions (no runtime IO) | Marco Pivetta and Jordi Boggiano |
| composer/semver | 3.2.4 | MIT | Semver library that offers utilities, version constraint parsing and validation. | Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano and Rob Bast |
| composer/spdx-licenses | 1.5.4 | MIT | SPDX licenses list and validation library. | Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano and Rob Bast |
| composer/xdebug-handler | 1.4.6 | MIT | Restarts a process without Xdebug. | John Stevenson |
| cssjanus/cssjanus | 1.3.0 | Apache-2.0 | Convert CSS stylesheets between left-to-right and right-to-left. | Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw and Timo Tijhof |
| data-values/common | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Contains common implementations of the interfaces defined by DataValuesInterfaces | Jeroen De Dauw |
| data-values/data-values | 3.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Defines the DataValue interface and some trivial implementations | Jeroen De Dauw |
| data-values/geo | 4.3.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Geographical value objects, parsers and formatters | Jeroen De Dauw and The Wikidata team |
| data-values/interfaces | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Defines interfaces for ValueParsers, ValueFormatters and ValueValidators | Jeroen De Dauw |
| data-values/validators | 1.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Common ValueValidator implementations | Jeroen De Dauw and The Wikidata team |
| dnoegel/php-xdg-base-dir | 0.1.1 | MIT | implementation of xdg base directory specification for php | |
| doctrine/cache | 1.12.1 | MIT | PHP Doctrine Cache library is a popular cache implementation that supports many different drivers such as redis, memcache, apc, mongodb and others. | Guilherme Blanco, Roman Borschel, Benjamin Eberlei, Jonathan Wage and Johannes Schmitt |
| doctrine/dbal | 3.0.0 | MIT | Powerful PHP database abstraction layer (DBAL) with many features for database schema introspection and management. | Guilherme Blanco, Roman Borschel, Benjamin Eberlei and Jonathan Wage |
| doctrine/event-manager | 1.1.1 | MIT | The Doctrine Event Manager is a simple PHP event system that was built to be used with the various Doctrine projects. | Guilherme Blanco, Roman Borschel, Benjamin Eberlei, Jonathan Wage, Johannes Schmitt and Marco Pivetta |
| doctrine/instantiator | 1.4.0 | MIT | A small, lightweight utility to instantiate objects in PHP without invoking their constructors | Marco Pivetta |
| doctrine/sql-formatter | 1.1.1 | MIT | a PHP SQL highlighting library | Jeremy Dorn |
| felixfbecker/advanced-json-rpc | 3.2.1 | ISC | A more advanced JSONRPC implementation | Felix Becker |
| giorgiosironi/eris | 0.10.0 | MIT | PHP library for property-based testing. Integrates with PHPUnit. | Gabriele Lana, Giorgio Sironi and Mirko Bonadei |
| guzzlehttp/guzzle | 7.2.0 | MIT | Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library | Michael Dowling and Márk Sági-Kazár |
| guzzlehttp/promises | 1.5.1 | MIT | Guzzle promises library | Graham Campbell, Michael Dowling, Tobias Nyholm and Tobias Schultze |
| guzzlehttp/psr7 | 1.8.3 | MIT | PSR-7 message implementation that also provides common utility methods | Graham Campbell, Michael Dowling, George Mponos, Tobias Nyholm, Márk Sági-Kazár and Tobias Schultze |
| hamcrest/hamcrest-php | 2.0.1 | BSD-3-Clause | This is the PHP port of Hamcrest Matchers | |
| jeroen/file-fetcher | 6.0.0 | BSD-3-Clause | Simple file fetching interface | Jeroen De Dauw |
| jeroen/file-fetcher-cache | 1.0.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Provides a SimpleCache (PSR-16) decorator for file fetchers | Jeroen De Dauw |
| jeroen/simple-cache | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0+ | Small library defining a minimalistic caching interface and provides some basic implementations | Jeroen De Dauw |
| jeroen/simple-geocoder | 1.3.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Simple and minimalistic Geocoder interface with some basic implementations | Jeroen De Dauw |
| jmikola/geojson | 1.0.2 | MIT | GeoJSON implementation for PHP | Jeremy Mikola |
| johnkary/phpunit-speedtrap | 3.3.0 | MIT | Find and report on slow tests in your PHPUnit test suite | John Kary |
| justinrainbow/json-schema | 5.2.11 | MIT | A library to validate a json schema. | Bruno Prieto Reis, Justin Rainbow, Igor Wiedler and Robert Schönthal |
| liuggio/statsd-php-client | 1.0.18 | MIT | Statsd (Object Oriented) client library for PHP | Giulio De Donato |
| mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer | 35.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | MediaWiki CodeSniffer Standards | |
| mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config | 0.10.6 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Standard MediaWiki phan configuration | MediaWiki developers |
| mediawiki/parser-hooks | 1.6.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Adds a OOP and declarative parser hook interface on top of MediaWiki | Jeroen De Dauw |
| mediawiki/phan-taint-check-plugin | 3.2.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | A Phan plugin to do security checking | Brian Wolff and Daimona Eaytoy |
| mediawiki/scss | 2.0.7 | GPL-3.0-or-later | Allows using SCSS files for MediaWiki styling | Stephan Gambke and Professional.Wiki |
| microsoft/tolerant-php-parser | 0.0.23 | MIT | Tolerant PHP-to-AST parser designed for IDE usage scenarios | Rob Lourens |
| monolog/monolog | 2.2.0 | MIT | Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services | Jordi Boggiano |
| myclabs/deep-copy | 1.10.2 | MIT | Create deep copies (clones) of your objects | |
| netresearch/jsonmapper | 3.1.1 | OSL-3.0 | Map nested JSON structures onto PHP classes | Christian Weiske |
| nikic/php-parser | 4.10.2 | BSD-3-Clause | A PHP parser written in PHP | Nikita Popov |
| nmred/kafka-php | 0.1.5 | BSD-3-Clause | Kafka client for php | |
| oojs/oojs-ui | 0.41.3 | MIT | Provides library of common widgets, layouts, and windows. | Bartosz Dziewoński, Ed Sanders, James D. Forrester, Kirsten Menger-Anderson, Kunal Mehta, Prateek Saxena, Roan Kattouw, Rob Moen, Timo Tijhof and Trevor Parscal |
| param-processor/param-processor | 1.12.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Parameter processing library | Jeroen De Dauw |
| pear/console_getopt | 1.4.3 | BSD-2-Clause | More info available on: http://pear.php.net/package/Console_Getopt | Andrei Zmievski, Stig Bakken and Greg Beaver |
| pear/mail | 1.4.1 | BSD-2-Clause | Class that provides multiple interfaces for sending emails. | Chuck Hagenbuch, Richard Heyes and Aleksander Machniak |
| pear/mail_mime | 1.10.9 | BSD-3-clause | Mail_Mime provides classes to create MIME messages | Cipriano Groenendal and Aleksander Machniak |
| pear/net_smtp | 1.9.2 | BSD-2-Clause | An implementation of the SMTP protocol | Jon Parise and Chuck Hagenbuch |
| pear/net_socket | 1.2.2 | PHP License | More info available on: http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Socket | Chuck Hagenbuch, Aleksander Machniak and Stig Bakken |
| pear/net_url2 | 2.2.2 | BSD-3-Clause | Class for parsing and handling URL. Provides parsing of URLs into their constituent parts (scheme, host, path etc.), URL generation, and resolving of relative URLs. | David Coallier, Tom Klingenberg and Christian Schmidt |
| pear/pear-core-minimal | 1.10.11 | BSD-3-Clause | Minimal set of PEAR core files to be used as composer dependency | Christian Weiske |
| pear/pear_exception | 1.0.2 | BSD-2-Clause | The PEAR Exception base class. | Helgi Thormar and Greg Beaver |
| phan/phan | 3.2.6 | MIT | A static analyzer for PHP | Tyson Andre, Rasmus Lerdorf and Andrew S. Morrison |
| phar-io/manifest | 2.0.3 | BSD-3-Clause | Component for reading phar.io manifest information from a PHP Archive (PHAR) | Arne Blankerts, Sebastian Heuer and Sebastian Bergmann |
| phar-io/version | 3.1.0 | BSD-3-Clause | Library for handling version information and constraints | Arne Blankerts, Sebastian Heuer and Sebastian Bergmann |
| php-parallel-lint/php-console-color | 0.3 | BSD-2-Clause | | Jakub Onderka |
| php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter | 0.5 | MIT | Highlight PHP code in terminal | Jakub Onderka |
| php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint | 1.2.0 | BSD-2-Clause | This tool check syntax of PHP files about 20x faster than serial check. | Jakub Onderka |
| phpdocumentor/reflection-common | 2.2.0 | MIT | Common reflection classes used by phpdocumentor to reflect the code structure | Jaap van Otterdijk |
| phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock | 5.3.0 | MIT | With this component, a library can provide support for annotations via DocBlocks or otherwise retrieve information that is embedded in a DocBlock. | Mike van Riel and Jaap van Otterdijk |
| phpdocumentor/type-resolver | 1.5.1 | MIT | A PSR-5 based resolver of Class names, Types and Structural Element Names | Mike van Riel |
| phpspec/prophecy | 1.14.0 | MIT | Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+ | Konstantin Kudryashov and Marcello Duarte |
| phpunit/php-code-coverage | 7.0.15 | BSD-3-Clause | Library that provides collection, processing, and rendering functionality for PHP code coverage information. | Sebastian Bergmann |
| phpunit/php-file-iterator | 2.0.5 | BSD-3-Clause | FilterIterator implementation that filters files based on a list of suffixes. | Sebastian Bergmann |
| phpunit/php-text-template | 1.2.1 | BSD-3-Clause | Simple template engine. | Sebastian Bergmann |
| phpunit/php-timer | 2.1.3 | BSD-3-Clause | Utility class for timing | Sebastian Bergmann |
| phpunit/php-token-stream | 4.0.4 | BSD-3-Clause | Wrapper around PHP's tokenizer extension. | Sebastian Bergmann |
| phpunit/phpunit | 8.5.21 | BSD-3-Clause | The PHP Unit Testing framework. | Sebastian Bergmann |
| pimple/pimple | 3.3.1 | MIT | Pimple, a simple Dependency Injection Container | Fabien Potencier |
| pleonasm/bloom-filter | 1.0.2 | BSD-2-Clause | A pure PHP implementation of a Bloom Filter | Matthew Nagi |
| psr/container | 1.0.0 | MIT | Common Container Interface (PHP FIG PSR-11) | PHP-FIG |
| psr/http-client | 1.0.1 | MIT | Common interface for HTTP clients | PHP-FIG |
| psr/http-message | 1.0.1 | MIT | Common interface for HTTP messages | PHP-FIG |
| psr/log | 1.1.3 | MIT | Common interface for logging libraries | PHP-FIG |
| psr/simple-cache | 1.0.1 | MIT | Common interfaces for simple caching | PHP-FIG |
| psy/psysh | 0.10.5 | MIT | An interactive shell for modern PHP. | Justin Hileman |
| sabre/event | 5.1.4 | BSD-3-Clause | sabre/event is a library for lightweight event-based programming | Evert Pot |
| scssphp/scssphp | 1.8.1 | MIT | scssphp is a compiler for SCSS written in PHP. | Anthon Pang and Cédric Morin |
| sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup | 1.0.2 | BSD-3-Clause | Looks up which function or method a line of code belongs to | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/comparator | 3.0.3 | BSD-3-Clause | Provides the functionality to compare PHP values for equality | Sebastian Bergmann, Jeff Welch, Volker Dusch and Bernhard Schussek |
| sebastian/diff | 3.0.3 | BSD-3-Clause | Diff implementation | Sebastian Bergmann and Kore Nordmann |
| sebastian/environment | 4.2.4 | BSD-3-Clause | Provides functionality to handle HHVM/PHP environments | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/exporter | 3.1.4 | BSD-3-Clause | Provides the functionality to export PHP variables for visualization | Sebastian Bergmann, Jeff Welch, Volker Dusch, Adam Harvey and Bernhard Schussek |
| sebastian/global-state | 3.0.1 | BSD-3-Clause | Snapshotting of global state | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/object-enumerator | 3.0.4 | BSD-3-Clause | Traverses array structures and object graphs to enumerate all referenced objects | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/object-reflector | 1.1.2 | BSD-3-Clause | Allows reflection of object attributes, including inherited and non-public ones | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/recursion-context | 3.0.1 | BSD-3-Clause | Provides functionality to recursively process PHP variables | Sebastian Bergmann, Jeff Welch and Adam Harvey |
| sebastian/resource-operations | 2.0.2 | BSD-3-Clause | Provides a list of PHP built-in functions that operate on resources | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/type | 1.1.4 | BSD-3-Clause | Collection of value objects that represent the types of the PHP type system | Sebastian Bergmann |
| sebastian/version | 2.0.1 | BSD-3-Clause | Library that helps with managing the version number of Git-hosted PHP projects | Sebastian Bergmann |
| seld/jsonlint | 1.8.3 | MIT | JSON Linter | Jordi Boggiano |
| squizlabs/php_codesniffer | 3.5.8 | BSD-3-Clause | PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards. | Greg Sherwood |
| symfony/console | 5.4.0 | MIT | Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces | Fabien Potencier and Symfony Community |
| symfony/deprecation-contracts | 2.5.0 | MIT | A generic function and convention to trigger deprecation notices | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme | 1.23.1 | MIT | Symfony polyfill for intl's grapheme_* functions | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer | 1.23.0 | MIT | Symfony polyfill for intl's Normalizer class and related functions | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/polyfill-php73 | 1.23.0 | MIT | Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 7.3+ features to lower PHP versions | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/polyfill-php80 | 1.23.1 | MIT | Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 8.0+ features to lower PHP versions | Ion Bazan, Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/service-contracts | 2.2.0 | MIT | Generic abstractions related to writing services | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/string | 5.4.0 | MIT | Provides an object-oriented API to strings and deals with bytes, UTF-8 code points and grapheme clusters in a unified way | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/var-dumper | 5.4.0 | MIT | Provides mechanisms for walking through any arbitrary PHP variable | Nicolas Grekas and Symfony Community |
| symfony/yaml | 5.4.0 | MIT | Loads and dumps YAML files | Fabien Potencier and Symfony Community |
| theseer/tokenizer | 1.2.1 | BSD-3-Clause | A small library for converting tokenized PHP source code into XML and potentially other formats | Arne Blankerts |
| webmozart/assert | 1.10.0 | MIT | Assertions to validate method input/output with nice error messages. | Bernhard Schussek |
| wikimedia/assert | 0.5.0 | MIT | Provides runtime assertions | Daniel Kinzler and Thiemo Kreuz |
| wikimedia/at-ease | 2.1.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Safe replacement to @ for suppressing warnings. | Tim Starling and MediaWiki developers |
| wikimedia/base-convert | 2.0.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Convert an arbitrarily-long string from one numeric base to another, optionally zero-padding to a minimum column width. | Brion Vibber and Tyler Romeo |
| wikimedia/cdb | 1.4.1 | GPL-2.0+ | Constant Database (CDB) wrapper library for PHP. Provides pure-PHP fallback when dba_* functions are absent. | Daniel Kinzler, Tim Starling, Chad Horohoe and Ori Livneh |
| wikimedia/cldr-plural-rule-parser | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Evaluates plural rules specified in the CLDR project notation. | Tim Starling and Niklas Laxström |
| wikimedia/common-passwords | 0.3.0 | MIT | List of the 100,000 most commonly used passwords | Sam Reed |
| wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin | 2.0.1 | MIT | Composer plugin to merge multiple composer.json files | Bryan Davis |
| wikimedia/html-formatter | 3.0.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Performs transformations of HTML by wrapping around libxml2 and working around its countless bugs. | MediaWiki contributors |
| wikimedia/ip-set | 3.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Efficiently match IP addresses against a set of CIDR specifications. | Brandon Black |
| wikimedia/ip-utils | 3.0.2 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Functions and constants to play with IP addresses and ranges | MediaWiki developers |
| wikimedia/less.php | 3.1.0 | Apache-2.0 | PHP port of the Javascript version of LESS http://lesscss.org (Originally maintained by Josh Schmidt) | Josh Schmidt, Matt Agar and Martin Jantošovič |
| wikimedia/minify | 2.2.3 | Apache-2.0 | Minification of JavaScript code and CSS stylesheets. | Paul Copperman, Trevor Parscal, Timo Tijhof and Roan Kattouw |
| wikimedia/object-factory | 3.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Construct objects from configuration instructions | Bryan Davis |
| wikimedia/parsoid | 0.13.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Parsoid, a bidirectional parser between wikitext and HTML5 | Wikimedia Parsing Team and the broader MediaWiki community |
| wikimedia/php-session-serializer | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Provides methods like PHP's session_encode and session_decode that don't mess with $_SESSION | Brad Jorsch |
| wikimedia/purtle | 1.0.7 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Fast streaming RDF serializer | Daniel Kinzler, Stanislav Malyshev, C. Scott Ananian and Thiemo Kreuz |
| wikimedia/relpath | 2.1.1 | MIT | Compute a relative filepath between two paths. | Ori Livneh |
| wikimedia/remex-html | 2.2.2 | MIT | Fast HTML 5 parser | Tim Starling |
| wikimedia/request-timeout | 1.1.0 | MIT | Request timeout library for Excimer with plain PHP fallback | Tim Starling |
| wikimedia/running-stat | 1.2.1 | GPL-2.0+ | PHP implementations of online statistical algorithms | Ori Livneh |
| wikimedia/scoped-callback | 3.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Class for asserting that a callback happens when a dummy object leaves scope | Aaron Schulz |
| wikimedia/services | 2.0.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Generic service to manage named services using lazy instantiation based on instantiator callback functions | Daniel Kinzler |
| wikimedia/shellbox | 1.0.4 | MIT | Library and server for containerized shell execution | Tim Starling, Kunal Mehta and Max Semenik |
| wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper | 2.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | A simple helper class to access non-public elements of a class when testing. | Adam Roses Wight, Brad Jorsch and Gergő Tisza |
| wikimedia/timestamp | 3.0.0 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Creation, parsing, and conversion of timestamps | Tyler Romeo |
| wikimedia/utfnormal | 3.0.2 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Contains Unicode normalization routines, including both pure PHP implementations and automatic use of the 'intl' PHP extension when present | Brion Vibber |
| wikimedia/wait-condition-loop | 2.0.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Wait loop that reaches a condition or times out | Aaron Schulz |
| wikimedia/wikipeg | 2.0.6 | MIT | Parser generator for JavaScript and PHP | |
| wikimedia/wrappedstring | 3.2.0 | MIT | Automatically compact sequentially-outputted strings that share a common prefix / suffix pair. | Timo Tijhof |
| wikimedia/xmp-reader | 0.8.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later | Reader for XMP data containing properties relevant to images | Brian Wolff |
| wikimedia/zest-css | 1.1.5 | MIT | Fast, lightweight, extensible CSS selector engine for PHP | Christopher Jeffrey and C. Scott Ananian |
| willdurand/geocoder | 4.4.0 | MIT | Common files for PHP Geocoder | William Durand |
| wmde/hamcrest-html-matchers | 0.1.1 | LGPL-2.1 | Set of Hamcrest matchers for HTML assertrions | Aleksey Bekh-Ivanov |
| zordius/lightncandy | 1.2.5 | MIT | An extremely fast PHP implementation of handlebars ( http://handlebarsjs.com/ ) and mustache ( http://mustache.github.io/ ). | Zordius Chen |
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