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Auth0 for AI Agents now in GAConnect your AI agents to apps and data more securely, give users control over the actions AI agents can perform and the data they can access, and enable human confirmation for critical agent actions.
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Stay in Flow. Let Zenflow Handle the Heavy Lifting.Zenflow is your engineering control center, turning specs into shipped features. Parallel agents handle coding, testing, and refactoring with real repo context. Multi-agent workflows remove bottlenecks and automate routine work so developers stay focused and in flow.
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CodeIgniter
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
CodeIgniter is a lightweight PHP web framework that focuses on simplicity, performance, and minimal configuration to get started quickly. It adopts an MVC-style or loosely structured approach depending on developer preference, with core components for routing, input handling, output views, and database abstraction. The framework provides convenience libraries for sessions, form validation, encryption, email, file uploads, and more, all optional so the footprint stays small. Because it doesn’t force heavy conventions, CodeIgniter is flexible for both small projects and larger modular applications where you may want to craft your own architecture. Its documentation and clarity of code make the learning curve gentle for PHP newcomers. In production, CodeIgniter’s efficiency and minimal overhead make it a steady option when performance and stability are priorities. -
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CodeIgniter 4
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
CodeIgniter4 is a powerful PHP framework designed for building web applications. It is a next-generation version of the popular CodeIgniter framework, offering enhanced features and improved performance. CodeIgniter4 follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern and is built to be lightweight, with a focus on simplicity and speed. It comes with a rich set of libraries and tools for developing dynamic web applications. -
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Arianne RPG
Arianne is an engine to develop multiplayer online games like Stendhal
Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world -
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LibreNMS
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Welcome to LibreNMS, a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP-based network monitoring that includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP, and many more. -
Grafana: The open and composable observability platformGrafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
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Pterodactyl Panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users. Stop settling for less. Make game servers a first-class citizen on your platform. Security is a first-class citizen on this platform with bcrypt hashing, AES-256-CBC encryption, and HTTPS support out of the box. Built on a modern stack utilizing the best design practices that make it easy to jump in and make modifications. All servers run in isolated Docker containers that limit attack vectors, provide strict resource limits, and provide environments tailored to each specific game. Pterodactyl is 100% free and licensed under a MIT license. All of our code is completely open source as well. -
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Laravel Framework
Elegant PHP web application framework with expressive syntax
Laravel is a popular open-source PHP web framework designed for building modern web applications with an elegant and readable syntax. It emphasizes developer productivity, offering features like routing, Eloquent ORM, blade templating, and an extensive ecosystem of packages. Laravel makes common tasks like authentication, caching, and session management simple and intuitive, making it a top choice for PHP developers. -
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Krayin CRM
Free & Opensource Laravel CRM solution for SMEs and Enterprises
Krayin CRM is a hand-tailored CRM framework built on some of the hottest open-source technologies such as Laravel (a PHP framework) and Vue.js a progressive Javascript framework. Free & Opensource Laravel CRM solution for SMEs and Enterprises for complete customer lifecycle management. We also have a forum for any type of concerns, feature requests, or discussions. Please visit: Krayin CRM Forums. -
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Laravel Installer
The Laravel application installer
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. A web framework provides a structure and starting point for creating your application, allowing you to focus on creating something amazing while we sweat the details. Laravel strives to provide an amazing developer experience while providing powerful features such as thorough dependency injection, an expressive database abstraction layer, queues, and scheduled jobs, unit and integration testing, and more. There are a variety of tools and frameworks available to you when building a web application. However, we believe Laravel is the best choice for building modern, full-stack web applications. Before creating your first Laravel project, make sure that your local machine has PHP and Composer installed. If you are developing on macOS or Windows, PHP and Composer can be installed in minutes via Laravel Herd. In addition, we recommend installing Node and NPM. -
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pH7 Social Dating CMS (pH7Builder)❤️
🚀 Professional Social Dating Web App Builder (formerly pH7CMS)
pH7Builder is a Professional, Free & Open Source PHP Social Dating Builder Software (primarily designed for developers ...). This Social Dating Web App is fully coded in object-oriented PHP (OOP) with the MVC pattern (Model-View-Controller). It is low resource-intensive, extremely powerful and highly secure. pH7Builder is included with over 42 native modules and is based on its homemade pH7 Framework which includes more than 52 packages To summarize, pH7Builder Social Dating Script gives you the perfect ingredients to create the best dating web app or social networking site on the World Wide Web! -- Get Involved! -- If you want to work on an Innovative Open Source Social/Dating Software Project with a Beautiful PHP Code using the latest PHP Features while collaborating with nice people and finally if you love the "Social" and "Dating" Services, ...you HAVE TO DO IT! - Fork the repo http://github.com/pH7Software/pH7-Social-Dating-CMS -
Smart Business Texting that Generates PipelineTextUs is the leading text messaging service provider for businesses that want to engage in real-time conversations with customers, leads, employees and candidates. Text messaging is one of the most engaging ways to communicate with customers, candidates, employees and leads. 1:1, two-way messaging encourages response and engagement. Text messages help teams get 10x the response rate over phone and email. Business text messaging has become a more viable form of communication than traditional mediums. The TextUs user experience is intentionally designed to resemble the familiar SMS inbox, allowing users to easily manage contacts, conversations, and campaigns. Work right from your desktop with the TextUs web app or use the Chrome extension alongside your ATS or CRM. Leverage the mobile app for on-the-go sending and responding.
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BotMan
A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots
Write your chatbot logic once and connect it to one of the available messaging services, including Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram or even your own Website. BotMan is framework agnostic, which means you can use it in your existing codebase, whatever framework you might use. Starting a new chatbot project? BotMan Studio is a Laravel 5.5 boiler project to get you started in no time! BotMan is all about having an expressive, yet powerful syntax that allows you to focus on the business logic, not on framework code. BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library that is designed to simplify the task of developing innovative bots for multiple messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework, Nexmo, HipChat, Facebook Messenger and WeChat. -
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MoonShine
Laravel Admin panel and more. Simple for beginners and experts
You are on an open source project dedicated to the "MoonShine" admin panel. Everything is already ready for use in your projects, documentation has been created describing the installation, configuration and features. -
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Standard Webhooks
The Standard Webhooks specification
Standard Webhooks is a community-driven specification and set of open-source tools designed to make webhooks consistent, secure, and interoperable across providers. The project defines strict guidelines covering aspects like signature formats, headers, timestamps, replay protection, and forward compatibility. It includes reference implementations for signature verification and signing across multiple languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, Ruby, PHP, C#, Java, and Elixir, along with additional community SDKs. The initiative is guided by a technical steering committee with members from companies like Zapier, Twilio, Mux, ngrok, Supabase, Svix, and Kong. Standard Webhooks matters because it eliminates the fragmentation of webhook implementations, reducing consumer effort and enabling seamless verification in apps or even directly in API gateways. By unifying best practices, it improves developer experience, enhances security, and enables new ecosystem tools. -
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Fast Excel
Fast Excel import/export for Laravel
Fast Excel import/export for Laravel, thanks to Spout. -
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Laravel Restify
The fastest way to make a powerful JSON:API compatible Rest API
Laravel Restify is an extraordinary tool inspired by Laravel Nova for building a robust and modern API. If you already have an application built with Laravel Nova, you can transfer your data to Laravel Restify by using basically the same resource class content. If you don't have an application written with Nova, you can start with Laravel Restify from scratch and get a powerful API in a few minutes. -
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CakePHP
The rapid development framework for PHP
CakePHP 4.0.0 is as tasty as other major CakePHP releases but will now require you to use PHP 7.2. With a refreshed application skeleton design, CakePHP 4.0.0 comes with a streamlined API making your development and application faster. While 4.0 contains a number of breaking changes we have prepared an exhaustive migration guide covering all the deprecated and removed features as well as highlighting the shiny new features. CakeDC, the commercial entity behind the CakePHP framework, was established by Larry Masters, the founder of CakePHP. CakeDC offers CakePHP development, consultancy, CakePHP training and code review Services. From startups and social networks, to e-commerce and enterprise level applications, CakeDC provides the highest quality CakePHP development available. Use code generation and scaffolding features to rapidly build prototypes. No complicated XML or YAML files. Just setup your database and you're ready to bake. -
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Laravel Backpack
Build custom admin panels
It's never been easier to build and customize admin panels using Laravel. See why thousands of professionals have been using Backpack for Laravel, every day. Similar to how you'd build it without Backpack. To create a management page (aka CRUD), you create a CrudController. In there, configure or overwrite whatever you want. Load our views, or create your own. Laravel, Bootstrap & jQuery. Those are all the technologies you need to know, to customize anything in Backpack. You can totally use Vue, React, WebPack, Mix, Less, Sass, NPM etc. If you want to. But you don't have to. Backpack comes with support for multiple Bootstrap themes. If you need to build a custom page, dashboard, or component, you just copy-paste HTML blocks from its website. No designer is required. No pixel pushing. -
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Laravel Terminal
Runs artisan command in web application
Runs artisan command in web application. -
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PHPUnit
The PHP Unit Testing framework
PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks. -
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Phalcon
High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension
Its innovative architecture makes Phalcon the fastest PHP framework ever built! Developers do not need to know C to use Phalcon. Its functionality is exposed as PHP classes and interfaces under the Phalcon namespace, ready to be used. Zephir/C extensions are loaded together with PHP one time on the web server's daemon start process. Classes and functions provided by the extension are ready to use for any application. The code is compiled and isn't interpreted because it's already compiled to a specific platform and processor. Thanks to its low-level architecture and optimizations Phalcon provides the lowest overhead for MVC-based applications. Build single and multi-module applications with ease and pleasure. Using the file structure, scheme and patterns you already know. Phalcon is built upon a powerful yet easy to understand and use pattern called Dependency Injection. Initialize or define services once, and use them virtually anywhere throughout the application. -
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ThinkPHP 6.1
ThinkPHP Framework
ThinkPHPIt is an open source free, fast and simple target-oriented lightweight PHP development framework, which was born to agile WEB application development and simplify enterprise application development. Follow at the same timeApache2The release of the open source license agreement means that you can use ThinkPHP for free, and even allow the release/sale of your application open source or commercial products based on ThinkPHP development.ThinkPHPThe trademark holder is Shanghai Top Want Information Technology Co., Ltd. For sixteen years, we have insisted on improvement and iterative renewal, with a leading market occupancy rate and good user reputation in China. I believe it is your trusted PHP framework. ThinkPHPNavigation as an official unified resource and promotion entrance is designed to buildThinkPHPEcology and cooperation win-win, we will show the products or services of ecological and cooperative manufacturers in the navigation station. -
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Yii Web Programming Framework
Yii PHP Framework 1.1.x
Yii, a high-performance component-based PHP framework. Yii is a fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework. Flexible yet pragmatic. Works right out of the box. Has reasonable defaults. Yii gives you the maximum functionality by adding the least possible overhead. Sane defaults and built-in tools helps you write solid and secure code. Write more code in less time with simple, yet powerful APIs and code generation. The minimum requirement by Yii is that your Web server supports PHP 5.1.0 or above. Yii has been tested with Apache HTTP server on Windows and Linux operating systems. Yii comes with a command line tool called "yiic" that can create a skeleton Yii application for you to start with. The new Yii application will be created at "YiiPath/testdrive. Please visit the project website for tutorials, class reference and join discussions with other Yii users. -
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Laravel Scout
Provides a driver based solution to searching your Eloquent models
Laravel Scout provides a simple, driver-based solution for adding full-text search to your Eloquent models. Once Scout is installed and configured, it will automatically sync your model changes to your search indexes. -
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Akaunting
Online Accounting Software
Online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. Akaunting is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, VueJS, Tailwind, RESTful API etc. Thanks to its modular structure, Akaunting provides an awesome App Store for users and developers. -
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FreeScout
Free self-hosted help desk & shared mailbox
FreeScout is a super lightweight and powerful free open source help desk and shared inbox written in PHP (Laravel framework). It is a self-hosted clone of HelpScout. Now you can enjoy free Zendesk & Help Scout without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control. FreeScout is the perfect help desk solution for those who need to provide professional customer support, but who can not afford to pay for Zendesk or Help Scout. FreeScout is a pure open source PHP/MySQL application, so it can be easily deployed even on shared hosting. -
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Laravel AdminLTE
Easy AdminLTE integration with Laravel
This package provides an easy way to quickly set up AdminLTE v3 with Laravel (7 or higher). It has no other requirements and dependencies besides Laravel, so you can start building your admin panel immediately. The package provides a blade template that you can extend and an advanced menu configuration system. Also, and optionally, the package offers a set of AdminLTE styled authentication views that you can use in replacement of the ones that are provided by the legacy Laravel/UI authentication scaffolding.
