20 extremely useful php class library

Here are some very useful PHP class library, I believe than can help you better and faster development.

Chart Library

The following class library allows you to create complex charts and pictures. Of course, the need for GD library support.

pChart  – a chart-drawing PHP library.

Libchart - Simple chart drawing library.

JpGraph – Object-Oriented Graph creating library.

Open Flash Chart – Based on Flash-Chart.

RSS Resolution

The following library can help you to easily read the RSS-Feed.

MagpieRSS  -  Open-source PHP RSS parser.

SimplePie – This is a very fast, and easy to use RSS and Atom parser library.

Thumbnail generation

phpThumb – Uses the GD library to create thumbnails from images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc) on the fly.

 Payment

Your site need to Payment? And need to payment gateway to program? The following program can help you.

PHP Payment Library  –  support for Paypal, Authorize.net, and 2Checkout (2CO)

OpenID

PHP-OpenID  -  a PHP library to support OpenID. OpenID is to help you use the same username and password login to a different site.

ORM

ADOdb – a database abstraction library.

Doctrine  –  a  PHP ORM(object relational mapper) for PHP that sits on top of a powerful DBAL(database abstraction layer)

PDF Generator

FPDF  -  a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library.

Excel-related

Your site needs to generate Excel? No problem, the following two class libraries allows you to easily do this.

php-excel – Which allow you to write to and read from different file formats, like Excel 2007, PDF, HTML, …  This project is built around Microsoft’s OpenXML standard and PHP.

PHP Excel Reader – Parse and retrieve information from XLS files.

E-Mail Related

Do not like PHP’s mail function? The following e-mail-related PHP libraries will not let you Disappointed.

Swift Mailer – a component-based library for sending e-mails from PHP 5 applications.

PHPMailer – Featured email transfer class for PHP.

Unit Testing

SimpleTest – a PHP unit test and web test framework.

PHPUnit - a unit testing suite for the PHP language, modelled on the xUnit testing framework.