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Best PHP Packages for Parsing & Serialization
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Discover the top parsing & serialization packages for your PHP projects.

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### google/flatbuffers

v25.12.19

70

FlatBuffers for PHP

134.7k25.7k45mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)Apache-2.0PHP >=5.4

### nikic/php-parser

v5.7.0

81

A PHP parser written in PHP

902.6M17.4k1.8k5mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)BSD-3-ClausePHP >=7.4

### erusev/parsedown

v1.8.0

79

Parser for Markdown.

151.8M15.0k7323mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP >=7.1

### doctrine/lexer

v3.0.1

72

PHP Doctrine Lexer parser library that can be used in Top-Down, Recursive Descent Parsers.

910.8M11.2k1182y ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP ^8.1

### doctrine/annotations

v2.0.2

 Abandoned

Docblock Annotations Parser

555.6M6.7k2.0k1y ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

### theseer/tokenizer

v2.0.1

72

A small library for converting tokenized PHP source code into XML and potentially other formats

751.8M5.2k135mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)BSD-3-ClausePHP ^8.1

### jquery-form/form

v4.3.0

54

The jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX.

235.5k5.2k65y ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)(LGPL-2.1+ OR MIT)

### malsup/form

v4.3.0

 Abandoned

The jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX.

77.1k5.1k55y ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)(LGPL-2.1+ OR MIT)

### justinwalsh/daux.io

v0.4.0

44

Documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly

38.1k4.6k18y ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP >=5.6

### symfony/yaml

v8.0.6

87

Loads and dumps YAML files

788.0M3.9k9.3k3mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP >=8.4

### justinrainbow/json-schema

v6.7.2

83

A library to validate a json schema.

316.9M3.6k6123mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

### matomo/device-detector

v6.5.0

78

The Universal Device Detection library, that parses User Agents and detects devices (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), clients (browsers, media players, mobile apps, feed readers, libraries, etc), operating systems, devices, brands and models.

23.5M3.5k1113mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)LGPL-3.0-or-laterPHP ^7.2|^8.0

### michelf/php-markdown

v2.0.0

64

PHP Markdown

52.4M3.5k3453y ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)BSD-3-ClausePHP >=7.4

### piwik/device-detector

v6.5.0

 Abandoned

The Universal Device Detection library, that parses User Agents and detects devices (desktop, tablet, mobile, tv, cars, console, etc.), clients (browsers, media players, mobile apps, feed readers, libraries, etc), operating systems, devices, brands and models.

12.0M3.5k363mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)LGPL-3.0-or-laterPHP ^7.2|^8.0

### apache/avro

v1.12.1

67

Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system.

26.8k3.2k38mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)Apache-2.0PHP ^7.1 || ^8.0

### carthage-software/mago

v1.16.0

72

Mago is a toolchain for PHP that aims to provide a set of tools to help developers write better code.

589.5k3.0k1541mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MIT OR Apache-2.0PHP ~8.1 || ~8.2 || ~8.3 || ~8.4 || ~8.5 || ~8.6

### league/commonmark

v2.8.2

84

Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark spec and GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM)

404.0M3.0k7022mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)BSD-3-ClausePHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

### colinodell/commonmark-php

v2.8.2

 Abandoned

Highly-extensible PHP Markdown parser which fully supports the CommonMark spec and GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM)

2.4k2.9k2mo ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)BSD-3-ClausePHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

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