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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

152.7k26.3k48mo ago

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

### nikic/php-parser

v5.8.0

85

A PHP parser written in PHP

972.9M17.4k2.8k1mo ago

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

### erusev/parsedown

v1.8.0

75

Parser for Markdown.

158.5M15.1k9226mo 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.

980.3M11.2k1712y ago

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

### doctrine/annotations

v2.0.2

 Abandoned

Docblock Annotations Parser

580.4M6.7k2.3k1y ago

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

### theseer/tokenizer

v2.0.1

70

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

809.7M5.2k208mo 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.

244.2k5.2k66y 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.

78.3k5.1k56y 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

38.2k4.5k19y ago

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

### symfony/yaml

v8.1.2

88

Loads and dumps YAML files

846.3M3.8k12.2k3w ago

[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing)MITPHP >=8.4.1

### justinrainbow/json-schema

v6.10.0

83

A library to validate a json schema.

341.3M3.6k8532mo ago

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

### matomo/device-detector

v6.5.1

81

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.

27.7M3.5k2132mo ago

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

### piwik/device-detector

v6.5.1

 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.

12.3M3.5k362mo ago

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

### michelf/php-markdown

v2.0.0

63

PHP Markdown

55.2M3.5k3973y ago

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

### carthage-software/mago

v1.45.0

76

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

1.5M3.3k4623w ago

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

### apache/avro

v1.12.1

69

Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system.

84.3k3.3k511mo ago

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

### colinodell/commonmark-php

v2.9.0

 Abandoned

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

2.4k3.0k2w ago

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

### league/commonmark

v2.8.3

84

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

450.4M3.0k1.2k1mo ago

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

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