Quality PHP code/snippet repositories?

Question

Does anybody know any larger repositories of high-quality PHP classes and snippets? The only site I know is phpclasses.org, and while I mean no disrespect to its owner/s, its design looks pretty outdated (already has for a looong time) and the "social control" in terms of people reviewing and commenting on code is weak: There are lots and lots of bad code there.

Does anybody know anything in this direction, preferably with Stack Overflow-like interaction possibilities - voting, wiki-style editing, community functions.....?

Update: Starting a bounty to see what's new, out of curiosity. I will award the bounty to any really new, good, and modern suggestion that fulfills at least a part of my requirements above.

Answer 1

I always look to the Zend Framework, and the Zend Extensions. They are usually very high quality.

Answer 2

First of all, you might want to consider two different kind of repositories :

• Those which host codes / plugins / modules for specific applications and/or Frameworks
• And those which host either generalistic portions of code or generalistic libraries.

In the second category, the first idea that comes to mind would be pear.php.net -- but there is a lot of old code, many less-than-well documented libraries, lots of not-maintained stuff, ... Which pretty much means you'll have to go through a lot of stuff and eliminate the bad libraries yourself :-(

Two possible solutions might become interesting -- and they are quite recent :

• pearfarm
• and pearhub

I've never used those -- but it seems like some kind of repositories anyone can upload packages to ; and those packages can then be installed using the standard PEAR installer.

There doesn't seem to be any kind of voting / reputation / whatever system associated with those, though :-( But it might be interesting to suggest that as a possible improvement ;-)

So, not a real / great answer to your question, actually : there are components and stuff out there -- but the best way to know if something is great is to either test and/or review... And some stuff just lack documentation :-(

In the first category, things might be a bit easier : for lots of frameworks / applications, there are repositories of contributed modules or classes.

For instance, for Zend Framework, this could be interesting : ZF snippets (not that much life there either, though...) ; but note that official components of the framework are generally much more useful/better.
And that is probably true for many frameworks out there...

Another example would be Drupal and it's repository of modules -- and, there, you have some sorting by usage possibility, which is a bit of an indication of the quality (generally speaking) of those modules.

Answer 3

Github.com, for living code in repositories. After I started using git, I see code just in zipped files for download on the web as dead code and stuff in repositories as live code (more potential). Mainly because live code will have a development history with it, and dead code won't.

In addition, github allows you to easily see how often (if at all) a snippet has been forked, which is usually a useful indicator of quality.

Answer 4

I think your best bet is Google Code and Github repositories, or any project specific repositories. That's how usually find relevant PHP code. Even just browsing them can be fun, there's a lot of nice stuff but it's hard to find.

Nonetheless, lack of documentation is pretty common.

Answer 5

In addition to Zend Framework (mentioned by Byron), also look at EzComponents.