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spatie/better-types
Reflection-powered type checking for PHP: verify whether a ReflectionType or method signature accepts given arguments (including unions/nullables and named params). Useful for dispatching/overload-like method selection and safer dynamic calls.
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| typhoon/type | 0.86 | Typhoon Type provides an object abstraction over PHP’s modern type system for building tools that understand complex types. Define, print (stringify), and work with array shapes, object types, non-empty lists, and more in a consistent API. | 65 | 64 | 2 | 5K | 2 | 20.9 | 30.3 | MIT | 2 months ago | |
| php-standard-library/type | 0.85 | Runtime type validation for PHP using “Parse, Don’t Validate”: coerce and assert unstructured input into well-typed data. Useful for APIs, configs, and user input with clear parsing rules, assertions, and predictable failures. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34K | 0 | 19.1 | 63.9 | MIT | 1 month ago | |
| spatie/typed | 0.84 | Userland improved PHP type system with type inference and runtime checking: generics, union types, typed collections/lists, tuples, and structs. Proof-of-concept package from Spatie to add stronger type guarantees without language-level support. | 318 | 321 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 1.9 | 0.1 | MIT | 5 years ago | |
| flow-php/types | 0.84 | Flow PHP type system library with typed value objects and type definitions for consistent, safe data handling across the Flow ecosystem. Designed for ETL pipelines, it helps enforce data contracts and reduce runtime type errors. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 56K | 0 | 0.1 | 55.3 | MIT | — | |
| elasticms/helpers | 0.84 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 0 | 32.0 | 33.7 | LGPL-3.0 | 4 weeks ago | |
| atournayre/types | 0.83 | Lightweight PHP library providing reusable types/value objects. Installable via Composer, intended to standardize and validate common domain data. Open-source on GitHub with issue tracker and MIT license. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 3.0 | 18.0 | MIT | 2 years ago | |
| php-standard-library/either-or-both | 0.83 | EitherOrBoth provides a three-variant union type for PHP: Left, Right, or Both. Model values that may exist on either side or simultaneously, with a clear, type-safe API for representing and handling these outcomes. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 25K | 0 | 18.3 | 59.0 | MIT | 1 month ago | |
| spatie/laravel-data | 0.83 | Create rich, typed data objects for Laravel that replace form requests and API transformers. Automatically map from requests, validate with inferred rules, transform to resources (with lazy/partial fields), and generate TypeScript definitions from the same source. | 1,774 | 1,778 | 285 | 2M | 4 | 46.2 | 53.0 | MIT | 2 months ago | |
| spatie/laravel-web-tinker | 0.83 | Adds Laravel’s Tinker REPL to your browser via a protected route, making it easy to run and tweak code without the terminal. Includes light/dark UI and simple install/publish commands. For local/dev only—can execute arbitrary code. | 1,216 | 1,223 | 75 | 95K | 0 | 33.7 | 29.9 | MIT | 2 months ago | |
| sebastian/type | 0.83 | sebastian/type provides lightweight value objects for representing and working with PHP’s type system (built-in, class, union, intersection, nullable, etc.). Useful for static analysis tools, reflection helpers, and test utilities that need precise type modeling. | 1,503 | 1,504 | 13 | 14M | 1 | 28.3 | 62.6 | BSD-3-Clause | 2 months ago | |
| digitalrevolution/utils | 0.82 | — | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2K | 1 | 26.0 | 48.1 | MIT | 2 months ago | |
| kiwilan/typescriptable-laravel | 0.82 | — | 39 | 39 | 9 | 2K | 7 | 12.1 | 26.6 | MIT | 1 year ago | |
| symfony/type-info | 0.82 | Symfony TypeInfo extracts and models PHP type information from reflections and type strings. Resolve scalars, objects, enums, generics, lists, and nullable types via TypeResolver, inspect identifiers and constraints, and stringify types like Collection. | 201 | 200 | 3 | 7M | 0 | 30.7 | 63.7 | MIT | 1 month ago | |
| spatie/php-attribute-reader | 0.79 | Lightweight PHP 8+ utility to read native attributes from classes, methods, properties, and parameters using reflection. Designed for simple, fast attribute discovery in frameworks and libraries, with an API that fits common annotation-style workflows. | 89 | 90 | 2 | 470K | 0 | 13.4 | 56.8 | MIT | 4 months ago | |
| spatie/php-type-graph | 0.77 | Build a graph of all PHP types in your project. Analyze classes, interfaces, enums, and their relationships to understand your codebase structure, dependencies, and type usage. Useful for architecture insights, tooling, and visualization (WIP). | 10 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | — | MIT | 2 years ago | |
| roave/better-reflection | 0.77 | Enhanced PHP reflection for static analysis: reflect classes without loading them, from PHP code strings or closures, extract AST from functions/methods, and read type declarations and docblocks. Feature-rich but slower than native reflection. | 1,245 | 1,249 | 137 | 584K | 14 | 40.0 | 47.8 | MIT | 2 months ago | |
| spatie/schema-org | 0.76 | Fluent PHP builder for the full Schema.org vocabulary. Create Schema.org types and properties via chainable methods and output valid JSON-LD/ld+json scripts for SEO. Auto-generated from Schema.org standards for complete coverage. | 1,502 | 1,511 | 145 | 365K | 0 | 39.1 | 38.0 | MIT | 1 month ago |
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