List of resources to help with building libraries

php-library-building.md

PHP Library Building Resources

Composer

• composer init for initial setup
• https://getcomposer.org - Composer website and documentation
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md - Repositories documentation
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/versions.md - Version constraint documentation
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/scripts.md#writing-custom-commands - Composer "scripts"

Packagist and Other Package Repositories

• https://packagist.org - Public Composer package repository
• https://packagist.com - Private packagist
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/handling-private-packages-with-satis.md - Satis: open source, static, private repository
• https://jfrog.com/article/php-composer/ - Artifactory as a composer repository

Component/Library Collections

• https://thephpleague.com/ - PHP League components
• https://symfony.com/components - Symfony components
• https://framework.zend.com/ - Zend components

PHP Standards Recommendations

• https://www.php-fig.org - Framework Interoperability Group
• https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1/ - Coding standards
• https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/ - Coding standards
• https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4/ - Autoloading

Skeleton Packages/Helpers

• https://github.com/php-pds/skeleton - Create basic project skeleton
• composer require --dev pds/skeleton and ./vendor/bin/pds-skeleton generate to generate a skeleton
• https://github.com/thephpleague/skeleton - Another skeleton from PHP League

For Licences, Readmes, and Other Meta Docs

• https://choosealicense.com/ - For help in choosing/understanding open source licenses
• https://semver.org/ - For help in tagging version of your lib or understanding dependency's tags
• https://keepachangelog.com - For help with CHANGELOG.md file formatting
• https://www.gitignore.io/ - For help with .gitignore file
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2jzp6k/i_dont_need_your_tests_in_my_production/ - About .gitattributes file
• https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/ - GitHub docs on issue templates, CONTRIBUTING.md doc, etc.
• https://shields.io/ - For README badges

Testing & QA Tools

• https://phpunit.readthedocs.io - PHPUnit Manual
• https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer - PHP CodeSniffer (for checking/fixing code styles)
• https://travis-ci.org - Managed CI system for open source projects (free)