The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the latest edition of their Sourcehunt spotlight. The Sourcehunt posts gather together some notable packages discovered over the last month and bring them to the community.

Packages and tools included in this latest post are:

• lavary/crunz for Laravel cron management
• the Laravel Hackathon Starter Kit
• Fakerino for generating fake data
• PHP GUI
• snapshotpl/lazy-container
• TextGenerator

There's several others mentioned as well including an ORM, a command line Twitter client and a language editor for Laravel. Be sure to check out the post for the full list.

The SitePoint PHP blog has posted their latest edition of their "Sourcehunt" series, highlighting interesting and useful projects around the PHP community. In this latest edition they mention a wide range of projects including:

• blackscorp/astar: a PHP implementation of the A* pathfinding algorithm
• Blast-turbine: A microframework built on top of packages from The League of Extraordinary Packages
• Tagua VM: a virtual machine for Rust that allows the execution of PHP code
• nofw

There's one other library mentioned in the list for the Eve Online players out there showing details for its public market API. Each item on the list includes a brief description and the number of stars the repository currently has.

The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the latest in their "Sourcehunt" series of posts highlighting several open source libraries across a wide range of topics they find notable: Sourcehunt #4.

We skipped January’s Sourcehunt, but we’re back now, ready to boost the stardom of more projects!

Libraries included in this latest Sourcehunt include:

• ayeayeapi
• peternijssen/packy
• sitepoint/rauth
• goaop/parser-reflection

Each item in the list comes with a bit of detail around what the library is and what kinds of features it provides. There's also a few other links included to alternatives and resources about the libraries.

The SitePoint PHP blog has published the first edition of their "Sourcehunt" effort, sharing several PHP libraries to promote them and give them wider exposure to the community at large. In this post they talk about tools covering a wide range of functionality including cryptography, validation, user agent parsing and "humanizing" strings.

Last month, we introduced a new effort called Sourcehunt – a category of post intended to direct attention to less popular open source projects that show promise and need exposure. We’ve called for new submissions and accumulated an impressive list.

Included in their list for this edition are tools like:

• Asgard CMS
• thunderer/shortcode
• PHP Humanizer
• vinkla/climb
• paragonie/halite

...and many more. A summary of the features, code and output examples are provided for most of the tools mentioned and the number of GitHub stars at the time of the posting is listed next to each library name.