The closest PHP has to CPAN is PEAR (http://pear.php.net http://pear.php.net). It stalled for a long time, although development seems to have picked up a bit no

The closest PHP has to CPAN is PEAR (http://pear.php.net http://pear.php.net). It stalled for a long time, although development seems to have picked up a bit now that everything is on GitHub (https://github.com/pear/ https://github.com/pear/)