PHP Architect

by Christopher Miller

We've covered a lot of ground in this series - from basic linear algebra to the sophisticated mathematics of backpropagation. But here's the thing about learning machine learning - until you see it wo...

by Scott Keck-Warren

I'm a little ashamed to say this, but I still think of PHP as the "P" in LAMP, with it living on a Linux server behind Apache. The reality of PHP in 2026 is that PHP has been pried away from "A" for a...

by John Congdon

Hello friends! In this column, I want to discuss some strategies that I've been using for many years that I believe will lead to better outcomes when working on long-term PHP projects. Most of these i...

by Wendell Adriel

In Part X, we hardened the PHP runtime so the process layer fails in a bounded and predictable way. That matters because a healthy runtime is only half of the availability story. Many PHP systems stil...

by John Congdon

JWT is everywhere. It has client libraries in every language, first-class support in most OAuth 2.0 frameworks, and enough documentation that most developers can get a token issuing and validating in...

by Eric Mann

Whenever you encrypt something, you're making a bet. The wager is that the key holds for at least as long as the data matters - for a session cookie, that's minutes. You'll win the bet every time. For...

by Eric Van Johnson

Every Laravel developer learns the surface-level rule early - type-hint a class in a constructor, and Laravel "just gives it to you." Most tutorials stop there, which is fine until you hit a case wher...

by Oscar Merida

Relying on manual SQL scripts breaks down as your PHP application grows in complexity. I've added a database layer recently and have been skating by with manual SQL statements on my local SQLite datab...

by John Congdon

Hello again, this month, I thought I'd share something that I've been thinking about a lot lately. It started during my months of physical therapy for a torn shoulder muscle. I had to take medical tra...

by Holly Schilling

The accusation came with a grin, which is the only way this kind of accusation should ever come. You cheated. by Holly Schilling

by John Congdon

Every application lies to you. Not maliciously, but by design. When you query your database for a customer record, you get a snapshot of their current state. You see their address, their subscription...