This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about New Features in PHP 8.4, The Magic Behind Laravel’s defer(), Doctrine Introduces EnumType Columns, Serialization/Deserialization, Laravel’s Nightwatch, PHPTek 2025, and more…

Links from the show:

• PHP 8.4: new features and release date
• The magic behind Laravel’s new defer() helper — Amit Merchant — A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more
• Doctrine enum implementation in Dotkernel – DotKernel PSR-7 Middleware Applications
• GitHub – Crell/Serde: Robust Serde (serialization/deserialization) library for PHP 8.
• Laravel Nightwatch
• PHPTEK 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
• Fundraiser by Ryan Weaver : Support Ryan’s Brain Cancer Battle
• The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ • The Register
• Product Security Bad Practices | CISA
• PERT

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