This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Laravel Cloud, Feature Flags, PHP Tek 2025, PHPxSan, and more… Links from the show: Laravel Cloud achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance – The Laravel Blog Flipt Laravel Pennant – Laravel 12.x – The PHP Framework For Web Artisans PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th […]

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Laravel Enums, Serialization, json_decode, Bye Bye to Skype, and more. Links from the show: Buffer Overflow in Laravel: Causes, Prevention & Fixes – DEV Community The death of Skype: when it closes and what you need to do Avoid This Laravel Enum Trap: Learn How […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Explain Explained, Postgres All The Things, Livewire Remote Code Execution, Lazy Object, and more… Links from the show: Understanding MySQL Queries with Explain I replaced my entire tech stack with Postgres… – YouTube RCE Via User-Crafted Requests · Advisory · livewire/volt · GitHub […]

  Laravel is known for its elegant approach to structuring complex logic. I’ve been using Laravel since the release of Laravel 4, and it has pretty consistently added new helpful features to every release, to the point where I myself discovering new features all the time that I haven’t used. Pipelines are just one of […]

The terrible thing about deleting data from a database is that it’s gone forever. We can’t even look at the data to see if we need it because it’s gone. If we need the data back, our only solution is to restore a backup, cross our fingers, and hope we have the backup just before […]

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 […]

In our latest installment of “Cool Open Source PHP Projects To Contribute To” (yes, we’re still brainstorming that title!), we’re shining a spotlight on a thrilling new project from a distinguished member of the PHP community, Nuno Maduro. Known for his influential contributions and dynamic presence in the ecosystem, Nuno not only develops at Laravel […]

Ken Marks wraps up his series on working with a Raspberry Pi. Ken has done such a fantastic job taking us through his process of using a Raspberry Pi and writing code on that Pi in a real-life scenario at home. In this final installment, Ken establishes a workflow for sending an accelerometer text message […]

I thank my lucky stars that I am not a superstitious person, knock on wood, and I really don’t want to jinx it, but we have a good problem. We have so many great feature articles in the pipeline, and I think it’s important to let everyone know what an awesome job the PHP community […]

PEST is a PHP testing framework built on top of PHPUnit that offers a functional approach to writing tests, eliminating as much boilerplate as possible and focusing on the tests themselves. It was created by Nuno Maduro (Laravel Core Team member) in 2020, and since then, it has had 1.6M downloads. by Marian Pop