Bulletproof PHP code: Static Analysis, Laravel Insights & Symfony Updates

Dive into bulletproof PHP code, master Laravel workflows, explore Symfony 7.3’s hottest features—and snag 50 % off CakeFest tickets plus early access to PhpStorm 2025.2!

PHP

📚 Bulletproof Your PHP Code with Static Analysis

Imagine catching bugs before they’re committed. Static analysis tools simulate a compiler’s brain for PHP — ensuring correctness, readability, and future safety.

📚 Exploring PHP Spread Operator (...) for Arrays: Tips, Tricks & Real Use Cases

In this post, we’ll demystify the spread operator in PHP, explore practical use cases, and highlight how you can use it to write cleaner and more expressive code.

📚 Clean & Scalable: Mastering Domain Services in PHP

Let’s unpack how to design robust, scalable domain services in PHP — and why it matters more than any shiny framework trick ever could.

📚 Guide to using Filament Components in public-facing pages

This guide will show you how to include Filament components in your public-facing pages, step by step.

📚 CakeFest 2025 Tickets Now Available!

Get early bird pricing by using code CakePHPX for 50% off (limited time).

📚 Join JetBrains PHPverse to Celebrate 30 Years of PHP - June 17, 2025

PHP turns 30 this June, and we’re looking forward to celebrating this notable milestone together with you!

📚 PhpStorm 2025.2 Early Access Program Is Now Open

We’re opening the Early Access Program (EAP) for the next major PhpStorm 2025.2 release.

📚 FrankenPHP Is Now Officially Supported by The PHP Foundation

FrankenPHP, a modern high-performance PHP application server created by Kévin Dunglas and sponsored by Les-Tilleuls.coop, is now officially supported by the PHP Foundation.

📚 Mastering Binary Tree Inorder Traversal

In-order traversal is particularly significant in binary search trees (BST) because it retrieves elements in their natural order. The process involves visiting the left subtree, then the root node, and finally the right subtree.

Laravel

📚 Understanding Conditional Validation in Laravel with sometimes

When building apps with Laravel or even rest-api, validation is a key part of keeping your data clean and reliable. But what happens when you need to apply validation only under certain conditions?

📚 Artisan Commands You’re Not Using (But Definitely Should)

Whether you’re just starting with Laravel or you’ve been building apps for years, it’s worth revisiting Artisan with fresh eyes.

📚 Managing Laravel Queues Efficiently With FrankenPHP, Redis and Docker

TL;DR: Learn how to manage Laravel queues using Redis, Docker, and FrankenPHP. This guide walks through setting up a queue worker, dispatching jobs, and integrating Laravel Horizon — all within a Dockerized environment.

📚 15 Laravel Security Best Practices in 2025

Whether you’re building an MVP or maintaining a large-scale application, security must be a priority.

📚 Transform JSON into Typed Collections with Laravel’s AsCollection::of()

Laravel enhances data handling capabilities with the AsCollection::of() method, enabling developers to transform JSON columns into strongly-typed collections of value objects automatically.

📚 Streamline Pipeline Cleanup with Laravel’s finally Method

Laravel enhances pipeline management with the introduction of the finally method, offering a more elegant approach to handling post-pipeline operations regardless of success or failure outcomes.

📚 Validate Controller Requests with the Laravel Data Package

The Laravel Data package has many incredible features for working with data objects in Laravel applications. Data objects are rich, typed, and highly configurable objects that can double as API resources, form requests, TypeScript definitions, and more.

📚 How to Prevent Disasters in Laravel (A Critical Tip for Professional Developers)

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to lock down destructive commands in production and avoid unintentional data loss with just a few lines of code.

📚 Using a Custom Model for Laravel Authentication(Breeze) (e.g. Guest Instead of User)

In this quick guide, I’ll show you how to make Laravel Breeze work with a custom model, and how to fix the common “Forgot Password” issue when using anything other than the default User model.

📚 Timezones Got You Down? Build a Laravel Converter That Just Works

The Problem We All Face: Your user in Tokyo picks 2 PM → New York sees 1 AM, Calendar exports show wrong times, DST changes break everything. Here’s how I built a converter that handles all this – and how you can clone it.

📚 The Complete Nginx Guide: From Basics to Advanced Configuration

This guide will take you through everything you need to know about Nginx, from basic concepts to advanced configurations, with a special focus on PHP/Laravel applications.

📚 Building a Robust File Import System in Laravel with Real-Time Progress Updates

Before we begin, ensure you have installed the necessary package, Laravel Excel, which will be used for handling the import of CSV/Excel files.

📚 Arr::from() Method in Laravel 12.14

The Laravel team released v12.14.0, which includes a new Arr::from() method, a currentlyResolving() container method, new “except” Context methods, and more.

📚 Deployer

Deployer is a free, open-source deployment tool written in PHP by Anton Medvedev. It helps you easily deploy your PHP application to a server.

📚 Architecting Laravel for Scale: Battle-Tested Patterns for Clean Code & High Performance (Part 2)

This is the second article in my series on Laravel architecture for large-scale applications.

📚 Laravel Worker with Supervisor: Automate Your Way Out of Manual Madness

We all know that most mind-numbing, repetitive tasks can be offloaded to automation - and nothing beats the good old cron job when it comes to routine work.

📚 Why I Stopped Using Laravel Sail…

As a Laravel developer working across multiple projects at once, I initially loved how easy Sail made it to spin up a Docker environment. But the more projects I added, the more issues I ran into.

Symfony

📚 5 INCREDIBLE new features in Symfony 7.3

Symfony 7.3 is packed with powerful enhancements to boost your development experience. Here’s a quick overview.

📚 May 12–18, 2025 - A Week of Symfony #959

This week, development activity focused on polishing Symfony 7.3 ahead of its final release in two weeks. We also continued publishing articles highlighting the new features of Symfony 7.3 and shared updates about the upcoming SymfonyOnline June 2025 conference.

📚 New in Symfony 7.3: Yaml Improvements

Symfony has been reducing the need for configuration in applications for several years now. Thanks to PHP attributes, you can now configure most things alongside the relevant code, removing the need for external files and formats like YAML. However, YAML remains an important configuration format in Symfony and beyond. That’s why Symfony 7.3 added several new features to the Yaml component.

📚 Monotoring Your Symfony App using Datadog ? Nope Let’s use Sentry ^_

In this article, I’ll walk you through how I integrated Sentry with my Symfony task management application — but more than that, I’ll share the structured reasoning and operational thinking that shaped this decision.

📚 From Docker to Serverless: Transitioning Your Symfony App to AWS Effortlessly

Let’s explore how transitioning your Docker-based Symfony application to a serverless architecture on AWS can simplify your operational workload, enhance scalability, and reduce costs.