Introducing Hypervel: A Coroutine Framework for Laravel Artisans
Why you should use DTOs with Symfony’s form and not entities; PHP: Random Failures in Tests; and phpday 2025
PHP
📚 PHP: Random Failures in Tests
Tests have been working fine so far, and, suddenly, it seems to fail. Why? While it’s easy to write basic unit tests, it can be tricky when dealing with dates, complex calculations, or random values.
📚 A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Set Up and Deploy a LAMP Stack on a Linux Server
The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a popular open-source web development platform used to host dynamic websites and applications. This guide will walk you through setting up a LAMP stack on a Linux server.
📚 Conversational Analytics Tutorial: How to Implement SQL AI Agent that Speaks Database
In this blog, I’ll guide you through building an SQLite AI agent that allows you to interact with an SQLite database using simple, natural language queries instead of writing complex SQL statements.
📚 Implementing a Queue Using Two Stacks in PHP: A Comprehensive Guide
In this article, we explore how to simulate a queue using two stacks — a classic programming challenge — and how to implement an interactive system in PHP to manipulate such a queue.
📚 The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2024
As of early 2025, The PHP Foundation comprises 8 volunteer board members, an Executive Director sponsored by JetBrains, and 10 developers paid part-time/full-time who contribute significantly to the PHP language and its extensions.
Now in its 22nd year, phpday has been held continuously since 2003. The 2025 edition will be hosted in Verona on May 15-16.
📚 The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up Your Perfect Developer Environment
This article will be long, detailed, and packed with actionable insights. We’ll cover everything from choosing the right tools to mastering advanced configurations. By the time you finish reading, you’ll have a setup that’s fast, reliable, customizable, and perfectly suited to your unique workflow.
As I looked through web logs, I found some strange URLs coming from several IP addresses. The first instance of this happening was on September 5th from 165[.]232[.]183[.]195. The other three IP addresses had near identical requests, but no clear important differences. These will be discussed later.
📚 REST APIs: The foundation of modern web development
As a software engineer, I’ve always been passionate about sharing my knowledge and helping others understand complex technical concepts. That’s why I was excited to create this presentation on REST APIs.
📚 Implementing and Understanding Linked List Insertion in PHP
In this article, we will discuss how to insert a node at a specified position in a singly linked list using PHP.
Laravel
📚 Introducing Hypervel: A Coroutine Framework for Laravel Artisans
Hypervel is a high-performance PHP framework inspired by Laravel, offering native coroutine support for developers building high-concurrency and I/O-intensive applications.
📚 Protect Your Laravel API: How I Mastered Rate Limiting in a Real Project
Ever had that moment when you realize your API could get overwhelmed by too many requests? I faced that exact issue in a recent Laravel project and decided to tackle it with Rate Limiting.
📚 Laravel: Testing a Pipeline, one pipe at a time
Pipelines are a great way to run logic in a serialized way. It’s what powers the Routing Middleware and Job Middleware in Laravel, so it’s not just a tool that is there just to exist for pure convenience.
📚 Building Powerful Date Validation with Laravel’s Date Rule
Laravel introduces a fluent Date rule that transforms how you validate dates in your applications. This chainable interface simplifies complex date validation requirements into readable, maintainable code.
📚 Customizing Laravel Optimization with –except
Looking to fine-tune your Laravel optimization process? The new –except option provides surgical precision for skipping specific commands during optimization, giving you greater control over how your application is optimized for different environments and workflows.
📚 Introduction to Laravel’s MVC architecture — A Complete Beginner’s Guide with Examples and Workflows
This article takes a closer look at the MVC architecture of Laravel and breaks this architecture down into concrete examples and workflows, and it will walk you through each component with practical code snippets and best practices.
📚 Improving Eloquent: BuilderExtensions versus Scopes
The global scopes allow developers to add Builder options to the model, to make them execute on every model query.
📚 Simulating Role Switching Without Losing Admin Privileges in Laravel & Vue
In this post, we’ll explore a session-based approach that lets an admin act as an employee (or vice versa) without actually removing or altering roles in the database. This ensures that when the switch is undone, the admin’s full permissions remain intact.
📚 Beginner’s Guide to Laravel Middlewares: Everything You Need to Know
In this article, we’ll break down the basics of Laravel middlewares, explain how they function, and provide a practical example of using a middleware with JWT (JSON Web Token) authentication during user login.
📚 Dutch Laravel Foundation Meetup at the JetBrains Office
Earlier this month, we had the pleasure of hosting a community meetup in our Amsterdam office in collaboration with our partner DLF (the Dutch Laravel Foundation). The event brought together Laravel and PHP developers for an evening of technical talks, networking, and knowledge sharing.
📚 Support for Query Builder Pipelines in Laravel 12.4
The Laravel team released v12.4.0, which includes a query builder pipe() method, the ability to conditionally skip migrations, an Arr::sole() method, and more.
📚 Eloquent Cast for HTML Strings in Laravel
As of v12.4, you can automatically cast Eloquent attributes to an HTML string using the AsHtmlString cast. The framework already has an HtmlString class available; this cast stitches it together with Eloquent attributes that you can use where appropriate.
📚 Laravel: Stopping bots with a Turnstile interstitial, for free
One thing I’ve seen on many sites is the usage of Cloudflare’s WAF service to protect their application. One of the main features is their Browser Integrity Check, and odds are you have found yourself in it a couple of times on your favorite web sites.
Symfony
📚 Why you should use DTOs with Symfony’s form and not entities
Are you using entities with your Symfony forms? For many use cases you should avoid this… Let’s see why!
📚 Symfony 6.4.20 and 7.2.5 released
Symfony 6.4.20 and 7.2.5 has just been released. Here is the list of the most important changes.
📚 March 24–30, 2025 - A Week of Symfony #952
This week, Symfony 6.4.20 and 7.2.5 maintenance versions were released. In addition, Symfony successfully celebrated the SymfonyLive Paris 2025 conference and continued preparations for next week’s SymfonyLive Berlin 2025 conference. Finally, we announced a new Core Team member who will be in charge of the Symfony CLI.