The Performance & Purity Issue
From building a 16x faster Keccak-256 extension to leveraging Laravel’s strict validation for cleaner code.
This week I have being working on Kaiden, an AI personal nutritionist and fitness coach, and I need testers on Android.
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Sign in now:
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.kaiden.twa
Test signup (web): https://play.google.com/apps/testing/chat.kaiden.twa
Beyond that, it’s exciting to see PHP 8.5.0 RC 2 is now available for testing, bringing the new URI extension one step closer to reality. And on a historical note, a huge congratulations to the Symfony team on celebrating an incredible 20 years! It’s a testament to the power of community and open source. Enjoy the issue!
PHP
📚 Centralizing code quality commands in PHP projects: composer scripts vs Makefile
In this article, we’ll see how to centralize all code quality commands in one place, ensuring consistency and simplicity.
📚 Parallel PHP SOAP Client Requests
Article about implementing parallel SOAP requests in PHP using custom HTTP transport and Guzzle Promises.
📚 DSA Pattern: A Clean Way to Parse Words from a String
I discovered a powerful template for breaking down a string into individual words without using built-in functions like explode() or str_word_count().
📚 Building a High-Performance Keccak-256 Extension for PHP: 14-16 Faster
The Problem: Pure PHP Keccak hashing: 0.28-0.44ms per hash. At scale, this makes Ethereum development impractical.
📚 Golang For PHP Developer : Testing & Deployment
Goal: Write tests and deploy your API to production.
📚 Building a True Dual-Destination Analytics Pipeline: Real-Time Streaming with S3 Backup and Recovery
This article details the implementation of a sophisticated dual-destination analytics pipeline that combines real-time data streaming to AWS Redshift Serverless with robust S3 backup and recovery capabilities.
📚 Constructor vs Destructor in PHP — Complete Guide with Real-World Examples
When you start learning Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP, two very important concepts you’ll quickly encounter are constructors and destructors.
📚 Mastering PHP Generators: An In-Depth Guide for Everyone from Novices to Experts
Whether you’re just starting out with PHP — maybe you’ve only written a few “Hello World” scripts — or you’re a seasoned developer optimizing massive applications, PHP generators are a tool worth exploring.
📚 Decoding Large JSON Files Efficiently in PHP — json_decode() vs Streaming with JSON Machine
Recently, I faced a memory allocation error in one of our legacy applications built with Lumen 5.6 and PHP 7.3. The culprit? A seemingly simple task — decoding a large JSON file (around 47 MB) using PHP’s built-in json_decode().
📚 PHP 8.5.0 RC 2 available for testing
The PHP team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of PHP 8.5.0, RC 2. This continues the PHP 8.5 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.
📚 PHP’s New URI Extension: An Open Source Success Story
URLs are a fundamental building block of the Web we rely on every day. Their familiarity makes them appear deceptively simple: Seemingly clearly delineated components like scheme, hostname, path, and some others suggest that it’s trivial to extract information from a URL.
📚 Why Clean Architecture? Understanding the Problems It Solves
Let me show you something familiar. It’s 2 AM, and you’re trying to add a simple discount feature to your e-commerce site.
📚 I Have Tested Upcomming PHP Framework Doppar
I spent a couple of hours today exploring the upcomming PHP framework Doppar . Tested API authentication with Flarion, rate limiting, Auth command, TOTP two-factor authentication.
📚 How PHP 8+ Can Integrate with AI — Modern Practices Architecture & Principles
There’s a quiet shift happening in backend engineering. For years, developers have reached for Python, Node.js, or Go whenever “AI integration” entered the conversation.
Laravel
📚 Enums: How Laravel Devs Cut bugs by 50%
If you’ve been knee-deep in building robust PHP apps, you’ve probably wrestled with status flags, roles, or those pesky string constants that scatter across your codebase like confetti after a bad migration.
📚 Threading and Concurrency in Laravel — A Deep Dive
In Laravel, “threading” doesn’t exist in the same way as low-level multi-threading in languages like Java or C++.
📚 Elevating SQL Efficiency - Laravel In Practice EP7
You’re loading 10,000 orders into memory just to calculate totals. Your server is crying, your users are waiting, and there’s a better way. What if the database could do all that math in milliseconds without consuming precious RAM?
📚 Laravel Strict Validation for Type Checking
PHP’s type juggling allows “1” to pass as boolean and numeric strings to pass as integers. Laravel’s strict validation parameters enforce exact type matching for numeric, boolean, and integer rules.
📚 Querying Data in MongoDB With Laravel: From Basics to Advanced Techniques
MongoDB has grown into one of the most popular NoSQL databases thanks to its flexible, document-based structure. Unlike traditional SQL databases that store data in rows and tables, MongoDB stores data as JSON-like documents.
📚 Building a Scalable Laravel Application with DDD and CQRS Architecture
In this article, I’ll show you how to implement Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) patterns in Laravel to build a robust, enterprise-grade application.
📚 How to Create a Telegram Bot and Send Messages Using Laravel 12
In this blog we will discover how to create a Telegram bot and seamlessly integrate it with Laravel 12 in this comprehensive guide.
📚 PHP 8.5 Introduces a New URI Extension
PHP 8.5 introduces a new URI extension, which is a standards-compliant parser “for both RFC 3986 and the WHATWG URL standard as an always-available part of its standard library within a new ‘URI’ extension.”
📚 Improved HTTP Client URL Parameter Merging in Laravel 12.33
The Laravel team released version 12.33.0 this week, introducing a Stringable doesntContain() method, merging (instead of replacing) HTTP client URL parameters, improved broadcast manager resolution errors, and more.
📚 Laravel Scheduler: The Hidden Truth About Async vs Sync Execution
If you’ve ever wondered why your Laravel scheduled tasks behave differently at different intervals, you’re not alone. The Laravel scheduler has two distinct execution models that can catch even experienced developers off guard.
📚 Mastering Laravel Debugging in Docker with Xdebug and PHPStorm
Nowadays, you don’t need to install anything on your local PC beyond Docker. No manual PHP installations, XAMPP, or any other dependencies.
Symfony
📚 Symfony 7.4 is Coming! Your New LTS Bridge to 8.0
The final minor release in any Symfony branch is always the crucial moment where awesome new features meet enterprise stability. It’s the release that truly matters for long-term production stability.
📚 October 6–12, 2025: A Week of Symfony #980
This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version deprecated the HTTP method override for the GET, HEAD, CONNECT, and TRACE methods, and added a new setAllowedHttpMethodOverride() method in the Request class to define which HTTP methods can be overridden.
📚 Celebrating 20 Years of Symfony
This week, Symfony turns 20 years old! Twenty years of code, collaboration, and community. Twenty years of ideas that became innovations — and of people who turned open source into something deeply human.
📚 Effortless Data Mapping in Symfony: A Deep Dive into the ObjectMapper!
Imagine you’re building a modern API with Symfony. You’re meticulous about your architecture, separating concerns with Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) for incoming request payloads and your Doctrine entities for your database persistence.