PHP, Laravel & Symfony Insider: Your June 2025 Power-Up
Unlock performance tips, advanced patterns and must-know updates to supercharge your PHP ecosystem.
PHP
📚 PHP Monitoring vs Logging: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters
When it comes to managing and maintaining PHP applications, two terms often come up: monitoring and logging. While they may sound similar — and sometimes even overlap — they serve very different purposes.
📚 Traits in PHP – a powerful yet underused tool?
PHP does not support multiple inheritance. To work around this limitation, Traits were introduced in PHP 5.4. They allow injecting methods into several classes without using class inheritance.
📚 Efficiently Measure String Similarity in PHP Applications
Measuring string similarity accurately is important for tasks like detecting typos in user inputs, matching similar database entries, improving chatbot responses, and identifying duplicate content.
📚 Top 7 PHP Performance Bottlenecks and How to Monitor Them
In this article, we’ll look at the most common PHP performance bottlenecks and how to monitor them effectively.
📚 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!
📚 Early Return vs. Classic If-Else: A Universal Pattern for Writing Cleaner Code
Writing conditional logic is something every developer does—no matter the language. But how you structure those conditions affects how readable, testable, and maintainable your code becomes.
📚 If you think coding is your job… you’re in the wrong profession
Writing code is easy to measure. It’s easy to show progress. It’s even fun. But the real mission of software development lies somewhere else: in solving the right problem, with the right tools, at the right time, in a way that lasts.
📚 PHP 8.5 Pipe Operator RFC: What It Means for Developers
In this blog post, I want to address the upcoming new operator, the meaning of piping in general and its history and give a final conclusion along with my opinion.
📚 From Eating Up PHP Spaghetti to Hexagonal Architecture
How a chaotic, single-file to-do list became a clean, testable, extensible application — without using any frameworks.
📚 Efficient Data Handling in PHP with Generators
Handling large files (for example, CSV/text files) or HTTP data streams in PHP can be challenging, especially when using traditional methods that load all data into memory. In this article, we’ll compare two approaches
Laravel
📚 All That You Need To Enhance Optimization in Laravel Apps
In this post, we’ll explore practical tips and techniques to optimize your Laravel applications and make them more efficient and scalable.
📚 Architecting Laravel for Scale: Battle-Tested Patterns for Clean Code & High Performance (Part 3)
This is the third article in my series on architecting Laravel for large-scale, maintainable, and future-ready applications.
📚 Process Markdown Securely with Laravel’s inlineMarkdown Method
Laravel enhances string processing capabilities with the inlineMarkdown method, providing secure transformation of GitHub-flavored Markdown into inline HTML with built-in XSS protection and customizable security options.
📚 Handle Missing Models Gracefully with Laravel’s existsOr Method
Laravel introduces the existsOr method, providing an elegant solution for executing code when model queries return no results. This addition streamlines error handling and alternative logic for non-existent models.
📚 Laravel 12 Generate PDF and Send Email Tutorial
In this tutorial, I will show you how to generate pdf file and send email attachments in laravel 12 application.
📚 How to Build a Secure Authentication System in Laravel
Let me show you how to build a robust, secure authentication system in Laravel that protects your users — and your reputation.
📚 Laravel Best Practices: Observers vs Event Listeners Explained
Choosing between Laravel Observers and Event Listeners? In this video, I break down the differences and when you should use one over the other, to help you write cleaner, more maintainable Laravel code.
📚 Mastering Large Datasets: Laravel’s chunk() and chunkById()
Fetching everything into memory at once is a recipe for disaster, memory exhaustion, slow responses, and an overall miserable user experience.
📚 Locale-aware Number Parsing in Laravel 12.15
The Laravel team released v12.15.0, with Locale-aware number parsing, a string hash() helper method, inject contextual attribute values, and more.
📚 Sublime Text Releases Update With Support for Right Sidebar
Sublime Text released v4200 this week with support for a right sidebar, syntax highlighting improvements, rewritten syntax highlighting for languages like SQL, Diff, Bash, new syntax highlighting for ZSH and TOML, and more.
📚 Boost Performance with Laravel’s Memo Cache Driver
Need to reduce cache hits during request execution? Laravel’s memo cache driver provides an in-memory layer that temporarily stores resolved cache values, significantly improving performance.
📚 Laravel Eloquent Tricks: Check What Changed Before and After Saving a Model
In this article, you’ll learn how to use powerful Eloquent methods like isDirty, isClean, wasChanged, getOriginal, getChanges, and getPrevious to detect and inspect attribute changes in your models.
📚 Forget newFactory(): Use Laravel’s UseFactory Attribute Like a Pro
This article dives deep into how UseFactory simplifies factory usage in Laravel, especially in domain-driven or modular architectures, and how it can streamline your development experience.
Symfony
📚 New in Symfony 7.3: Serializer Improvements
Symfony 7.3 adds a new JsonStreamer component as a high-performance, low-memory JSON encoding and decoding utility. However, the Serializer component still has many valid use cases, even for JSON content, thanks to its rich feature set and flexibility. In Symfony 7.3, we’ve improved it with several new features.
This is a pre-release version of Symfony 7.3. If you want to test it in your own applications before its final release, run the following commands.
📚 May 19–25, 2025 - A Week of Symfony #960
This week, development activity focused on putting the final touches on Symfony 7.3 in preparation for its stable release next week. In addition, we published a security fix for a potential vulnerability in Symfony UX.