PHP Panorama: June 2025 Edition
From asymmetric visibility and style guides to Laravel tricks, Symfony news, RAG systems and global PHP conferences—your monthly deep dive into the PHP ecosystem.
Tools
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PHP
📚 Asymmetric Property Visibility in PHP
In this article, we’re going to explore asymmetric visibility in PHP and how to use it. By the end of the article, you should feel confident enough to give it a try in your own applications.
📚 Style Guide Proposal: Parentheses and Braces in PHP
This document presents a thorough reflection on how to establish a readable, rigorous, and coherent coding syntax for the use of parentheses and braces in PHP.
📚 Why Your PHP App is Slowing Down and How Monitoring can Help?
Let’s explore the common reasons why PHP apps slow down and how monitoring brings them to light.
📚 Why Your PHP App is Slowing Down and How Monitoring can Help?
PHP applications can feel lightning fast during development but in production, everything changes.
📚 Building a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system in PHP with Neuron AI
In this article, we explore how to build a simple but powerful Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using Neuron AI and Ollama.
📚 113 Days Left To Cakefest 2025
The Cakephp Conference - MadridOct 9th - 10th 2025
📚 International PHP Conference Munich 2025 - October 27 – 31, 2025,Munich or Online
The International PHP Conference is the world’s first PHP conference and stands since more than a decade for top-notch pragmatic expertise in PHP and web technologies.
📚 PHP Conference Kansai 2025 - Date: July 18 - 19, 2025 | Kobe, Japan.
PHP Conference Kansai is a large-scale technical conference in Japan for PHP engineers to share their technical knowledge and experiences in and around PHP.
📚 Advanced Dependency Injection Techniques in Modern PHP Applications
In this article, we’ll journey beyond simple examples and dive deep into sophisticated DI patterns and container strategies that help you build robust, decoupled PHP systems.
📚 Data Types in Haskell and Classes in PHP: A Beginner Functional Programmer’s Viewpoint
Data and its associated behaviour is the lifeline of every programming language and it helps provide modularity, cohesion and sometimes even provide domain context for certain parts of our application.
Laravel
📚 7 Laravel 12 Methods You Won’t Find Easily in the Docs
Laravel 12 came with a lot of great features, but some of the best additions don’t show up in the documentation.
📚 Stop Just Coding! Understand How Laravel Limits User Requests
Have you ever had your server suddenly slow down — or even crash — because someone kept sending too many requests in a short time? That’s where Rate Limiting comes in.
📚 How to Optimize Docker Images for Laravel Apps: A Simple Guide
In this post, I’ll show you how to make you Docker image smaller and faster using multi-stage builds, lightweight images, and a few best practices.
📚 Mastering Laravel Job Queues - A Developer-Friendly Guide
In this post, I’ll guide you through why and how to use Laravel queues effectively, with real-life examples, commands, and best practices.
📚 How to Use withAttributes() in Laravel to Add Default Attributes When Creating Models
Let’s say you’re building an invoicing system. Each User can have many invoices. Some invoices are finalized, and others are still in draft mode.
📚 Handling Validation Errors for Multiple Forms
When dealing with multiple forms on a single page, especially when the forms contain duplicate input names, Laravel’s default validation approach can cause issues.
📚 Clean Code in Laravel: Business Logic Patterns You Should Know
When you’re building a Laravel application that scales beyond a few controllers and models, you’ll quickly feel the need for a cleaner, more maintainable architecture.
📚 Pass a Query Builder to “whereIn” to Reduce Your DB Queries
I recently learnt about a cool feature in Laravel that allows you to pass a query builder instance ( Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder) directly to the whereIn method of another query builder to reduce the number of separate database queries executed. So I thought I’d put together a quick example to show you how it works.
📚 Encrypt and Decrypt String Helpers in Laravel 12.18
The Laravel team released v12.18.0, with encrypt and decrypt string helpers, per-request truncation limit for HTTP client responses, a new command option to make batchable jobs, and more.
📚 Get to Know Service Pattern in Laravel: The Secret to Clean Code Nobody Talks About!
In this article, we’ll break down what the Service Pattern is, why it matters, when you should use it, who it’s for, where to put it, and how to implement it — all using the classic 5W+1H approach. Let’s dive in!
📚 Mastering the Laravel Lead Developer Role: Roadmap & Real-World Tech Tests
In today’s ever-evolving web development landscape, becoming a Lead Laravel Developer is more than mastering a PHP framework.
📚 Laravel Model Events: Run Automatic Actions When Data is Created, Updated, or Deleted
Let’s dive into what model events are, how to use them, and why they’re worth implementing in your Laravel projects.
📚 Laravel Storage: The Powerful Feature Most Beginners Overlook
When starting with Laravel, most beginners focus on routing, controllers, and blade views — which is great. But there’s one powerful feature that often goes unnoticed: Laravel Storage.
Symfony
📚 How to create an MCP server with Symfony
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful, but they do not have access to the outside world: they cannot navigate on the Internet, browse their host machine’s file system, access an external database.
📚 June 9–15, 2025 - A Week of Symfony #963
This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyOnline June 2025 conference with great success. Meanwhile, development efforts focused on improving invokable commands for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version. These commands will now support backed enums in arguments and options, allow you to define usages via attributes and be easier to use when using the Console component standalone.