Daniel Coulbourne walks through building an MCP server with the official laravel/mcp package. He built one for his blog in about 20 minutes, then used it to write and publish the post you're reading. Read more
A practical look at why you should populate essential data from migrations instead of seeders. Once your app is live, manually running seeders becomes a deployment risk. Migrations are deterministic, automatic, and roll back cleanly. Read more
Twig 3.24.0 has just been released with a major new feature for working with HTML attributes, improved null-safe operator behavior, and variable renaming in object destructuring. The html_attr function Building HTML attributes in templates has always been…
Christoph Rumpel reflects on how AI tools are changing the way developers work. The core message: take the shortcuts that cut out mechanical work, but don't outsource the parts that make your work yours. Read more
SymfonyLive Paris 2026, conference in French language only, will take place from March 26 to 27! The schedule is currently being revealed as we go along. More details are available here. SymfonyLive Paris 2026 approche à grands pas ! Dans une…
We just released v7 of spatie/laravel-query-builder, our package that makes it easy to build flexible API endpoints. If you're building an API with Laravel, you'll almost certainly need to let consumers filter results, sort them, include relationships and select specific fields. Writing that logic by hand for every endpoint gets repetitive fast, and it's easy to accidentally expose columns or relationships you didn't intend to. Our query builder takes care of all of that. It reads query…
A deep dive into "Clinejection", where an attacker injected a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot interpreted as an instruction. The resulting chain led to cache poisoning, credential theft, and a compromised npm package that silently installed a second AI agent on 4,000 developer machines. Read more
This week, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version deprecated the erase credentials security feature, added a new MapRequestHeader attribute, introduced a deep cloner in the VarExporter component, and added support for defining custom functions in the JsonPath component.…
We gave all the settings screens in Flare a fresh coat of paint. Consistent layouts, better forms, improved navigation and plenty of small details that make the experience calmer and more focused. Read more
🎈SymfonyLive Berlin 2026 will take place April 23–24, 2026 at CineStar CUBIX Alexanderplatz, right in the heart of Berlin, directly onAlexanderplatz and easily accessible by public transport.🎈 🎤First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who submitted…
The PHP Podcast streams live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🌐 Internet Woes & Technical Difficulties Eric continued his saga with connectivity issues, dropping multiple times on Zoom calls and even during the […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.12 appeared first on PHP Architect.
We're proud to release v3 of laravel-site-search, a package that crawls and indexes your entire site. Think of it as your own private Google. Point it at a URL, let it crawl every page, and get full-text search results back. Previous versions required Meilisearch as the search engine. That works well, but it means running a separate service. With v3, your application's own database is all you need. It supports SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB out of the box, and it's the new default. Let…
Sometimes you need to access a private property or method on an object that isn't yours. Maybe you're writing a test and need to assert some internal state. Maybe you're building a package that needs to reach into another object's internals. Whatever the reason, PHP's visibility rules are standing in your way. Our spatie/invade package provides a tiny invade function that lets you read, write, and call private members on any object. You probably shouldn't reach for this package often. It's most…
A handy overview of the Ray configuration options in Laravel. You can automatically send duplicate queries, slow queries, exceptions, and dump output straight to Ray without adding any ray() calls to your code. Read more
SymfonyLive Paris 2026, conference in French language only, will take place from March 26 to 27! The schedule is currently being revealed as we go along. More details are available here. 🎓 SymfonyLive Paris 2026 : appel aux volontaires étudiants…