Symfony 8.0.9 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Symfony 7.4.9 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Symfony 6.4.37 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
🎙️ PHP Podcast – April 30, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🚁 The Drone Slayer Strikes Eric and John wrapped up a Padres game at beautiful Petco Park in downtown San Diego — and things got weird on the way out. […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.04.30 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Elizabeth Barron returns to the show just four weeks after her debut appearance for a wide-ranging follow-up on her first months as Executive Director of the PHP Foundation. Elizabeth shares the key findings from her community listening tour, covers the upcoming PHP community survey in partnership with JetBrains, talks about the Foundation’s plans for […] The post PHP Alive And Kicking: Episode 29 Elizabeth Barron appeared first on PHP Architect.
A deep dive into how Laravel transforms raw route segments into models, scoped children, enums, and custom bound values before your controller runs. Read more
In this episode, Scott talks Storyblok with Daniel Mendoza and his talk on using AI to help developers learn new technology that he will be presenting at JStek 2026. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Daniel’s Links: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-mendoza-503396152/ Personal Site – https://danieljmendoza.com/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky […] The…
The spatie/laravel-sluggable package has been around for close to a decade. A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a record, like announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls in this post's URL. The package generates one for any Eloquent model when you save it, derived from a title or another text field, and most of the time you don't have to think about it. We just released v4, which adds a few things worth talking about. Let me walk you through them. Generating slugs…
This practical guide shows how to use spatie/laravel-health together with Oh Dear to detect vulnerable Composer dependencies in production and get alerted quickly. It also shows how adding composer audit in CI gives you an extra early warning layer. Read more
AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes. That's great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. A small file lock can serialize access and stop those runs from stepping on each other. Read more
There’s a certain kind of energy that comes from being in a room full of people who care deeply about what they do. Next month at PHP Tek, developers from across the community will gather to share ideas, learn from one another, and push the craft forward. It’s hard to describe unless you’ve experienced it, […] The post Meet the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation appeared first on PHP Architect.
Matthieu Napoli explains how he replaced GitHub-hosted CI with self-hosted runners on a Mac Mini at home. The setup is simple, fast, and a good look at the trade-offs around isolation, caching, and parallelism. Read more
Symfony Insight helps you continuously assess and improve the quality of your PHP projects (Symfony, Laravel, and generic PHP) through automated code analysis. In the past weeks we've added 11 new rules, bringing the total to 141 checks across areas such…
An absurd and very fun technical deep dive into getting Mac OS X 10.0 running natively on a Nintendo Wii. It covers the hardware investigation, boot process, kernel patching, and driver work needed to pull it off. Read more
This week, SymfonyCasts announced a new course on Doctrine inheritance. In addition, we published the schedule for the SymfonyDay Montreal 2026 conference. Lastly, we continued polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version, ahead of its release…