Brent surveys the most notable additions coming in PHP 8.6, including partial function application, the new polling API, readonly property defaults, and several smaller improvements and deprecations. Read more
Contributed by Fabien Potencier The sandbox has been part of Twig since 2009. If your users write newsletters, CMS blocks…
Exciting news for the German Symfony community! After years of memorable editions in Berlin, our annual conference in Germany is starting a fresh chapter: SymfonyLive Germany is going on tour across the country! For this first itinerant edition, we are thrilled…
🎙️ PHP Alive and Kicking – August 4, 2026 Hosts: Chris Miller (standing in solo while Mike is on holiday) Mike escaped to a beach so Chris hosts alone with special guest Derick Rethans. Expect date-time philosophy, PHP 8.6 goodies, Xdebug secrets, deprecation drama, and a heated debate about how to queue at a pub. […] The post PHP Alive and Kicking 2026.08.04 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Symfony UX 3.4 expands Toolkit with a Bootstrap 5.3 kit, reusable design-system-agnostic behaviors and richer documentation for kit authors. The release also adds dynamic Twig component names, safer on-demand icons, modern React and Vue bundler support and…
Ankur Sethi argues that manually retyping LLM-generated code is a practical way to avoid cognitive debt. It slows you down, but helps you understand the code, catch bad suggestions, and keep a strong mental model of your codebase. Read more
The PHP Foundation Governing Board consists of a variety of folks from across the PHP ecosystem that share a vested interest in the success and sustainability of PHP. Representatives from the community, the core contribution team, and sponsors comprise this team to provide guidance and insight into the Foundation's objectives and initiatives. After a unanimous decision, we are incredibly pleased to be adding Anne McCarthy, Architect and Open Source Director for Automattic, to our Board as a…
An essay on how AI-assisted development turns engineers into full-time reviewers. We spend our days evaluating AI-generated diffs instead of writing code, and that shift carries a new cognitive fatigue and may widen the senior/junior gap. Read more
Applications that adopt PHP 8.6's new I/O polling API normally cannot run that code on older PHP versions. Symfony Polyfill 1.41.0 brings this API to PHP 8.1 and later, alongside several compatibility fixes for the Grapheme, Intl and PHP version polyfills.…
One of the most common pieces of feedback we hear from the PHP community is that the newcomer experience could use some improvement, and that we may be losing new users because of it. This is something that we as a community can address, and it's why The PHP Foundation made it part of our strategy document for the rest of 2026. Improving that experience matters a lot to us, because a better new user experience means more community growth and retention. We are launching the PHP Onboarding…
This week, Symfony 6.4.43, 7.4.15, 8.0.16 and 8.1.3 maintenance versions were released. In addition, Symfony 8.0 reached its end of life. Finally, we introduced Symfony Reprise, the evolution of Webpack Encore for modern bundlers such as Vite and Rsbuild.…
Laracon US came back for its 2026 edition on July 28 and 29, at the SoWa Power Station in Boston’s arts district. Two days, one stage, and a lineup of eighteen speakers that ranged from Taylor Otwell himself down to independent educators, package authors, and engineers visiting from outside the Laravel world entirely. If you […] The post Laracon US 2026: A Complete Wrap Up appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version: https://youtu.be/ZtAKnN6jWbE I love static analysis tools to a degree that my co-workers find annoying. Tools like PHPStan and Psalm catch bugs before they ever reach production, and once you get used to that safety net, it is impossible to imagine coding without it. But there is one thing about these tools that drives […] The post Mago: Blazing Fast Static Analysis for PHP appeared first on PHP Architect.
For years, Webpack Encore was the answer to asset management in Symfony, and it still works. But the JavaScript bundler landscape has moved on since Encore was designed. Webpack needed a loader wired up for nearly everything (Sass, TypeScript, you name it),…
🎙️ The PHP Podcast – July 30, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Time travel is real, birds aren’t. The gang argues about Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, boiling rocks, and stones (the weight kind), then gets into PSR-3 logging, the PHP ecosystem, AI slop bug reports, Codeberg’s anti-AI stance, and Laravel Cloud’s scale-to-zero […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.30 appeared first on PHP Architect.