Mark your calendars! The global Symfony community is heading to Warsaw (Poland) on November 26-27, 2026, for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026. 🎤 Speaker announcements Joining us in Warsaw is Rob Allen, Software Consultant at Nineteen Feet Limited. He will…
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 23, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Eric got ousted from his own show (no pants required), Holly’s elephants are lost somewhere in the U.S., and the crew talks SIMD, PHP 8.6 feature freeze, and whether AI can actually create. Also, socks. 🩳 A Show Without Pants: […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.23 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks with James Cole, creator of Firefly III, an open source personal finance manager. James explains why he built Firefly III after graduating college with student debt, how the rule engine automates transaction categorization, importing bank data with CSV files and third-party connectors like enable banking and GoCardless, and how […] The post Community Corner Podcast: Firefly III with James Cole appeared first on PHP Architect.
Deploying new features used to mean holding your breath. You merged the branch, pushed to production, and hoped the QA process caught everything. If it didn’t, rollback meant either reverting a deployment or shipping a hotfix under pressure. Feature flags change that story entirely, and Laravel Pennant gives you a first-party, well-designed way to build […] The post Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags appeared first on PHP Architect.
We are thrilled to announce that SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 will take place on November 26 and 27, 2026, in Warsaw (Poland)! Join us for an extraordinary worldwide conference with 3 parallel tracks and community events. 🎤 Speaker announcements We…
I found there wasn't any good SSRF prevention libraries for Laravel, so I built one. Very comprehensive tests based on this paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/wessels https://github.com/securized/laravel-ssrf Read more
A deep dive into PHP attributes, from metadata and Reflection to practical design patterns, Laravel examples, performance, testing, and the cases where explicit code is better. Read more
Our team of core developers works very hard to strengthen and improve the PHP language. In an effort to improve the way we communicate this work, from now on, we will be posting quarterly updates regarding their individual projects and efforts. Our core team consists of 13 people, distributed across 8 countries. Most of our contractors work part-time for The PHP Foundation and have other ventures aside from working on the PHP core. Also, this report is not meant to be a comprehensive list of…
If you spend most of your PHP time in Laravel or Symfony, you may have noticed a framework quietly picking up momentum over the past couple of years. Tempest describes itself as “the PHP framework that gets out of your way,” and after spending time with version 3.0 — released February 12, 2026 — that […] The post Tempest 3.0: The PHP Framework That Gets Out of Your Way appeared first on PHP Architect.
There's a third way to automate Claude Code, and unlike /goal and /loop, it doesn't need your laptop open at all. Anthropic just shipped routines: cloud-hosted automations triggered by a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub event. Read more
This week, Symfony published Symfony UX 3.3, which adds support for Symfony Reprise and includes several improvements to the toolkit. In addition, SymfonyCasts announced a new course on upgrading to Symfony 8. Finally, the upcoming SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026…
Video version https://youtu.be/pxnY6T98G14 You may not realize it, but most developers today sit at their keyboards running a manual while loop without realizing it. You write a prompt, read the response, decide what to ask next, and repeat, over and over again. All day long, you are the thing that keeps the process moving toward […] The post Introduction to Loop Engineering: Building AI Agents That Run Themselves appeared first on PHP Architect.
If you’ve been using Claude Code as a single monolithic assistant, you’ve only been using half the tool. Subagents — specialized AI assistants that Claude Code can spin up and delegate tasks to — fundamentally change how you work. Instead of context-switching between “write this Pest test,” “optimize that MySQL query,” and “review this Rector […] The post Claude Code Subagents: Delegate Like a Senior PHP Developer appeared first on PHP Architect.
A practical conference session on building PHP extensions with Go and FrankenPHP, then wiring them into Laravel and Symfony as native-feeling features. It uses an in-memory LRU cache as the example and offers a nice tour of framework flexibility and PHP internals. Read more
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 16, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon, and Holly Schilling Joe hosts with Sarah and Holly while running on no sleep. The PHP Tech 2027 CFP opens, a fake PHP 9 pitch appears, we crown Holly the accidental main character of internals, and everyone agrees dark mode flashing white […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.16 appeared first on PHP Architect.