A sharp writeup on how a malicious site could trick Claude into exfiltrating memory-derived personal data through its web browsing flow. It walks through the attack chain, the prompt injection setup, and Anthropic's eventual mitigation. Read more
In this video, Tideways shows how PHP 8.6 speeds up array_map when you use first-class callables.
SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026, our next annual international Symfony conference, will take place on: November 24 & 25 with two days of hands-on workshops to learn, practice, and enhance your skills in small groups. November 26 & 27 with three English-speaking…
Symfony UX 3.3.0 is out. This release brings first-class support for Symfony Reprise in StimulusBundle, two new Shadcn components for the Toolkit (Sonner and Combobox), and a batch of quality-of-life improvements to the ux:install command and to how component…
When the Symfony team shipped UX 3.0 on April 13, 2026, they did something that major version bumps rarely do cleanly: they used the opportunity to remove things. Not just deprecated APIs, but entire packages that had quietly become dead weight over the 2.x cycle. The result is a leaner, more opinionated frontend toolkit that […] The post Symfony UX 3.0: A Component-First Frontend for PHP Developers appeared first on PHP Architect.
A deep dive into the Laravel Scheduler, from event registration and cron evaluation to mutexes, background processes, sub-minute tasks, and production-safe scheduling. Read more
As you know, the main objective of The PHP Foundation’s mission is the sustainability of the PHP language, and a large part of that mission is focused on PHP core maintenance tasks. Included in this maintenance body of work are tasks such as issue triage, code reviews, and bug fixes. We take this responsibility very seriously, especially when it comes to security. In recent months, there has been a marked increase in the number of security reports to php-src, due to the increased availability…
One of Symfony's greatest strengths is its upgrade process. Thanks to the backward compatibility promise and deprecation system, major upgrades are smooth, predictable, and, dare I say it, enjoyable! Our newest tutorial is now available - and completely…
Stefan Zweifel shares how he reorganized his dotfiles into a minimal setup, split private config into a separate repo, and streamlined setup and Brewfile syncing with a few small scripts. Read more
This week, development activity focused on various improvements, such as enhancing the DX of AssetMapper in debug mode and allowing developers to disable redirects on logout. There were also proposals to improve Messenger with a new command and to add pipe…
Over the years, I've built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It's a backup of every terminal tool and configuration I rely on, and it means I can set up a brand new Mac from scratch in about five minutes. Colleagues at Spatie use it as a starting point for their own setups too. Let me walk you through what's in there. I'll cover the tools and tricks first, with installation and…
Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving from Zig to Rust, after years of fighting memory safety issues in a codebase that mixes GC and manual memory management. He also shares how Claude helped make a mechanical, test-suite-driven rewrite realistic without pausing feature work for a year. Read more
Video version at https://youtu.be/REjWp_2Dt30 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provides us with a set of basic methods to describe what our request is doing. Generally, we’re working with GET or POST requests, but these have limitations on them that you won’t be aware of until you’ve run headlong into one of them. The best example is […] The post HTTP QUERY method: the missing verb for complex search APIs appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 9, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon | Guest: Holly Schilling A PHP RFC for extension methods that PHP definitely should have had by now. 👋 Holly Schilling, Uninvited but Welcome Holly was originally just planning to heckle from the Discord chat room. She had about 45 minutes’ […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.09 appeared first on PHP Architect.
For twenty-plus years, “deploying PHP” meant the same uneasy triangle: Apache or Nginx in front, PHP-FPM behind, and a configuration file glued between them that nobody on the team really understood. FrankenPHP is the first genuinely different answer that stack has had in a long time, and after a couple of years of steady releases […] The post FrankenPHP in Production: Worker Mode, Embedded Binaries, and Real Performance appeared first on PHP Architect.