Twig 3.28.0 is out. This release sharpens error reporting with column numbers, brings back dynamic macro calls through the dot operator, and continues to polish the sandbox with less runtime overhead and finer-grained allow-listing. As usual, it also ships…
🎙️ PHP Podcast – July 2, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Eric’s new laptop won’t share its screen. John lost a fight with a leaf blower. PHP 8.6 alpha dropped. 100+ people showed up to make PHP seem cool again. Normal show. 🖥️ Eric’s Fresh Install and the Screen That Wouldn’t Share […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.02 appeared first on PHP Architect.
June has a way of focusing the mind. The conference season has wound down, the hallway conversations and late-night discussions at WurstCon have settled into plans, and now it’s time to build — carefully, thoughtfully, and with an eye toward what happens when real users and real data show up. This month’s issue is built […] The post PHP Checkup – Keeping Your Applications Healthy in 2026 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version: https://youtu.be/uVKXmqYVjpQ One of the more powerful features of AI-assisted development is that you can put multiple AI coding agents to work simultaneously with little effort. For example, you might have one building a new feature, one cleaning up an old API endpoint, and a third drafting a blog post. If the agents share […] The post How to run multiple AI agents in parallel with git worktrees appeared first on PHP Architect.
When dealing with over 10 million tons of hazardous waste every year, IT operational efficiency is a prerquisite and a critical environmental and public health responsibility As the European leader in treating hazardous industrial waste and restoring…
Recursive CTEs in MySQL let you query trees, org charts, and nested categories in a single query. Here’s how to use them effectively with PHP. Every PHP developer eventually hits the “tree problem.” You have categories with subcategories, employees with managers, comments with replies, or menu items with children — and you need to query […] The post MySQL Recursive CTEs for PHP Developers: Querying Hierarchical Data Without the Pain appeared first on PHP Architect.
TYPO3 has joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver Sponsor, extending its commitment to the open-source technologies and communities on which its own ecosystem is built. TYPO3 is an open-source enterprise content management system built with open web standards. It provides a robust feature set for scalable, multisite, multilingual, and highly connected digital platforms. TYPO3 is also a verified Digital Public Good and part of the Open Website Alliance through the TYPO3 Association. PHP: the…
Nick Houtman shares how AI is reshaping UX work: clients arrive with better prototypes, common patterns get safer and more generic, and real research still matters most. Read more
Laravel now supports attaching arbitrary metadata to routes, and the latest laravel-flare client shows that context in error reports and performance traces. Read more
Terminal UIs have had a quiet renaissance in the developer tools world. From Lazygit to btop, the era of the ugly text-only CLI is giving way to rich, interactive interfaces built entirely in the terminal. PHP developers have historically been left out of this movement — our CLI tooling was functional but rarely beautiful. That […] The post Laravel Prompts TUI Guide appeared first on PHP Architect.
A deep dive into Laravel Context, from request metadata and automatic log enrichment to hidden context, scoped values, queues, scheduled commands, and internals. Read more
This week, maintenance versions 6.4.42, 7.4.14, 8.0.14, and 8.1.1 were released. In addition, development activity for the upcoming Symfony 8.2 version was intense, adding new features such as a Cron constraint for validating cron expressions, single-use…
MySQL’s JSON column type has been around since version 5.7, but it’s one of those features where the gap between “I know it exists” and “I know when and how to use it well” is surprisingly wide. Used correctly, JSON columns give you schema flexibility exactly where you need it. Used poorly, they become a […] The post MySQL JSON Columns appeared first on PHP Architect.
A lovely growing index of colors, each with its own provenance, chemistry, and often grim history. Beautifully made, and exactly the kind of rabbit hole I enjoy falling into. Read more
Symfony 8.1.1 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…