This post explores what Delegated Types are, highlights their benefits, compares them to alternatives like Single-Table Inheritance (STI), and examines practical use cases they enable. Read more
We just released Scotty, a beautiful SSH task runner. It lets you define deploy scripts and other remote tasks, run them from your terminal, and watch every step as it happens. It supports both Laravel Envoy's Blade format and a new plain bash format. Why we built Scotty Even though services like Laravel Cloud make it possible to never think about servers again, I still prefer deploying to my own servers for some projects. I know my way around them, I can pick whichever server provider I want,…
This week, we celebrated the SymfonyLive Paris 2026 conference with great success. In addition, we introduced a new Tui component for the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version, which will allow to build rich, interactive terminal user interfaces. Symfony development…
Matt Rothenberg walks through how to generate dynamic Open Graph images on Cloudflare Workers. A practical guide covering the full setup from rendering to caching. Read more
In this episode, Scott talks with Chris Lemon about why us “normal” non-devops developers need to know about Nginx. We also discuss his talk at https://phptek.io/ (tickets still available). Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Chris’s Links: LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/clemon89 GPUG – https://www.meetup.com/_gpug_/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – […] The post…
The PHP Podcast streams live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Another fun episode of the PHP Podcast! Here’s what we covered: 🏟️ php[tek] 2026 – 54 Days Away! The countdown is on! May 19th in Chicago. Ticket sales are progressing well, better than in […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.03.26 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Michael Dyrynda found that switching from fill() to set() in Livewire tests reduced his test suite from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. The difference: fill triggers a Livewire round-trip per field, while set batches them into one. Read more
Introducing the Symfony Tui Component I'm thrilled to announce a brand new Symfony component: Tui, a PHP library for building rich, interactive terminal user interfaces. For 15 years, the Console component has been one of the most used Symfony components,…
A static, free, and open-source Laravel playground that runs entirely in the browser! Comes with a sqlite db, artisan commands, two-way file syncing, github imports, and more. Read more
We just released v5 of laravel-activitylog, our package for logging user activity and model events in Laravel. In Flare, Mailcoach, and Oh Dear we use it to build audit logs, so we can track what users are doing: who changed a setting, who deleted a project, who invited a team member. If you need something similar in your app, this package makes it easy. This major release requires PHP 8.4+ and Laravel 12+, and brings a cleaner API, a better database schema, and customizable internals. Let me…
We are thrilled to announce that Matt Stauffer has agreed to join The PHP Foundation Board, where he will bring his decades of experience in the PHP ecosystem. Matt joins the Board as a community representative and was voted in by the existing Board members. Not only is Matt a Laravel expert, he has created / maintained dozens of PHP and JavaScript open source packages, he is a published author, and he hosts several successful industry podcasts. We are grateful for his insight, input, and…
Nick wrote about how native browser features like the dialog element, the Popover API, and anchor positioning could eventually replace much of what we use shadcn and Radix for at Spatie today. A thoughtful look at where the web platform is heading and what it means for our frontend stack. Read more
Chris Mellor wrote a practical guide on setting up Zed as a Laravel IDE, covering PHP extensions, Pint formatting, Blade support, and how it compares to PHPStorm. Read more
This week, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version added new options to the messenger:consume command, introduced a way to retrieve the original command input arguments and options, and added an option to map empty data using MapQueryString and MapRequestPayload.…
A thorough walkthrough of building a RAG system in Laravel using the new AI SDK, Postgres for vector storage, and Livewire 4 for a streaming chat UI. Covers everything from what RAG is and how semantic search works to embedding documents and querying them. Read more