Récent 🎙️ PHP Podcast – September 2, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & Joe Ferguson John’s out, Joe jumps in at the last second, a brand-new intro gets debuted mid-flight, a new PHP Foundation podcast gets announced, Frank’s database issues (not production), and somebody’s selling 37 elePHPants to fund a startup and open-heart surgery. 🎬 New […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.09.02 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks to Ian Littman about Longhorn PHP 2026, a 2-day conference in Austin, TX, on October 15–16, 2026, at the Holiday Inn Austin Midtown. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Ian’s Links: Longhorn – https://longhornphp.com/ $25 off – https://ti.to/longhorn-php/longhorn-php-2026/discount/communitycorner Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – […] The…
Video version: https://youtu.be/Sns4iMSa3qA Every team I have ever worked on has a rule that lives in someone’s head instead of in a tool. An example of this is that if you’re working with a Laravel project, you should use Illuminate\Support\Carbon and not Carbon\Carbon directly. We all knew it, but we still shipped the wrong import […] The post Stop Repeating Yourself in Code Review: Build a Custom Mago Lint Rule appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – August 27, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Zero-downtime swaps that nobody noticed, 3D printers that refuse to calibrate, a nostalgia tour through the entire PHPArch back catalog, Go generics, TypePHP, and a very good reason to book a flight to Belgium. This one lived in the gutter […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.08.27 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Beta 1 for PHP 8.6 landed this week, and buried inside that routine-sounding milestone is the moment PHP’s next release mostly stops accepting new ideas. Not completely. But close enough that if you’ve been half-watching an RFC thread, wondering whether it would survive to actually ship, this is the week you find out. If […] The post PHP 8.6’s soft feature freeze: what just locked in, and what’s still up for grabs appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – August 20, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Shirley MacLaine is the answer — but what’s the question? RAM prices went up 500%, GitHub fell over for eight hours, and the crew figured out how you can actually contribute to PHP. Glasses optional. 🎬 Shirley MacLaine, Green Room […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.08.20 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks with Daniel Scherzer, release manager for PHP 8.5 and PHP 8.6, about the bug-fix release cycle, partial function application coming in 8.6, and his upcoming talks at Longhorn PHP on what’s new in 8.6 and building PHP extensions in Rust. Links Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – […] The post Community Corner Podcast: PHP 8.5 + 8.6 Release Manager Daniel Scherzer appeared first on PHP Architect.
Our first feature article this month is ‘I Built a CakePHP Plugin From My iPhone While Packing for a Trip’ by Jamison Bryant. So often an idea pops into our heads, and we think we’ll get to it later when we have time. However, it’s often the case that the time never magically appears to […] The post CakePHP with iPhone appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version: https://youtu.be/ubhVleOpLQ0 It’s so easy to ask an AI agent to build a feature, and have it hand you 5,000 lines of code. It might even feel like a win until you start reading it so see the same validation block in four controllers, the same database-fetch boilerplate in six models, and that efvery […] The post I Made My AI Agent Fix Its Own Copy-Paste (jscpd + Mago) appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – August 13, 2026 Hosts: Eric Van Johnson & John Congdon Eric and John reunite after weeks apart to talk Laracon in Boston, more diverse voices coming to this time slot, CPX finally giving PHP an npx, a stripped-down PHPStorm Light, and PHP Tek’s extended CFP. 🔀 Stepping Back to Make Room […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.08.13 appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ PHP Podcast – August 6, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling A sick kitten steals the show, Sara loses a fight with her smart lights, PHP 8.6 beta is almost here, and the crew argues about roadmaps, deprecations, and why you shouldn’t be a meat proxy. 🐱 Cats, Ice Cream, and […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.08.06 appeared first on PHP Architect.
In this episode, Scott talks with Andrey Kucherenko, creator of jscpd, about why copy-pasted code is an anti-pattern, how jscpd detects duplicate code across dozens of languages, and how the tool has evolved to work inside agentic coding workflows. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Andrey’s Links: jscpd – […] The post Community Corner: JSCPD with Andrey Kucherenko appeared first on PHP Architect.
🎙️ 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.
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.