This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Special guest Ben Ramsey, the PHP Community Discord, PHP Community Mastodon, Open Source Licenses, AI in companies and code, HHVM, and more… Links from the show: PHP Community About – PHP Community on Mastodon php.internals: [RFC] Updating the PHP License HHVM | HHVM […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Spec-driven Development with Kiro, JetBrains on Huggingface, Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, Automating your life with n8n, PHP Tek 2026 Website development using vibe coding, and more. Links from the show: Introducing Kiro – Kiro JetBrains (JetBrains) Verbs About Grokability – Snipe-IT Free open […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.5’s new INI Diff feature, Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks, Does Theo listen to the podcast? Spoiler: NO, and more. Links from the show: https://laravel-news.com/php-85-introduces-an-ini-diff-option Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks to Achieve RCE in Hundreds of Laravel Applications PHP TekTV – Secrets Security End-To-End [FrameworkBundle] […]

 In this episode, we talk with Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp about NativePHP for Mobile, which allows you to deploy Laravel applications to mobile devices and use native features like push notifications in PHP. Links: NativePHP – https://nativephp.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Shane’s Social Media: Twitter – https://x.com/ShaneDRosenthal Simon’s Social Media: […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss BosonPHP, NativePHP, PHP is the new JavaScript, Shocking stories of Electricity, snake_case vs. camelCase, and why snake_case is better, among other topics. Links from the show: Reddit – The heart of the internet Overview | BOSON Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Happy Birthday PHP, PHP Tek 2026 CTF Opened, Quirks in PHP, Laminas MVC Retiring, and more… Links from the show: Happy Birthday, PHP | PHP Architect PHP Tek 2026: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com The Quirks And Gotchas of PHP – This Dot […]

 In this episode, we talk with Chris Hartjes about his column in PHP Architect Magazine, where he gets to “Yell at Clouds” (as the old Simpsons joke goes) about whatever is on his mind at the time. We also discuss his thoughts on a new testing patterns book and his love-hate relationship with the […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP TEK 2025 Tony Plushy going out, JetBrains AI, One Billonth GitHub Repo, Running Linux Inside of Microsoft Excel, Rest-Certain Project, and more. Links from the show: PHP TEK 2025 – Tony Plush ElePHPant | PHP Architect GitHub – phparch/phptek-2026 JetBrains AI | Intelligent […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Running the a PHP Business, Feedback from attendees of PHP Tek 2025, Cloudflare Outage, New Salt Lite Framework, and more… Links from the show: GitHub – phoneburner/salt-lite-framework: Salt-Lite Framework Cloudflare Status The PHP Podcast streams the recording of this podcast live, typically every […]

In this episode, we talk with James Titcumb about his work on the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) for the PHP Foundation. A replacement for PECL which is going to make our lives as developers that much easier. Links: PHP PIE – https://github.com/php/pie HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx James’s Social Media: Bluesky – […]