Zuzana didn’t grow up coding at age 10, she came to development later in life, looking for flexible work she could do around raising three kids. A chance encounter with an online bootcamp that happened to use PHP (not JavaScript like most today) set her on a path she never expected. WordPress meetups and […]

 One of the more challenging parts of coding is making sure we’re constantly refactoring our code to make it easier to maintain. It’s also a pain to try and keep up with all of the deprecated features in PHP, and major upgrades can be a major headache. But what if there was a tool […]

 The Bored Sysadmin Who Chose PHP Over .NET a young Linux sysadmin whose job involves kicking the mail server once a week and spending the rest of the time playing Call of Duty. Steve watched the dev team actually creating things and decided to join them. JavaScript looked “kind of cool,” PHP “made sense,” […]

 Matt takes us back to the mid-90s, learning HTML and PHP alongside his older brother – back when there was no CSS or JavaScript, and getting a header and footer to include across multiple pages felt like magic. Fast forward to today, and that early foundation still influences how he codes and thinks about […]

 In this special live episode of The PHP Podcast, hosts Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon welcome the legendary Nuno Maduro from the Laravel Core Team — live and in person! This episode is packed with energy, laughs, and deep insights as Nuno shares stories from behind the scenes of Laravel development, the philosophy […]

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   This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about NativePHP Mobile, EAV Database Models, PHP Tek 2026 CFP coming to and end, Fun Simpson API, and more… Links from the show: Thank You to Our Early Adopters – NativePHP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80%93value_model https://x.com/ShaneDRosenthal/status/1976110984998814062 PHP Tek 2026: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com Android/Inertia Update […]

 In this episode, Scott talks with Daniel Scherzer about his work as a PHP contributor and PHP 8.5 release manager. Links: https://displace.tech/ Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Daniel’s Social Media: https://scherzer.dev/ LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-scherzer-520539263/ Scott’s Social Media: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-keck-warren-91689810/ Mastodon – https://phpc.social/@scottkeckwarren   […]

 From wannabe teen hacker to 20+ years in PHP, AI Lead at Laravel, and producing Laravel Boost – come and hear about Ashley Hindle and his journey. Laravel Boost Deep Dive Makes AI code better with context-aware docs, guidelines, and tools Auto-detects your packages/versions (Laravel, Pest, Filament, Tailwind, etc.) Born from Ashley’s earlier project […]

   This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Scott’s PHP 8.5 review, Alive and Kicking’s first live stream, PHP Foundation’s call for design, the new Laravel Forge, and more… Links from the show: What’s New in PHP 8.5? (Release Date + Must-Know Features) | PHP Architect PHP Alive and Kicking […]