This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PHPStorm new release, PHPek and why going to a conference is still fire, Laravel Advent Calendar, what does your GitHub year look like?, and more… Links from the show: Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key Advent Calendar 2025 – Laravel – […]

 If you’ve ever spent hours debugging a date-related bug only to discover that some code somewhere modified a DateTime object you thought was safe, you know the pain. DateTime in PHP is mutable, which means any code that touches your date object can silently change it, leading to bugs that are incredibly challenging to […]

   This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric, Sara, and John talk about Clamp, Preloading, NativePHP v2, the end of Fleet, Waymo Cars DDOS, and more… Links from the show: PHP: rfc:clamp_v2 PHP: Preloading – Manual Changelog – NativePHP mobile v2 – NativePHP NativePHP mobile – What is EDGE? The Future of Fleet | […]

   In this episode, Scott talks with Eric Mann about Kubernetes and how Displace Technologies is making it easier to work with. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt 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 PHP Architect Social Media: X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: […]

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 If you’re building web apps with PHP, you are almost certainly using a relational database, even if you call it “MySQL” or “Postgres” and rarely think about the theory behind it. Relational databases can be one of the unseen workhorses of our technology stack, but understanding them to a greater degree will improve your […]

     Jim’s opening gambit? “Can you buy elephants on the merch store? Also, it’s giving me a 403 error.” Chaos ensued. Accusations were thrown. Then Jim realized: he was on his work machine. His company VPN doesn’t trust PHP Architect merchandise. The store works fine. Everyone move along. Fifty Elephants and a Woolly […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PhpStorm Plugins, Open-source IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains AMA, PHP Foundation looking for a Executive Direstor, watch John NOT mention Eric in his latest podcast interview, and more… Links from the show: explain.md · GitHub John Congdon: the PHP Architect – YouTube The PHP Foundation […]

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 Wendell joins the show with a literal fire background (the “this is fine” meme), which he admits he can’t use anymore because of company backgrounds. But it’s an accurate representation of daily developer life, and we can all relate. Teaching PHP Six Months After Learning It At 16 years old, working in a small-town […]