Community Corner: PHPScore with Ed Grosvenor
In this episode, Scott talks with Ed Grosvenor about technical debt and his company’s new website PHPScore.com that inspects your PHP projects for technical debt so you can bring issues back to your team for remediation. Links: PHPScore.com – https://phpscore.com/ Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Ed’s Social Media: Bluesky – […]
The PHP Podcast 2025.09.25 with Guest James Seconde
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Special guest James Seconde, CTO who don’t like PHP, AI, and more… Links from the show: Reddit – The heart of the internet 2025 DORA State of AI Assisted Software Development | Google Cloud TechMids Conf – A community-driven tech conference The PHP […]
Real-Time Call Transcription with FreeSWITCH and AssemblyAI: A Debugging Journey
Recently, I dove headfirst into adding real-time audio transcription to a FreeSWITCH-based system. The idea was simple: capture the audio from a live phone call and feed it to AssemblyAI’s real-time transcription API. The reality? Not quite so simple. Getting Started I used Claude to help kickstart the effort. Within an hour, I had a […]
PHP Podcast: 2025.09.18
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss NativePHP bringing everything, including the Kitchen Sink, PHP Foundation announcement of the SDK for MCP, Nuno’s Explanation of Laravel MCP, PHP 8.5 Pipe Operator, the Supply Chain issue with NPM, and more. Links from the show: GitHub – NativePHP/kitchen-sink-mobile: NativePHP for mobile demo app […]
PHP Alive and Kicking Episode 2: Sara Golemon
In this episode of “PHP Alive and Kicking,” Mike and Chris engage in a discussion with Sara Golemon, a prominent PHP Internals developer and release manager. The conversation kicks off with Sara sharing her unique journey into PHP development, which began unexpectedly from a tech support role for the US government, ultimately leading her […]
PHPStan: Your Development Best Friend Who Actually Knows PHP Better Than You Do
It’s 2 AM, you’re three coffees deep, and you just pushed what you’re convinced is the cleanest code you’ve ever written. Your tests are green, your commit message is poetry, and you’re feeling like the PHP wizard you always knew you could be. Then PHPStan speaks up. “Hey,” it says gently, “I noticed you’re returning […]
Community Corner: Exposed Secrets with Dwayne McDaniel
In this episode, we speak with Dwayne McDaniel about exposed secrets in our GitHub repositories and figuring out when we’ve been compromised using Honeytoken. Links: Dwayne’s site – https://dwayne-mcdaniel.com/ Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report – https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/ GitGuardian Blog – https://blog.gitguardian.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Scott’s Social […]
PHP Podcast: 2025.09.04
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Fixes to PHPTek.tv Login, New PHP Architect Merch Store, Wire-Live the Livewire InPerson Event, Perks to Caddy Web Server, PHP Stream Server, and more… Links from the show: PHP TekTV – Streaming PHP Architect Longhorn PHP Wire ⚡ Live – A Chill & […]
PHP Security in 2025: Lessons from the Core Security Audit
Picture this: You’re responsible for a piece of software that powers nearly three-quarters of all websites on the internet. Every day, billions of people interact with applications built on your platform. The responsibility is staggering – and so is the target on your back. This was the reality facing The PHP Foundation in 2024 when […]