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 […]

 This pilot episode of PHP Alive and Kicking was pre-recorded. Sadly, since recording, we have lost a wonderful soul within our community, Ryan Weaver. Our thoughts go out to his family. Ryan had a profound impact on the lives of people in the community and, I am sure, beyond. He will be sorely missed. […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss New PHP Architect Partners, Andy Hinkle presents at Laravel Worldwide, sadness over the loss of a great member of the PHP Community, Ryan Weaver, and more. Links from the show: PHPScore — Technical Debt Reduction, Bank-grade Laravel Worldwide Meetup – Keeping Laravel Elegant When […]

Introduction While certainly not a new concept, Queues have become a powerful and handy feature of modern frameworks. They enable our normally thread-locked apps to asynchronously dispatch tasks, allowing workflows and, especially, users to continue forward. Expectations are high for websites to deliver fast and get content on the page to maintain a good user […]

Picture this: You’re three months into a new Laravel project, the kind where deadlines loom large and stakeholders change their minds faster than you can push commits. Your frontend developer – let’s call her Sarah – walks over to your desk with that familiar look of barely contained frustration. “What exactly does the Update User […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about the Pest 4 released, Prompt Injections, Try/Catch, 1Password for sudo, AOL dialup ends, and more… Links from the show: ! ! ! Discover San Diego ! ! ! | Meetup Pest v4 Is Here — Now with Browser Testing | Pest – The […]

Picture this: you’re at your desk, coffee growing cold, staring at a legacy codebase that feels like it was written during the Jurassic period. The tests are brittle, the UI updates require a degree in JavaScript archaeology, the CSS is a maze of !important declarations, and the admin panel… well, let’s just say it makes […]

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CSP is the Content Security Policy for your website’s pages. Think of it as a foreman on a construction site, checking all the material loads coming to the gate, verifying that they meet the requirements and sources defined by you, the architect. Accepting pine paneling for oak paneling in the specs would be disastrous for […]

 Links from the show: Thalia Strings – YouTube PHP Fibers: The Game-Changer That Makes Async Programming Feel Like Magic | PHP Architect Everything We Announced at Laracon US 2025 – Laravel https://boost.laravel.com/ What’s new in Filament v4? – Feature Overview by Leandro Ferreira – Filament The PHP Podcast streams the recording of this podcast […]