This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.4 and its new features, Pie, PHPStorm, PHPTek, Yazi for file management in the terminal, and more. Links from the show: PHP: PHP 8.4.0 Release Announcement GitHub – php/pie: The PHP Installer for Extensions Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions […]

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about New Features in PHP 8.4, The Magic Behind Laravel’s defer(), Doctrine Introduces EnumType Columns, Serialization/Deserialization, Laravel’s Nightwatch, PHPTek 2025, and more… Links from the show: PHP 8.4: new features and release date The magic behind Laravel’s new defer() helper — Amit Merchant — A […]

This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, CascadiaPHP, PHPTek 2025, whats new in the latest magazine release, potentially moving the podcast to another server for hosting, and more… Links from the show: php[architect] | The site for PHP professionals, Magazine, Training, Books, Conferences Verbs PHP[TEK] 2025 […]

In this episode, Scott talks to Brad Van Vugt about Battlesnake.com a competitive online game where your code is the controller. Links: Battlesnake – https://play.battlesnake.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io 00:00 Intro 00:31 What is Battlesnake? 02:33 What need does Battlesnake fill? 09:31 HoneyBadger 10:20 What technology is used? 14:46 What else should people know about Battlesnake? […]

In this episode, Scott talks to Alena Holligan about Cascadia PHP. Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Cascadia PHP – https://cascadiaphp.com/ 00:00 Intro 00:52 What is Cascadia PHP? 10:45 HoneyBadger 11:35 Tutorial Tracks/Access 18:44 What do people need to know about Cascadia PHP? 24:53 Outro

In this episode, Scott talks with JD Lein about getting into PHP, JD’s PHP Attributes article in the June 2024 issue of php[architect] magazine, and writing a couple open source projects  Links: Understanding PHP Attributes – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-06-understanding-php-attributes/ JD’s GitHub – https://github.com/jdlien resume.md – https://github.com/jdlien/resume.md validator – https://github.com/jdlien/validator HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io 00:00 Intro 00:52 Getting […]

In this episode, Scott talks to Ash Allen about how Ash got into PHP, Ash’s recent article in php[architect] on serialization, and findapr.io. Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io A Guide to Serialization in PHP – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-06-a-guide-to-serialization-in-php/ findapr.io – https://findapr.io/ 00:00 Intro 00:37 How Did You Get Into PHP? 01:52 Serialization in PHP 04:32 HoneyBadger.io 05:22 findapr.io […]

John and Eric share more of the day-to-day behind-the-scenes work that goes on at php[architect].

In this episode, Scott talks to April Wensel from Compassionate Coding about empathy in coding and her keynote at php[tek] 2024.

Docker is one of the best ways to have a consistent environment across multiple computers, but for new developers (and even not-so-new developers), it can be hard to understand and set up. Thankfully, the Laravel team has created Laravel Sail to make Docker a much easier tool to use when we’re working on Laravel projects. […]