This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP TEK 2025 Tony Plushy going out, JetBrains AI, One Billonth GitHub Repo, Running Linux Inside of Microsoft Excel, Rest-Certain Project, and more. Links from the show: PHP TEK 2025 – Tony Plush ElePHPant | PHP Architect GitHub – phparch/phptek-2026 JetBrains AI | Intelligent […]

This might be an unpopular option, but one of the parts I enjoy most about being a developer is having to debug problems. It’s always interesting because you get to be a “detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer” to quote Filipe Fortes. Once you track down the problem you might […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Running the a PHP Business, Feedback from attendees of PHP Tek 2025, Cloudflare Outage, New Salt Lite Framework, and more… Links from the show: GitHub – phoneburner/salt-lite-framework: Salt-Lite Framework Cloudflare Status The PHP Podcast streams the recording of this podcast live, typically every […]

In this episode, we talk with James Titcumb about his work on the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) for the PHP Foundation. A replacement for PECL which is going to make our lives as developers that much easier. Links: PHP PIE – https://github.com/php/pie HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx James’s Social Media: Bluesky – […]

PHP is maturing and evolving. PHP was originally released on June 8, 1995 as Personal Home Page. It’s hard to believe that it was the community that continued driving its progress. 30 years later and we still have an amazing and thriving community. PHP is now a powerful language that is used in many different […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about May issue release, Building your own PHP Framework, posting to social media, , and more… Links from the show: The Golden Age | PHP Architect An Introduction to Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange | PHP Architect GitHub – gitroomhq/postiz-app: 📨 The ultimate social media scheduling […]

If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for tools and techniques that can reduce the chances that your code has bugs and make it easier to maintain. Value objects are one of my go-to techniques for making my code easier to maintain, and you can use some of the tools built into Laravel to […]

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric, John, and special guest Scott Keck-Warren talk about PHP Tek 2025 Wrap Up, NativePHP, Ethics in Web Development, and more… Links from the show: Security Starts With Developer Enablement: Lessons From PHP TEK 2025 The Bucket | Post PHP[TEK] Reflections Slightly Caffeinated | PHPTek, AI workshop, and ClickHouse […]

 In this episode, we talk with Philip Tadeo about his talk at phptek 2025 about front-end testing. 00:00 Intro 00:51 Front-end Testing Talk Part 1 10:38 HoneyBadger 11:14 Front-end Testing Talk Part 2 12:18 Suggestions for conference attendees 15:03 Outro Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Philip’s Social Media: https://x.com/Philll_T Scott’s Social […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about FrankenPHP, NativePHP, PHP still relevant in 2025, The Patch for Laravel Container, PHP Tek 2025, PHPxSan Diego Meetup, and more… Links from the show: From theory to practice: Building SDKs with generative AI – Build with AI: Building Better SDKs with Generative AI […]