In this special live episode of The PHP Podcast, hosts Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon welcome the legendary Nuno Maduro from the Laravel Core Team — live and in person! This episode is packed with energy, laughs, and deep insights as Nuno shares stories from behind the scenes of Laravel development, the philosophy […]

 From wannabe teen hacker to 20+ years in PHP, AI Lead at Laravel, and producing Laravel Boost – come and hear about Ashley Hindle and his journey. Laravel Boost Deep Dive Makes AI code better with context-aware docs, guidelines, and tools Auto-detects your packages/versions (Laravel, Pest, Filament, Tailwind, etc.) Born from Ashley’s earlier project […]

   This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Scott’s PHP 8.5 review, Alive and Kicking’s first live stream, PHP Foundation’s call for design, the new Laravel Forge, and more… Links from the show: What’s New in PHP 8.5? (Release Date + Must-Know Features) | PHP Architect PHP Alive and Kicking […]

 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 […]

 It all started with a simple annoyance. I was working on a Laravel project and kept having to run the same set of commands in a tinker session to setup a test subscriber in a specific state. Every time I would need to copy and paste a bunch of commands into tinker to get […]

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 […]

 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 […]