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 […]

The PHP Podcast streams the recording of this podcast live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our Youtube channel. This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about pgAdmin Vulnerability, NativePHP, Laravel UUID Package, PHP Tek Sponsors announces, and more… Links from the show: PHP[TEK] 2025 […]

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Laravel Cloud, Feature Flags, PHP Tek 2025, PHPxSan, and more… Links from the show: Laravel Cloud achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance – The Laravel Blog Flipt Laravel Pennant – Laravel 12.x – The PHP Framework For Web Artisans PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th […]

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Laravel Enums, Serialization, json_decode, Bye Bye to Skype, and more. Links from the show: Buffer Overflow in Laravel: Causes, Prevention & Fixes – DEV Community The death of Skype: when it closes and what you need to do Avoid This Laravel Enum Trap: Learn How […]

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Explain Explained, Postgres All The Things, Livewire Remote Code Execution, Lazy Object, and more… Links from the show: Understanding MySQL Queries with Explain I replaced my entire tech stack with Postgres… – YouTube RCE Via User-Crafted Requests · Advisory · livewire/volt · GitHub […]