In this episode, Scott talks with Damien Seguy about the history of the elePHPant, from Vincent Pontier’s logo doodle to 6,054 plush toys in Damien’s home, how the community trades them through the Community Postal Service, and what it takes to create your own. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:52 How the PHP logo became […]

   In this episode, Scott talks with Paul Conroy about agentic commerce: how AI agents buy things on our behalf, how Stripe’s shared payment tokens keep them on a budget, and how the Machine Payments Protocol finally puts HTTP 402 Payment Required to work in your API middleware. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy […]

 In this episode, Scott talks Len Woodward about This Week in PHP Internals and the state of the PHP Internals world. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Len’s Links: X / Twitter: @ProjektGopher — https://x.com/ProjektGopher Bluesky: @projektgopher.com — https://bsky.app/profile/projektgopher.com Mastodon: @ProjektGopher@phpc.social — https://phpc.social/@ProjektGopher Threads: @projektgopher — https://www.threads.com/@projektgopher Instagram: @projektgopher — […]

Recursive CTEs in MySQL let you query trees, org charts, and nested categories in a single query. Here’s how to use them effectively with PHP. Every PHP developer eventually hits the “tree problem.” You have categories with subcategories, employees with managers, comments with replies, or menu items with children — and you need to query […]

   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 talk about Special guest Ben Ramsey, the PHP Community Discord, PHP Community Mastodon, Open Source Licenses, AI in companies and code, HHVM, and more… Links from the show: PHP Community About – PHP Community on Mastodon php.internals: [RFC] Updating the PHP License HHVM | HHVM […]

 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 […]

  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 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 […]

This month’s release touches on some examples that keep PHP and its community strong, relevant, and a fun language to code. Ken Marks continues his series on using PHP and a Rasberry Pi in a real-world example with Raspberry Pi Part 2 – Installing the LAMP Stack on your Pi. As developers, we live a […]