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 […] The post Laravel Queues: Handling Errors Gracefully appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
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 […] The post Laravel Wayfinder And Ranger: The Dynamic Duo That Transforms Full-Stack Development appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
This month, our first feature article continues a series started in the March 2025 edition of PHP Architect. Florian Engelhardt is back to expand Observability Foundations further with ‘Observability Foundations: Following the Flow with Tracing in PHP Applications’. Follow along this great read to learn more about how to use Tracing in the best way. […] The post Mmmmmm, PIE appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
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 […] The post PHP Podcast: 2025.08.21 appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
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 […] The post All the Fours: The PHP & Laravel Ecosystem’s Greatest Year Yet appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
CSP is the Content Security Policy for your website’s pages. Think of it as a foreman on a construction site, checking all the material loads coming to the gate, verifying that they meet the requirements and sources defined by you, the architect. Accepting pine paneling for oak paneling in the specs would be disastrous for […] The post Are You Down With CSP? appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
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 post PHP Podcast: 2025.08.14 appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
Picture this: You’re sitting in front of your computer, watching your PHP application crawl through a list of RSS feeds one by one. Each request takes half a second, and with twenty feeds to process, you’re looking at ten seconds of your users staring at loading spinners. You’ve heard about async programming, but every time […] The post PHP Fibers: The Game-Changer That Makes Async Programming Feel Like Magic appeared first on PHP Architect.| PHP Architect
In this episode, we talk with Savio Resende about Open Swoole and Savio's book "Jacked PHP" which discusses how to get started using Open Swoole in your PHP projects. Links: "Jacked PHP" – https://www.phparch.com/books/jacked-php/ Savio's Website – https://savioresende.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Scott's Social Media: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.socia...| PHP Architect
In this episode, we talk with Daniel Coulbourne about the Verb library for Laravel, which provides an opinionated, user-friendly introduction to event sourcing. Links: Verbs Library – https://verbs.thunk.dev/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Daniel's Social Media: Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/coulb.com Simon's Social Media: Twitter – https://x.com/simonhamp Scott's Social Media: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Blu...| PHP Architect
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. X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch.social/@phparch Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/phparch.com Discord: https://discord.phparch.com Subscribe to our magazine: https://www.phparch.com/subscribe/ Host: Eric Van Johnson X: @shocm Mastodon: @eric@phparch.social Bluesky: @ericvanjohnson.bsky.social John Congdon X: @johncongdon Mas...| PHP Architect
Do you ever wonder how PHP parses your code? Wonder no longer because in this video, Scott Keck-Warren from the PHP Architect Channel shows you how to inspect your code using the AST with the PHP-Parser library. How PHP Really Reads Your Code (Using ASTs) When we pass our source code to the php […]| PHP Architect
This month’s first feature article comes from Nelson Isioma, breaking down ‘Cool Things You Can Do With HTMX’. As Nelson discusses, HTMX brings additional functionality while using HTML attributes. Follow along as Nelson explores these features, including AJAX, CSS, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events.| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Spec-driven Development with Kiro, JetBrains on Huggingface, Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, Automating your life with n8n, PHP Tek 2026 Website development using vibe coding, and more. Links from the show: Introducing Kiro – Kiro JetBrains (JetBrains) Verbs About Grokability – Snipe-IT Free open […]| PHP Architect
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.5’s new INI Diff feature, Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks, Does Theo listen to the podcast? Spoiler: NO, and more. Links from the show: https://laravel-news.com/php-85-introduces-an-ini-diff-option Exploiting Public APP_KEY Leaks to Achieve RCE in Hundreds of Laravel Applications PHP TekTV – Secrets Security End-To-End [FrameworkBundle] […]| PHP Architect
In this episode, we talk with Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp about NativePHP for Mobile, which allows you to deploy Laravel applications to mobile devices and use native features like push notifications in PHP. Links: NativePHP – https://nativephp.com/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Shane’s Social Media: Twitter – https://x.com/ShaneDRosenthal Simon’s Social Media: […]| PHP Architect
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss BosonPHP, NativePHP, PHP is the new JavaScript, Shocking stories of Electricity, snake_case vs. camelCase, and why snake_case is better, among other topics. Links from the show: Reddit – The heart of the internet Overview | BOSON Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript […]| PHP Architect
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Happy Birthday PHP, PHP Tek 2026 CTF Opened, Quirks in PHP, Laminas MVC Retiring, and more… Links from the show: Happy Birthday, PHP | PHP Architect PHP Tek 2026: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com The Quirks And Gotchas of PHP – This Dot […]| PHP Architect
In this episode, we talk with Chris Hartjes about his column in PHP Architect Magazine, where he gets to “Yell at Clouds” (as the old Simpsons joke goes) about whatever is on his mind at the time. We also discuss his thoughts on a new testing patterns book and his love-hate relationship with the […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
In this episode, we talk with Dave Liddament about his open-source static code analysis tool SARB which provides a tool agnostic method to create a baseline for your static code analysis and his PHP Language Extensions library which provides a way to extend PHP using PHP attribute’s and PHPstan. 00:00 Intro 00:50 What is SARB? […]| PHP Architect
In this episode, we talk to Easton and Peter Meth about their relationship passing knowledge from father to son and their talks at PHP Tek 2025. 00:00 Intro 00:59 What is “Passing the Torch” Talk about 05:21 Other Talks 12:30 HoneyBadger 13:04 Suggestions for Conference Goers? 14:44 Outro Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – […]| PHP Architect
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP Tek 2025, the PHPxSan Diego Meetup, a long-time dormant backdoor, open-source AI frustrations, and more. Links from the show: Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities – Ars Technica Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack – Ars […]| PHP Architect
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PHP Tek 2025, Dead Tech, DIY Digital Calendars, Digging into Digg, Meetups, and more… Links from the show: https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025 Is This Tech Dead? | Tech Obsolescence Tracker SD Ruby 20th Anniversary Meetup, Thu, May 1, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup PHP TEK 2025 – […]| PHP Architect
One of the more interesting features added to PHP 8.4 is the ability to create Lazy Objects. Lazy Objects allow us to defer the initialization of an object until one of its properties is accessed. This may not be a game-changer for the average CRUD application, but it will allow us to make some […]| PHP Architect
In this video, Scott Talks with Mahmoud Abdelwahab about the open-source cloud-based Postgres replacement Neon. Links: Neon – https://neon.tech HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx| PHP Architect
In this episode, Scott talks with Chris Morrell about PHPxWorld and a hopeful return to in-person User Groups. Links: PHPxWorld – https://phpx.world/ Chris on BlueSky – https://bsky.app/profile/cmorrell.com HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io| PHP Architect
This week on the php podcast, Eric and John talk about Load Balancers, Ethics in Tech, Quantum Computing, and more… Links from the show: AtlantaPHP December 2024 Online Meeting, Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup PHP TEK 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025 8 Type of Load Balancing – DEV Community Discord […]| PHP Architect
The terrible thing about deleting data from a database is that it’s gone forever. We can’t even look at the data to see if we need it because it’s gone. If we need the data back, our only solution is to restore a backup, cross our fingers, and hope we have the backup just before […]| PHP Architect
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 […]| PHP Architect
The php[podcast] 2024.11.7 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… The php[podcast] streams the recording of this podcast live, typically every Thursday at 3PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our Youtube channel or Twitter.Twitter Account https://twitter.com/phparch Mastodon Account https://phpa...| PHP Architect
As PHP Architects, our relentless pursuit of high-quality code is always at the forefront of our work. We take pride in assuring our clients that the applications we build are not meant to confine them. At the same time, we value the opportunity to cultivate long-standing partnerships with our clients, many of whom we consider […]| php[architect]
