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…

 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)…

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 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…

 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 - htt…

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…

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 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…

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…

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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…

 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…

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’.…

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…

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.…

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss New PHP Architect Partners, Andy Hinkle presents at Laravel Worldwide, sadness over the loss of a great member of the PHP Community, Ryan Weaver, and more. Links from the show: PHPScore — Technical Debt…

This pilot episode of PHP Alive and Kicking was pre-recorded.
Sadly, since recording, we have lost a wonderful soul within our community, Ryan Weaver. Our thoughts go out to his family.
Ryan had a profound impact on the lives of people in the community, and…

Picture this: You're responsible for a piece of software that powers nearly three-quarters of all websites on the internet. Every day, billions of people interact with applications built on your platform. The responsibility is staggering - and so is the target…

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Fixes to PHPTek.tv Login, New PHP Architect Merch Store, Wire-Live the Livewire InPerson Event, Perks to Caddy Web Server, PHP Stream Server, and more... Links from the show: PHP TekTV - Streaming PHP…

 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…