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PHP Arrays. Credit  Loulou13 PHP arrays are a unicorn, as in they’re actually hash maps behind the scenes. The fact that hash map implementations are vulnerable to collision denial of service attacks is old news and it was a common problem for multiple programming language…

The landscape of news has changed so much over the last few years that news about a particular topic or platform is readily available to anyone within an instant. With WordPress, I imagine that could be one of the perks of powering over 16% of the web, but it’s true that n…

I am a regular listener to the Security Weekly Podcasts Network, that includes Hack Naked News, Business Security Weekly, Enterprise Security Weekly, Secure Digital Life and Application Security Weekly. I really love their shows and over the years I've been listening to them, I …

Toolkit is a community catalog of small, independently installable tools for the Laravel AI SDK, covering math, read-only database queries, and web search, research providers, and more. The post Toolkit: Reusable AI Tools for the Laravel AI SDK appeared first on Laravel News. Jo…

Laracon US 2026 has announced its complete speaker lineup for July 28-29 in Boston, headlined by Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, Nuno Maduro, and Kent C. Dodds. The post Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to …

JetBrains and The PHP Foundation have launched the first State of PHP survey, gathering data on how PHP developers work, what tools they use, and where the language should go next. The post The State of PHP 2026 Survey Is Now Open appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel…

Laravel 13.15.0 adds typed translation accessors, JSON Schema deserialization, a dedicated Cloud queue driver, and security fixes for date validation and route unserialization. The post Typed Translation Accessors in Laravel 13.15.0 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Larav…

Jason McCreary joined the Laravel Creator Series to walk through how we used his Fast Laravel practices and Cloudflare to cache Laravel News, a high-traffic site whose content changes all day. The post How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel appeared first on La…

Lattice is a server-driven UI framework for Laravel that lets you define pages, forms, and tables in PHP and renders them as typed React components over Inertia. The post Lattice: Describe Inertia UIs in PHP appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get all …

CultRepo has released a teaser for The Story of PHP, a JetBrains-sponsored documentary featuring Taylor Otwell, Fabien Potencier, Nikita Popov, and more. The post Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsl…

A Laravel wrapper by DirectoryTree around the privacy-filter.cpp binary that detects private entities like names and emails in text, with confidence scores, byte offsets, and a test fake. The post Privacy Filter: Detect PII in Text from Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Jo…

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Connected Apps to let developers display a usage-based proficiency badge for PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs directly on their profile. The post Showcase Your PhpStorm Expertise on LinkedIn appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel …

Laravel 13.17.0 adds first-class route metadata support, Postgres transaction pooler integration, a dev:list command, and a Should Not Retry exception handler for queue jobs. The post Route Metadata Support in Laravel 13.17 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsle…

Signal is a PHP library that reads attributes on your classes and methods and turns them into Markdown and JSON documentation through a single command. The post Turn PHP Attributes Into Docs With Signal appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get all the l…

PHP reached a new milestone 3 days ago. And as always it’s quite exciting news. Some of the new features are already outlined by Evert Pot’s post which you can find here. And all of this of course can be found on the wiki and in the change log. I’ll just outline some of the new …

PHP Internals News: Episode 103: Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) Types Friday, June 24th 2022, 09:07 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about the "Disjunctive Normal Form Types" RFC that he has…

PHP Internals News: Episode 102: Add True Type Thursday, June 2nd 2022, 09:06 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about the "Add True Type" RFC that he has proposed. The RSS feed for this podc…

PHP Internals News: Episode 101: More Partially Supported Callable Deprecations Thursday, May 19th 2022, 09:05 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Juliette Reinders Folmer (Website, Twitter, GitHub) about the "More Partially Supported Callable Depr…

PHP Internals News: Episode 100: Sealed Classes Thursday, March 24th 2022, 09:04 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Saif Eddin Gmati (Website, Twitter, GitHub) about the "Sealed Classes" RFC that he has proposed. The RSS feed for this podcast is h…

PHP Internals News: Episode 99: Allow Null and False as Standalone Types Thursday, March 10th 2022, 09:04 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about the "Allow Null and False as Standalone Type…

PHP Internals News: Episode 98: Deprecating utf8_encode and utf8_decode Thursday, March 3rd 2022, 09:02 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Rowan Tommins (GitHub, Website, Twitter) about the "Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode" RFC. T…

PHP Internals News: Episode 97: Redacting Parameters Thursday, January 27th 2022, 09:09 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Tim Düsterhus (GitHub) about the "Redacting Parameters in Back Traces" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://de…

PHP Internals News: Episode 96: User Defined Operator Overloads Thursday, December 16th 2021, 09:24 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Jordan LeDoux (GitHub) about the "User Defined Operator Overloads" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https:/…

PHP Internals News: Episode 95: PHP 8.1 Celebrations Thursday, November 25th 2021, 09:23 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" we're looking back at all the RFCs that we discussed on this podcast for PHP 8.1. In their own words, the RFC authors explain what thes…

PHP Internals News: Episode 94: Unwrap Reference After Foreach Thursday, August 26th 2021, 09:22 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "First Class Callable Syntax" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast …

PHP Internals News: Episode 93: Never For Parameter Types Thursday, August 19th 2021, 09:21 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Jordan LeDoux (GitHub) about the "Never For Parameter Types" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans…

PHP Internals News: Episode 92: First Class Callable Syntax Thursday, July 22nd 2021, 09:20 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "First Class Callable Syntax" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is ht…

PHP Internals News: Episode 91: is_literal Thursday, July 15th 2021, 09:19 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Craig Francis (Twitter, GitHub, Website), and Joe Watkins (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "is_literal" RFC. The RSS feed for this po…

PHP Internals News: Episode 90: Read Only Properties Thursday, July 8th 2021, 09:18 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "Read Only Properties" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickret…

PHP Internals News: Episode 89: Partial Function Applications Thursday, June 17th 2021, 09:17 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Larry Garfield (Twitter) and Joe Watkins (Twitter, GitHub, Blog about the "Partial Function Applications" RFC. The RSS…

PHP Internals News: Episode 88: Pure Intersection Types Thursday, June 10th 2021, 09:16 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about the "Pure Intersection Types" RFC that he has proposed. The RS…

PHP Internals News: Episode 87: Deprecating Ticks Thursday, June 3rd 2021, 09:15 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "Deprecating Ticks" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.n…

PHP Internals News: Episode 86: Property Accessors Thursday, May 27th 2021, 09:14 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "Property Accessors" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans…

PHP Internals News: Episode 85: Add IntlDatePatternGenerator Thursday, May 20th 2021, 09:13 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I discuss the Add IntlDatePatternGenerator RFC with Mel Dafert (GitHub). The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/f…

PHP Internals News: Episode 84: Introducing the PHP 8.1 Release Managers Thursday, May 13th 2021, 09:12 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I converse with Ben Ramsey (Website, Twitter, GitHub) and Patrick Allaert (GitHub, Twitter, StackOverflow, LinkedIn) abo…

PHP Internals News: Episode 83: Deprecate implicit non-integer-compatible float to int conversions Thursday, April 29th 2021, 09:11 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about the "Deprecate imp…

PHP Internals News: Episode 82: Auto-Capturing Multi-Statement Closures Thursday, April 22nd 2021, 09:10 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Larry Garfield (Twitter) and Nuno Maduro (Twitter, GitHub, Blog) about the "Auto-Capturing Multi-Statement …

PHP Internals News: Episode 81: noreturn type Thursday, April 15th 2021, 09:09 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Matthew Brown (Twitter) and Ondřej Mirtes (Twitter) about the "noreturn type" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://der…

PHP Internals News: Episode 80: Static Variables in Inherited Methods Thursday, April 1st 2021, 09:08 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "Static Variables in Inherited Methods" RFC. The RSS feed fo…

PHP Internals News: Episode 79: New in Initialisers Thursday, March 25th 2021, 09:07 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "New in Initialisers" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickret…

PHP Internals News: Episode 78: Moving the PHP Documentation to GIT Thursday, March 11th 2021, 09:06 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Andreas Heigl (Twitter, GitHub, Mastodon, Website) to follow up with his project to move the PHP Documentation …

PHP Internals News: Episode 77: fsync: Buffers All The Way Down Thursday, February 25th 2021, 09:05 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with David Gebler (GitHub) about his suggestion to add the fsync() function to PHP, as well as file and output buffer…

PHP Internals News: Episode 76: Deprecate null, and Array Unpacking Thursday, February 18th 2021, 09:04 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about two RFCs: Deprecate passing null to non-nullable arguments of …

PHP Internals News: Episode 75: Globals, and Phasing Out Serializable Thursday, February 11th 2021, 09:03 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about two RFCs: Restrict Globals Usage, and Phase Out Serializable…

PHP Internals News: Episode 74: Fibers Thursday, February 4th 2021, 09:02 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Aaron Piotrowski (Twitter, Website, GitHub) about an RFC that he is proposing to add Fibers to PHP. The RSS feed for this podcast is https…

PHP Internals News: Episode 73: Enumerations Thursday, January 28th 2021, 09:01 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Larry Garfield (Twitter, Website, GitHub) about a new RFC that he is proposing together with Ilija Tovilo: Enumerations. The RSS fee…

PHP Internals News: Episode 72: PHP 8.0 Celebrations! Thursday, November 26th 2020, 09:35 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" we're looking back at all the RFCs that we discussed on this podcast for PHP 8.0. In their own words, the RFC authors explain what the…

PHP Internals News: Episode 71: What didn’t make it into PHP 8.0? Thursday, November 19th 2020, 09:34 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" we're looking back at all the RFCs that we discussed on this podcast for PHP 7.4, but did not end up making the cut…

PHP Internals News: Episode 70: Explicit Octal Literal Thursday, November 12th 2020, 09:33 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with George Peter Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about an RFC that he has proposed to add an Explicit Octal Litera…

PHP Internals News: Episode 69: Short Functions Thursday, November 5th 2020, 09:32 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Larry Garfield (Twitter, Website, GitHub) about a new RFC that's he proposing related to Short Functions. The RSS feed for this p…

PHP Internals News: Episode 68: Observer API Thursday, September 17th 2020, 09:31 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Levi Morrison (Twitter, GitHub) and Sammy Kaye Powers (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the new Observer API. The RSS feed for this…

PHP Internals News: Episode 67: Match Expression Thursday, August 20th 2020, 09:30 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Derick Rethans (Mastodon, GitHub, Website) about the new Match Expression in PHP 8. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://deri…

PHP Internals News: Episode 66: Namespace Token, and Parsing PHP Thursday, August 13th 2020, 09:29 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about his Namespaced Names as a Single Token, and Parsing PHP. The RSS fe…

PHP Internals News: Episode 65: Null safe operator Thursday, August 6th 2020, 09:28 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Dan Ackroyd (Twitter, GitHub) about the Null Safe Operator RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-p…

PHP Internals News: Episode 64: More About Attributes Thursday, July 30th 2020, 09:27 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Benjamin Eberlei (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about a few RFCs related to Attributes. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://d…

You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. The original article was published on systemdesign.one website. What Is Gossip Protocol? The typical problems in a distributed system a…

The web is full of articles that do not want to tell you what happened too soon. The headline hints at something. The first paragraphs add suspense. The useful information is somewhere below the fold, after the cookie banner, the newsletter box, a couple of related links, and en…

by Yitzchak Schaffer (@YitzOfTheBits) I had an immediate negative reaction to the news of Laravel’s new Homestead program. In their own words: Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant “box” that provides you a wonderful development environment wit…

Understanding the differences, so we can stay out of the news.

On stage of Laracon EU 2026, Taylor Otwell has made a few announcements of what's coming to Laravel framework. Let's review them.

Update: we’ve decided to move our blog under our official website; we’ve republished this post at this url. This is the last post originally published on Medium.And we’re back with another update on what’s going on in the PHP-FIG! This time we have just two news, but big ones!PS…

Update: we’ve decided to move our blog under our official website; we’ve republished this post at this url.This time we have waited a bit longer before publishing a recap of the recent news from PHP-FIG, but we have a lot to share; let’s start!The new official page for PSR-17PSR…

Let's get started making our own proxy. We'll just steal the contents of NewSingleHostReverseProxy(), instantiate our own ReverseProxy, and get that working. package main import ( "log" "net/http" "net/http/httputil" "net/url" "string…

It's time to get to more interesting things. The first reverse proxy we'll make is not of our making at all. It turns out that the stdlib has a a decent implementation of a reverse proxy: proxy := httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy(backend). As the name implies, it just handles …

As the geopolitical landscape shifts with missiles raining down in the Middle East, members of an older generation often turn to their trusted cable channels for news. However, Fox News, a network traditionally favored by Boomers, is making strides to capture a younger audience—…

The Rise of ByteDance and Its Impact on the Global Internet In the span of just over a decade, ByteDance has transformed from a modest news aggregator into the world’s leading application powerhouse. Founded in 2012, this Chinese technology company is widely recognized as the cr…

Laravel News has written a nice introduction to one of my packages, the laravel-debugbar. It shows the basics of each collector and explains how you can use it. The Laravel Debugbar by Barry vd. Heuvel is a package that allows you to quickly and easily keep tabs on your applicat…

Laravel News did an interview with me in its series ‘The Artisan Files’. Below is the introduction. Follow the link below to read the entire article! This week I’m happy to introduce you to Barry vd. Heuvel. Barry is a co-owner of Fruitcake Studio and created two of the most...

Good Morning, I've been thinking about how applications evolve, and what we might do if we're unhappy with the results. Three apparently unrelated ideas have been percolating in my head. In this newsletter I'll introduce each one and connect them together, in hopes that understa…

This post originally appeared in my Chainline Newsletter. I've been thinking about why we argue about code, and how we might transform vehement differences of opinion into active forces for good. My thoughts spring from a very specific context. Ten or twelve times a year I go to…

This post originally appeared in my Chainline Newsletter. I've been thinking about the half-life of code. In his Software that Fits in Your Head talk, Dan North defines the half-life of software as (I'm paraphrasing) "the amount of time required for half of an application's code…

This post originally appeared in my Chainline Newsletter. Due to popular request, I'm re-publishing it here on my blog. It has been lightly edited. As part of my local ruby meetup (#westendruby), I've been dabbling in katas and quizzes. Having worked several, I can't help but no…

I originally wrote the following for my Chainline Newsletter, but I continue to get tweets about this idea, so I'm re-publishing the article here on my blog. This version has been lightly edited. I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction." My RailsConf …

I'm feeling suspicious of nil. What is nil? In a recent newsletter I pondered true and false and suggested that thinking of them as normal, everyday objects could expand your ideas about OOP.  Today I'll continue with this theme by considering nil. What _is_ nil? A str…

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Oh man… So before I get to the good news (another update to “The Yii Book”), I should answer the million-dollar question of “Why in the #$&*$%&(&% is it taking so long to finish this book?!?!” I’ll start by saying that, in gener…

In this edition… About This Newsletter On the Web => Working Real Hours On the Blog => How to Screw Up Professionally What is Larry Thinking => The Pros and Cons of Freelancing Larry Ullman’s Book News => Four Revisions Coming in 2015 and 2016 About This Newsletter H…

We’ve added a new Yii3 demo application: https://github.com/yiisoft/demo-summarizer It started as a practical way to test yiisoft/queue together with AMQP and Redis/Valkey drivers in Yii3 application, but it turned into a useful demo on its own. The app lets you upload documents…

File validator SplFileInfo support in Image validator Other changes Yii Validator version 2.6.0 was released. This release adds a new File validator, extends Image validator input support, and includes translation, documentation, and internal code quality improvements. File vali…

We are very pleased to announce the release of the ApiDoc extension version 4.0.0. This is a major release that modernizes ApiDoc for current PHP projects. The minimum PHP version is now 8.2, and dependency requirements were raised for nikic/php-parser, phpdocumentor/reflection,…

Yii2 HTTP Client version 2.0.17 was released. In this version: Fixed TypeError: stream_get_contents(): Argument #1 ($stream) must be of type resource, bool given when PHP error reporting is turned off. Fixed the PHP 8.5 deprecation for the predefined locally scoped $http_respons…

Yii2 REDIS version 2.1.2 was released. In this version: Reverted the custom retry logic in PredisConnection after updating the predis package.

Yii2 REDIS version 2.1.1 was released. In this version: Fixed PHP 7.4 compatibility. Prevented an infinite loop in parseResponse() when fread() returns an empty string on a broken socket. Fixed fwrite(): supplied resource is not a valid stream. Removed PHP 7.3 support to align w…

Yii2 DEBUG version 2.1.28 was released. In this version: Silenced fetch errors. Added a null check before accessing panels. Applied Yii2 coding standards. Fixed generated coverage reports. Improved documentation and Composer scripts. Fixed README logo sources for proper color sc…

Yii3 API project template version 1.3.0 was released. In this version: Do not write logs to file since that's not needed for both Docker and ./yii serve Add .env for development without Docker Add "service update paused" case for swarm deployment log parsing

Writing good news about the fight to save the planet has been tough lately, because so much awful has been happening, but a few amazing things have happened that I wanted to let you know about. Rosebank and Jackdaw approval has been overturnedThe consent for both the Rosebank an…

With the world getting ever more stressful I have decided its about time to start posting some of the good news that comes across my screen. I've never much liked the "Good Climate News" outlets because they seem to have very little understanding of the topic and …

Happy Friday! Let's try something new here. My friend Adam Wathan used to have weekly work notes on his site, and I thought that was a cool idea. Yet, I never actually tried it. So that changes today 😄 This week was one of those “lots of small things that act…

Next month, I’ll be in Amsterdam for Laracon EU, and Laravel News will be doing something new.We’ll be live-streaming from the conference, with coverage during breaks and lunch throughout the event. I’ll be hosting the stream, talking with attendees, intervi…

The big news of the day is that Laravel announced they raised a series A of $57 million from Accel. As someone who has been in the ecosystem from the very early days, I find the news both wild and amazing. I always knew Laravel was special, but Taylor's vision is where it r…

A neat little excerpt of me from the filming of the Laravel Origins Documentary. Here are some of the behind scenes photos I took that day: This was super fun to be a part of and thankful to OfferZen for letting me have the chance.

You might be wondering, “How are we three years into the hype and still asking something as basic as ‘What even is AI?’” Well, as we established in the previous post, AI discourse is often like a cable-news shouting match. But it’s also often like late-night freshman dorm philos…

By now, every dev (and business leader) feels some type of way about AI. How could we not? Every time you open the news, listen to a podcast, or visit your favorite social media site, you're hearing something about AI. If you've kept up, you might be burning out; if you haven't,…

A few days back someone sent me a message with an issue on all the old posts on Laravel News. It wasn’t a huge bug but to fix it I had to resync all the posts from the WordPress install and as I was running through them I noticed that all the updated_at dates were then out of sy…

On June 8, 1995 Rasmus Lerdorf open-sourced the code for his "Personal Homepage" and posted it to the news group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Yes, NNTP was hot and famous back in those days! And because Ben Ramsey asked everyone in the PHP community to tell…

The next version of Laravel, which is a LTS release, will be released during and shortly after Laracon EU 2017. Laravel News has published some great articles of changes and new features in the framework. These are some of my personal favourites: Besides the Laravel News article…

In Hacker News alentred asked seeking advice for which technology stack to use for a web app MVP in 2023 “use boring technology – iterate fast – deploy with minimal cost for now”. He added “So, to your taste, what compares in 2023 to the romanticize…

It has been exactly one year to the day since I officially started working on EmberGrep (there was a lot of planning before I settled on the domain but that's how I'm keeping track) Now I have more exciting news to share! Starting next week I will be a Front End Engineering inst…