#PHP

25 articles

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language. Explore PHP 8 features, modern coding practices, performance optimization, and integration with various frameworks and tools.

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Common Mistakes When Using AI to Write Production Code in Laravel

A practical guide to the biggest mistakes teams make when using AI to write production Laravel and PHP code, including domain context, authorization, queries, failure paths, and operability.

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Jun 30, 2026

Using AI for PHP Code Review: Limits, Risks, and Safe Workflow Design

A practical guide to using AI for PHP and Laravel code review, covering mechanical findings, review prompts, quality illusions, maintainer checklists, and real workflow risks.

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Jun 17, 2026

Laravel Herd Deep Dive: The Ultimate Native Development Environment

A comprehensive guide to Laravel Herd - the native development tool for macOS and Windows. Installation, configuration, multiple PHP versions, services, and comparison with other solutions.

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May 10, 2026

Laravel Octane with FrankenPHP: 10x Application Performance

Complete guide to installing and optimizing Laravel Octane with FrankenPHP, performance comparison with Swoole and RoadRunner, with real-world benchmarks.

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May 1, 2026

Prompt Engineering for PHP Developers: A Practical Guide

Learn prompt engineering from a PHP developer's perspective. System prompts, structured output, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, tool use patterns, and real Laravel integration examples that reduce API costs and improve reliability.

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Apr 30, 2026

PHPStan in Practice: Static Analysis for Laravel Projects

Set up PHPStan with Larastan for real Laravel projects. Configuration, custom rules, baseline strategy, CI integration, and fixing the most common issues in controllers, Eloquent models, and service classes.

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Apr 28, 2026

Model Context Protocol (MCP) in PHP: Connecting AI to Your Application

Understand MCP — the open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources. Build an MCP server in PHP that exposes your Laravel app's capabilities to AI assistants.

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Apr 23, 2026

PHP Fibers & Async Programming: Beyond the Request-Response Cycle

Understand PHP Fibers (PHP 8.1+), cooperative multitasking, async HTTP calls, and how frameworks like Laravel Octane and ReactPHP leverage them.

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Apr 16, 2026

Deploy Laravel to AWS via Console (Part 2): EC2 with Amazon Linux 2023 — Nginx + PHP-FPM from Scratch

Launch an EC2 instance via the Console with Amazon Linux 2023, SSH in, install Nginx + PHP-FPM 8.4, set up Supervisor for queues, and deploy Laravel manually.

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Apr 3, 2026

Deploy Laravel to AWS (Part 2): EC2 with Amazon Linux 2023 — Nginx + PHP-FPM from Scratch

Launch an EC2 instance with Amazon Linux 2023, install and configure Nginx + PHP-FPM 8.4, set up Supervisor for queues, and deploy a Laravel app manually for the first time.

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Mar 27, 2026

Docker Dev Environment (Part 3): PHP-FPM, Multiple Databases & Dev Tools

Complete the Docker dev environment with multi-version PHP-FPM containers, MySQL 5.7/8.0/8.4, Adminer, Mailpit for email testing, and a Makefile workflow for daily development.

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Mar 25, 2026

What's New in Laravel 13: A Complete Overview

Explore all the new features, improvements, and breaking changes in Laravel 13 — from revamped starter kits, typed Eloquent, to major performance gains.

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Mar 25, 2026

Docker Dev Environment (Part 1): Architecture — One Proxy to Rule Them All

Build a Docker-based local development environment that handles multiple PHP projects, multiple PHP versions, databases, and dev tools — all through a single Nginx reverse proxy.

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Mar 23, 2026

Mutation Testing with Infection PHP: Beyond 100% Coverage

100% Test Coverage doesn't guarantee safe code. Mutation Testing helps verify the quality of your tests themselves by intentionally injecting bugs into the code.

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Mar 7, 2026

Pest PHP: Modern Testing Framework for Laravel

Master Pest PHP testing framework with expressive syntax, data sets, and higher-order tests to write cleaner, more maintainable test suites.

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Feb 15, 2026

Simplifying Data Mapping with PHP 8 Attributes

Refactor your data mapping logic by leveraging PHP 8 Attributes to declaratively map Markdown frontmatter to DTO properties.

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Feb 13, 2026

Extending CommonMark in Laravel: Custom Syntax & Highlighting

Deep dive into League/CommonMark extensions. Create custom renderers for alerts, custom blocks, and integrate Shiki for syntax highlighting.

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Feb 12, 2026

Clean Code with Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) in Laravel

Stop passing associative arrays everywhere. Use PHP 8.2 readonly classes to create type-safe, immutable Data Transfer Objects in your Laravel applications.

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Feb 12, 2026