In this episode, Scott talks with Tessa Kriesel about #DevRel and her talk at #phptek 2025. PHP Tek is looking for sponsors! Contact see https://phptek.io/blog/elevate-your-brand-sponsorship-phptek-2025 for more information. Links: HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Molly’s Social Media: Website – https://www.tessakriesel.com Twitter – https://x.com/tessak22 LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessak22/ Scott’s Social Media: Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social Mastodon […] The post Community Corner: DevRel With Tessa ..read more

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Laravel Enums, Serialization, json_decode, Bye Bye to Skype, and more. Links from the show: Buffer Overflow in Laravel: Causes, Prevention & Fixes – DEV Community The death of Skype: when it closes and what you need to do Avoid This Laravel Enum Trap: Learn How […] The post The PHP Podcast: 2025.03.13 Unadvisable Unserializing appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

This week, a client complained about a long-running query, and we needed to fix it. While I can’t divulge the actual query, I can give an idea of its nastiness, which we inherited when we took over the project. The query itself doesn’t matter, so don’t overanalyze it. ( SELECT a.permission_ID, CONCAT(h.name, ' - ', […] The post This Week At PHP Architect: Optimizing A Query appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

 This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Explain Explained, Postgres All The Things, Livewire Remote Code Execution, Lazy Object, and more… Links from the show: Understanding MySQL Queries with Explain I replaced my entire tech stack with Postgres… – YouTube RCE Via User-Crafted Requests · Advisory · livewire/volt · GitHub […] The post The PHP Podcast: 2025.03.06 Explaining Explain appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

In this episode, Scott talks with TJ Miller about Prism “a powerful Laravel package for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into your applications”. PHP Tek is looking for sponsors! See https://phptek.io/blog/elevate-your-brand-sponsorship-phptek-2025 for more information. Links: Prism Website – https://prism.echolabs.dev/ HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx TJ’s Social Media: Twitter – https://x.com/heytjmiller Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/tjmiller.bsky.social […] The post Community Corner: Prism With TJ Miller appeared first on PHP Arc ..read more

Markdown for Developers One of my guiding principles as a developer is that our ability to communicate is one of the most important tools we developers have in our toolbox. There are lots of ways we communicate with others in code, documentation, and blog posts. What we need is a way to write our documentation […] The post Markdown for Developers appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Laravel 12 released, Laravel.cloud released, and more… Links from the show: Laravel 12: A Quiet Evolution That Packs a Punch | ICreator Studio – Premium Admin Templates & Web Solutions Laravel – The PHP Framework For Web Artisans https://cloud.laravel.com/sign-up Built for Devs: We Fast-Track […] The post The PHP Podcast: 2025.02.27 appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

This month, PHP Architect introduces a new column written by Chris Hartjes (aka Grumpy Programmer) titled, Yelling at Clouds. The post Yelling at Clouds appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

Git. It’s the lifeblood of modern software development. After several years of navigating through code repositories and juggling various project versions, it’s easy for seasoned developers to settle into a comfortable routine with familiar tools. Git, the ubiquitous version control system, is no exception to this rule. It’s a tool that many of us use […] The post Git New appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more

The social networking landscape has changed so dramatically in the past five years. It’s challenging to keep up with. When you get on a new social network, one of the first hurdles you have is to figure out who’s on that network you would be interested in following. A while back, I created a GitHub […] The post Kick Start Your Bluesky Experience appeared first on PHP Architect ..read more