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Is PHP really that bad? Are facades just global state? Is Laravel only useful for beginners? One claim at a time, we tackle all of these unfounded criticisms in our newest Laracasts series: "The Many Misconceptions of Laravel". Ready to watch in full!

What could give PHP a second wind? The TypePHP project from Swoole could become the foundation for a new PHP core and a runtime subset. If not TypePHP, then some other similar project. The idea of PHP being written in PHP, or at least a subset of PHP capable of building PHP, is not new. The Phalcon team came to the same conclusion years ago, and they were absolutely right.

Laravel performance tip: Be careful with `whereDate()` on large tables. It looks clean, but it can make your database apply a function to the column, which may stop the index from being used properly. For bigger tables, prefer a range query. Small change. Big difference at scale.

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@laravelnews I should probably look at that as well

Attention future PHP Ambassadors! You can now join this Special Interest Group if you want to help improve the perception of PHP in spaces outside our bubble. Help us help the community tell the real story of modern PHP development! #php #phpc Read more: thephp.foundation/blog/2026/06/1…

🐘⚡ elephc 0.25 - PHP, compiled to native binaries, now with a real optimizer. New IR-level passes on the EIR backend: identity folding, peephole rewrites, and dead-code elimination over the CFG. Faster binaries, zero runtime deps. Star it! github.com/illegalstudio/…

Best way to test a feature you built? Run it on real repos. So we forked the octokit repos into an org and used our automatic repository linking feature. CodeRabbit now walks the dependency graph on its own and flags cross-repo impact at review time.

At conferences, people keep coming to me, thanking for my videos. It always remotivates me to go on. But also I noticed most of them talk like "back in the day when I started Laravel, your videos were very helpful". Not many talk about NEW videos. Something to think about.

🌟 Symfony UX 3.2.0 and 2.36.1 released ➡️ symfony.com/blog/symfony-u…

The PHP Foundation just announced a new Ecosystem Security Team, funded by a grant from Alpha-Omega, to improve security across PHP open source. Volker Dusch will lead the effort as the Ecosystem AI Security Engineer in Residence at the PHP Foundation, a six-month full-time role, with additional grant funding supporting the team’s broader goals.

Sometimes we forget what we have, untill it's gone It's still amazing @Microsoft is running @github for free for all opensource projects. Just like that. The CI with enormous limits, anyone can add any number of projects Very grateful, thank you 💙

We’ve heard from some users that they find Laravel Cloud managed queue wake-up time too slow. So we’re about to make it way faster. 😘

For over two decades, handling modern web payloads in PHP meant dealing with an uncomfortable compromise. The legacy DOMDocument engine—conceptually frozen in a pre-HTML5 era and bound to rigid libxml2 standards—forced backend engineers to deploy fragile regex patches or unstable userland workarounds just to parse contemporary layouts. With PHP 8.4, that architectural bottleneck is officially broken. 🛠️ By isolating a completely new, opt-in namespace, PHP introduces an independent, spec-compliant ecosystem headlined by the Dom\HTMLDocument engine. This isn't just a minor update—it is a complete paradigm shift for backend engineers who build web scrapers, component sanitizers, or content orchestration pipelines. In our latest deep dive on doPHP.dev, we break down: 🔹 The New Dom\ Namespace: How it separates itself from the legacy libxml2-backed constraints. 🔹 Spec-Compliant HTML5 Parsing: How the native Lexbor integration seamlessly processes modern tag trees and structural variations. 🔹 Native CSS Selectors: Moving beyond verbose XPath queries to interact with elements directly using modern web standards. 🔹 Encoding & Performance Realities: Handling complex character encodings natively without character corruption or performance degradation. If you are designing high-throughput cloud-native architectures, stable parsing shouldn't rely on brittle workarounds. PHP 8.4 elevates DOM manipulation to a core, engine-level capability. 👉 Read the full technical deconstruction here: dophp.dev/posts/the-evol… #PHP #BackendEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #WebDevelopment #HTML5 #doPHP #DevSecOps

Stop catching bugs at runtime. 🛑 Unit tests are reactive, but static analysis is proactive—scanning code before it ever executes to eliminate type errors before production. PHPStan vs. Psalm at Level Max: Which tool reigns supreme for enterprise PHP? 👇 🛠️ PHPStan: 11 levels of strictness rules (up to Level 10) backed by massive ecosystem extensions like Larastan to demystify framework magic. 🛡️ Psalm: Deep type-inferencing matrices paired with native Taint Analysis to track security vulnerabilities from inputs to sinks. In our latest deep dive, we show you how to: • Transition loose arrays into strict, modern PHP Value Objects. • Implement baselines so you can harden legacy apps without breaking momentum. • Drop an airtight DevSecOps quality gate into your GitHub Actions pipeline. Cranking your static analysis to the absolute limit isn't a luxury—it’s an enterprise baseline requirement. Read the full guide, compare the architectures, and steal our configuration templates: dophp.dev/posts/leveling… #PHP #WebDev #SoftwareArchitecture #StaticAnalysis #DevSecOps

A new Laracasts series launches on May 18th! "The Ralph Wiggum Technique" This series goes far deeper than a simple review of the Ralph loop. You'll learn about PRDs, permissions, sandbox rules, hooks, bringing the human into the loop, and more!