How I Secured WordPress Media Files by Building My Own Upload Restriction Plugin
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Turning Manual Ops Into a 10-Minute Task
I once turned a 2-week manual data update process into a 10-minute automated pipeline by writing a PHP script that ingested a vendor spreadsheet, norm…
OPC UA from PHP? Yes, with Zero C Extensions — Introducing php-opcua/opcua-client
If you've ever tried to connect a PHP application to industrial machinery — a PLC, a SCADA system, a historian — you've probably hit a wall. The OPC U…
Develop a Pure PHP Face Recognition Application
Face recognition isn’t just for Python or complex AI stacks anymore. You can now implement it in PHP to create efficient web-based solutions for atten…
Why I Wrote a Pixel-by-Pixel Multiply Blend in PHP-GD to Beat Dompdf
A real estate broker came to me with a familiar problem. Every property exposé — the glossy multi-page PDF that goes to potential buyers — was being a…
Laravel Sluggable Package: Finally, Opinionated Slug Generation
So, Laravel News just highlighted the new Laravel Sluggable package for Eloquent models. It's an opinionated, automatic slug generation solution, and …
🚀 Introducing Laravel Shortcodes – Bring WordPress-like Shortcodes to Laravel
I’ve built a Laravel package that introduces shortcode functionality, allowing developers to handle dynamic content in a more flexible and reusable wa…
How I Built a WooCommerce Plugin That Works With Every Page Builder
The Problem I Noticed When I was working on WooCommerce stores for my clients, I kept running into the same frustrating issue — there was no good way …
Fast Atomic Flow: PHP 8.4, Swoole, NATS, Go и Закон Табуна
Как переезд в деревню, рефакторинг жизни и парное программирование с DeepSeek привели к созданию демо на Swoole, NATS и Go. Без купюр и без пони. 🐎 В …
Laravel AI Integration: A Production-Ready Architecture Guide (OpenAI vs Gemini vs Claude)
Every Laravel AI integration starts the same way. You install a package, copy an API key into .env , write a controller method that fires a prompt, an…
Type-safe collections in PHP 8.4: what I wish arrays had
You know the feeling. You're three callbacks deep in array_map , you tack on array_filter , then array_values to fix the keys, and PhpStorm gives up a…
How Architecture Tests Caught a Data Isolation Bug Before It Reached Production
TL;DR: Pest PHP architecture tests let you write your team coding rules as automated tests. Controllers using the DB facade directly? Build fails. Mod…
RulesJson — Convert Laravel Validation Rules to a JSON Request Body Instantly
Every Laravel developer has been there: you finish writing a FormRequest, switch to your API client, and spend the next few minutes manually reconstru…
How to Filter and Sort Posts by Custom Field Value Using JetSmartFilters + Bricks Builder
How to Filter and Sort Posts by Custom Field Value Using JetSmartFilters + Bricks Builder If you've ever tried to let users filter and sort a post lis…
How to Use the `bricks/form/custom_action` Hook in Bricks Builder
How to Use the bricks/form/custom_action Hook in Bricks Builder You can run custom PHP code after a Bricks Builder form submission using the bricks/fo…
Migrating a PHP monolith in production: how I think about it
TL;DR — A security breach took down a site running on a 10-year-old Debian server with an obsolete LAMP stack. No access to the original infrastructur…
I Built a Free All-in-One File Toolkit (No Signup Required)
Hi everyone 👋 I recently built something called Zoeheba — a free, browser-based toolkit for handling everyday file tasks like PDFs, images, and videos…
Redis-backed permissions for high-volume Laravel apps: v4.0.0-beta.1
I just shipped v4.0.0-beta.1 of laravel-permissions-redis , and I want to share both what's in it and the specific problem it exists to solve. The pro…
Symfony Messenger: A Great Servant, But a Terrible Master (Or How Asynchrony Cost Me Half My Beard)
I am a long-time Symfony developer. I love the framework. I use it in countless projects—whether they are large corporate systems, smaller work tasks,…
Best AI Coding Tools for Laravel Developers in 2026
Every "best AI tools 2026" list is written for a JavaScript developer. The benchmarks use React. The screenshots show TypeScript. The winner is always…
Advanced Templating Patterns in Twig 3.24.0
Building reusable UI components in Symfony has historically been a balancing act. On one hand, Symfony provides an incredibly robust backend architect…
Building a Saju Engine: Case Study with Karina's Birth Chart Algorithm
The Data Problem K-pop Poses to Backend Engineers Here's a fun engineering challenge that landed on my desk last year: how do you build a production-g…
11 Middlewares and 6 Traits That Power a Multi-Tenant Laravel SaaS
Every request in a multi-tenant SaaS needs to answer a dozen questions before your controller runs. Which company context? Is the session valid? Is th…
Strauss: The Better Mozart for WordPress Plugin Dependency Isolation
Originally published at recca0120.github.io If you've read the }}">Mozart overview, you know what problem it solves: WordPress plugins share a PHP …
How to Reduce Magento 2 Bootstrap Time by 30%
Every time Magento handles a request, it loads hundreds of PHP classes, registers thousands of event observers, and wires up a plugin chain across the…
Magento 2 Elasticsearch vs OpenSearch: Which to Use in 2026
Magento 2.4.x removed MySQL-based catalog search and made Elasticsearch (or OpenSearch) mandatory. If you're still running MySQL search, you've likely…
Magento 2 Core Web Vitals: How to Score 90+ on PageSpeed
Core Web Vitals are a Google ranking signal and a direct measure of your store's user experience. Most Magento stores score 30–50 on mobile PageSpeed.…
Best Magento 2 Performance Extensions in 2026
Performance extensions are one of the highest-ROI investments you can make on a Magento store. A 1-second improvement in load time can increase conver…
I built a Laravel queue monitoring tool because I got tired of not knowing what my jobs actually do
At some point I realized I don’t really understand what’s going on with my queues. I mean, yeah: jobs are running workers are alive logs exist somewhe…
🚀 I built a real-time security scanner for Laravel
🚀 I built a real-time security scanner for Laravel (and here’s why) Most Laravel developers use tools like PHPStan for code quality. But when it comes…