Building Laravel NATS: A Modern, Production-Ready NATS Integration for Laravel
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Stop Wrestling with cURL: Meet glassnode-php, an Unofficial Glassnode SDK for PHP
Integrating on-chain metrics into a PHP product should not require every developer to become an HTTP error-handling specialist first. Yet that is ofte…
Constraining the Agent: What I Learned Wiring MCP Into a Legacy System
Notes from January 2026, when giving an AI agent live database access still felt reckless. Written for engineers who are about to do this, and for the…
I created a Laravel package to generate clean API modules
Hi everyone,I just released my first package — strides/laravel-api-module.The idea was simple: stop copying the same boilerplate code every time you c…
Ebook Reviewer Wanted: Help Me Find What's Gone Stale
Technical books have a shelf life that nobody prints on the cover. A cookbook from 2018 still works. A history book from 2018 still works. A Laravel b…
Why Developers Are Choosing Advanced PHP Technology Over Newer Languages in 2026
Key Takeaways PHP 8.x is genuinely fast. JIT compilation brought real-world performance improvements that close the gap with languages that were previ…
The Ideal Cart: 5 Design Patterns That Earn Their Keep (and 2 Refused)
It all starts with a review question. I was reworking my notes on the Design Patterns book , the Gang of Four one, with examples that all came from th…
Building AI Agents in PHP: Tool Calling with Laravel
The problem: chat that can only talk The chatbot from earlier in this series can answer questions, but ask it "how many orders did we ship yesterday?"…
The Foundations and Bricks of the Web World
Technology popularity and longevity don’t always walk hand in hand. We often look for successors to legacy technologies, hoping that newer solutions w…
RAG in Laravel: Embeddings and pgvector for a Knowledge-Base Bot
In the last post we streamed AI responses over SSE. Now let's fix the problem every chatbot hits in week one: the model doesn't know your data. Ask it…
Streaming AI Responses in Laravel with Server-Sent Events
In the first post of this series we built a working AI chatbot in Laravel. It had one problem every user notices immediately: you send a message, then…
Why Your PHP Form Is Not Working — 5 Common Bugs Fixed
💡 TL;DR A broken PHP form almost always comes down to one of five things: wrong method attribute, a mismatched name on your input, checking $_POST wit…
This Week In PHP Internals | July 15, 2026
Hello world, it's Wednesday, July 15, 2026, and here's what happened This Week in PHP Internals. This week's episode is brought to you by Tideways . S…
Building a Complex WordPress Platform from Scratch
Hi my name is Perceval Hasselman and I'm and Building a simple WordPress website is one thing. Building a scalable platform with user accounts, custom…
Built a GDPR cookie-consent package for Laravel (Blade/Livewire/React) — looking for feedback
I've been building LaraGDPR, a cookie consent + cookie management package for Laravel — configurable consent banner and granular per-category preferen…
Why Laravel's Service Container Feels Like Magic: Dependency Injection Explained
1. Hook & Problem Statement You’ve been there. You're building a Laravel application, and everything is going smoothly. You type Route::get('/orde…
PHP Attributes Can Help Your Docs, But They Won’t Save Them
PHP attributes are a useful documentation tool, but they are a terrible documentation strategy on their own. That is the short version. The appeal is …
A Free CBT Equation Editor for Math & Chemistry
While building a Computer-Based Testing (CBT) platform, I ran into an unexpected problem. Creating mathematics and chemistry questions wasn't nearly a…
Building a Driver-Based Cooldown Manager for Laravel
Most Laravel applications eventually need some form of cooldown . Not request throttling—but actual action cooldowns. Examples include: Password reset…
How I Made Sajha (and why I think Nepal needed it)
The itch that started it I kept ending up in the same spot: something would happen — a hot take, a weird news story, a trending debate — and I'd have …
A pending-plugin-count badge on the 🔌 button — reusing the dashboard cache instead of doubling state
A client asked: " After I run a cross-site update check, can each site show — right in the site list — how many plugin updates are still pending? " Vi…
The Session ID That Wouldn't Stop Changing
I was implementing a feature where the session container would track a lastActivity timestamp, updated on every authenticated request. Standard stuff.…
Generate, read, and merge PDFs in PHP — no GPL, no FPDI
Every PHP project eventually needs a PDF — an invoice, a ticket, a report, a signed contract. And every time, you hit the same two walls: Generating P…
After 20 Years of PHP, I Built the Framework I Always Wanted
For more than 20 years I've worked as a PHP developer, building everything from small websites to larger business applications. During that time I've …
Laravel Nightwatch: First-Party APM and What It Actually Replaces
Book: Decoupled PHP — Clean and Hexagonal Architecture for Applications That Outlive the Framework Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Comple…
Laravel Precognition: Live Validation That Reuses Your Backend Rules
Book: Decoupled PHP — Clean and Hexagonal Architecture for Applications That Outlive the Framework Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Comple…
Symfony: Validating & Secure your API Requests
When you build an API, the first line of defense isn't your firewall or your database — it's the request itself. Every payload that hits your controll…
This Week In PHP Internals | July 1, 2026
Hello world, it's Canada Day 2026, and here's what happened This Week in PHP Internals. This week's episode is supported by OurCVEs . Hundreds of CVEs…
Stop Writing the Same Laravel Boilerplate: Generate a Complete Module with One Artisan Command
Stop Writing the Same Laravel Boilerplate: Generate a Complete Module with One Artisan Command Every Laravel developer has experienced this. You start…
The Paywall That Wasn't: Debugging a 919-Video Leak on WordPress
The ticket was three sentences long: "Some paid members can't play the on-demand videos. They log in, click a video, and still get told they need a me…