Testing & QA

How to Set Variables in a Laravel Blade Template

Need to create a variable inside a Blade template, calculate a value, and display it without getting an Undefined variable error? You can do it dire…

Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub

How to Fix "Stripe Webhook Signature Verification Failed" in Laravel

If your Laravel application suddenly throws "Stripe webhook signature verification failed" — the Stripe PHP SDK's SignatureVerificationException , u…

WordPress REST API Deep Dive: Custom Routes, Multiple Methods on One Endpoint, and Full CRUD

🚪 Why the WP REST API Deserves Your Attention Every WordPress site already ships with a front door for data. Open yourdomain.com/wp-json/ and you'll…

How I Took ~1,000 Pages From Hundreds of Rich Results Warnings to Zero

The DJ Calendar has about 1,000 pages of structured data: artist pages, tour dates, venues and FAQs. For a while, Google flagged hundreds of Rich Re…

Laravel AI SDK 1.2: Agent Skills, Cohere & Smarter AI Workflows

Laravel AI SDK 1.2: Agent Skills, Cohere & Smarter AI Workflows Artificial intelligence is becoming a practical part of modern web development.…

Building a pay-per-use API platform on shared PHP hosting: no Node, no Docker, no queue

I'm a solo developer in Geneva and I just built Supercalcula API , a small platform of utility APIs sold by usage: QR codes and barcodes, email veri…

How I Got a 1,000-Row Filament Table from 10.9 s to 1.1 s with Canvas

Disclosure: I'm the author of Warp Table, a commercial Filament plugin. The measurements below come from its public demo, which you can use to run t…

Mail::alwaysTo() Guards One Mailer: The Staging Leak It Leaves Open

A few weeks ago I saved a link about keeping test emails away from real users. The plan was simple: add Mail::alwaysTo() to our staging setup and st…

10 Repos, Zero Dependencies: A Production PHP/JS Portfolio

I run The DJ Calendar — a real-time EDM tour date platform that's been in production since 2015. It's a single PHP + vanilla JS codebase with zero f…

This Week in PHP Internals | Oct 8, 2026

PHP's default password hash only reads the first 72 bytes of your password. Last week, a plan to make it refuse anything longer split the list, beca…

Don't blame AI before you check your architecture

Give an AI coding agent a small task: add voucher activation to an existing subscription system. The generated code might look reasonable. The endpo…

Большое тестирование способов запуска PHP

Я провёл бенчмарки различных серверов и режимов запуска PHP: PHP-FPM + Nginx, FrankenPHP (классический и worker-режим), Rapira (классический, worker…

Strangling Procedural Legacy PHP into Laravel

The big bang rewrite is the most confident decision an engineering team can make and one of the worst. The pitch is always reasonable. The current s…

How We Improved Our Website's Mobile PageSpeed Score From 81 to 100

Website performance matters for both users and search engines. We recently worked on our own website and improved its mobile PageSpeed score from 81…

PHP-FPM: The Complete Guide to High-Performance PHP Applications

PHP-FPM: The Complete Guide to High-Performance PHP Applications Introduction PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) has become the backbone of modern PH…

This Week in PHP Internals | Oct 1, 2026

Pick a password longer than 72 bytes for a PHP app on the default hash. PHP keeps the first 72 and throws the rest away, without a word. Then it let…

Вебхук, в котором нельзя работать

Каждое нажатие кнопки в телеграм-боте — это HTTP-запрос от Telegram к вам. Около трёхсот тысяч человек в месяц, у каждого в сессии десятки нажатий,…

OpenSparrow v3.9 - makes the board and calendar fully touch-friendly

OpenSparrow v3.9 makes the board and calendar fully touch-friendly and moves the CRM demo out of the setup wizard. A shared pointer-drag shim brings…

Lean Software Development in Practice: Finding Muda in Four PHP Projects

Lean has one word that I like because it is brutally simple: Muda . Waste. In a factory, waste is often visible. Extra movement. Waiting. Too much i…

Pelican vs Reviactyl v26: Which Pterodactyl Successor Should You Choose in 2026?

Pterodactyl changed the game for self-hosted game server management. For years, it has been one of the most recognizable open-source panels for mana…

Part 01 - Directory Structure of the Application

Source Code Files of this Chapter project-root/ │── public/ │ └── app/ See the final project directory structure project-root ├── app/ │  …

Episode 02: Getting Started with the Laravel AI SDK

The Laravel AI SDK is Laravel's first-party package for building AI-powered application features without turning your codebase into a collection of…

Multiple Image Uploads in WPForms Lite: How I Built Multimage

WPForms Lite is one of the most popular free form builders in WordPress, but it has one gap that keeps coming up: there's no file upload field. If y…

Magento 2.4.6 Lost Support in August: What Waiting Actually Costs

If your store runs Magento 2.4.6, it stopped receiving security patches on 11 August 2026. The one exception is Adobe Commerce, the paid edition, wh…

OpenSparrow v3.8: Roadmap (Gantt) module and new style grid

OpenSparrow v3.8 ships a brand-new Roadmap (Gantt) module and gives the record grid a long-overdue new-style facelift. The roadmap module turns any…

Laravel Is Not As Heavy As You Think

Recently I came across another discussion about Laravel's memory usage and I can't say that it was exactly new to me, I've worked with Laravel and L…

Sandboxing PDF Processing in PHP with Bubblewrap

What happens when your PHP application processes an untrusted PDF with an external binary? Most of us never think about it. A user uploads a file, a…

Laramod: Laravel modules without the magic that still feels magical

Why Every Laravel application starts out tidy. Then it grows, and one day app/Http/Controllers has eighty files in it, billing sits beside the blog,…

How to Check Laravel Page Memory Usage Without Guessing

A Laravel page once started feeling unusually heavy. The server was running, the page was loading, and there was no obvious error. But one question…