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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…

PHP Enums From the Query String: tryFrom() vs from()

You add ?status=paid filtering to an endpoint, write Status::from($_GET['status']) , and it works. Then somebody requests ?status=PAID or ?status=re…

FrontEdit vs Frontpen vs LiveCMS: Picking a WordPress Front-End Editor by Stack

Originally published at livecms.io . Updated October 8, 2026. Disclosure: I build LiveCMS. If you build WordPress sites for clients, you've had this…

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…

Три месяца pet‑проекта: 450 Telegram‑каналов стримеров, 20 тысяч строк PHP и 1 рубль в день

Летом я сделал сайт, который собирает публичные Telegram‑каналы российских стримеров в одну ленту. Идея была простая: я подписан…

OpenSparrow v4.2 adds native Excel export, column masking for viewers

OpenSparrow v4.2 adds native Excel export, column masking for viewers, and record‑tooltips in drilldowns — plus a handful of UI polish and stability…

The controller that does nothing: thin controllers via FormRequests, resources, and route-model bind

Here's my entire user-management controller. Five endpoints, and the longest method is four lines: class UserController extends Controller { public…

My API has exactly five failure shapes: the exception renders that keep every error JSON

Nothing erodes frontend trust faster than an API that answers JSON on success and HTML on failure. Your React code parses the happy path fine, then…

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…

How to Fix PSR-4 Autoloading Issues in Laravel

When working on a Laravel project, you may encounter warnings when running composer dump-autoload . These warnings often indicate that your model or…

How I Built a Multilingual Instagram Downloader with Pure PHP (No Framework)

Most developers reach for Laravel or Symfony when starting a PHP project. I went the opposite direction — I built iGram.pk , a free Instagram downlo…

Show r/php: I built a zero-config, single-file PHP DB Client (No Composer required!)

Title: Show r/php: I built a zero-config, single-file PHP DB Client (No Composer required!) Hi everyone, I'm a student developer from South Korea. W…

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…

Creation of dynamic property is deprecated: fixing the most common PHP 8.2 warning in WordPress

If your WordPress site moved to PHP 8.2 or newer, there's a good chance your debug.log is full of this: PHP Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property…

Laravel retry_after vs timeout vs backoff: The Three Numbers Behind Duplicate Queue Jobs

A customer gets charged twice. A report email goes out three times. The logs show App\Jobs\SyncInvoice has been attempted too many times even though…

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…

Thinking in Yii3: How the Framework Fits Together

If you come from Yii2, the first thing you'll look for in Yii3 is Yii::$app . It isn't there. There's no global application object, no base Controll…

Building Your First CRUD App in Yii3: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

I've been using Yii3 in a few side projects, and most "first CRUD" tutorials out there are still about Laravel. So here's one for Yii3. If you come…

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…

Доставка вебхуков: повторы, дубли и ещё три источника проблем

Получатель записал заказ в базу, но соединение оборвалось до того, как отправитель получил ответ. Повторить вебхук — рискнуть вторым заказом, не пов…

ShowDoc 3.9.2 and the username field that ends up as PHP

ShowDoc 3.9.2 and the username field that ends up as PHP Chinese security firm QiAnXin published QVD-2026-61708 on 4 September 2026. The advisory co…

Image Optimization and WebP Basics — Why WebP Is Smaller, and How Browsers Decide to Use It

It's often cited that the biggest drag on WordPress page speed isn't code at all — it's images. The same-looking photo can end up dramatically small…

Sending And Receiving Webhooks In Laravel

A customer deploys their app at 14:00. Their webhook endpoint is down for four minutes while it happens. Your app sends them invoice.paid at 14:01,…