A concise explanation of ADRs: short documents that capture an important decision, the context behind it, and its consequences. Good practical advice on keeping them lightweight, readable, and useful over time. Read more
Every Laravel RAG tutorial builds the same ingestion pipeline (chunk, embed, store) and stops the moment the agent answers on screen. None of them check whether retrieval is any good. But retrieval quality is decided at ingestion, before the model runs once, and four decisions there fail with no error, no exception, no failed test: Chunking that severs the answer mid-sentence, so answer@1 falls while source hit@1 still looks healthy. An HNSW index built with vector_l2_ops while you query with…
Symfony UX 3.2.0 and 2.36.1 are now available. Both releases fix two security issues, one in UX Icons and one in UX Toolkit, so every application using these packages should upgrade as soon as possible. On top of the security fixes, version 3.2.0 ships several…
Symfony AI is approaching its 1.0 release — so let’s take a tour. In this first post of this series, we introduce the Platform component — the foundation layer that connects your PHP application to the world of AI. The AI landscape is fragmented. Every provider…
Affected versions Symfony UX Icons versions >=2.17.0=3.0.0<3.2.0 are affected by this security issue. The issue has been fixed in Symfony UX Icons 2.36.1, 3.2.0. Description The ux_icon() Twig function is marked is_safe=['html'],…
Affected versions Symfony UX Toolkit versions >=2.32.0=3.0.0<3.2.0 are affected by this security issue. The issue has been fixed in Symfony UX Toolkit 2.36.1, 3.2.0. Description The ux:install console command installs files from a…
We are excited to announce that we have scheduled the first meeting for the PHP Ambassador Program! This is the second Special Interest Group launched by The PHP Foundation, and we are inviting you to be a part of it. As mentioned in our 2026 Strategy document, this group will be focused on improving the perception of PHP outside the PHP bubble. It will center on external advocacy and empowering the community to help tell the story of modern PHP in whatever capacity makes sense for them.…
SymfonyDay Montreal 2026 is officially a wrap, and what an incredible edition it was on June 4th! A full day packed with inspiring conferences, deep-dive tech insights, and above all, the immense joy of bringing the local Symfony community together.…
How we use class-based Laravel Pennant features, with a kill switch on every flag and a config-driven path to general availability. Read more
🎙️ PHP Podcast – June 17, 2026 Hosts: Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling | Guests: Paul Reinheimer & Sean Coates Eric and John are still locked in the basement. Sara is literally on a boat in Spain. Normal show, totally normal. 🚢 Sara Broadcasts from a Harbor in A Coruña Sara is joining this week’s […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.06.17 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Video version at: https://youtu.be/gAVfQhPw8Do A few weeks ago, I posted something on LinkedIn that ruffled some feathers. Here’s what I said: “Defaulting to the ORM for everything isn’t a best practice. It’s just the path of least resistance.” The replies came in fast, and a good chunk of them said the same thing: “That’s unsafe! […] The post Why skipping Eloquent doesn’t mean skipping SQL injection protection appeared first on PHP Architect.
Bert De Swaef shows how PHP attributes made his Livewire components easier to read by attaching validation, URL sync, and event listeners directly to the properties and methods they belong to. Nice piece on how attributes reduce mental overhead, improve IDE support, and make components feel more self-documenting. Read more
Earlier this week, I announced the Symfony 8.1 edition of The Fast Track. If you made it to the end of that post, you read that the book was available in five languages. That line is already out of date, and I could not be happier about it. The Symfony 8.1…