A practical post on hardening Laravel projects against destructive AI agent behavior. It walks through the PocketOS incident and shows concrete safeguards like deny rules, credential isolation, and production guardrails. Read more
This week, Symfony 6.4.47, 7.4.20, and 8.1.8 were released, along with Symfony Reprise 1.3.0. Meanwhile, we continued introducing Symfony 8.2 features, including OpenID Connect login, PGP/MIME signed and encrypted emails, sudo mode, more flexible serialization…
A video by the Syntax team on why they're using GPUI across more and more of their work. It offers a practical look at what makes GPUI appealing for modern tooling.
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A short video by Justin Jackson on ambition, motivation, and the question of how much you really want something. It looks like a thoughtful prompt for anyone building or creating over the long term.
At Symfony, we're obsessed with performance, and Symfony 8.2 has plenty of examples. Over the last few weeks, Nicolas Grekas profiled the Symfony Demo application and a custom API project, turning every finding into a pull request. The result is faster web…
🎙️ PHP Podcast – October 1, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling It’s John’s birthday, so naturally he skipped. The PHP Foundation is hiring, 8.6 picks up a surprise RC, and the crew goes deep on ABI promises, deprecation pile-ups, generics, and a childhood firefighter who’s still “a hit.” 🎂 John’s Birthday […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.10.01 appeared first on PHP Architect.
A look back at Packagist's first 15 years, from the first Composer experiments to more than 200 billion package installs. It also covers the team's recent supply chain security work and what they're building next. Read more
Serialization groups let you choose which properties to include when serializing an object. You might use one group for public API responses and another for admin exports. Symfony 8.2 adds new ways to configure these groups, and lets controllers and Messenger…
In this episode, Scott talks to Nick Sagona about Pop PHP, a PHP framework that removes the “magic” so your code is easier to understand and maintain. Links: Our Discord – https://discord.gg/aMTxunVx Buy our shirts – https://store.phparch.com/products/community-corner-podcast-t-shirt Nick’s Links: X – https://x.com/popphpframework https://www.popphp.org/ Scott’s Links: Website – https://scott.keck-warren.com/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/scottkeckwarren.bsky.social LinkedIn –…
Ready to take your PHP and Symfony skills to the next level? SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 lands in Poland on November 26-27! Gather with developers worldwide for two high-impact days offering 3 parallel tracks and exciting community events. Mark your calendar…
Recently I wrote about how we use Jev in There There to detect spam, bounces, and automatic replies. Jev reads an incoming email and answers questions we define up front. We keep the probabilities and decide in our own code what counts as a match. The cheap checks on mail headers still run first. That post ended with a promise that we'd find more uses for Jev. Here are two we have since added to There There: smart conditions for workflows, and automatic assignment to a team or person.…
In Symfony, IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY is the strongest check about how users logged in. However, it tells you how the session started, not when. A user who logged in with their password eight hours ago and left the laptop unlocked is still fully authenticated,…
As we have done in past years, The PHP Foundation is opening applications for contractors for 2027. Foundation contractors are responsible for a variety of core development areas, and we are open to hearing your ideas. The application form will be open until October 20, 2026, end of day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Apply Now What are the requirements? Note: This is not a job for PHP developers or aspiring PHP developers. PHP is written in the C programming language, and as such, this role requires…
Symfony 8.1.8 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…