PHP version stats (June 2025 edition)
Brent is back with another update on the usage of PHP versions.
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Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases original
In this post, I'll share how I'm using PHPStan's type aliases feature to make validation rule typehints more readable and maintainable in our Laravel application.
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How to use Enum Cases in Laravel | How to | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at the cases function on Enums.
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How to use one-time passwords in Laravel
A nice video from Povilas on our newest pacakage
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What sets Tempest apart as a framework for modern PHP development
Brent is doing some interesting stuff here.
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PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument in Diffs
With PHP 8.4’s release, we have a new Dom\HTMLDocument class that makes working with HTML documents easier and more standards-compliant, while fixing some long-standing bugs in the old DOMDocument class.
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15 Lesser known Spatie Laravel Packages and Projects
Povilas from Laravel Daily made a cool video about our packages.
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A package to handle one-time passwords (OTP) in Laravel apps original
Our new package gives you everything you need to build a secure one-time password auth flow.
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Do not call toArray() to get all items from a Laravel Collection
Something that you’ll need to often is casting the collection back to a regular array. Like me, you might be tempted to use toArray() for this. But that might be the wrong method to call.
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PHP Benchmarks: 8.4 performance is steady compared to 8.3 and 8.2
Tests performed by Tideways show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application.
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Simplifying work with custom stubs in Laravel
– blog.genijaho.dev - submitted by Geni Jaho
Stubs are fake implementations of interfaces or classes that simulate the behavior of real services.
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A package to handle passkeys in Laravel original
I’m proud to announce that we’ve released a new package called spatie/laravel-passkeys that makes adding passkeys to a Laravel app as easy as it can be.
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Introducing PHP Operators
Here's a fun little sideproject from my colleague Seb. This web app is built with Laravel, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS. Content is stored in Markdown files and loaded with our sheets package.
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Settling the File Structure Debate
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Group by type or context / process? One of these methods will crush your project's growth. Find out which!
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Unorthodox decoration
– muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari
Everyone knows the classic decorator pattern—but have you met its duck-typed cousin? Discover how to extend Laravel behavior without interfaces, the clever way.
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Think of an Elephpant -
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
Find out how we can champion PHP as a community and help bring it to the attention of more developers
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Type Preferences
– liamduckett.com - submitted by Liam
A short post about my preferences around type safety and static analysis.
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Laravel Observers vs Event Listeners: What’s the Difference?
– bert.gent - submitted by Bert De Swaef
If you’ve been working with Laravel for a little while, you’ve probably come across observers and event listeners. But what is the difference?
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Optimize Bulk Insertions with Laravel's New fillAndInsert() Method
Laravel’s new fillAndInsert() method enables bulk insertions while applying model casting, timestamps, and UUID generation.
Read more [www.harrisrafto.eu]
Running PHP tests in parallel on GitHub actions original
A couple of years ago, Laravel introduced a great feature which allows to run PHPUnit / Pest tests in parallel. This results in a big boost in performance.
By default, it determines the concurrency level by taking a look at the number of CPU cores your machine has. So, if you're using a modern Mac that has 10 CPU cores, it will run 10 tests at the same time, greatly cutting down on the time your testsuite needs to run completely.
A default runner on GitHub doesn't have that many cores, so you can't leverage parallel testing as good as in your typical local environments.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you a way of running your tests on GitHub, by splitting them up in small chunks that can run concurrently.
We use this technique at Oh Dear to cut down the running time of our vast testsuite from 16 minutes to only just 4. In this blog post all examples will come from the Oh Dear code base.
