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The first release candidate of PHP 8.6.0, RC3 is out and ready for testing, while The PIE team announced the release of the PHP Installer for Extensions 1.5 series. In Tutorials, we have guides for How to Add Multiple Languages to Laravel + Inertia.js Without Managing Translations Twice, Creating complex UI with a class library in PHP, and how to fix the 'There Has Been a Critical Error on This Website' in WordPress. Finally in our Reading section, we have articles on SQL Essentials: The Core Concepts Every Software Developer Should Know, How I Prove a Symfony Application Really Forgot a Customer, and Patching Elementor Pro doesn't remove the webshell. Check before you close the ticket.
We have all that and more, so we do hope you enjoy this week's newsletter. If you have an article, tutorial or podcast that you would like to be featured in our newsletter, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected].
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Articles
Beauty of code and the Template Method in PHP
Here is what you will read about in this article: SOLID principles with a focus on Open/Closed principle, inheritance, design patterns.
PHP 8.5 Green Threads: The Native Concurrency of PHP | DeoLang
For years, Node.js and Go developers mocked PHP for being rigidly synchronous. That era is officially dead. Welcome to the dawn of native PHP green threads.
Nobody runs PHPStan cold
PHPStan 2.3 came out last week with a blog post titled a leap in performance, and my timeline lit up.
A Developer’s Checklist for Choosing a WhatsApp Plugin for WordPress
Clients ask for “WhatsApp on the website” all the time. Before you install the first plugin you find, run it through this checklist. It takes ten minutes and saves a painful migration later.
WooCommerce Variations Not Showing? A 10-Step Debugging Checklist
You add sizes or colors to a WooCommerce product, save it, and open the page. No dropdowns. Or the dropdowns show but a choice is greyed out. Or you get "Sorry, no products matched your selection."
PHP 8.6: The Features That Matter and What Can Break When You Upgrade
My short take: PHP 8.6 is a release with one language feature that changes how everyday code reads — partial function application — plus a handful of small, well-designed additions and a long list of tightened edges.
Authentication vs Authorization in Laravel: What’s the Difference?
Once this becomes clear, Laravel’s auth middleware, Gates, Policies, Sanctum, and permission systems all start fitting together naturally.
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Tutorials and Talks
Laravel Fake Assertions Now Accept Property Arrays
Checking which job was pushed, or which event or notification was sent, usually means writing a callback that compares each property. Starting in Laravel 13.35, the Queue, Bus, Event, and Notification fakes accept an array of expected property values in place of that callback.
Create complex UI with a class library in PHP
In the PHP ecosystem, there are many attempts to build application UIs using a class library.
'There Has Been a Critical Error on This Website' in WordPress: How to Fix It
"There has been a critical error on this website" means PHP hit a fatal error, almost always right after a plugin, theme or PHP version update.
Create complex UI with a class library in PHP
Despite the rise of JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular, building the UI on the backend is still a common feature in many web applications.
A 15-line middleware and one database column: roles without the ceremony
Every SaaS needs roles. The tutorial answer is a roles table, a permissions table, two pivot tables, a seeder for each, and a policy class before you've written a single feature. For an indie-scale app with two roles — admin and user — I went the other way: one string column and a 15-line middleware. Here is the whole thing, and why it's enough.
Laravel + Vite: A Simple Guide to Frontend Asset Configuration
Vite provides a fast development server with Hot Module Replacement (HMR), allowing developers to see frontend changes without manually refreshing the entire page in many cases.
Multi-Tenancy in Laravel: How to Design and Build Scalable SaaS Applications
Imagine you are building a SaaS application. One company signs up. Then another company signs up. Then another. All of them use the same application, but their data must remain completely separate.
How to Add Multiple Languages to Laravel + Inertia.js Without Managing Translations Twice
Laravel has always made localization fairly straightforward. You create your language files, define translation keys, and use Laravel’s __() helper wherever you need translated text. |
News and Announcements
Route::query() and Model defaults() in Laravel 13.35
The Laravel team released v13.35.0 with Route::query() for HTTP QUERY routes, an opt-in defaults() method for Eloquent models, property arrays in the queue, bus, event, and notification fake assertions, percentage memory limits for queue:work, two scheduler additions for multi-server setups and deploys, and more.
PHP 8.6.0 RC3 available for testing
The PHP team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of PHP 8.6.0, RC3. This continues the PHP 8.6 release cycle, whose rough outline is specified in the PHP Wiki.
October 5–11, 2026 - A Week of Symfony #1032
This week, we published new articles about upcoming Symfony 8.2 features, including targeted Cache-Control, relative ordering for listeners and services, the compiled event dispatcher, the three new validation constraints, and single-use signed URLs. Meanwhile, Symfony 8.2 development continued at a rapid pace, introducing features such as workflows defined with PHP attributes, a new Lock attribute to reject or delay concurrent requests, and a RecorderHttpClient to record and replay HTTP exchanges. Finally, we unveiled more talks for SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026.
PIE 1.5 Released
The PIE team is pleased to announce the release of the PHP Installer for Extensions 1.5 series, which has been in the works for around five months. There has been significant work gone into some internal improvements which has enabled us to deliver several long-awaited features for the tool. Lets dive into a few of these new features!
Your Tool Has a New Reader
Every PHP tool that prints to a terminal now has two readers, and most of us have only been writing for one of them.
This Week In PHP Internals | Oct 8, 2026
PHP's default password hash only reads the first 72 bytes of your password, and last week's plan to make it refuse anything longer split the list over backward compatibility. This week Sjoerd Langkemper set that RFC aside and proposed PASSWORD_BCRYPT_SHA256 instead: opt-in, nothing breaks, and borrowed from Python's Passlib. Plus: two RFCs back in voting (ending PEAR's endorsement, and IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter), Time\Instant's answer on JSON, Io\Terminal v0.4 without its interfaces, Matthieu Napoli's single binary for the CLI and FPM, a safety review of Jakub Zelenka's IO Hooks, and Karoly Negyesi's implements … by.
SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026
The ultimate gathering for PHP enthusiasts is heading to Poland! On November 26-27, SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 delivers two full days of technical insights, 3 parallel tracks, and rich networking opportunities. Reserve your seat with the global community!
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Podcasts and Vlogs
Laravel News: Memoized Caches, Building a Social Network, and Classification
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
The Stack Overflow: Keep calm and call clone with Rust
Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as developers' most loved language by providing psychological safety for complex systems.
Maintainable Podcast: Gabriela Moreira: When 800 Tests Aren’t Enough
A large test suite should make developers feel safer changing software. Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint, has recently experienced something quite different: a new codebase grew from roughly 200 tests to 800 with the help of AI, yet she found herself trusting the suite less and manually verifying behavior more.
Software Engineering Radio: SE Radio 741: Sahil Walia on Schema Changes and Data Migrations
Shail Walia, a senior technical architect at Snowflake, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about schema migration and data migration.
Shoptalk Show: 736: Building Design Systems Using AI with TJ Pitre
TJ Pitre joins us to talk AI in design systems, building and maintaining component libraries, the evolution of modular CSS and component workflows, connecting Figma and code, keeping components in sync across tools and teams, human review in AI-assisted workflows, Storybook, MCP tools, evals, and decision models like Jev for choosing components.
WP Builds: 484 – Behind the scenes of PressConf: the business-focused WordPress event coming to Europe
Today the podcast focused on PressConf, an in-person event designed for business owners in the WordPress ecosystem, now making its European debut in Barcelona from October 27–30.
Laravel Podcast: Eric Barnes Lives a Dream Life, Launching PHP News
The Laravel Podcast is brought to you by Tighten, your friendly neighborhood Laravel experts. Check us out at tighten.com and also by other sponsors you will hear about later in the episode.
Mostly Technical: 153: 13 Billion Tokens
Ian and Aaron discuss Ian's trip to NYC to see the Amp crew, Aaron's weekend getaway, fighting online with Jesse Bentley, and craziest of all - should Ian 'Laravel New' Outro?
Syntax: The Pi Updates are insane
Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are dead in favor of issues.
The Changelog: From zero to NanoClaw
Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo, joins Adam to explain how a 40-hour weekend project became a viral open source hit and the foundation of an enterprise AI company.
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SQL Essentials: The Core Concepts Every Software Developer Should Know
You don’t need to memorize hundreds of SQL commands to become a good developer. But you should understand the fundamentals and know how to use them efficiently.
Patching Elementor Pro doesn't remove the webshell. Check before you close the ticket.
Elementor shipped the fix for CVE-2026-32475 on August 19. Attackers started exploiting it the same day, and Wordfence blocked more than 190,000 attempts in the first five days. If your site ran Elementor Pro 4.2.1 or earlier during that window, updating is the second thing to do. The first is finding out whether someone got there before you.
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 Controller with a dozen magic properties, and no components array.
My plugin passed every check. It still didn't work.
We built a WordPress plugin. The idea was simple: you publish a post on your blog, and a couple of minutes later an announcement goes out to your social networks automatically. Headline, image, link. About two thousand lines of code. A small project, I thought.
How I Prove a Symfony Application Really Forgot a Customer
An integration-test strategy for Doctrine, projections, queues and caches — because “the command succeeded” proves almost nothing.
Integrals: Where I Learned Web Development by Doing It
At the beginning of 2016 I was a student at Georgian Technical University, studying the construction of roads, streets and railways. It was a technical field, but not informatics. I had been writing code on my own for a while, and that winter I decided it was time to do it for money.
A Customer’s Wallet Balance Was Off by $50 — Here’s Why
The one-line Laravel bug that loses money and never throws an error.
We Ported Apache XMLBeans to PHP — Here’s Why Enterprise XML Deserves Better
XML isn’t going anywhere. SOAP services, EDI pipelines, B2B data exchange, configuration systems, document workflows — enterprise PHP still runs on XML. And the tooling for working with it has barely changed in 20 years.
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
voku/agent-map
Compact PHP repository symbol maps for coding-agent navigation.
ichtrojan/laravel-otp
A simple package to generate and validate OTPs.
sapientpro/image-comparator
Compare images using PHP..
devonab/filament-easy-footer
A simple plugin to display a customizable footer in your filament application!
mischiefcollective/colorjizz
Classes for manipulating colors, converting to different formats and finding color harmonies.
bkvfoundry/utility-belt
A set of helpful utilities for working with data, collections (arrays of arrays) and arrays in php.
cleaniquecoders/traitify
Traitify is a Laravel package designed to streamline and enhance your development process by providing a collection of reusable traits and contracts.
fooman/emailattachments-implementation-m2
Automatically attach pdf and terms and conditions documents to outgoing sales emails.
devtheorem/php-handlebars
A blazing fast, spec-compliant PHP implementation of Handlebars.
timoschinkel/codeowners
A parser and matcher for the codeowners file as used by Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket.
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