A collection of posts about Web Development, whether it be problems I've faced, solutions I've found, cool stuff I've been trying out or new projects I'm working on.
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One of my favourite talks at Laravel Live UK earlier this year was a talk by James Titcumb about PiePHP, a project he's working on for The PHP Foundation which serves as a replacement for PECL and makes it easier to work with PHP extensions. Since that talk,
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Every year, Jetbrains run a survey called The State of PHP and it's a way to collect information, from all around the world, about how PHP is getting used. I look forward to this every year as I find the data fascinating to go through! Jetbrains do their
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Did you know that composer has a setup command, in which you can define commands in your composer.json file to help users get started once they've pulled down your app for the first time? Taylor Otwell recently added this to the Laravel composer.json file, which makes
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I've been using Laravel Forge for a couple of years now and it has always been an amazing product. It takes so much stress out of managing servers, believe me, I've been there and done it! Laravel have given Laravel Forge a lot of love recently
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Nuno Maduro recently dropped his own starter kit for Laravel applications recently so I took it for a spin! I largely agree with the direction of it, aside from one point which I'll get onto in a bit. If we take a look at the repo, you'
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Recently, the Laravel team launched the beta of the Laravel MCP package. The idea of the package is to aid the development of building MCP servers for your applications. This is the 2nd first party AI focused package that the team has released, the first of which was Laravel Boost
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Redacting data in models is important, depending on your application. If someone chooses to delete their account, you may wish to retain some of the data for analytics, whilst removing some PII such as name, email address, phone number etc. Recently, my friend Ash Allen launched a new Composer package
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It's a happy day for Laravel and Filament fans because Filament v4 is now stable. I took some time to have a look at the next major version of Filament and what it introduces and comment on some of my favourite things. For a full write-up, the
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I'm super proud to announce that Profanify, my Profanity checker for PestPHP, has been added to the core of PestPHP for V4! This isn't something I ever planned on happening, but back in April I got a DM fron Nuno Maduro on Twitter, which then turned
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This week, I took Laravel Boost for a spin. Boost is a new package by Laravel that, in their own words: "Accelerates AI-assisted development by providing the essential context and structure that AI needs to generate high-quality, Laravel-specific code using any agent." Essentially, the package
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This is the 3rd in my mini series, exploring some of the features of PHP 8.5, which is coming in November. Previously we explored the Pipe operator and the new --diff flag for php ini: PHP 8.5: Pipe OperatorPHP 8.5 is fast approaching. I wanted to look
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If you use PHPStorm, chances are, you've either heard of or are using the Laravel Idea plugin. Laravel Idea makes developing with Laravel within PHPStorm so much better. Here's a few things it can do: * Smart Laravel-aware autocompletion – Completes routes, views, config keys, translations, Eloquent