PHP recap for week 11/2025

From 10/3/2025 to 16/3/2025

Articles #

• PHP RFC: Optional interfaces 103 comments in 1 discussion

• A closer look at how Tempest handles discovery 40 comments in 1 discussion

• PHP RFC: Never Parameters (v2) 40 comments in 1 discussion

• Symfony vs Laravel - A humble request (Part 2) 30 comments in 1 discussion

• What Can You Do with Laravel Middleware? (More Than You Think!) 27 comments in 1 discussion

• Exceptions. Exceptions. Exceptions - They can derail your app 23 comments in 1 discussion

• Repository Testing Done Right 19 comments in 1 discussion

• Symfony vs Laravel - A humble request (Part 3) 17 comments in 2 discussions

• Awesome PHP libraries and hidden gems 17 comments in 1 discussion

• JetBrains Xdebug Helper Browser Extension 10 comments in 1 discussion

• Uri-Interop Now Open For Public Review 3 comments in 1 discussion

• Laravel Typesafe AI responses with Prism and DTOs 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Dynamic error assertions with PHPStan 2 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• Samarium v0.9.4 - Improvements and fixes (PHP code update, DB seeding update, misc) 52 comments in 8 discussions

• PHPoker: The PHP Extension 33 comments in 1 discussion

• NASAStan - a PHPStan extension for enforcing NASA's Power of Ten rules in PHP. 30 comments in 1 discussion

• I made a Blade starter kit 28 comments in 1 discussion

• I made a composer package that uses GPT 4o Mini to write documentation for your Laravel app! It's super cheap cost wise, customisable and skips any generated files allowing top-ups after new files are added! Let me know your feedback <3 20 comments in 1 discussion

• 🚀 Keysmith React - API Key Management for Laravel 12 React Starterkit 6 comments in 1 discussion

Videos #

• 💫 Community-Powered Laravel Starter Kits 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Dynamically resizing images in Laravel 10 comments in 1 discussion

• 🚀 Laravel 12 + React API Token Management – Watch This! 🔑 8 comments in 1 discussion

• Upgrade Laravel 11 to 12 (In 3 Minutes) ⏰ 3 comments in 1 discussion

• 🎬 Catch up on the Laravel Cloud AMA with Cloud team lead Joe Dixon (Summary)

• Get Raw SQL, Record HTTP & Assert Only Invalid in Laravel 11.44 & 12.1