PHP 8.5 will be released next month on November 20th, 2025, and will feature the Pipe operator, a new URI extension, new array functions, and more.

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Rector upgrades rules for Laravel

The State of PHP 2025 examines how developers use, prefer, and rely on PHP, showing how this long-standing web language continues to modernize through new frameworks, improved tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.

The Laravel team released version 12.34.0 this week, introducing a failover queue driver, full-text database search improvements in Laravel Scout, deferring an HTTP client batch, and more.

PHP 8.5 introduces a new standards-compliant URI parser for both RFC 3986 and the WHATWG URL standards. Learn how you can use PHP's built-in URI standards to generate safe, compliant URLs.

our PHP is doing database work. Loading 10,000 orders into memory to sum them up is like using Excel to count grains of rice. Move those calculations to SQL where they belong - let SUM() and COUNT() do the heavy lifting in milliseconds, not megabytes. This episode shows you how to transform memory-hungry collection methods into lightning-fast SQL aggregations.

The new Claude Agent is now seamlessly integrated into JetBrains IDEs via the AI chat and included in the JetBrains AI subscription. No extra plugins, no extra subscriptions—just advanced AI coding assistance right inside your IDE.

Detect packages & approaches in use within a Laravel project with Roster

A lightweight, plug-and-play Laravel package for managing virtual wallets.

Glide for Laravel is a package that provides on-the-fly image manipulation using League/Glide. It offers Blade components for generating responsive images, URL signing for security, and seamless integration with Laravel's filesystem and caching layers.

Laravel's strict validation parameters for numeric, boolean, and integer rules enforce exact type matching rather than allowing PHP's type coercion, preventing string values from passing as proper types during validation.

The Prompt package for Laravel by @chimit provides a simple way to manage your AI prompts in Markdown files, leveraging the power of Blade.

The Laravel team released version 12.33.0 this week, introducing a Stringable doesntContain() method, merging (instead of replacing) HTTP client URL parameters, improved broadcast manager resolution errors, and more.

A simple and elegant way to record metrics in your Laravel application.

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Laravel's toStringable method converts URI objects into Stringable instances, enabling direct string manipulation through method chaining without requiring intermediate Str::of() helper wrapping.

Transform your Laravel dashboard from 400+ queries to just 4 with strategic eager loading and database indexes. Learn how loadMissing() eliminates N+1 queries, composite indexes turn full table scans into lightning-fast lookups, and EXPLAIN commands prove your optimizations work. Real-world fixes that cut response times from 187ms to 53ms without touching your architecture.

The full schedule for this year's Laracon AU has been published.

Laravel Userstamps provides an Eloquent trait which automatically maintains created_by and updated_by columns on your model, populated by the currently authenticated user in your application.

The Laravel team released version 12.32.0 this week with a new HTTP batch method, an "after" rate limiting method to control rate limiting by response, batch job failure callback support, and more.

Learn how to find files in your Laravel feature tests that create database records, but don't refresh the database. These tests can create records that remain in the database and cause intermittent, unexpected database test failures.

Laravel's whereValueBetween method checks if a value falls between two database columns through the query builder, replacing raw SQL and chained conditions with a single expressive method call for column range queries.

Craft CMS just announced on stage at their Dot All conference that they will be moving to Laravel for Craft v6

Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and...