PHP recap for week 16/2025

From 14/4/2025 to 20/4/2025

Articles #

• Just hit 300,000 installs on my little PHP package 🎉 62 comments in 1 discussion

• PhpStorm 2025.1 Is Now Available 46 comments in 1 discussion

• LangChain alternative for PHP developers 24 comments in 1 discussion

• Locale-Aware Compact Number Formatting in PHP with NumberFormatter 14 comments in 1 discussion

• Laravel 12.9 Introduces Memoized Cache Driver 7 comments in 1 discussion

• New writeup: a vulnerability in PHP's extract() function allows attackers to trigger a double-free, which in turn allows arbitrary code execution (native code) 6 comments in 1 discussion

• PHP Error Types Explained - Warnings, Notices, Fatal Errors, etc. 4 comments in 1 discussion

• Easy LLM Integration for Laravel: MCP Server Package 4 comments in 1 discussion

• TinyAuth and CakePHP authorization plugin (part 2/2)

Releases #

• A new #phpstan capability which will be available with the upcoming release: Remembered types from constructor 3 comments in 1 discussion

Projects #

• I made a tiny PHPUnit extension for PSR-7, XML/HTML and JSON assertions 8 comments in 1 discussion

• [Symfony Bundle] Entity Kit Bundle 7 comments in 2 discussions

• Show HN: ElephantShadow: PHP for SSR of Webcomponents in declarative shadow DOM

Videos #

• Data modeling a course platform with Laravel and Stripe 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Model except(), assertThrowsNothing & Arr::sole() in Laravel 12.4 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Full Stack Instagram Clone with Laravel and MongoDB – Tutorial