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What My Livewire Honeypot Caught in Its First 60 Hours

We all know adding a honeypot to a contact form is a must when trying to stop spam from bots, In this post Helge talks gives us the low down on Livewire Honeypot. A package he created that masquerades as a vulnerable Laravel/Livewire application. It's a really interesting package and insight into seeing exploits being captured on your application.

A Redis-first alternative to spatie/laravel-permission, benchmarked

A detailed technical deep-dive into building a Redis-based Laravel permissions package that achieves 10x performance improvements over the popular spatie/laravel-permission package. Includes comprehensive benchmarks and explains the optimization approach of storing user-role-permission mappings in Redis SETs instead of database queries.

You can have your composer.lock and not make others eat it too!

If you're thinking of building a package and have always wondered how to best keep that bloat down when users install it. You dont want them installing your tests and other files that are not needed. Kevin shows us by using the .gitattributes file how we can achieve this

Open/Closed Principle in Practice: The Strategy + Resolver Pattern in Laravel

Have you ever done a big refactor and thought great this code is great, only to come back to it a week later and ask yourself what would happen if we added a third thing to this what impact would that mean what would need to change. Well Elisha did just that and thanks to this post you can find out more about the open/closed part of the solid principle.

Are multiline short closures coming to PHP?

Are we finally going to get Multiline Short Closures in PHP??? A new RFC has landed and Brent walks us through it. Will this finally be the time.

Service Layer vs Action Pattern vs Jobs in Laravel

It's very easy to start your application off and throw everything into the controllers and before you know it you have super large controllers that are messy to work with and difficult to change. Maybe its time to think about structuring your code In this post Adriana walks us through Service Layers, Action Patterns and using Laravel Jobs to help better structure your code.

Laravel Upsert 1M Rows into MySQL from CSV: 5 Ways with Benchmarks

We all love a good refactor and finding ways we can improve our import scripts particularly when it comes to dealing with Large CSVs is always a winner. Povilas shows us 5 different setups and benchmarks each one. Which is is faster at importing 1M Rows. lets see,

Implement SAML SSO Authentication in Laravel Filament with Socialite

Build a Streaming AI Chat with Livewire and SSE - Ship AI with Laravel EP7

This episode Harris builds a realtime Chat UI so the customers can chat and get real time word by word responses from the AI Agent, so they dont have to sit there and wait for it to string together its response before sending it back.

The Ecosystem Security Team at The PHP Foundation

The PHPFoundation have recently received a grant to invest in security which is a great thing. Brent sits down and talks to Volker about his new role for the next 6 months.