Another fantastic week in the PHP and Laravel world. The Laracon FOMO has gone so im glad there was plenty of good articles to read this week.
It's that time of year again, it's the State of Laravel Survey for 2026. Go get this filled in ASAP
Ian and Aaron discuss Aaron Francis's new role as VP of Marketing & Community at Laravel, along with a recap of LaraProm and reflections on what's next for their respective projects and the Mostly Technical podcast.
Learn how to create type-safe configuration classes in Laravel using PHP attributes, readonly properties, and dependency injection. This pattern eliminates magic strings whilst providing better type safety and IDE support for your application's configuration values.
With the latest release of Laravel boost comes project rules, you can now get boost to record your applications conventions. Do you prefer invokable controllers well you can now get boost to record these rules when you tell your agent to remember something.
Laravel 13's hardened cache serialisation defaults can cause subtle bugs where objects return as __PHP_Incomplete_Class instead of throwing exceptions. Learn why this happens with stdClass and Eloquent models, and how to properly configure serializable_classes to avoid cache-related failures.
It's been another packed week in the PHP Internals this week, Len goes through the Deprecations Vote, the Autoloading Vote, Better Errors, Generics and much much more. What a week.
Nuno walks us through a number of security mistakes you might have made in the past and discusses why and how to fix them.
A comprehensive overview of PHP 8.6's upcoming features including partial function application, readonly property defaults, a new polling API, and the clamp function. The release is scheduled for November 19, 2026.
A deep dive into Laravel's Eloquent ORM internals, explaining how it transforms your elegant PHP method chains into SQL queries. Perfect for developers who want to understand the magic behind Eloquent's query builder.
The PHP Foundation and JetBrains have launched the first annual State of PHP census to map the global PHP ecosystem. Complete the 15-minute survey for a chance to win one of five €500 vouchers, with results to be published in an inaugural report charting PHP's worldwide community.
Practical guidance on implementing Laravel 13's hardened cache security in large applications using targeted allow-lists and the handleUnserializableClassUsing method to detect and handle serialisation failures without requiring massive refactoring.
Laravels official LSP has been released, if you're a sublime text user this is definitely one for you!
The official Laravel.com website now runs on Statamic CMS, giving the Laravel team a streamlined publishing workflow that empowers marketing to manage content independently whilst reducing reliance on developers for day-to-day updates.