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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Rector upgrades rules for Laravel

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.

PHP 8.5 introduces support for closures in constant expressions, making it possible to define a default attribute value as a Closure, among other use-cases. Learn how this update also enables closures to be passed to PHP attributes.

Stop making users wait for cache rebuilds. Laravel 12's flexible caching serves instant responses with stale data while refreshing in the background. Learn the stale-while-revalidate pattern that keeps your dashboard under 10ms even during cache updates.…

The Laravel Nuxt UI Starter Kit is production-ready with Vue 3, Inertia.js v2, Nuxt UI Components, and Tailwind CSS v4.

Stop wasting server resources on junk traffic. Learn how to block invalid requests to your Laravel app using Cloudflare rules, route whitelisting, and smart security practices.

The Laravel team released version 12.35.0 this week, introducing a cache failover driver, deferred queue dispatching, and more.

Eric L. Barnes sits down with James Titcumb to discuss PHP Pie, a new project from the PHP Foundation aimed at modernizing how developers build and run PHP applications.

The Cache UI package for Laravel provides an interactive CLI command to list, search, and delete individual cache keys without requiring the entire cache to be purged. It supports multiple cache drivers, including Redis, File, and Database.

The Hetzner package for Laravel is an elegant, type-safe SDK for managing your Hetzner Cloud servers, DNS, networks, load balancers, and more.

The Credits package for Laravel is a ledger-based Laravel package for managing credit-based systems in your application.

Three identical cache calls is 24ms wasted. Cache::memo() stores results in memory during requests, turning repeated 8ms hits into instant lookups. Eliminate duplicate cache access with just a few lines.

Dedupler is a Laravel package that automatically prevents duplicate files using SHA-1 hashing and provides a polymorphic API for managing your attachments.

The Laravel team released version 12.36.0 this week, adding concurrency control for HTTP pool and batch methods, introducing two Eloquent collection methods, and more.

Learn how to use MongoDB’s multi-document ACID transactions in Laravel to build fast, flexible, and reliable applications. This guide covers setup, real-world examples, best practices, and when to use transactions versus embedded documents.

Forerunner for Laravel is a package that provides a migration-inspired API for defining JSON schemas that ensure your LLM responses are perfectly structured every time.