Need a XAMPP Alternative?

Hey fellow PHP devs,

If you’re still using XAMPP or getting annoyed with Laragon’s license pop-ups, you might want to check this out.

I built PyAMPP, a lightweight Windows tool that works similarly to XAMPP or Laragon, but with a more streamlined setup and less overhead. It allows you to quickly install and manage Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin through a simple interface without dealing with complicated configuration.

I originally made this because I got tired of local server tools breaking or acting up, so I learned how to set up my own stack and eventually turned it into a reusable tool.

If you’re working with PHP or Laravel and want something straightforward and fast for local development, feel free to try it out.

GITHUB: https://github.com/rdevz-ph/PyAMPP-Windows
DOCUMENTATION: https://rdevz-ph.github.io/PyAMPP-Windows/

Feedback is welcome.

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Laramap List View
https://laramap.dev/

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Symfony Kit For Developers - Last Updates

Hi guys!


Last post doing auto-promo of the extension. I do not want to spam.


So have uploaded the latest version, also I have published the repo

https://github.com/andrescevp/symfony-kit-for-developers


It is the public site and will be used to coordinate bugs, questions, features requests, and insider program


The website is in https://andrescevp.github.io/symfony-kit-for-developers/


Hope this can evolve as I expect, and hope you guys found the extension usefull.


Have great dev journey!

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Symfony Kit For Developers - Last Updates
/r/symfony/comments/1svvr1w/symfony_kit_for_developers_last_updates/

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kreuzcrawl, an open source crawling engine with PHP bindings

kreuzcrawl is a high-performance web crawling engine. It was designed to reliably extract structured data, operating natively across multiple languages without enforcing a specific runtime. More details: https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzcrawl.

The MCP server is integrated from the start, enabling web-crawling AI agents as a primary use case. Streaming crawl events allow real-time progress tracking. Batch operations handle hundreds of URLs concurrently and tolerate partial failures. Browser rendering supports JavaScript-heavy SPAs and includes WAF detection.


Supported language interfaces are Rust, Python, Node.js, Go, Ruby, Java, C#, PHP, Elixir, WASM, and C FFI, and each binding connects directly to the core engine.
Kreuzcrawl is part of the Kreuzberg org: https://kreuzberg.dev/

We welcome your feedback and would be happy to hear how you plan to use it



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A Week of Symfony #1008 (April 20–26, 2026)
https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-1008-april-20-26-2026?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Redesigned my Stopwatch profiler with ui.sh (before/after)

Bought a ui.sh license a few months back. Closed the tab, forgot about it. Sat down with it properly this week and ended up rewriting the HTML render of one of my packages in an evening. Left side of the image is 0.4.x. Right side is what I tagged today.

before\/after

It's a small Laravel profiler I maintain (SanderMuller/Stopwatch). You drop checkpoints, it shows where time went. The render had been the same plain table forever. On my "tomorrow" list for at least a year.

You describe what you want, you get 2–3 directions back, you pick one. First round is usually whatever, by round 3 or 4 I was tweaking actual details. It noticed I had CSS variables in the file and themed around them instead of replacing them, which I appreciated.

Iterations aren't mockups either. Sometimes you get a screenshot, sometimes a carousel of live versions you can actually click through. At one point a tooltip kept misaligning, turned out a parent transform was making a new containing block, and we ended up restructuring the DOM.

Went in just wanting visual polish, ended up adding a bunch of stuff I hadn't planned. Overview bar with per-checkpoint segments. Tiered slow highlighting. A light/dark toggle. A clipboard button that copies a Markdown summary so I can paste slow profiles into Claude. Half of those came from the tool nudging me — like, it suggested theme support and I realized yeah, I'd actually use that. Also inline-styled with hex fallbacks so the same render works in notification emails, which was a pain.

If you use /ui or ui.sh, what do you point it at? I've mostly done component-level things, would love to hear if anyone's used it for marketing pages or full app shells, and whether you've found an iteration workflow that holds up. I kept losing track of which round had the best version of which detail. Felt like I needed git for screenshots.

If you haven't tried it, what's stopping you? Price, generic-AI-design vibes, prefer to write the CSS yourself?

Paying customer, not affiliated.

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Weekly Ask Anything Thread

Feel free to ask any questions you think may not warrant a post. Asking for help here is also fine.

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Scramble 0.13.21 – Laravel API documentation generator update: JSON:API support, `toResource` and `toResourceCollection` support, Laravel Query Builder improvements
https://scramble.dedoc.co/blog/scrambledrop-scramble-01321

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Symfony Insight Adds 11 New Rules
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-insight-adds-11-new-rules?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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PHPArkitect 1.0 is out. Curious how people approach architecture testing in PHP these days

Just tagged 1.0 of PHPArkitect after a long stretch of small releases, and figured I'd post here partly to share it and partly because I'm genuinely curious about how (or whether) people use this kind of tool.

If you haven't seen it: it's a way to write architectural rules as PHP code and fail your CI when something violates them. Stuff like "nothing in App\Domain is allowed to depend on App\Infrastructure" or "all controllers' class name must end in Controller".

A rule looks like this:

  Rule::allClasses()
      ->that(new ResideInOneOfTheseNamespaces('App\Domain'))
      ->should(new NotHaveDependencyOutsideNamespace('App\Domain'))
      ->because('we want to protect our domain from external dependencies');

The 1.0 mostly cleans things up rather than adding huge new features. Baseline matching is smarter, PHP core classes (Exception, DateTime, PDO...) are auto-excluded so you stop having to list them in every rule, there's HaveTrait /NotHaveTrait, IsNotA, recursive in excludePath, and catch / @throws are now picked up as dependencies. PHP 7 support is gone and the PHAR build was hardened with php-scoper.

Repo if you want to poke around:
https://github.com/phparkitect/arkitect

What I'd actually like to know:

- Anyone here using PHPArkitect, Deptrac, or rolling something custom?
- If you do use one, what did you mainly use it for? What problem were you actually trying to solve?
- If you tried one and stopped, what was the breaking point?

I have my own theories but they're probably biased, so happy to be told I'm wrong

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Playwright - Record the tests to generate the code
https://youtu.be/WAtQ_ALQv5c

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Weekly help thread

Hey there!

This subreddit isn't meant for help threads, though there's one exception to the rule: in this thread you can ask anything you want PHP related, someone will probably be able to help you out!

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PHP library 'gd' and 'sodium' not found
/r/termux/comments/1sx23k2/php_library_gd_and_sodium_not_found/

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GitHub Copilot cambia su modelo de precios en mayo 2026: ¿qué significa para los desarrolladores?

GitHub Copilot cambia su modelo de precios en mayo 2026: ¿qué significa para los desarrolladores?



GitHub ha anunciado cambios significativos en GitHub Copilot que entrarán en vigor durante mayo 2026. La compañía pasa a un esquema más orientado al uso real, ante el fuerte aumento de costos generado por los nuevos flujos de trabajo agénticos.



Principales cambios:



*Se pausan las nuevas suscripciones a los planes Pro, Pro+ y Student.

*Se endurecen los límites de uso en los planes existentes.

*El modelo Opus de Anthropic desaparece del plan Pro (10 USD/mes) y solo estará disponible en Pro+ (39 USD/mes).



Según documentos internos, el costo semanal de operar Copilot se ha duplicado desde enero 2026. Una sola sesión agéntica puede consumir más recursos que docenas de autocompletados tradicionales, lo que ha llevado a que algunos usuarios de 10 dólares mensuales generen costos de cientos de dólares por semana.



La buena noticia para los usuarios actuales:

Los suscriptores existentes de Copilot Pro mantienen su acceso sin modificaciones en sus condiciones actuales. Los cambios afectan principalmente a nuevos suscriptores y a los límites de uso futuros.



Microsoft y GitHub justifican estas medidas como necesarias para “proteger la experiencia de los clientes existentes” ante el explosivo crecimiento del consumo de IA.



¿Estás usando Copilot? ¿Cómo crees que te afectará este cambio?



\#GitHubCopilot #GitHub #InteligenciaArtificial #Desarrolladores

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Implementing BCrypt in pure PHP - Handling 32-bit logic on 64-bit systems

Hey everyone, I’m currently writing my Bachelor’s thesis, which is actually a continuation of a project started by a previous student. Their work covered several other cryptographic primitives and the whole thing was built in Laravel, so I’m stuck implementing BCrypt in pure PHP to keep everything consistent within that same codebase.

The main issue is that BCrypt is fundamentally built on 32-bit unsigned integer math, but modern PHP uses 64-bit signed integers. I’m having a hard time figuring out the cleanest way to handle the overflows so that the variables wrap around exactly like they would in C. If they don't, the internal state of the P-array and S-boxes gets totally messed up.

I’ve been looking at a few ways to handle this. One option is to just use bitwise masks like & 0xFFFFFFFF after every single addition, XOR, or shift. It seems like the most direct way to force a 32-bit state, but I’m worried my code is going to look like a total mess of masks for my final submission. I’ve also thought about using modulo math to handle the wrap-around, but I’ve heard that can get pretty weird in PHP when dealing with negative results or very large integers.

The other headache is that PHP doesn't have a native unsigned right shift (>>>). I’m trying to simulate it by shifting and then manually clearing the sign bit with a mask, but I’m worried about the performance and accuracy since the algorithm has to do thousands of iterations for the key schedule.

If you were in my shoes and had to stay within PHP to match the existing Laravel setup, how would you go about the 32-bit manipulation? Would you stick to heavy masking, try to abstract it into helper methods, or is there some other way to handle low-level bitwise stuff that I’m missing? I’d really appreciate any insight from people who have messed with this kind of thing before. Thanks!

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RAG with Embeddings and pgvector in Laravel 13 - Ship AI with Laravel EP5
https://youtu.be/YsoljfwizTI

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Deployer V8
https://deployer.org/blog/deployer-v8

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Phalanx - managed async PHP 8.4+

Curious what ya'll think here

https://phalanx-php.com/

This is an ongoing idea I've been building since late 2024. Nights and weekends, then AI really hit, so it's been a back burner for me, but I really think async PHP is full of untapped potential. Don't be surprised if you find bugs, Ive got a couple apps in prod that work great but it's been a lot of work/ground to cover - I'm interested in the POC so it's worth it:

E.g.

PHP AI lib:

https://github.com/phalanx-php/phalanx-athena

PHP dev server (w/buns help):

https://github.com/phalanx-php/phalanx-skopos

PHP Networking:

https://github.com/phalanx-php/phalanx-argos

UI (inertia with a twist, uses tanstack start/query):

https://github.com/phalanx-php/phalanx-eidolon

Some are very early development, likely best to ignore them:

Terminal

CDP

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Is the PHP market shifting or just stalling? My experience trying on moving to Scandinavia

Hi everyone,

I wanted to get a temperature check on the current PHP job market. I’ve been working primarily with Symfony and Laravel (handling high-transaction systems, CQRS, and microservices), but lately, finding quality PHP roles—let alone getting an interview—has felt like a bit of an uphill battle.

I'm currently preparing for a move from Portugal to the Lund/Copenhagen area (Øresund region) in September. While I see a lot of talk about PHP's "renaissance" with the 8.x improvements, and the new libraries appearing but the actual job boards seem to be dominated by Go, Node, Java or C(#,++...).

A few things I’m curious about:

1. Market Sentiment: For those of you in Europe (especially the Nordics/Denmark), are you seeing a decline in new PHP projects, or is it just that companies are hiding these roles behind recruiters/referrals?
2. The "AI Filter" Struggle: Is anyone else feeling that their CV gets "ghosted" by AI filters despite having solid production experience? I’ve been trying to bypass the "black hole" of LinkedIn applications by looking for direct referrals (what feels impossible to get too -_-), as the traditional route feels broken right now.
3. Future-Proofing: Are you guys sticking strictly to PHP, or are you finding that you must pivot to Go or Python to stay relevant in the high-performance backend space? (I've personally started building my side projects in Go/Python to bridge this gap, even trying node.....).
4. Are we becoming the "maintenance-only" crew?

I love the PHP ecosystem and the speed of delivery it offers, but the "no-interview" streak is starting to make me wonder if the market is moving away from it faster than we'd like to admit.

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Laravel Shield

Just released a new project: Laravel Shield

While working with Laravel, I noticed that many developers only think about security after something goes wrong. I wanted to change that by building a tool that encourages a more proactive approach.

Laravel Shield is a package that scans Laravel applications to help identify potential security issues early in development.

What it offers:

Scans your codebase for common security risks
Highlights insecure patterns and bad practices
Provides output in both console and JSON formats
Helps developers understand and improve application security

The goal is simple: make security awareness part of the development process, not an afterthought.

This project is especially useful for developers who are learning Laravel security or building production-ready applications.

Repository:
https://github.com/Mana007777/Laravel-Shield

Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome.

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