431 Episodes
PHP Racing
December is often a time of celebrations around the world. Various holidays are recognized depending on your region, culture, or religion. One thing that remains consistent during this time is our ded...
The PHP Podcast 2025.12.18
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PHPStorm new release, PHPek and why going to a conference is still fire, Laravel Advent Calendar, what does your GitHub year look like?, and mo...
Why Your PHP Dates Keep Breaking (And How to Fix It)
If you’ve ever spent hours debugging a date-related bug only to discover that some code somewhere modified a DateTime object you thought was safe, you know the pain. DateTime in PHP is mutable...
The PHP Podcast 2025.12.11
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric, Sara, and John talk about Clamp, Preloading, NativePHP v2, the end of Fleet, Waymo Cars DDOS, and more… Links from the show: PHP: rfc:clamp_v2 PHP:...
Relational Databases Made Simple
If you’re building web apps with PHP, you are almost certainly using a relational database, even if you call it “MySQL” or “Postgres” and rarely think about the theory...
The PHP Podcast 2025.12.04
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PhpStorm Plugins, Open-source IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains AMA, PHP Foundation looking for a Executive Direstor, watch John NOT mention Eric in his...
The PHP Podcast 2025.11.20
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PHP 8.5 released and we discuss what’s new, and more… Links from the show: What’s new in PHP 8.5 in terms of performance, debuggin...
PHP 8.5 Explodes Onto The Scene
Welcome to the November edition of PHP Architect. As we near the end of the year, November provides a nice time to pause, reflect, and have a sense of appreciation. We’re not shy about expressin...
The Secret Header That Makes Your PHP App 10x More Secure
As developers in the year 2025, keeping our systems and applications secure is of the utmost importance. One of the most common ways that attackers can make our applications less secur...
The PHP Podcast 2025.11.13
The PHP Podcast streams the recording of this podcast live, typically every Thursday at 3 PM PT. Come join us and subscribe to our YouTube channel. X: https://x.com/phparch Mastodon: https://phparch...
The PHP Podcast 2025.11.06
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about PHPTek 2026, JSTek 2026, the new PHP 8.5 Release Page, the PHP Foundation Blog is getting good, the Year 2038 problem, Craft moves to Laravel,...
The PHP Podcast 2025.10.30
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Longhorn, JSTek, PHP 8.5 Website Design, the User Group Meetup, and more. Links from the show: Why are you so obsessed with me? #vonage #meangir...
Stop Manual Refactoring: Automate Your PHP Upgrades with Rector
One of the more challenging parts of coding is making sure we’re constantly refactoring our code to make it easier to maintain. It’s also a pain to try and keep up with all of the deprec...
Boo, It’s PHP!
Welcome to the October edition of PHP Architect. This month is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so in addition to our Security Corner column, which always has a security focus, there will be security th...
The PHP Podcast 2025.10.16 with Nuno Maduro
In this special live episode of The PHP Podcast, hosts Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon welcome the legendary Nuno Maduro from the Laravel Core Team — live and in person! This episode is packed wi...
The PHP Podcast 2025.10.09
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about NativePHP Mobile, EAV Database Models, PHP Tek 2026 CFP coming to and end, Fun Simpson API, and more… Links from the show: Thank...
The PHP Podcast 2025.10.02
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Scott’s PHP 8.5 review, Alive and Kicking’s first live stream, PHP Foundation’s call for design, the new Laravel Forge...
What’s New in PHP 8.5? (Release Date + Must-Know Features)
At the time of this writing, PHP 8.5 is in the release candidate cycle, so we can finally start to discuss what’s new in the next release of PHP. In this video, we’ll discuss the...
The PHP Podcast 2025.09.25 with Guest James Seconde
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Special guest James Seconde, CTO who don’t like PHP, AI, and more… Links from the show: Reddit – The heart of the internet 2...
PHP Secrets
Welcome to the September Edition of PHP Architect. This month, we are moving closer to the Fall season here in the U.S., when the long days start to fade and cooler weather eases in…a transition of so...
