What the 2025 PHP Security Audit Reveals – Why It Matters for Production Systems
The core of PHP, one of the most widely deployed backend technologies, has undergone a security audit in 2025. Here are the results.
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Posts about PHP development.
Why State of PHP 2024 is all about Laravel
The JetBrains team published 'The State of PHP 2024' earlier in February. Read here why it is more a Laravel State instead of PHP.
PHP 8.4 Property Hooks: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Real-World Insights
PHP 8.4 property hooks in practice: best practices, pitfalls with serialization, traits, recursion, and asymmetric visibility - from real-world production use.
Dependency Injection with PHP 8.4's Lazy Objects
Learn how Lazy Objects in PHP 8.4 optimize Dependency Injection. Understand the differences between Lazy Initialization & Lazy Loading.
DMARC: From Theory to Cloud Service – Part 1
In the first part of the DMARC blog series I address the theory behind. Read more about DMARC and the protocols it extends.
A Week of Work
Explore the expertise of a PHP freelance software engineer with over ten years experience. Discover how a week of work is structured.
PHP 8.4: Complete Guide to Release Date and Features
PHP 8.4 was released November 21, 2024. Complete guide covering all new features: array_find, property hooks, new without parentheses, #[Deprecated], bcrypt cost increase, DOM HTMLDocument, and all deprecations.
Laminas Framework Series: Middleware Deep Dive
In Laminas Framework's Mezzio, each incoming request has an associated handler which can get wrapped by middleware.
Mail Injection in PHP: Attacks and Prevention
Email remains the cornerstone of digital communication. However, it is not without vulnerabilities, particularly to mail injection attacks.
Property Hooks RFC for PHP 8.4
The Property Hooks RFC passed the vote and will get added to PHP. This blog post addresses Property Hooks in detail.