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SOLID Principles in PHP: Practical Examples for Better Code Quality

01October 8, 2025 · 16 min readArchitecture

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SOLID Principles in PHP: Practical Examples for Better

Demonstrates each SOLID principle with before/after PHP refactoring examples, showing how they reduce coupling and increase cohesion.

PHP
SOLID
Architecture
Refactoring
OOP

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Newest production notes across Laravel, PHP, databases, security, performance, debugging, and release work.

47September 22, 2025 · 15 min readTooling

Building a PHP Package for Packagist: From Scratch

Full guide to designing, testing, documenting, and publishing a PHP library on Packagist with SemVer and GitHub releases.

PHP
Composer
Packagist
Tooling

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48August 11, 2025 · 16 min readTooling

PHP Observability: Logging, Tracing & Metrics

Implements the three pillars of observability in PHP - structured logging, distributed tracing, and Prometheus metrics with OTEL PHP SDK.

PHP
OpenTelemetry
Observability
Logging

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49July 30, 2025 · 17 min readSymfony

Symfony 7 Migration Guide: What Changed and How to Upgrade

Step-by-step upgrade path from Symfony 6 to 7 - breaking changes, removed components, new features, and automated migration tools.

Symfony
Migration
PHP
Composer

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50June 18, 2025 · 16 min readCore PHP

PHP Type System Mastery: Union, Intersection & Never Types

Comprehensive guide to PHP's evolving type system - union, nullable, intersection, never, and void types with strict mode best practices.

PHP
Core PHP
Type System
Union Types

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51May 2, 2025 · 14 min readLaravel

Laravel Reverb: Build Real-Time WebSocket Apps Without

Introduces Laravel's first-party WebSocket server - setup, horizontal scaling, authentication, and broadcasting channel integration.

Laravel
Reverb
WebSockets
Broadcasting

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52April 7, 2025 · 15 min readDatabase

Database Indexing Strategies for PHP Apps: B-Trees

Explains index types, covering indexes, partial indexes, and full-text search with practical MySQL and PostgreSQL PHP examples.

Database
PHP
MySQL
PostgreSQL

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53March 25, 2025 · 14 min readAPIs

PHP and AI: Integrating ChatGPT & Claude APIs Into Your

Practical tutorial for calling LLM APIs from PHP - streaming responses, function calling, context management, and cost optimization.

PHP
OpenAI
ChatGPT
Claude

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54February 14, 2025 · 15 min readTooling

Modern PHP Development Workflow: Git, CI/CD, Docker

End-to-end guide for a professional PHP dev workflow - feature branches, automated tests, Docker builds, and zero-downtime deploys.

PHP
Git
CI/CD
Docker

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Production contextArticles focus on live-application problems: slow queries, fragile releases, unclear ownership, failed jobs, admin workflow friction, and code paths that are hard to review.
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