October 19, 2025 — PHP’s parse_url was not compliant with RFC 3986 (generic, permissive URIs) or WHATWG URL (browser-style URLs), leading to inconsistent behavior, interoperability problems with tools like cURL, and subtle security issues such as parsing confusion.

October 8, 2025 — Imagine a responsive hero image that becomes more transparent as the viewport gets narrower, helping text readability on small screens or a card that scales up slightly as the viewport grows, adding a subtle polish.

October 1, 2025 — The pipe operator (|>) in PHP 8.5 is a powerful addition that allows for a more functional programming style by enabling the chaining of operations clearly and concisely. It takes the result of an expression on its left and passes it as the first argument to the function or method on its right.

September 19, 2025 — Laravel’s cache system is a powerful tool that allows developers to store and retrieve data quickly, improving the performance of their applications. Usually, caching is done using various drivers like Redis, Memcached, Database or even the file system.

August 27, 2025 — If you are a PHP developer, you might have heard about or worked with Spatie’s Ray, a popular debugging tool that allows you to send debug information from your PHP applications to a desktop app for easy inspection at some point.

August 18, 2025 — I recently came across this video by Kamran Ahmed, where he demonstrates how to resize any DOM element using just two lines of CSS. And I was like, “What the heck, how did I not know about this all this time?”

August 10, 2025 — The team behind Chrome has been on a roll when it comes to shipping cool yet useful features over the past few months. Last May, they shipped the support for the new if() function in CSS and, before that, tools to help write better with AI, among other things.

August 5, 2025 — Designing PDFs that look great is a hassle. There are very few apps that do it right. Automating PDF generation from those good designs is even harder.

July 15, 2025 — As every year, we will have the new version of PHP this year too, which is PHP 8.5. It’s the minor version in the PHP 8 line, and the version will be released later this year. Let’s discuss everything that has been added in PHP 8.5 so far.

July 5, 2025 — When writing functions or methods in PHP, we often return values that are crucial for the caller to handle. Usually, those returned values need to be consumed. Check the following example.