Discover how Inertia.js paired with Laravel streamlines SPA development by eliminating the need for separate APIs and complex state management. It offers faster development cycles and a seamless user experience, making it a compelling choice for modern web applications.

This release introduces official support for PHP 8.4. A new Request::fluent() method transforms request input into a Fluent instance, enabling safer and more portable handling of data. The Conditionable trait allows conditional logic in route definitions, while Number::spellOrdinal() lets you spell out ordinals. Arr::last() now supports generics, and HTTP::fake include shorthand options for easier setup. Additionally, SQLite now supports named in-memory databases.

Discover how the new Request::fluent() method in Laravel 11.34 transforms request data into a Fluent object. This update simplifies accessing attributes, moving from $request->input('name') to $data->name, making your code cleaner and more intuitive.

When working with validated data, we can use validated() to retrieve an array of the validated request data.

We can use safe() instead to get a ValidatedInput instance, which has a lot of helpers like only(), except(), and merge(). Additionally, it provides other methods like whenHas() and whenFilled() for conditional logic.

// Retrieve all validated data
$validated = $requestOrValidator->validated();

// Use safe() to access additional helpers
$validated = $requestOrValidator->safe();

// Extract specific fields
$onlyNameAndEmail = $validated->only(['name', 'email']);

// Exclude specific fields
$withoutPassword = $validated->except(['password']);

// Add new fields to the validated data
$mergedData = $validated->merge(['role' => 'member']);

// Conditional handling of specific fields
$validated->whenHas('name', function ($value) {
    // Handle email if it exists
});

$validated->whenFilled('name', function ($value) {
    // Handle name if it’s not empty
});

Three years after its inception, the PHP Foundation now boasts a team of 10 engineers, backed by major companies and the community. Their work has driven PHP's evolution with three major releases, including PHP 8.4, enhancing the language with features like Property Hooks and Lazy Objects. Beyond feature development, the foundation focuses on triaging and fixing issues, handling security reports, reviewing code, updating documentation, and maintaining infrastructure.

Explore machine learning in PHP with Rubix ML by building a simple news classifier. Perfect for beginners, this guide walks through creating a model to categorize articles.

The new accepted RFC proposes enabling closures in constant expressions, allowing their use in class constants, static variables, and attributes.

final class LogEntry
{
     public string $message;
 
     #[Serialize\Custom(static function (string $severity) {
         return \strtoupper($severity);
     })]
     public string $severity;
}

Enhance your enums with cerbero90/enum, offering interesting functionalities like comparison, metadata, hydration, and more, streamlining enum operations in your projects.

Explore browser storage technologies like Cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, OPFS, and WASM SQLite. This guide compares their features, limitations, and performance, offering insights for efficient web application development.

This article explores strategies for helping teams achieve more, emphasizing focus, prioritization, and clear goal-setting. It highlights common productivity pitfalls and actionable lessons, like balancing autonomy with accountability and the importance of simplifying workflows to drive efficiency.