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Understand the key differences between Laravel observers and event listeners. Observers react to Eloquent model events like created, updated, or deleted, making them ideal for encapsulating model-specific logic. Event listeners work at a broader application level and are better suited for decoupled, reusable logic triggered by custom or system-wide events. This guide helps you choose the right tool for your use case with clear examples.

Learn how to build a robust and scalable reservation system in Laravel using atomic locks and generated database columns. Instead of using timestamps or additional columns to manage task coordination, leverages Laravel’s built-in cache lock mechanism and enhances it by modeling “reservations” on polymorphic relationships. Ensuring no timing collisions even across multiple workers. A clean, scalable approach to distributed locking in Laravel.

This release dispatches NotificationFailed events on send failures, and introduces typed getters for Arr helper. It also supports function and const imports in @use directive and allows limiting the number of assets to preload.

A sneak peek at Laravel’s upcoming monitoring tool: easy to install, beautifully designed, and packed with features like exception tracking, performance insights, and slow route detection.

Collection::fromJson() method allows you to effortlessly convert JSON strings into Collection instances. This is particularly useful when handling JSON responses from APIs or reading JSON data from files.

$json = '[{"product": "Laptop", "price": 1200}, {"product": "Phone", "price": 800}]';

$collection = Collection::fromJson($json);

PHP developers can now join the Model Context Protocol (MCP) movement with the first native, framework-agnostic MCP server for PHP. Easily define tools and resources using PHP 8 attributes. A Laravel-specific wrapper is available too: php-mcp/laravel.

Nested classes aim to improve code organization by allowing class definitions within other classes, supporting encapsulation and common design patterns like Builders and DTOs, while maintaining explicit data flow.

PHP 8.5 will introduce array_first() and array_last(), simplifying retrieval of first and last array elements without affecting internal pointers, addressing the limitations of reset() and end().

Laravel Horizon Watcher automatically restarts Horizon when local PHP files change, streamlining development by minimizing manual restarts and debugging hassles.

The article highlights Privacy by Design principles, emphasizing data protection in logging, audit logs, and preventing brute force attacks. It stresses avoiding personal data exposure in filenames and ensuring secure data sharing practices.

Explore the importance of file structure in project maintainability, comparing type-based vs. context/process-based organization. Understand how context-driven design enhances clarity, domain alignment, and team collaboration.