Development
If you use PHPStorm, chances are, you've either heard of or are using the Laravel Idea plugin. Laravel Idea makes developing with Laravel within PHPStorm so much better. Here's a few things it can do: * Smart Laravel-aware autocompletion – Completes routes, views, config keys, translations, Eloquent
Development
This is a follow up post to the first in this mini series where I explore some of my favourite features in the upcoming PHP 8.5, coming in November. The first post explored the Pipe operator: PHP 8.5: Pipe OperatorPHP 8.5 is fast approaching. I wanted to
Development
One of my favourite features of PestPHP is the parallel execution, it makes running test suites so much quicker. I'm so happy when I found out that the feature now also exists for Pint. Now, Pint has always ran pretty quick, but if something can make it even
ElePHPants
I was lucky enough to be able to get to the PHP Arch website in time for Tony (the PHPTEK 2025 conference ElePHPant) to be on sale. I ended up getting 2 so I have 1 for trade! If you want to arrange a trade, please get in touch!
Development
I'm happy to announce that V5 of Faker Stripe has been released! I love working on this package because whilst it may be simple, it's proved its use over the years when working with the Stripe API! It was also one of my first foray into
Conferences
In my Laravel Live post, I totally forgot to mention about the ElePHPant trade I did whilst I was down there! It took a bit of planning, because my fellow trader (Florian Engelhardt) wasn't actually going to be at the conference, so luckily Bobby Bouwmann acted as our
Music
Earlier in the week I headed down to the Co-op Live in Manchester with my good friend Chris for a night of Maiden. This was my 4th time seeing Iron Maiden live, and honestly, they just seem to get better with age. This tour is specifically celebrating 50 years
Conferences
Earlier in week, I headed down to London for Laravel Live 2025. This was the conference I've been looking forward to since the tickets first went on sale, and honestly, the lineup did not disappoint. It's also worth mentioning that this was my very first Laravel
Development
PHP 8.5 is fast approaching. I wanted to look at some of the features I'm most excited about. One of which is, the pipe operator. This makes it easier for developers who need to chain multiple callables who previously may have done something like this: $temp = "
Development
Jetbrains has recently announced that it's hosting an event called PHPVerse on June 17th, and it's a free virtual event to celebrate 30 years of PHP! It falls on a Tuesday, so hopefully I can watch the stream during work. If not, I'm sure
Conferences
You may remember I was thinking about heading down to London to attend Laravel Live UK later this year, thanks to the great time I had at PHPUK Jon PurvisHello! 👋 Welcome to my place on the Internet. I’m a PHP Developer, Gamer and Collector of Elephpants.Jon Purvis Well,
AI
This week, well, mostly today, I've been playing around with Junie for PHPStorm and you know what? It's actually pretty good! I've been waiting for a while for PHP support and I saw on Twitter (sorry, I forgot who Tweeted about it!) that they&