Development
I've been using SaloonPHP for a while and one of the things I've always wanted to improve is when it comes to selecting the integration you want to add a connector, request, plugin etc to. This was a manual typing job and the amount of times
ElePHPants
I was recently sorting through some boxes and stumbled upon some boxes I totally forgot arrived, never-mind open! These boxes contained 5 Sylius ElePHPants and 6 PHPStan ElePHPants. I only intended to order 3 of the latter, but for some reason I placed 2 orders, confirmed with my bank, totally
General
I had a fantastic day at Elvington Airfield Track Day today! This is the 2nd track day I've done, with the first one being Tockwith, which is basically on the other side of York. I went down with 2 friends and we spend several hours at the track,
Development
I'm super proud to announce that Profanify, my Profanity checker for PestPHP, has been added to the core of PestPHP for V4! This isn't something I ever planned on happening, but back in April I got a DM fron Nuno Maduro on Twitter, which then turned
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 of
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
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! š Welcome to my place on the Internet. Iām a PHP Developer, Gamer and Collector of Elephpants.Jon Purvis Well,