Posts tagged with PHP

PHP

PHP PIE: Install PHP Extensions Now That PECL Is Deprecated

For years the answer to "how do I install a PHP extension?" was pecl install something. That answer...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 18, 2026 5 min read

PHP

PHP Enums From the Query String: tryFrom() vs from()

You add ?status=paid filtering to an endpoint, write Status::from($_GET['status']), and it works. Then somebody requests ?status=PAID or ?status=refunded...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 17, 2026 3 min read

Docker

Docker Multi-Stage Builds for PHP: Smaller Laravel Images

Most PHP Docker images are bigger than they need to be for one reason: the image that runs...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 13, 2026 9 min read

Laravel

Laravel Rate Limiting: Throttling Routes Correctly

Laravel rate limiting is easy to switch on and easy to get subtly wrong. A limit that every...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 7, 2026 9 min read

Laravel

Laravel API Versioning & Route Organization at Scale

Laravel API versioning is a decision you make once and live with for years, because the first time...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 6, 2026 6 min read

Laravel

Laravel Route Caching: What Breaks It in Production

Laravel route caching is one of the standard deploy optimizations, and one of the few that can break...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 6, 2026 5 min read

Laravel

Laravel Middleware: Route-Level, Groups & Ordering Pitfalls

Laravel middleware is where most "it works locally but not in production" routing bugs hide: a route that...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 5, 2026 4 min read

Laravel

Laravel Route Model Binding: Implicit, Explicit & Scoped

Laravel route model binding is the reason a resource controller rarely contains a manual Post::findOrFail($id) call. Part 1...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 4, 2026 4 min read

Laravel

Laravel Routing Basics: web.php, api.php & Resource Routes

Laravel routing looks simple until the day you ask "why does this route return a CSRF error" or...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 3, 2026 5 min read

PHP

How to Check if a String is Valid JSON in PHP

Handling JSON data is a daily task for most PHP developers. Whether you're processing API responses, reading configuration...

Dasun Kalupahana

November 8, 2025 2 min read

PHP

PHP Match Expression: A Modern Guide to Cleaner Code

If you’ve been writing PHP for a while, you’re intimately familiar with the switch statement. It's been a...

Dasun Kalupahana

November 7, 2025 3 min read

Laravel

How to Handle Laravel Errors Gracefully with Rescue()

In the dynamic world of web development, things don’t always go according to plan. A third-party API might...

Dasun Kalupahana

October 19, 2025 4 min read