This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP Tek 2025, the PHP Foundation’s security audit of PHP source code, Git’s 20th anniversary, getting jaked with Jaked PHP, and more.

Links from the show:

• PHP Core Security Audit Results — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
• The PHP Foundation — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
• PHP: News Archive – 2025
• Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds – YouTube
• PHP: rfc:true_async
• Jacked PHP | PHP Architect

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In this episode, we talk to Jack Polifka about the web development courses he teaches and his talks at phptek 2025.

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about pgAdmin Vulnerability, NativePHP, Laravel UUID Package, PHP Tek Sponsors announces, and more…

Links from the show:

• PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
• Critical pgAdmin Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Remote Code
• NativePHP for desktop v1 is finally here! · NativePHP · Discussion #547 · GitHub
• NativePHP | Baking Delicious Native Apps
• GitHub – willvincent/laravel-unique: Provides a model trait to automatically append a value to model values that should be unique.

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Laravel Wayfinder, PHP RFC Reviews, Bek shares why she attends PHP Tek, Free PHP Architect Column, and more…

Links from the show:

• GitHub – laravel/wayfinder
• PHP: rfc:optional-interfaces
• PHP: rfc:grapheme_levenshtein
• PHP: rfc:pipe-operator-v3
• PHP: rfc:modern_compression
• PHP: rfc:short-and-inner-classes
• #externals – Opening PHP’s #internals to the outside
• PHP[TEK] 2025
• PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
  
• https://www.phparch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/November-2024-phparch-compressed.pdf
• PHPxSan Diego (SDPHP Reboot), Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Laravel Cloud, Feature Flags, PHP Tek 2025, PHPxSan, and more…

Links from the show:

• Laravel Cloud achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance – The Laravel Blog
• Flipt
• Laravel Pennant – Laravel 12.x – The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
• PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
  
• Meetup | Welp, this 404 is awkward.
• 2025 PHP Landscape Report | State of PHP in 2025 | Perforce Zend

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In this episode, Scott talks with Dr. Molly McQueary, CMPC about Performance Psychology and Dr. McQueary’s talk at #phptek 2025.

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In this episode, Scott talks with Tessa Kriesel about #DevRel and her talk at #phptek 2025.

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John discuss Laravel Enums, Serialization, json_decode, Bye Bye to Skype, and more.

Links from the show:

• Buffer Overflow in Laravel: Causes, Prevention & Fixes – DEV Community
• The death of Skype: when it closes and what you need to do
• Avoid This Laravel Enum Trap: Learn How to Fix It Before It Breaks Your Project! – DEV Community
• Goravel
• I 3D Printed a Mini Server Rack! Does It Work?! – YouTube

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Explain Explained, Postgres All The Things, Livewire Remote Code Execution, Lazy Object, and more…

Links from the show:

• 
  Understanding MySQL Queries with Explain
• I replaced my entire tech stack with Postgres… – YouTube
• RCE Via User-Crafted Requests · Advisory · livewire/volt · GitHub
• Livewire Remote Code Execution on File Uploads · Advisory · livewire/livewire · GitHub
• PHP: Lazy Objects – Manual
• PHP[TEK] 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
  

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In this episode, Scott talks with TJ Miller about Prism “a powerful Laravel package for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into your applications”.

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