I hate to admit this, but Laravel Cloud is nowhere near production-ready

I moved my app from DigitalOcean droplet(6$) to Laravel Cloud (~80$), a couple of weeks after it was released, and I hate to admit this but I wish I didn’t do that. I was ready to pay more money, thinking that I won’t have to care about downtimes anymore, but it’s actually the opposite.

- Random outages, sometimes up to 20 minutes
- Support replying 24 hours later, no matter the urgency of the issue
- Requests avg. spiking from 200ms to 20 seconds for periods of hours

Don’t get me wrong, Laravel team is awesome, and their products are top-tier, but I wish they’d admit that Cloud is just not prod-ready yet, so developers can make informed choices.

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How to force Doctrine to always use a result set mapper for an entity?

I have an entity Server which has a password field on it. We obviously don't store the password in the clear. The Server entity is loaded by the appropriate repo which calls a stored procedure and passes the key as query param and a result set mapper is configured. Many User's can be assigned to a Server.

If I call the appropriate service to retrieve the Server entity, without first loading a User entity, the result set mapper is used and I see the decrypted data and everything works correctly.

If however, I load the User entity first, doctrine Hydrates the associated Server entity without using my RSM and so the password is obviously not decrypted.

How can I tell Doctrine to always use my service or RSM when hydrating a particular entity? Or do you have any other suggestions/solutions on how to resolve this issue?

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Symfony Feature Flags Used at Scale
https://dailyrefactor.com/symfony-feature-flags-used-at-scale

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New Laravel starter kit (with built-in billing)
https://youtu.be/jBl8XagjG1w

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New in Symfony 7.3: Mailer Security Improvements
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-3-mailer-security-improvements?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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A package to handle passkeys in Laravel
https://spatie.be/blog/a-package-to-handle-passkeys-in-laravel

https://redd.it/1kidgff
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Where to host a simple php website?

I developed a simple personal website that has blog section and people can comment. For database I used sqlite to store comments. I plan to buy domain from namecheap, but what about hosting? I don't need anything fancy a cpanel with ftp connection will suffice.

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Do you use AI for generating unit Tests and which one?

It seems to be a more difficult task for programmer workflows who do not prefer strictly TDD.

The only tool I get, let's say 30% success rate is Jetbrains AI. Copilot, Tabnine plugins fails more and need permanently rework.

They use private method, try to mock class inherited methods, use deprecated reflections methods or deprecated phpunit features.
I though (according to marketing promises lol) plugins should see the the whole source.

Also generic AI fails mostly when copy paste class into the chat. Even when there is nothing to mock or extended.
It seems they are only able to test getter/setter.

What would you recommend for AI PHP testing support?

Greetings Niko




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What's Your Favourite Architecture in PHP Projects?

I appreciate the ongoing exchanges here – a recent discussion actually inspired the topic for my latest 9th newsletter issue on handling MVP growth. It's good to see these conversations bearing fruit.

Following up on that, I'm diving into event-driven architecture, potentially for my next newsletter. I'm curious what your preferred architecture approach is, assuming I am mostly interested in larger, longer-living SaaS applications that need to scale in the future but can be handled by a simple monolith right now. And if you also use event-driven - what are your specific choices?

In my case, as I get older/more experienced in projects. I tend to treat event-driven architecture as my go-to approach. I combine it with CQRS in almost all cases. I have my opinionated approach to it, where I rarely use real queues and have most of the events work synchronously by default, and just move them to async when needed. I know no architecture fits all needs, and in some cases, I choose other approaches, but still treat the one mentioned before as my go-to standard.

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Implement passkey authentication in InertiaJS using Spatie's new Passkeys package.
https://danmatthews.me/posts/implementing-passkeys-in-inertiajs-using-spaties-new-passkeys-package-eb480

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How has your NativePHP experience been?
https://laravel-news.com/nativephp-hit-100k

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Laravel Cloud: Any local ways to optimize/resize uploaded images?

Trying out the new Cloud. Seems nice, so far.

But haven’t been able to find a “local” to optimize/scale user uploaded images.

I tried with the spatie laravel image optimizer package, but nothing. I guess none of the packages it uses, is available on the Laravel Cloud instance.

Is there no way, other than using an external service through an API to resize my images, like Tinify?

Clarification: I already use the bucket in Laravel Cloud. Users upload usually 5mb from their camera roll. After OpenAI is done with OCR processing, I’d like to resize it to <1mb and just store that, for future reference, instead of 5mb.

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Advantage Database Server

I have a website primarily coded in PHP on an Ubuntu server and we were hoping to get data from an Advantage Database Server which is on a Windows Server. We're running PHP 8.3 currently. The closest thing I could find is the SAP SQL Anywhere PHP Module (The SAP SQL Anywhere PHP Module | SAP Help Portal). Is anyone else able to get this to work?

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Does Laravel Cloud offer API?

Just like Laravel Forge- can I create resources via API? I would like to use it to manage my clients' instances (it's impossible to manage such volume manually).

I did not find anything in official docs which seems strange to me. Maybe I'm naive but I would expect at least the same feature parity when releasing another tool from the same company that created Forge.

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VOM - Versatile Object Mapper
https://github.com/zolex/vom

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We’ve just published a React-style HTML components renderer – thoughts?
https://packagist.org/packages/nititech/html-components

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Symfony 7.3.0-BETA2 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-7-3-0-beta2-released?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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Am I wrong to combine c# with my XAMPP backend?

I apologize if this is a dumb question and I truthfully searched to see if this had been asked.

I developing a Windows desktop application that requires an authentication system. The data is on an Apache server (well, a WAMP/XAMPP) stack for now). I chose this environment because I have limited knowledge on .NET and just need this tool done. All of the backend API's are in PHP. User database is in mySQL.

Is there anything necessarily wrong with what I'm doing? I know how to handle API's and make sure that all the data is secure, such as sending over HTTPS, not storing database information in the application itself, encryption, tokens, brute force etc. I'm specifically referring to the general concept, if this is a "no no". With C# being a MS product, I am sure the standard is to go with ASP.

For anybody that might be wondering why I am now making a Windows application for a PHP web-based application, it's because my application now requires CPU intensive tasks and there is data that I am getting from the desktop itself (GPS).


Thank you.

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What video tutorial should i watch if I'm gonna start php as a beginner?

Should i watch this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw5ObX8P6as&t=30418s&ab_channel=Laracasts

Or this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_Vn-sTBL8&t=34916s&ab_channel=DaniKrossing

I feel like the laracast video are more detailed but it was in October 2023 i think that it was uploaded and the other one is in 2025. Which tutorial would you recommend for a beginner like me to follow? Thank you in advance.

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Automate Your Laravel + React + Meilisearch + phpMyAdmin Setup from Scratch
https://medium.com/@hosnyben/automate-your-laravel-react-meilisearch-phpmyadmin-setup-from-scratch-9a9b6968a1e7

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A Week of Symfony #958 (May 5–11, 2025)
https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-958-may-5-11-2025?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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