Rethinking Laravel Folder Structure for a Modular Monolith

Hi 👋

I’m starting a relatively large roject and exploring a non-default folder structure that leans into the modular monolith approach. Here’s the structure I’m considering:

- App/Apps/{Admin, API, Console} - for the sub-applications of the project
- App/Modules/…/{Http, Models, Jobs, …} - Laravel style application as a module
- App/Configuration/{Providers, Bootstrapers} - different setup and configuration
- App/Shared - shared components and helpers

What do you think about it? Any comments or feedback?

Thanks!

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New in Symfony 7.3: Namespaced Caches
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-3-namespaced-caches?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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FrankenPHP is now officially supported by the PHP Foundation (common announcement by the PHP Foundation, Les-Tilleuls.coop and the Caddy team)
https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation

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Tonight: Q&A with Juliette Reinders Folmer (PHPCodeSniffer) in Amsterdam (Meetup)

Just a quick heads-up for anyone in or around Amsterdam (NL), tonight there’s a PHP meetup featuring **Juliette Reinders Folmer**, the person behind **PHP\CodeSniffer.

It’s an interactive “ask me anything”-style session, so a great chance to ask your PHPCS questions live and get demos on the spot. Whether you're wondering how to run PHPCS only on changed files, create a custom ruleset, or you're just curious what's coming in version 4.0, bring your questions.

🕖 Schedule

19:00 – Doors open
19:30 – Talk starts
20:30 – Raffles & announcements
20:45 – Social, food & drinks

📍 Location: Simplicate, Hullenbergweg 135, Amsterdam

If you're into PHP or just want to meet other devs, feel free to swing by. RSVP here:

https://www.meetup.com/amsterdamphp/events/307306472/

Hope to see some of you there!

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Introducing: NativePHP Starter-Kit
https://rappasoft.com/blog/introducing-nativephp-starter-kit

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What's your favorite PHP ecommerce platform?

We're a footy fan website and the software we use to run our forum is ditching support for selling physical goods, just keeping subs.

I've set up a few to evaluate, one I ditched because they seemed to be pivoting to selling NFTs, Sylius and Prestashop so far, but I'm on the lookout for more.

I have a few constraints that I'm working with.

1. It has to be self hosted.
2. It has to have OAuth login that works with the forum (Invision)
3. Easy to style.

Prestashop unfortunately fell down by not having easy OAuth2 for anything other than Facebook & other social platforms, I need my users to use the login from our forum.

Sylius has that, but the templating on v2 is taking a bit to get my head around, I want to change the colour of the header but it uses a Tailwind `bg-black` class so I have to override the whole template/hook to do it, which looks like it also overrides all the other hooks in that section? I'm struggling to get my head round it at the moment, it feels like I'm missing a vitial bit of info that will make it snap in to place :-)

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I've been working on a physics extension for PHP, this is the first version where the wheels don't yeet out of existence.
https://x.com/Mario_Deluna/status/1923156607485014403

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Anyone hosting a multi-tenant app on Laravel Cloud?

I wish to know if anyone is hosting a multi-tenant application on Laravel. Our current application uses Caddy server to handle all the subdomains and automatic https. I'm wondering if I can migrate the setup to Laravel Cloud.

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Stop Refreshing! Laravel useEcho Hooks for React & Vue
https://youtu.be/1hPRp6uLBA0

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New in Symfony 7.3: Dependency Injection Improvements
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-3-dependency-injection-improvements?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

https://redd.it/1knvem5
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New in Symfony 7.3: Dependency Injection Resource Tags
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-3-dependency-injection-improvements#resource-tags

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TrueReviewer – A Robust and Customizable Product Review Package for Laravel

Hello coders,

I'm LakM, the creator of the [commenter](https://github.com/Lakshan-Madushanka/laravel-comments) package. I noticed that a modern product review package is something the Laravel community currently lacks. While building your own solution might work for a couple of projects, in the long term, we need something reusable and maintainable to save development time. That’s why I created **TrueReviewer**.

TrueReviewer is a robust review and rating system tailored for Laravel applications, featuring five thoughtfully designed components that enhance user experience. With a **modern**, **responsive design** and **customizable options**, TrueReviewer allows you to integrate reviews seamlessly into your application. The system is API-agnostic, ensuring compatibility with various platforms. TrueReviewer not only helps build trust and credibility through positive reviews but also boosts customer engagement and improves online visibility. With advanced features like dynamic sub-ratings, interactive statistics, and a comprehensive review list, TrueReviewer is the ultimate solution for managing user feedback.

TrueReviewer is **API agnostic** which means the front-end (Vue.js) and back-end are completely decoupled. This gives you the freedom to integrate it into any Laravel project, whether it's a traditional server-side rendered app or a fully separated API-driven architecture using Vue as the front end. Since the Vue components are compiled into JavaScript, it works seamlessly across tech stacks.

**Key Features**

* 📲 Modern, responsive design.
* ⚙️ Highly customizable to suit your preferences.
* 🎨 Theming with free presets and customizable colors.
* 🌐 API-agnostic for seamless integration.
* 🚀 High performance powered by Vue.js and Laravel.
* 🌍 Designed to cater to diverse user needs
* 🎯 Packed with all the essential features
* 🧾 Widget to summarize product reviews effectively
* 📊 Interactive statistics for deeper insights
* 🧩 Dynamic sub-ratings for detailed product evaluation
* 🖼️ Advanced media gallery for an immersive visual experience
* 📜 Comprehensive review list with pagination
* 🧭 Robust filtering options for quick navigation
* 📝 Elegant, user-friendly forms with built-in validation
* 🔐 Enhanced security features for peace of mind
* 🤝 Product recommendation capabilities
* 👍 React to reviews with helpfulness ratings
* 🚩 Ability to report inappropriate reviews
* 🚀 And much more to elevate the review experience!

Currently package is a sponsorware (big thank to calebporzio for the idea) and will be open-source with your support. **Huge discounts are available for first 10 users**.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Demo Video - [https://youtu.be/-NJszz8lnuA](https://youtu.be/-NJszz8lnuA)

Site - truereviewer.netlify.app

https://preview.redd.it/cc5rjw8oz41f1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a780504788c5cb6021ccd7837b7e233caa9eb41




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How to integrate multiple external data sources in Laravel with DTOs
https://www.luckymedia.dev/blog/how-to-integrate-multiple-external-data-sources-in-laravel-with-dtos

https://redd.it/1ko13cz
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SymfonyOnline June 2025: Keynote “Symfony in 2025, Scaling to Zero.”
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonyonline-june-2025-keynote-symfony-in-2025-scaling-to-zero?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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Recommend good free headless CMS for PHP e-commerce

Hi, before anyone says that this has been talked over a million times let me defend myself by saying that the results I found so far were very old or related to Next.JS

Please share stories what you use and why. I create frontends myself, but hate Wordpress, so I’m looking for fully headless CMS I could use for building great e-commerce websites. Tried storyblok in the past but it was meh and many workarounds needed to be done to fit for ecommerce use case, because it feels like Storyblok should be used only for blogs or simple webpages that only contain information.

https://redd.it/1ko090a
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Seperate marking site or all on app?

Hi just wanted to get some feedback, we are building a listing web app in laravel, Inertia and React.

We are wondering if we could build the marketing parts in framer or webflow and have the app on a sub domain.

We're just worried that we will be fighting seo etc with the subdomain if we go this route.

As its a listing site we want the individual profile pages to not be affected by the marketing site.

What would you guys do? There pros and cons for each route, just wanted some feedback, thanks

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Join JetBrains PHPverse to Celebrate 30 Years of PHP
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/05/join-jetbrains-phpverse-to-celebrate-30-years-of-php/

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Custom Inertia.js client
https://puny-flash.pp.ua/blog/vortex

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DTO: Pros and Cons of various DTO packages

I want to use DTOs and I am not sure which of the following packages I should use:

* [spatie/laravel-data](https://github.com/spatie/laravel-data)
* [cuyz/valinor](https://github.com/cuyz/valinor)
* [romanzipp/Laravel-DTO](https://github.com/romanzipp/Laravel-DTO)
* [WendellAdriel/laravel-validated-dto](https://github.com/WendellAdriel/laravel-validated-dto)
* [cerbero90/laravel-dto](https://github.com/cerbero90/laravel-dto)
* [YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO](https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO)
* Any other package anyone knows about

They all seem to have different functionality and I am finding it difficult to make my own comparison.

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Shorten if conditions (or chain)

What is your choice and reason ? I think second one is more concise and performant.

Share if you know a way to shorten and(&&) chain.

if ($role === 'admin' || $role === 'writer' || $role === 'editor') {

// logic here
}

if (in_array($role, ['admin', 'writer', 'editor'])) {

// logic here
}



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Looking for Advanced PHP Video Tutorial (OOP, Design Patterns, Real-World Project)

Hey folks,

(tl;dr in the last paragraph)

I'm in a bit of a weird spot and hoping some of you might have suggestions.

I currently work at a web agency where we deal mostly with CMS setups, PIM systems, and similar tools. My formal education was fairly limited, but enough to get me comfortable with procedural PHP, designing relational databases, and building small to medium-sized web apps. Not groundbreaking, but enough to land a junior dev job.

That said, I recently had a realization: it’s been almost a year since I finished my education, and I haven’t done much actual programming since then. My job mostly revolves around configuring systems, tweaking templates, and adding minor features to existing backends—rarely building anything from scratch. I’ve done a few small personal projects (hosted myself), but nothing that pushed me beyond vanilla procedural PHP and basic MariaDB usage.

Back in my education, I did learn the fundamentals of OOP, but it was limited—about 20 hours of instruction and a practical exam. Since then, I haven’t really used it.

To stay confident in calling myself a "developer", and to retain and improve my overall employability, I want to deepen and broaden my skill set outside of work. Ideally, this should still benefit me in my current role, which is why I’m leaning toward PHP rather than jumping straight into another language. My goal is to really dive into object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, design patterns, and architecture - all the foundational, transferable concepts that make for future-proof development skills that should also act as foundation for further improving in other concepts/technologies.
Python was a strong contender (and still is, for other reasons, resources being one of them), but since PHP is what I work with every day, I’d prefer to apply those concepts directly without having to mentally “translate” everything back into my main language.

So here’s what I’m looking for:

An advanced PHP tutorial, ideally in video format
Up-to-date (ideally modern PHP syntax with type hints, etc.)
Covers OOP, SOLID, design patterns, and related concepts in depth
Focuses on building a larger, realistic project, not isolated “Dog extends Animal” style examples
Aimed at devs who already understand CRUD, DB design, and procedural programming, but want to level up
Preferably engaging and paced for self-study during free time

I’ve looked around (YouTube, Udemy, etc.), but most content either starts too basic, touches on advanced concepts only briefly, or feels outdated. If anyone knows a good course, YouTube playlist that fits this denoscription, I’d be super grateful.
I'm also willing to go for paid resources if it's worth the money.

Thanks in advance!



tl;dr:
So, I’m looking for an up-to-date, advanced PHP video tutorial—preferably one that focuses on OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and real-world architecture. I’d love something that involves building a larger project step-by-step, rather than basic isolated examples. It should be for people who are already comfortable with CRUD apps, procedural code, and relational DBs, and who want to level up into more robust, transferable skills that could apply across languages. Video format is strongly preferred, as I find it more engaging for self-study in my free time. If anyone knows a resource like that, I’d hugely appreciate the recommendation.

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