Global objects

In practice, how do you implement global objects/services that should be available at any part of the web (Logger, Session, CurrentUser, Database, etc.)? DIC, manual injection into all classes, global functions, access via global keyword, ... ?

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Why I'm not using Livewire any more - magic vs bloat.

I’ve been re-evaluating my frontend stack for Laravel apps, especially where interactivity meets performance. Livewire is impressive in terms of ease of use, especially when building UI without needing to write a lot of custom JavaScript. But once the complexity of the component increases, especially with large datasets or model relationships, I’ve noticed serious trade-offs in how Livewire handles state.

Because Livewire serializes the entire component context on each update, even a small interaction can lead to an AJAX request containing megabytes of data especially if you're binding large collections or Eloquent models with relationships. In some cases, I’ve seen request payloads in the 2–5MB range, just to handle a single button click or toggle.

This raises some questions for the community:

* How are others approaching this problem?
* Are there patterns or best practices for using Livewire in data-heavy components without bloating payloads?
* At what point do you opt out of Livewire in favour of something like Alpine + API endpoints, or Inertia/Vue?

I still think Livewire is great for form workflows and simple UIs, but for anything involving complex or high-volume data, I’m questioning whether it's the right tool. Curious to hear how others have approached this — whether you’ve optimized around it or moved to other approaches entirely.

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Full Stack Procedural PHP Dev Wanted – U.S.-Based Engineer to Help Scale CRM/Web Builder SaaS (42 Clients)

Hey guys,
I'm the founder of a small web design firm that has turned into a mini SaaS company. It's a LAMP-based SaaS (CRM + web builder) with 42 paying customers. It started as a small digital studio project and evolved into a full-fledged product with over 1M lines of **procedural PHP**. It’s almost profitable but I urgently need the right engineer to help maintain, modernize, and grow it. I'm a designer and do some front end/backend/server - but not may background.

Had we known we would become a SaaS model would have used other technology - but that's hindsight.

**Tech stack:**

* Loose MVC - Procedural PHP (no Laravel, Symfony, Cake, etc. raw php)
* CentOS / Apache / MySQL
* HTML/CSS/jQuery
* Bonus: UI/UX skills to help clean up the front end

I’ve tried a couple freelancers, some were great but overcommitted, others were just chasing hourly gigs. I’m looking for someone reliable, collaborative, and long-term. Not a dev shop. Not a hit-and-run gig seeker. If you can setup my stack in a local environment - we're on our way.

**This might be a fit if you:**

* Are a **U.S.-based** developer and fluent native English speaker
* Can hop on screenshares occasionally to help me flesh out specs live
* Don’t need every task written out, you're comfortable taking notes and thinking through problems during a call
* Communicate clearly and work independently
* Like owning a codebase and making it better over time

**Compensation:**

* Negotiable pay upfront (bootstrapped, no VC)
* But for the right person: *more hours, more pay, and potential equity,* happy to discuss privately

This is not a flip or cash grab. I’m not giving up on this product, but I can’t scale without dependable support.

If you're looking to be part of something with traction and real ownership, let’s talk. DMs open.

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Working with excel and php

Hi there!

Can anyone please give me some pointers on reading, writing and modifying excel files using php.

Thanks in advance!

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A first-party UTM tracker in Laravel
https://youtu.be/g8pqMj5zxQo

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Starting a project

I am making software for someone... I am attempting to use Laravel Livewire with Flux pro components and Tailwind css.

I am on windows 11, with nginx (latest), postgres 17, laravel 12, php 8.3 Fast CGI PHP, Flux pro2, using vite for building stuff. I am not using php artisan server I am runnig straight under nginx.

It is turtle slow. takes me about 2.5 seconds to load up a page that is for a logged in user.
Manage User Component page
3 column division

1. has a list of of users right now only 1 user in that list in the main page
2. has 1 livewire component that shows user details and permissions so only hits db for 2 tables.
3. has 1 livewire component with static summaries that have fake output. Meaning no db hits just showing simulated data.

PHP ini I turned off xdebug
PHP ini I turned on Opcache

And I am still getting
12 requests 3.2 MB transferred 4.7 MB resources Finish: 2.41 sDOMContentLoaded: 2.10 sLoad: 2.23 s

Now some of that resources are stuff like last pass that inserts in when serving a page but even turning that off doesn't do anything.

The manage user page which is only 61K takes 1.52 seconds to load. WTF?

I spent 30 years in the microsoft tech stack. I am sick of it was looking for a better experience programming. So I been trying out different tech stacks. I like laravel. I love livewire.

But I really hate the performance I am seeing on something that is a very simple page.

I have no doubt I might be missing something. But I have researched through articles and asked AI and haven't come up with anything that helped except taking away xdebug which took the total serving time from 4.25 seconds to 2.41 seconds that I have now.

Any help would be appreciated. Or is this the performance to expect from livewire or laravel?

Edit: This is just discouraging. I was so happy to see livewire it is similiar to blazor in .net which I liked the concept. I know laracasts runs on laravel and has good performance.

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Who's hiring/looking

This is a bi-monthly thread aimed to connect PHP companies and developers who are hiring or looking for a job.

Rules

No recruiters
Don't share any personal info like email addresses or phone numbers in this thread. Contact each other via DM to get in touch
If you're hiring: don't just link to an external website, take the time to describe what you're looking for in the thread.
If you're looking: feel free to share your portfolio, GitHub, … as well. Keep into account the personal information rule, so don't just share your CV and be done with it.

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CVE-2025-54068 (9.2/10) - Livewire v3 is vulnerable to remote command execution during component property update hydration
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29cq-5w36-x7w3

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Testing Laravel Sanctum SPA auth in Postman (CSRF + session login)

I’ve seen a few tutorials about getting Laravel Sanctum working with Postman (mostly video or blog form), but I figured I’d write a proper GitHub README version — something minimal and straight to the point.

Here’s the repo:
https://github.com/maikeru-desu/postman-laravel-sanctum-auth

It covers:

Setting up your Postman environment
Getting the CSRF cookie
Adding a pre-request noscript that handles `X-XSRF-TOKEN` \+ `Referer`
Making sure protected routes work without hitting auth errors

Main goal was just to make it easier to test Sanctum like a frontend SPA would — without needing to run your React/Vue app.

Hope it helps someone. Feel free to suggest improvements too.

Star it if you find it useful! 👍

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Appraising PostgreSQL with laravel-cache-evict
https://medium.com/@vectorial1024/appraising-postgresql-with-laravel-cache-evict-d8c2f3f1b95c

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Year 0 php dev ,the things one should focus on in their first year to lay a solid groundwork

what should i be learning in my "zero" year??

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CancerStan: My Attempt at autofixing PHPStan errors

I really hate tools that only cry and don't fix "obvious" cases. So i tried to do it myself.
Doesn't cover much cases yet but i've had some fun trying to autodetermine types and building it in general :p
https://github.com/tetreum/cancerstan

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Replace dependency injection and mocking with algebraic effects
https://olleharstedt.github.io/programming/php/fibers/dependency/injection/mocking/effects/2025/06/28/replace-di-mocking-with-algebraic-effects-fibers-php.html

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New PDF Parser: maintainable, fast & low-memory; built from scratch

Hi everyone! I've worked at several companies that used some sort of PDF Parsing, and we often ran into memory issues, unsupported features or general bugs. Text/Image extraction from PDFs in PHP has never been easy, until now! I just released v2.2.0 which adds support for rasterized images, which means that text and image extraction are now supporting almost all features!

You can find the package here: https://github.com/PrinsFrank/pdfparser Let me know if you have any feedback!

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Releasing Laravel Chat
https://novu.link/l/zI1numM

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Weekly /r/Laravel Help Thread

Ask your Laravel help questions here. To improve your chances of getting an answer from the community, here are some tips:

What steps have you taken so far?
What have you tried from the documentation?
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For more immediate support, you can ask in the official Laravel Discord.

Thanks and welcome to the r/Laravel community!

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Weekly Ask Anything Thread

Feel free to ask any questions you think may not warrant a post. Asking for help here is also fine.

https://redd.it/1m583od
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Weekly help thread

Hey there!

This subreddit isn't meant for help threads, though there's one exception to the rule: in this thread you can ask anything you want PHP related, someone will probably be able to help you out!

https://redd.it/1m5b212
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Why should I use Live Components over a dedicated frontend framework?

I'm working on a project where one of our Symfony Forms is actually a Live Component, and I must say I find it extremely convoluted and harder to grasp than if we had a backend Symfony API with a react/angular frontend.

Maybe it's because it wasn't done properly in the first place, or maybe I am missing something, so I'd like to know other Symfony developer's point of views on the matter.

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How to add URL to errorlog file?

Recently I noticed some errors in my error\log file, like this one:

>[20-Jul-2025 06:23:41 UTC\] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught OutOfBoundsException: Seek position 10 is out of range in /home/XXXX
Stack trace:
\#0 [internal function\]: ArrayIterator->seek(10)
\#1 /home/XXXXX(147): LimitIterator->rewind()
\#2 {main}
thrown in /home/XXXXXX.php on line 147

So, I know where to look in my code, line 147, but I want to find out which (in my case dynamic) page this triggers. How can I add an URL to this error message?

I can do it for my connections:

if ($mysqli->connecterror) {
$logEntry = date("d/M/Y H:i:s",time()).' '.$SERVER'HTTP_HOST'.$SERVER['REQUESTURI'].' '.$SERVER['REMOTEADDR'];
errorlog($logEntry);
die("Sorry, connection failed. Please refresh the page (press F5): " . $mysqli->connecterror);
}

But I don't know how to do this with other errors. Thanks for your help.

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PHP RFC: Deprecate type juggling to and from bool in the function type juggling context
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-function-bool-type-juggling

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