Weekly Ask Anything Thread

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

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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!

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Introducing Stream Pulse: Reliable Event Streaming for Laravel Applications

I'm excited to share StreamPulse, a package I've been working on to solve distributed event streaming in the Laravel ecosystem.

What is StreamPulse?

StreamPulse provides a clean, Laravel-native way to publish and consume events between distributed applications. Built on Redis Streams, it handles all the complexity of reliable messaging while giving you a simple API that feels right at home in Laravel.

Key Features


Laravel-native experience with an API that feels familiar
Transaction-aware publishing - events tied to your database transactions
Resilient processing with automatic retries and dead letter queues
Monitoring dashboard to visualize and manage your streams
Redis Streams integration with plans for additional drivers

Why I Built This
Working with distributed systems in Laravel, I found myself repeatedly implementing custom solutions for reliable cross-application messaging. StreamPulse abstracts all that complexity away, letting you focus on your business logic.

Beta Release - Feedback Welcome!
This is a beta release, and I'd love your feedback! Try it out, open issues, suggest features, or contribute code.

Check it out:  https://github.com/saravanasai/stream-pulse

If you find this useful, please consider giving it a star!

 

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Does it make sense to have Filament on a separate codebase?

We are building an app, and as the codebase grows bigger so does complexity, and tests and tools like PHPStan and ci as a whole become slower and slower.

We are debating it, is it worth having the Filament panel as its own codebase? I can see a lot of advantages, it can use its own little sqlite database to manage its own things and communications with the main app's codebase can be easily done via https requests. We tested it and we happy on how it works.

But what's killing the entushiasm is the repetition, we need to have the same Models with some of the same methods on both codebases, the same Enums. Both codebase versions need to be in sync to work togheter, which is not a big deal on itselfs, but is another thing to keep track of and quickly adds up mental overhead.

What are you thoughts?
Did you encouter this problem before? How did you takle it? How would you takle it?

Discuss.

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How to Change Algorithms in Symfony without Code Modifications: The Strategy Pattern
https://ngandu.hashnode.dev/symfony-strategy-design-pattern

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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Strategic DDD
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-strategic-ddd?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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A simple package adding a validation rule to detect spammy input

Sifter

I've got a couple of side-projects that use the standard Laravel registration form, and I noticed everyday would be a few users created where the name field was like "GEbCeZlhiT" and "XpNGxMfw"... obvious spam. My first step was a simple honeypot using a 'phone number' field... but no luck. Then, on one of the sites, I added a Cloudflare captcha widget... and even then, I'd get a couple that would come through.

Since very few people have more than 2 or 3 capital letters in their name, I created my own validation rule. That got rid of a few more. Then I recreated one to check for names with no vowels, or lots of consonants without what I'd consider enough vowels.

Finally, I wrapped them all up in a single, configurable validation rule. And this is it.

As I note in the readme, this a brute-force validation -- I still get spam accounts where the random characters just happen to pass, it's just down 1 every couple of weeks instead of multiple a day. And if a "real" person mashes keys because they don't want to give their real name, they'll get a 404 page. Since these are for side projects of mine, it's a tradeoff I'm ok with.

Feel free to check it out, if it's something you've noticed. And it's all configurable, so you can toggle on/off the rules or even create your own.

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PSR-20 Clocks: Testable Time in PHP
https://doeken.org/blog/psr-20-clocks-testable-time-in-PHP?utm_source=reddit

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In 20 years this is my favourite function that I've ever written.

function dateSuffix($x){
$s = [0,"st","nd","rd"];
return (in_array($x,[1,2,3,21,22,23,31])) ? $s[$x % 10] : "th";
}

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Multi-Agent Systems in PHP: A Practical Deep Research Implementation
https://inspector.dev/multi-agent-systems-in-php-a-practical-deep-research-implementation/

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Novel SQL Injection Technique in PDO Prepared Statements
https://slcyber.io/assetnote-security-research-center/a-novel-technique-for-sql-injection-in-pdos-prepared-statements/

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Free Performance Boost

We switched from PHP-FPM to Nginx Unit to juice out more performance out of our apps, and it’s actually much faster. Not as fast as Octane, but still enough for us to terminate about 40% of the servers the app was running.

Just a heads up for people. It also behaves like FPM, no need to adapt your service controllers like Octane requires you to.

I don’t exactly know why Unit is much, much faster, but it works really well.

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How to Prepare for a 2 Hour Full Stack Developer Technical Interview
https://www.getmakedigital.com/blogs/dev-careers/fullstack-interview-guide

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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Rediscover the Console
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-rediscover-the-console?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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FilaForms - Native Filament form builder I built (visual builder, submissions, notifications, analytics)

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In 20 years this is most surprisingly useful function I've written.

Inspired by the other post. This is a function that at first shouldn't be necessary (sql usually sorts well),
but it has proven surprisingly useful. d_sortarray() is basically collator_asort (EDIT: sorts by users language!)

# sorts a query result, fieldname can be an array
# example : d_sortresults($query_result, 'percentage', $num_rows);
function d_sortresults(array &$qA, $fieldname, $num)
{
$copyA = $qA;
for ($i = 0; $i < $num; $i++)
{
if (is_array($fieldname))
{
$tosortA[$i] = '';
foreach($fieldname as $part)
{
$tosortA[$i] .= $qA[$i][$part];
}
}
else
{
$tosortA[$i] = $qA[$i][$fieldname];
}
}
if (isset($tosortA) && is_array($tosortA))
{
d_sortarray($tosortA);
$i = -1;
foreach($tosortA as $key => $v)
{
$i++;
$qA[$i] = $copyA[$key];
}
}
}

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A Call for Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure
https://blog.packagist.com/a-call-for-sustainable-open-source-infrastructure/

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Vemto 2 is now Open-Source under MIT license
https://github.com/VemtoOrg/vemto2

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Vemto 2 now is Open-Source under MIT license

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Anyone have experience with MailCoach?

Curious if anyone has used MailCoach (https://www.mailcoach.app) before.

We have a SaaS product currently and are thinking about building in some email marketing as an additional product offering.

I’d love to use MailCoach + AWS SES/SendGrid/MailGun and call it a day, but curious how realistic it is or if anyone has had good experiences with it as far as ease of use and deliverability.

I know a lot of people will say “don’t do this” and “just use MailChimp”. I understand the headache I’m about to embark on, but I’m hoping I can ease the burden by leveraging existing tools and mail providers to handle load balancing, blacklisting, etc.

Thanks in advance!

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Scandir() and links.

Trying to create links on my local machine. but browser said none exist or sth.

here's my code:

<?php
 
   
  $mydir = 'g:\movies';
  $myfiles = scandir($mydir);
 
  foreach ($myfiles as $dafile){

    print_r($dafile);
    echo "<br>";
  }
 
  include('starwars.html');
 
foreach ($myfiles as $result) {
  echo "<a href=\"$result\">$result</a>";
  echo "<br>";
}


  ?>

What am I missing here ---> \"$result\"

My desired goal is to style these links to open movie files, music files, etc. It is a learning phase for me. so please bear with me.

Suggestions please!






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