How I stopped wasting time hunting requests in Telescope with a tag

Hey everyone, small milestone: I published my first Laravel package.

I built it because I was wasting time trying to correlate API responses with Telescope entries. Often I'd see a bad client log and then spend 10-15 minutes hunting the same request in Telescope. So I made something to stop that.

What it does: it automatically appends a request id to JSON responses, sets the propagation header and attaches a tag in the telescope request with the request id, out of the box, no controller changes.

Why I made it: I wanted something tiny, zero-fuss, and configurable. I've started using it in my project and it already cuts down my "where did this error come from?" time by simply searching by the request id tag in telescope.

It's called Telescope Request Track, link on Packagist & GitHub below. If you try it, I'd love feedback (tiny fixes, feature requests, or even a ⭐️).

Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/bekand/telescope-request-track
GitHub: https://github.com/anduen-beqiri/telescope-request-track

Hope that it helps somebody with debugging :)

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I created a static site generator with php (no framework)

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some feedback on this project, I intend to use it as part of my startup webdev agency statisch.co, I've made the repository free and opensource and will continue to improve upon it to make it easier and more fun to work with. The reason I built my own static site generator instead of using the 100's of others out there is so I can fully understand every single line of code I deploy on behalf of my customers. I thought about keeping this private but then I just thought "why?" I had so much help from opensource in my career and if this helps anyone else better understand static site generation it's worth making public, so here you go. It's not perfect but it works... I would love to hear any criticisms or suggestions for improvement.

https://github.com/Taujor/php-static-site-generator

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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Let's Build A Raffler With WebSockets!
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-let-s-build-a-raffler-with-websockets?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Http::batch with hooks in Laravel 12.32
https://nabilhassen.com/laravel-http-batch

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Cleaner middleware: static factory functions
https://cosmastech.com/2025/10/01/cleaner-middleware.html

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5 Exciting Features in the New Laravel Forge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB9Nge72n58

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Thoughts on the new Forge?

Had a little look around and it seems like a decent facelift all things considered. It will take some getting used to but I think it looks mostly okay design and feature wise. I'm not a serious Forge user but it seems alright.

I don't really see myself using the Laravel VPS stuff since I prefer European servers and I believe their system uses DigitalOcean underneath it all.

What are your thoughts/opinions about it? :)

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Seven Real-World Examples of Using the Pipe Operator in PHP 8.5
https://amitmerchant.com/seven-realworld-examples-of-using-the-pipe-operator-in-php-85/

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I need forge explained to me in the context of why I’d choose it over a PaaS

In simple terms, I currently use render, I used to use Heroku.

With a paas I have a database, cron jobs, redis all managed and auto scaling.

Why would someone like me move to something like forge. What are the benefits?

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Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10/01/design-contest/

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Doctrine-CipherSweet : Searchable encryption for Doctrine ORM and Symfony apps
https://github.com/paragonie/doctrine-ciphersweet

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I am creating a microservice framework for PHP using Swoole

Hey all,

I recently discovered Swoole and decided to learn it a bit more so I decided to write a microservice framework that's built on top of Swoole.

This is currently a work in progress but I thought I'd share it to see if I could get some feedback.

https://github.com/Kekke88/Mononoke

Contributions are also welcome, this is my first open source project so things might be a bit unstructured. Any tips and suggestions on this is highly appreciated.

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Plea for help! Does anyone have/know where I could obtain the brandonwamboldt/utilphp package?

Hello!

I've got a very old Dockerised project, for the website of a family member's small business, it was built \~8 years ago with Bolt CMS 3.2, and has basically been ticking along unmaintained since then (if it ain't broke, don't fix it)

A dependency of Bolt is https://packagist.org/packages/brandonwamboldt/utilphp, however at some time in the last year, the author decided to delete the Github repository.

A quirk of the project, I never got to the bottom of why, but every few months the DigitalOcean droplet runs out of disk space, so then I just run docker prune to clear all the volumes and images, and then rebuild everything 😂 (yeah it's amateurish, but it's such a basic website it's never been worth the effort to fix it properly!)

Anyway, today I discover that the project doesn't build because the above Github repository is deleted.

So, I'm posting here to ask if anyone happens to have any version of this package themselves - maybe in their own vendor folder, as a direct or indirect dependency - and if so, perhaps they could kindly share this with me? And then I could somehow work out how to hack things together so that composer recognises my own copy as the package's source.

Or, if anyone knows of a Github archive/mirror that would somehow still have this package available?

Otherwise I'll have to try and upgrade to Bolt 5 - but since a prerequisite is a working project with Bolt 3.7 - I'm not sure how possible this would be.

If anyone can help me they would really be a true lifesaver! Thank you in advance

On a sidenote - packagist says it has 538,490 installs - you hear a lot about this sort of thing happening with npm, where a package owner deletes the project and failing builds ensue - but I naively assumed composer would somehow do something to mitigate this - but I guess composer is just as vulnerable!? (Or even moreso - if I'm not mistaken npm have taken steps to remedy this - I'm not completely in the loop though so I could be wrong)

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Craft CMS moving fully to Laravel
https://craftcms.com/blog/laravel

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I built a PHP SDK for the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), looking for testers

Hey all,

Three days ago OpenAI + Stripe dropped this new thing called Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP). Basically it lets people buy stuff directly inside ChatGPT with instant checkout. It’s super new and I was curious, so I spent the last days hacking together a PHP SDK for it.

Repo’s here: https://github.com/shopbridge/shopbridge-php

It handles checkout sessions (create/update/complete/cancel), webhook signatures, product feeds in CSV/JSON/XML, etc. Runs on PHP 7.4+.

This is all open source / MIT. I honestly just want people to try it out, break it, tell me what sucks, or maybe even use it in a test project. Happy to help if you want to play with ACP for your shop or a client.

It’s all very fresh, so don’t expect production-grade yet, but if anyone here is curious, I’d love feedback.

Cheers!

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When NOT To Use Filament: Three Cases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI4lE_6w3D8

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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Emerging AI Design Patterns in Symfony
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-emerging-ai-design-patterns-in-symfony?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Moving PHP open source forward
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2025/10/moving-php-open-source-forward/

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Stuck with Laravel Package Tests with Pest + Orchestra Testbench - Laravel Helpers Not Available

## Context

I've developed a Laravel package that works perfectly in production, but I'm struggling to get the tests working properly. The package is located at `packages/cli/` within my Laravel application (local package development setup).

**Goal:** Run my package tests from the Laravel app root using `php artisan test`

**Current Issue:** Tests run but Laravel helper functions like `config()`, `app()`, etc. are not available. I get "Target class [config] does not exist." errors.

## What I've Done So Far

### 1. Installed Required Dependencies

**Package `composer.json`:**
```json
{
"name": "sheaf/cli",
"type": "library",
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Sheaf\\Cli\\": "src/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Sheaf\\Cli\\Tests\\": "tests/"
}
},
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"providers": [
"Sheaf\\Cli\\ServiceProvider"
]
}
},
"require-dev": {
"orchestra/testbench": "^10.4",
"pestphp/pest": "^3.8",
"pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel": "^3.2"
}
}
```

### 2. Created TestCase with Orchestra Testbench

**`packages/cli/tests/TestCase.php`:**
```php
<?php

namespace Sheaf\Cli\Tests;

use Orchestra\Testbench\TestCase as Orchestra;

class TestCase extends Orchestra
{
protected function getPackageProviders($app)
{
return [
\Sheaf\Cli\ServiceProvider::class,
];
}

protected function setUp(): void
{
parent::setUp();
}
}
```

### 3. Created Pest Configuration

**`packages/cli/tests/Pest.php`:**
```php
<?php

declare(strict_types=1);
uses(\Sheaf\Cli\Tests\TestCase::class)->in('Feature', 'Unit');
```

### 4. Created Test File

**`packages/cli/tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php`:**
```php
<?php

namespace Sheaf\Cli\Tests\Feature;

test('confirm environment is set to testing', function () {
expect(config('app.env'))->toBe('testing'); // ERROR HERE
});
```

### 5. Updated Laravel App's `phpunit.xml`

```xml
<testsuites>
<testsuite name="Package">
<directory>packages/cli/tests</directory>
</testsuite>
</testsuites>
```

## The Problem

When I run tests from the Laravel app root with `php artisan test`, I get:

```
Target class [config] does not exist.
```

I added debug code to check what's happening:

```php
test('debug', function () {
dd([
'testcase_class' => get_class($this),
'parent_class' => get_parent_class($this),
'app_exists' => isset($this->app),
]);
});
```

**Output:**
```php
array:3 [
"testcase_class" => "P\Packages\cli\tests\Feature\ExampleTest"
"parent_class" => "PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase"
"app_exists" => false // ❌ Laravel app not available
]
```

## What Works

✅ Running tests from **within the package directory** works fine:
```bash
cd packages/cli
./vendor/bin/pest
```

## What Doesn't Work

❌ Running from Laravel app root:
```bash
php artisan test
```

## My Understanding

I believe the issue is that when running tests from the Laravel app root, Pest doesn't discover my package's `Pest.php` configuration file, so it doesn't know to use my custom TestCase.

## What I've Tried

1. ✅ Verified autoload-dev has correct namespace with trailing backslash
2. ✅ Run `composer dump-autoload` multiple times
3. ✅ Cleared Laravel caches
4. ✅ Verified Orchestra Testbench is installed
5. ✅ Package ServiceProvider loads correctly in the app (commands work)
6. ❌ Tried adding `uses(TestCase::class)` in test files (got "uses() undefined")

## Questions

1. **Is this the correct approach for testing local packages within a Laravel app?**
2. **How do I make Pest discover/use my package's TestCase when running from the app root?**
3. **Should I be using a different testing strategy for local packages?**

## Directory Structure

```
my-laravel-app/
├── app/
├── packages/
│ └── cli/
│ ├── src/
│ │ └── ServiceProvider.php
│ ├── tests/
│ │ ├── Pest.php
│ │ ├── TestCase.php
│ │ └── Feature/
│ │ └──

ExampleTest.php
│ ├── composer.json
│ └── phpunit.xml
├── tests/
├── composer.json
└── phpunit.xml
```

## Environment

- Laravel 11
- PHP 8.2
- Pest 3.8
- Orchestra Testbench 10.4

---

## Code source of my package:
https://github.com/sheafui/cli/tree/tests/configuration (within the branch `tests/configuration`)

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! I've been stuck on this for days and can't figure out what I'm missing.

Thanks in advance! 🙏

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Craft CMS moving fully to Laravel
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