Do you use the PHP manual CHM downloads? Why?

Greetings.

TLDR: Do you use (or have you previously used) the CHM manual downloads? If so, why do you prefer them over other downloadable formats (eg. single page or multi-page HTML)?

(I'll note here that currently all downloadable versions are unavailable - this is being looked into by actual PHP core devs who have the required access)

Context:

I've been investigating some issues with the downloadable versions of the PHP manual. In particular the CHM versions are currently manually built.

Additionally the official tools to build CHM files - Microsoft's HTMLHelp Workshop - are no longer available for download from MS and can't be installed on Windows 11 (the installer errors saying a newer version is already installed). These issues make building the CHM files increasingly difficult.

(I also briefly tried freepascal's chmcmd, but this fails to build a working CHM file)

For those who prefer the CHM files, I'd like to understand why so I can work out if there's other alternatives that could be implemented.

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How can I reskill in laravel

Hello All,
I know this is a php based subreddit. But I would like to reskill in laravel because it has been a year since I properly worked in laravel and I feel disconnected to the laravel framework. So I'm open for some course suggestion that can be helpful for me to be reskilled again in laravel.

About me: I'm a php full stack dev with 4 years of exp.

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Convert your Notion pages into Markdown

Hey, guys! Just released a new package called md-notion 🙌

Pretty much feature-complete tool that can read your page, nested pages and databases, even database items and all block types are supported

https://github.com/RedberryProducts/md-notion

My primary goal was to use notion for context for my LLM integrations with LarAgent, but you may find a better use cases too 👍

Please support by starring a repo 🙏

Would love to hear your feedback 💪

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A Week of Symfony #980 (October 6–12, 2025)
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PHP’s New URI Extension: An Open Source Success Story
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Two weeks ago I opensourced my pure PHP static site generator

As the noscript says I released my static site generator phpssg opensource on github a few weeks ago in this post and I got a crazy amount of support and really helpful constructive feedback. Today I wanted to give you all an update on how it's going.

I published the latest stable version on packagist so now it's really simple to get started with just require taujor/phpssg, I rethought the entire build system because it was difficult to pull data in from remote API's etc. I refined the documentation and have kept everything super minimal. I'm going to add an example template next week as a way to quick start your project. Another big feature I have planned for the coming weeks are Hooks, so you can easily extend the internal builder class with your own custom functions that will be ran at specific points in the build process. The generator is already quite extendable through utilities and the fact that it is an extremely thin layer over vanilla php. You can even mimic server island functionality (like astro) by combining this with a typical php server.

I will be adding tutorials and exploring what we can really achieve in php with static site generation on the project website which is also being built in the coming weeks (phpssg.com)

I hope you enjoy using phpssg as much as I did building it. Let me know what you think, I'm always open to discussion/criticism.

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Is my Deployer configuration correct for a small Laravel + Inertia project?

Hi everyone,

I'm working on deploying a small project for a rental company. The backend is **Laravel + Inertia**, and I'm using a low-cost VPS (€8/month). I wrote a Deployer noscript to handle:

* PostgreSQL installation and database setup
* Nginx + PHP-FPM configuration
* Node/npm install and build
* Laravel shared directories and writable permissions

My questions:

1. Does this look like a proper setup for a small Laravel + Inertia project?
2. Are there any obvious mistakes or security issues?
3. Anything I should improve for a VPS with limited resources?

Thanks in advance!

Here’s a simplified version of my noscript with sensitive info removed:

namespace Deployer;

require 'recipe/laravel.php';

// Config
set('application', 'Rentalia');
set('repository', 'git@github.com:***.git');
set('git_tty', true);

// Shared files/dirs
add('shared_files', ['.env']);
add('shared_dirs', ['storage']);
add('writable_dirs', [
'bootstrap/cache',
'storage',
'storage/app',
'storage/app/public',
'storage/framework',
'storage/framework/cache',
'storage/framework/sessions',
'storage/framework/views',
'storage/logs',
]);

// Hosts
host('production')
->setHostname('***.***.***.***')
->set('remote_user', 'root')
->set('deploy_path', '/var/www/rentalia')
->set('branch', 'main');

// Tasks
task('postgres:setup', function () {
writeln('Installing PostgreSQL...');
run('apt-get install -y postgresql postgresql-contrib');

writeln('Creating database and user...');
run('sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE rentalia;"', ['timeout' => 300, 'tty' => false]);
run('sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE USER rentalia_user WITH PASSWORD \'***\';"', ['timeout' => 300, 'tty' => false]);
run('sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE rentalia TO rentalia_user;"', ['timeout' => 300, 'tty' => false]);
})->desc('Install and configure PostgreSQL');

task('webserver:setup', function () {
writeln('Installing Nginx and PHP-FPM...');
run('apt-get update');
run('apt-get install -y nginx php8.3-fpm');
// Nginx configuration omitted for brevity
})->desc('Install and configure Nginx');

task('npm:install', function () {
run('cd {{release_path}} && npm ci');
});

task('npm:build', function () {
run('cd {{release_path}} && npm run build');
});

// Hooks
after('deploy:vendors', 'npm:install');
after('npm:install', 'npm:build');
after('deploy:failed', 'deploy:unlock');




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Weekly /r/Laravel Help Thread

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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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How to properly deploy using laravel?

I bought a domain on Hostinger with no vps server (Shared hosting) , i uploaded my *Laravel* files in domain's file manager and made sure that public files only in public_html , what is the next steps ?

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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.

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Any Resources for Learning How to Create Miroservices in Core PHP or in any Framework?

I have experience with Core PHP, Laravel, and a bit of Symfony and WordPress. I’ve also completed several projects. Now, I want to learn how to build microservices using PHP. Could someone recommend tested and reliable resources for that?

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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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is PHP dying?

Forgive me if this topic has been discussed to death, but I'd love to hear from other folks.

I learned PHP a long time ago, and for years I had no trouble finding work. There were plenty of sites that were LAMP based (or nginx, or maria, or postgres, but you get the idea -- PHP).

Now I cannot find any job postings that are looking for PHP. I'm surprised, though, as there must still be so many site and SAAS products that were written in PHP, and still need support and feature development.

Any opinions?



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phpMyAdmin - database column order

Hello

In my table "marrdata" I have 14 columns.

I understand that it's the column name rather than number that matters, but I wanted to check - if I add in another two columns, does it matter if they upset the current order?

Eg currently it is:

1 - IDNo

2 - Year

3 - Name

4 - Page

5 - Notes

I'd like to have

1 - AnsID

2 - IDNo

3 - Year

4 - Name

5 - Page

6 - AnsNotes

7 - Notes


thanks



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Symfony's 20 Year Anniversary
https://symfony.com/20years

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Celebrating 20 Years of Symfony 🎂
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Symfony's 20 Year Anniversary
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Fully Implementing PSR-16 Simple Cache is Less Than Simple
https://donatstudios.com/psr16-iterable-issue

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CodeIgniter vs "the others"

I saw a similar post the other asking for recommendations between CodeIgniter, Laravel and Symfony. It got me to wondering about some of the comments in that thread.

It is mentioned several times in the comments "if you have large project, go with XYZ". I am curious what your definition of a large project is. I have used CodeIgniter over the years to develop what I consider to be small to medium sized projects (event registration systems mostly). About three years ago I stuck with CodeIgniter (4.x) when I started, what has become, a huge project (at least for me). The controller files, for instance, probably have 200,000+ lines of code in total. Obviously there are dozens and dozens of related files (views, helpers, shared functions, config, etc) as well. Does that fit the definition in your eyes of "large"?

Lately I have begun to wonder if I went down the wrong road and should have looked around a little harder at the alternatives. Are Laravel/Symfony so different that a rewrite would be a ridiculous undertaking? I realize these are pretty broad strokes, but the topic got me curious.

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Looking for help with a project!

https://github.com/andrewthecodertx/6502-Emulator

This is becoming a really large project and has some complexity to it. Would love some contributers, or even just some more senior devs to offer some advice.

Thanks.

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OpenCart is awful, what are some decent alternatives written in PHP?

Sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, I wasn't sure where else to post it. If this is the wrong place, please point me to the right sub.

I'm helping a friend convert their shop to an actual ecommerce solution - right now they're just using some fairly insecure, poorly written PHP they made themselves (They learned PHP making this). It has several issues that I'd like to fix by using a proper solution.

So after little research, I decided to go with OpenCart - it looked decent enough on the frontend, so why not? Well... Once I started trying to modify it to how he wanted it (Share the main site's theme, try to recreate the product listing he had for his shop, etc.) I ran into so many problems. I can fix them with enough time, but I'm not getting paid enough to spend 20 hours reworking this for what should be minor changes, or features already built-in.

So - what are some good alternatives written in PHP that are easy to work with, somewhat modern, and customizable?

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