Is this naming convention any good? Asking for a friend...
https://redd.it/1qkvfg9
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A new simple library for reading EXIF data

I'm building an application that allows users to upload photos to it. I needed access to the EXIF data if available, so I assumed I could just use exif_read_data() and save the results as a JSON blob in the database.

Not so simple. I assumed EXIF data was just basic ASCII text, but I assumed wrong. Some values are byte arrays or enums that are encoded with NUL bytes and attempting to serialized them as JSON to be stored in at UTF-8 column failed.

Additionally, I didn't realize that coordinates weren't stored as floating point latitude, longitude pairs that we're familiar with. The EXIF standard doesn't support floating point numbers, so they're encoded as a list of strings that represent the degrees, minutes, and seconds as a fraction (and cardinal direction as a string).

Packagist showed a few existing EXIF libraries, but they looked like overkill for what I needed. So, like every PHP developer, I wrote yet another package named exif-tools.

It's dependency free (aside from the bcmath, ctype, and exif extensions) and handles a lot of headaches I ran into.

Check it out, I'd love to hear your feedback: https://github.com/1tomany/exif-tools

https://redd.it/1qkxgc8
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Replacement for Encryption-Bundle

In my old Symfony 5 projects, I used the michaeldegroot/doctrine-encrypt bundle to store encrypted data in the database. The bundle worked well and transparently. Now, the project needs to be updated to a current Symfony version, but the encryption bundle no longer works because it only supports ORM2.

Which encryption bundle is currently state-of-the-art for Symfony 7.4/8 and runs as smoothly as the encryption bundle?

https://redd.it/1qkvxjz
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Twig 3.23: Introducing new operators and destructuring support
https://symfony.com/blog/twig-3-23-introducing-new-operators-and-destructuring-support?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

https://redd.it/1ql5o5a
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Sharing our PHP libraries

Hey r/PHP,
We have been building and using our own PHP libraries internally for many years across various projects. Figured they might be useful to others.

We're calling them the "Perfect" collection (mainly because our main internal project was called PerfectApp). They're modern, and fully tested with 100% coverage.

After writing our own framework inspired by Laravel for in-house use we went the way of Symfony and made standalone library's that can be used in any modern project. Most of them were developed by real Engineers before the AI boom.

All public releases: https://packagist.org/packages/krubio/

https://redd.it/1qlc71s
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What's your opinion about routes that start with /index.php?

I've noticed that, when using the ServerSideUP fpm-nginx image with a Laravel project, adding /index.php before the path causes the page to render.

These Docker images are used by Laravel Cloud, so all projects hosted there work the same.

For example, for the Laravel docs page, these routes render the same content:

[https://laravel.com/docs/12.x](https://laravel.com/docs/12.x)
https://laravel.com/index.php/docs/12.x

The same occurs for the Laravel News blog:

[https://laravel-news.com/speeding-up-laravel-news-with-cloudflare](https://laravel-news.com/speeding-up-laravel-news-with-cloudflare)
https://laravel-news.com/index.php/speeding-up-laravel-news-with-cloudflare

I don't know if that's expected, but I personally would expect to remove the /index.php part or even return a 404 Not Found error if the path starts with /index.php because that route doesn't exist in the web.php file.

I’ve noticed this because Bing's index started indexing a bunch of URLs with the /index.php part.

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Once again processing 11 million rows, now in seconds
https://stitcher.io/blog/11-million-rows-in-seconds

https://redd.it/1qq6zwj
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Once again processing 11 million rows, now in seconds
https://stitcher.io/blog/11-million-rows-in-seconds

https://redd.it/1qq6xqk
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Looking for sample web projects (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Symfony, Bootstrap)

I’m a student currently learning full-stack web development and I’m looking for example projects built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP (Symfony) and Bootstrap.

If you have an old project, demo, GitHub repo, or practice project you don’t mind sharing, I’d really appreciate it. I’m using them only for learning and understanding structure, best practices, and architecture.

https://redd.it/1qqcsxi
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Best OAuth2 (client) bundle for establishing "clientcredentials" session

To integrate a third-party API with my application, I'll need to establish a session using the OAuth2 "client\credentials" flow. The most popular packages appear to be the "knpu" or "benjaminfavre" bundles.

Based on the readme for each, the "benjaminfavre" bundle appears to be easier to implement, while the "knpu" bundle seems to be more flexible.

All things being equal, I'm leaning toward the "benjaminfavre" bundle, but would be curious to know if anyone has recommendations or concerns?



https://redd.it/1qqj5bj
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Hardening Symfony: Recent Security Improvements
https://symfony.com/blog/hardening-symfony-recent-security-improvements?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

https://redd.it/1qr1895
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Laravel Live Japan – friendly, community-focused Laravel event in Tokyo 🇯🇵

Hey r/laravel

Josh here. 👋 If you don't know who I am, I work in DevRel at Laravel.

I’ll be heading to Laravel Live Japan in Tokyo this May, and I’m really hoping to meet and connect with folks from the Laravel community in Japan and anyone traveling in.

Laravel has such a huge community around the world, so I’m especially excited to see what people are building in Japan and across the wider APAC region.

If you’ve been to a Laravel Live before, the vibe is intentionally more intimate and community-driven than a massive conference. Lots of good conversations and time to actually meet people. I had the privilege of going to Laravel Live UK last year and it was truly one of my favorite times. I met so many incredible people.

Let me know if you’re coming or thinking about it! Happy to answer any questions.

laravellive.jp

https://redd.it/1qqi48a
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Building a Flexible Reporting System - Laravel In Practice EP3
https://youtu.be/Pa7Gi9raRPk?si=P0XJfrbSPFqVDiZ3

https://redd.it/1qqhld0
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Here Is What Is New in Laravel Boost 2.0
https://youtu.be/8-chNpilRzU

https://redd.it/1qq303o
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Cycle-accurate NES emulator written in PHP
https://github.com/oliverearl/nes-php-glfw

https://redd.it/1qpg36p
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Secure the database credentials in Jaxon DbAdmin with Infisical

Hi,

I just published a blog post about how the credentials of the databases managed with Jaxon DbAdmin can be securely stored in the Infisical server.

I've used Infisical but any other secret management service can be used instead.

https://www.jaxon-php.org/blog/2026/01/secure-the-jaxon-dbadmin-database-credentials-with-infisical.html

https://redd.it/1qr7n3f
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Live walkthrough: Skills in Laravel Boost 2.0

Hey all!

I’m doing a live stream tomorrow (1/29) at 11 AM ET with Pushpak Chhajed on Laravel Boost 2.0.

We’ll be walking through:

* what changed in Boost 2.0 and why
* what Skills are and how they give LLMs better context in Laravel apps
* how Skills and guidelines work together in real workflows

If you have questions about Boost or the updates, feel free to drop them here ahead of time or ask in chat during the stream!

Stream link:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQjC20rWLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQjC20rWLg)


https://redd.it/1qpyil8
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Non AI things

Is there anything out there that isn't related to AI these days?

I have been building with Laravel and other tooling for 9 years but lately everything is related to AI.

https://redd.it/1qpoowj
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Laravel Cloud does not support static asset caching

According to Laravel Cloud's documentation automatically applies edge caching via CloudFlare and that:

>Laravel Cloud uses a long cache lifespan to ensure your static assets are served at the edge as much as possible.

However, no matter what I did, Google Lighthouse and Pingdom would always complain that none of my static assets had any TTL set (either via `Cache-Control` or `Expires`) and I could verify their absence in the browser myself.

At first I thought it was the existence of the `Set-Cookie` header (which Laravel Cloud states will be block caching) however this was set via CloudFlare was outside of my control.

Today I finally got confirmation from the Laravel Cloud team that their documentation is wrong and that there's no TTL set at all.

https://preview.redd.it/w1hy28hjsigg1.png?width=848&format=png&auto=webp&s=20f74bed36be3a1c60086b179461853118f8925a

I trust they're working on a fix, but I also needed to share my frustration at the time I've wasted trying to fix an issue (that is affecting my SEO and user experience) that was outside of my control.

If you're in a similar boat, or are just trusting that Laravel Cloud is taking care of your asset caching for you, now you know.

https://preview.redd.it/5ig9ph6hsigg1.png?width=1422&format=png&auto=webp&s=43598b8b07edeff82f2f8658076fa2634f3d4979

(Note: This doesn't affect static assets like images that are stored in a bucket. You will manually need to set those headers yourself.)

https://redd.it/1qrbnoi
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I created an interactive PHP function reference where you can browse, learn, and execute PHP functions live without any setup.
https://8gwifi.org/tutorials/php-functions/

https://redd.it/1qpo5hj
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Preprocessing php code with C preprocessor?

I have some php code, a SQLite3 client module, that has a mess of semver conditional logic in it for using more recent features (upsert, NOROWID, that sort of thing), because I have a few users with legacy server configs.

I’m thinking of using the venerable C preprocessor ( https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cpp.1.html ) \#ifdef feature set to let me make production versions of my code without the conditional logic,:to make it smaller and faster for most of my users. It seems wise to do this without just hacking out the legacy code.

This seems to work. I’ll need some CI/CD and installation stuff to deploy it.

**Are there any pitfalls to this that I might be missing** ?

**Is there a better way to do this** ?

I’m grateful for any advice.

https://redd.it/1qri7te
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