Escalated - Support desk system for Laravel (Powered by Inertia)

Hey folks,

I’ve been working on an open-source project called **Escalated** and wanted to share it here to get some early feedback.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of running a separate support desk app with its own auth, database, and pricing model, Escalated lives *inside* your application. It uses your existing users, your database, and your deployment setup.

Wherever Inertia works, Escalated follows (Laravel, Django, Rails) - although Laravel is the focus right now.

* tickets and threaded conversations
* Internal notes, statuses, priorities, tagging
* Assignment, ownership, SLAs, and escalation rules
* Notifications via your framework’s native systems
* All data stays in *your* database

MIT licensed

This is still very much **WIP**, but actively developed.
The core architecture and adapters are in place, and the website is done (feedback on the design would be great).

Design of the admin panel is still in the works. The client panel supports Inertia/Vue layouts so it can entirely match your site design:

[https://i.imgur.com/t4MRxl7.png](https://i.imgur.com/t4MRxl7.png)

I'm focusing **most on** Laravel with features for Rails/Django being migrated.

Happy to get opinions/feedback.

Site: [https://escalated.dev]()
GitHub: [https://github.com/escalated-dev]()

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What is your go to 'left over AI tokens' to use up prompt, for general maintenance, tidy-ups or nice to haves for Laravel projects?

It gets to the time of the week where you have a bunch of usage left of Claude.

Usually I ask it very generic or ill considered maintenance prompts:

\- check for missing test coverage

\- what are risks in the code base

\- what isn't following best practice

Then I have to manually create PRs for each for the sub branches it creates.

How do you guys approach this - I'm sure there is a much better, structured approach that I can use, that's quick and simple for Laravel projects. Thanks!

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Laravel package to pause/resume queue batches

Hey everyone 👋

I built a small Laravel package that lets you pause and resume job batches when using Redis queues. It adds a pausable-redis driver and has a very simple API:

$batch->pause();
    
$batch->paused();  

$batch->resume();

Repo: https://github.com/digiloopinc/laravel-pausable-batch

It’s pretty lightweight and still early, so I’d really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or improvements. Thanks!

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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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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/1qzxfhq
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SymfonyLive Paris 2026 : Tout pour préparer votre venue, sans stress!
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonylive-paris-2026-tout-pour-preparer-votre-venue-sans-stress?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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How I used Laravel AI in Translations UI v2

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No Chrome, no Node, no problem: PDF generation in Laravel finally grows up
https://extended.reading.sh/laravel-pdf-on-cloudflare

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Built an open-source PHP client for the EU Deforestation Regulation API
http://github.com/4bdullatif/eudr-php-client

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LDAP get Members of a Group

Hey,

I need a function to get all Members of a Group using the Symfony LDAP Adapter.

Cheers

Christoph

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A new Spatie package: Laravel Screenshot 📸
https://freek.dev/3002-another-new-spatie-package-drops-spatielaravel-screesnhot

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Sugar (PHP templating engine) — thoughts?

Hey everyone

I’m working on a new PHP templating engine called Sugar, and I’d love honest feedback from the community.

It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a long time, and with today’s AI tooling this kind of project feels way more accessible for me to actually build and iterate on.

Docs: https://josbeir.github.io/sugar/
GitHub: https://github.com/josbeir/sugar
Feature comparison: https://josbeir.github.io/sugar/guide/introduction/what-is-sugar.html#feature-comparison (could be incorrect, please correct me if you notice this)

Focus

Directive-based templating (`s:if`, `s:foreach`, `s:forelse`, etc.)
Context-aware auto-escaping
Components + slots
Template inheritance/includes
PHP 8.5 pipe syntax support (even with the minimum PHP 8.2 requirement)

Feedback I’m looking for

Does the syntax feel intuitive?
Anything that feels over-engineered or unnecessary?
Missing features you’d expect before real-world use?
Docs clarity — what was confusing?
Performance or architecture concerns you notice?

I’m especially interested in critical feedback — but “looks good” is appreciated too 🙏

Thanks for taking a look!

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New SymfonyCasts Course: Symfony Forms - The Basics
https://symfony.com/blog/new-symfonycasts-course-symfony-forms-the-basics?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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PHPStan fully supports PHP 8.5!
https://phpstan.org/blog/phpstan-fully-supports-php-8-5

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Laravel Permission v7 has been released
https://x.com/freekmurze/status/2021516237390417928

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I Built a D&D Game in the Terminal with Laravel AI SDK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYuFiNiv03w

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GitHub - eznix86/pest-plugin-testcontainers: Testing Containers the PestPHP Way
https://github.com/eznix86/pest-plugin-testcontainers

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Xampp in 2026.

I have been using PHP and Laravel for many years and recently started taking my setup more seriously.

Right now on my Mac I am still using XAMPP for local development. It works fine, but I keep seeing people recommend other tools like Valet, Herd, Docker, etc.

I also sometimes work on plain PHP projects, not just Laravel, so flexibility matters to me.

For those using Mac in 2026, what is your current local setup for PHP and Laravel?

Are you using Valet, Herd, Docker, or something else?

What would you recommend as the best and most efficient setup today?

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How is ZED for PHP ? Anyone moved from Phpstorm to zed ?

I have been a phpstorm user for years. While I am quite happy with it, the performance of zed is something else. My PC is decent and I don't really have a performance issue with phpstorm on most days.

But zed is not merely fast, its in a different league. It feels like a modern application with old school like lightning light UI. Like how the earlier versions of firefox were. Like xfce or how snappy windows xp was . Currently its taking only 120 MB of RAM with a project open!


But performance is not everything. Phpstorm is a professional almost perfect for php. Zed is great, but lacks the default perfect php experience of phpstorm - things like context, jumping to definition, autocomplete etc. To make zed match phpstorm we need some paid extensions

\- 'php tools' - yaerly cost. Almost as expensive as phpstorm !
\- intelliphense - one time. Cheaper, less powerful.

Anyone has experience with either ? Anyone moved from phpstorm to zed and found it good ? Worth trying , or buying these extensions ?

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Kreuzberg v4.3.0 and benchmarks

Hey all,

Excited to announce that we published updated benchmarks for Kreuzberg, comparing it against other document extraction tools like Apache Tika, Docling, Unstructured, PDFPlumber, PyMuPDF4LLM, MarkItDown, and Mineru. We want to help you understand how Kreuzberg behaves in practice. We also released Kreuzberg v4.3.0 which has a lot of new cool improvements (more below)!

What is Kreuzberg?

Kreuzberg is an open-source document intelligence framework written in Rust, with Python, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Elixir, C#, and TypeScript (Node/Bun/Wasm/Deno) bindings. It focuses on fast, structured extraction across 75+ formats, including PDFs, Office docs, HTML, images, and more.

All benchmarks run automatically on GitHub Actions in a standardized Linux environment. Every framework is tested using the same harness.

We measure: Throughput (MB/s), Duration: extraction time per document, Quality Score: Extraction accuracy, Extraction time vs subprocess overhead, Memory usage RAM consumption, CPU usage, Tail latencies (p95 / p99)

Benchmarks run in both:

Single-file mode (latency, cold start)

Batch mode (throughput, parallelism)

Runtime characteristics

In addition to extraction performance, we also measure:

Cold start time (framework initialization latency) and Installation footprint (framework install size on disk)

High-level results show that:

Kreuzberg shows significantly higher throughput across PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, and HTML

Processing times are in milliseconds instead of seconds

Cold start times are much lower compared to alternatives

Installation footprint is smaller than other frameworks

All results are generated in CI, published as structured JSON and fully reproducible.

More updates: Kreuzberg 4.3.0 is out

Alongside the benchmarks, we’ve continued shipping improvements and fixing issues. Key highlights: PaddleOCR optional backend - in Rust, Document structure extraction (similar to Docling), Native Word97 format extraction - valuable for enterprises and government orgs

Find all info in our GitHub Changelog here: https://github.com/kreuzberg-dev/kreuzberg/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Contributions are welcome :)



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A Week of Symfony #998 (February 9–15, 2026)
https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-998-february-9-15-2026?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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