The Php Times — Ecosystem

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A Practical Guide to PHP Attributes — And Their Limits

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FREEK.DEV, July 21, 2026 — Wendell Adriel published a detailed article covering PHP attributes: how they work as metadata, how to read them with Reflection, common design patterns, Laravel usage examples, performance considerations, and testing strategies. It also weighs cases where plain, explicit code beats attribute-based abstractions, giving developers a balanced view of trade-offs rather than treating attributes as a default choice.

Tooling

Qbix Server: Pure-PHP Web Server Claims 10× Concurrency Advantage Over Nginx + PHP-FPM

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HACKER NEWS (PHP, ≥15 P.), July 21, 2026 — A standalone PHP web server serving static files, PHP scripts, and WebSocket connections in a single process. Uses fork-after-preload via copy-on-write to claim ~1,600 concurrent PHP requests on 8GB RAM versus ~160 with php-fpm—eliminating …

News

Guzzle 8.0 Brings Enhanced Request Diagnostics and HTTP/3 Support

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MEDIUM · PHP, July 21, 2026 — Guzzle 8.0 is now available, adding HTTP/3 protocol support and stronger debugging capabilities for HTTP requests. The release prioritizes improved error diagnostics to help developers distinguish between connection failures and ambiguous t…

Releases

Laravel Framework Ships v13.21.0 and v13.21.1 Patch Updates

LARAVEL FRAMEWORK RELEASES, July 21, 2026 — The Laravel framework repository has published two new tags in its 13.x branch, v13.21.0 and v13.21.1, following the project's regular release cadence. No detailed changelog was available at publication; as routine point releases, they typically bundle minor fixes and small improvements for existing Laravel 13 users.

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News

NativePHP Team Shows Off PHP-Driven Native macOS App, No Electron in Sight

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R/PHP (TOP) — The NativePHP team has built a proof-of-concept macOS app with a fully native UI, entirely driven by PHP instead of Electron, Tauri or a web view. A new extension called SuperNative compiles PHP into a custom binary format embedded directly…

News

PECL Release Endpoints Timing Out, Reddit Thread Reports

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R/PHP (TOP) — PHP developers on r/PHP report that PECL's release pages, such as pecl.php.net/rest/r/amqp/stable.txt, are timing out while cached pages still load. A GitHub issue (php/php-src#22827) tracks the problem. Commenters recall past PEAR server o…

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Laravel Time Machine Profiles Request Lifecycle Without a Database

Laravel Time Machine, a package by Jaydeep Gadhiya, tracks every phase of a Laravel request—bootstrap, middleware, routing, controller, response, termination—with millisecond timing and SQL query capture.

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LARAVEL NEWS, July 21, 2026 — It stores JSON profiles in storage/time-machine, flags slow requests and queries, and ships a dashboard at /time-machine for Laravel 8 through 13.

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RFC Watch

New RFC Proposes Bundled user_cache Extension for PHP

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PHP INTERNALS ([RFC]/[VOTE]) — Go Kudo has published a new RFC proposing a bundled user_cache extension, replacing his earlier OPcache Static Cache proposal after feedback about feature creep. The extension is built independently o…

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Vocalizer Brings On-Device Text-to-Speech to PHP

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LARAVEL NEWS — A native PHP extension called Vocalizer runs text-to-speech locally without cloud APIs or runtime dependencies. It supports eight model families, voice cloning, async synthesis, and crash isolation. T…

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