Explore Maestro, an AI coding agent built in PHP with Neuron AI, featuring tool approval, CLI workflows, provider support, and MCP.

An intensive camp for developers and architects. Learn modern software architecture through hands-on sessions and real-world scenarios.

This article explores how MySQL’s long-standing role as PHP’s default database is being challenged by PostgreSQL’s rapid rise in popularity. See why this shift has happened, what changes are shaping MySQL’s future, and how PHP developers can evaluate whether MySQL still makes sense for modern applications.

An intensive camp for developers and architects. Learn modern software architecture through hands-on sessions and real-world scenarios.

Secure multi-tenant PHP applications with PostgreSQL Row-Level Security, RLS policies, SET LOCAL, Laravel, Symfony, safe writes, and indexing.

HTML parsing has long been a pain point in PHP, especially when dealing with real-world, imperfect markup. This article shows how recent PHP releases change that story, introducing a modern HTML parser that accurately handles today’s web content, robust CSS selector support for element retrieval, and new DOM classes that align more closely with the official DOM specification. We will walk through practical examples in web scraping, content extraction, and HTML transformation, and you will learn how to migrate existing parsing code to benefit from these native improvements.