Building a Simple Recommendation Engine with Eloquent and Weighted Scoring

You do not need a machine learning service to recommend related content. A weighted scoring query in Eloquent gets you most of the way there.

Three different tools all answer "is this allowed?" in Laravel. Understanding why each exists keeps authorization logic from sprawling.

A new grant-funded team at the PHP Foundation is scanning the most-downloaded Composer packages for vulnerabilities using AI-assisted tooling.

Laravel 13.22.0 landed with QueueFake testing helpers, fewer cache hits when debouncing, and internal Stringable adoption.

Tag articles, products, and anything else through a single reusable table using a polymorphic many-to-many relationship.

Stop stuffing regex into strings. Build reusable, testable validation rules with invokable Rule objects and closures.

Calling ->get() on a giant table loads every row into memory at once. Laravel gives you chunk, chunkById, cursor, and lazy to process big result sets safely.

Who changed this record, and when? Build a reusable audit trail using Eloquent observers so every create, update, and delete is logged automatically.

Laravel Cloud now deploys fully managed Symfony applications with no code changes, detecting the framework from composer.json and configuring the runtime for you.