Issue #8

News

• Laravel Nightwatch's MCP Server Now Diagnoses Performance Issues Too

  Nightwatch's MCP server now gives AI coding assistants real route, query, and job timing data, so they can help diagnose performance problems and not just exceptions.

Links

• PHP2Shell

  PHP2Shell is a family of critical vulnerabilities fixed in core PHP, with severity up to CVSS 9.2, that could allow unauthenticated code execution or memory exposure. Worth checking your PHP version.

Articles

• Stop Calling sleep() Directly: Laravel's Testable Sleep Facade

  Laravel's Sleep facade replaces raw sleep() calls with a fluent, testable API, so your test suite stops waiting on multi-second pauses.

• Memoize Expensive Calls in a Single Request with Laravel's once() Helper

  The once() helper memoizes a closure's result for the current request or process. This piece covers when it's worth using.

PHP Architect

This month's magazine

‘BattleSnake: They Said I Cheated—I’d Do It Again’ by Holly Schilling is our first feature article this month. Wait, don’t stop reading yet. Give Holly a chance to explain in the article. A good story will walk you through exactly what led to the cheating charge and how Holly justifies the decisions made.