Issue #9

News

• Pest 5 Released With Test Impact Analysis, an Agent Plugin, and Evals

  Pest 5 has arrived with a test impact analysis engine, an agent verification plugin, and evals, plus support for PHP 8.4 and PHPUnit 13.

Articles

• Building a Webhook Dispatcher With Retries and Signature Verification in Laravel

  Build a reliable outbound webhook system in Laravel with signed payloads, exponential backoff retries, and a delivery log.

• Eloquent's chaperone() Method: Fixing N+1 Queries on Inverse Relationships

  Eager loading a parent relation can still trigger a query per child model. Eloquent's chaperone() method closes that gap on inverse relationships.

• whereLike(), whereStartsWith(), and whereEndsWith(): Cleaner String Matching in Eloquent

  whereLike(), whereStartsWith(), and whereEndsWith() replace hand-rolled LIKE clauses, reading cleaner and avoiding dialect quirks.

• Http::pool(): Fast Concurrent Requests Without Async Complexity

  Http::pool() fires several API calls concurrently so you wait once instead of summing latencies, without any async complexity.

• Building a Multi-Currency Pricing System With Value Objects in Laravel

  Model prices with a Money value object instead of raw integers, so currency handling and rounding bugs become much harder to introduce.

PHP Architect

Podcasts

• Community Corner Podcast: cakePHP with Jamison Bryant

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.