Tag: tools

A practical tour of the Laravel AI SDK. Provider-agnostic agents, tools, structured output, and pgvector semantic search, all in idiomatic PHP.

PhpStorm 2026.1 expands its MCP server, adds a Claude Code plugin, ships Git worktrees for parallel agents, and a PHP 8.5 pipe operator quick-fix.

Alpine's Sort plugin gives you Kanban-style drag-and-drop in a few attributes. Here is how to wire it to a Laravel backend and persist the order.

Filament v4 is now at 4.11 with faster table rendering, a TipTap editor, nested resources, and dead-simple MFA. Here is what PHP developers should know.

Pest 4 brings Playwright-powered browser testing to PHP with the visit() helper, smoke tests, visual regression, and parallel sharding. Here is how it works.

PHPUnit 13 adds sealed test doubles, eight precise array assertions, and a true withConsecutive() replacement. Here is what PHP developers should know.

NeoVim 0.11 and 0.12 dramatically simplified PHP LSP setup. Learn how to configure phpactor, Treesitter, Blade support, and Laravel Pint with minimal config.

Laravel 13's first-party AI SDK brings provider-agnostic text, image, audio, and embedding generation to PHP developers with a clean, familiar API.

Composer 2.9 and 2.10 bring automatic security blocking, a new repo CLI command, and malware filtering. Here's what changed and how to use it.

Laravel Herd now ships with a built-in MCP server that connects AI clients like Claude to your local PHP environment with 218 tools.

Laravel Nightwatch delivers production-grade observability for Laravel apps with zero-config setup, deep telemetry, and real-time alerting.

Tinkerwell 5 ships a built-in MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, and others execute PHP inside your real project context.

PhpStorm 2026.1 ships an expanded MCP server that lets Claude Code, Windsurf, and other agents use PhpStorm's own static analysis tools.

Set up a powerful PHP development environment in NeoVim 0.11+ using native LSP, Intelephense, Phpactor, Mason, and Treesitter — no more plugin sprawl.

Rector automates PHP version upgrades and refactoring. Learn how to set it up, write custom rules, and integrate it into your CI pipeline.

A practical guide to running FrankenPHP in production. Worker mode, embedded binaries, HTTP/3, and the deployment patterns that actually pay off.

Practical PHPStan 2 tips for PHP developers. Learn baselines, generics, custom rules, and strategies to reach level max on real-world projects.

NeoVim with LazyVim gives PHP developers a fast, keyboard-driven IDE with LSP support, testing integration, and Blade syntax highlighting. Here's how to set it up from scratch.