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PHP tutorials for building dynamic web applications, from language fundamentals to production practice.
Tutorial
Expose a Laravel 13 app as an MCP server with laravel/mcp, then give Laravel AI SDK agents tools from MCP servers with tokens, OAuth and human approval for writes.
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Tutorial
Composer 2.10 added dependency policies that block malware and vulnerable package versions. Learn the defaults, configure config.policy in composer.json, run composer audit in CI and deploy from a committed lock file.
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Interview preparation
Twelve CodeIgniter 4 interview questions on models and the Query Builder, with clear answers and code: mass assignment, soft deletes, casting, SQL safety.
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A practical CakePHP 5 testing setup: schema from migrations, strict fixtures, TransactionStrategy, table and integration tests, and mocks with mockModel().
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Tutorial
A Laravel 13 support assistant that answers from your help centre with citations: Gemini Embedding 2, pgvector search, grounding checks, human hand-off and evals.
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Resource guide
Find and fix slow CakePHP 5.4 ORM queries: N+1 loops, contain() column bloat, matching(), the new subquery strategy, unhydratedFind(), CounterCache and caching.
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Architecture guide
How to structure access control in CakePHP 5 with the Authorization 3.x plugin: entity and table policies, scopes, admin rules, request policies and tests.
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Comparison
The same Laravel task written with laravel/ai and with the Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini PHP clients: trade-offs, lock-in, missing features, batch costs and testing.
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Resource guide
Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce 2.4.9 require PHP 8.5, Valkey, OpenSearch 3 and a newer database. Here are the tested versions, support dates, breaking changes and a practical Composer upgrade checklist.
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Troubleshooting guide
Migrations 5 removed Phinx. Fix the common upgrade breakages: seeds run, cake_seeds tracking, fetchAll(), old base classes, foreign key names and phinxlog.
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Architecture guide
When headless WordPress pays off, how to expose custom post types to the REST API or WPGraphQL, and how to cache and revalidate Next.js pages on publish.
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Tutorial
Install CodeIgniter Shield, issue hashed access tokens at login, protect API routes with the tokens filter, restrict actions with scopes and permissions, and revoke tokens on logout, with code checked against current docs.
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