Excited to host @Adelf32 , creator of Laravel Idea, at The Artisan Meetup #2 in Dubai (12 Oct 2025)!
Talk: PhpStorm for Laravel: Productivity, AI, Future
👉 meetup.com/laravel-dubai/eve…
We want the PHP open source community to thrive. That's why we're now committed to sponsor 5 open source projects per year: blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/…
There's actually one more spot open for 25-26, which project would you suggest we sponsor?
"There is no limit. If I could start late, with no degree, no English language, no connections, and end up here, then you can too."
The Laravel Community is full of stories from incredible people who build amazing things.
During automating something - always check what the user does before and after it. There may be other ways to help them. Look how smart PhpStorm is with methods. Parameters? Cursor inside brackets. No? Outside. Void result? Semicolon. Copying this logic for my completions...
PhpStorm projects can have custom icons! They can be set by right-clicking on the project name and clicking "Set Project Custom Icon...". Or just put icon.svg(or png) to the .idea folder.
If you are like me, you might have thought Laravel’s `$fallback` value kicks in when a retrieved value was either missing OR `null`.
I always thought these two approaches were equivalent.
Always learning.
Yesterday during the talk (!!!) I found a new amazing feature in IDEA:
When I put a cron pattern like "* 2 */3 * * 2" inside a @Scheduled annotation in a @springframework application, IDEA explains what I just wrote!
Here's my dead-simple way of adding multi-tenancy to a Laravel application using the new "Context" feature.
It uses a combination of middleware, global query scopes, observers, and context to handle single database tenancy.
Magical 29.02 date. Non-working hotel locks, gas stations, and even accounting apps! What happened with developers? Tons of courses like "Become a developer in 7 days"?
Package maintainers tip: If you extend a class that is now "readonly" and you still wish to offer compatibility with the previous version of the package, you can make this type of deal: