The State of PHP is our first-ever census of the elePHPant population that aims to unearth the PHP developer trends – from years of experience and favorite frameworks to AI preferences and beyond. Read more about the State of PHP survey in the press release: blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/… #StateOfPHP

🗞️ Artisan Weekly Edition 88 Less than 7 days until Laravel Live UK! The Jump24 team is heading down Wednesday afternoon - if you're around, let us know. PHPVerse 2026 wrapped up this week with brilliant speakers and talks. Here are your top 10 Laravel links: 🥇 The State of PHP 2026 The PHP Foundation and JetBrains are running their first annual State of PHP census to map the global PHP ecosystem. Spare 15 minutes to participate and help chart the worldwide elePHPant population, with a chance to win one of five EUR 500 vouchers. By @jetbrains surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/sta… 🥈 API Tips and Tricks from My Book @JustSteveKing shares key insights from his new book 'API Artisan: A guide to building APIs in Laravel', covering essential patterns for building Laravel APIs that developers actually want to use. Learn about measuring the right metrics, designing contracts before code, and understanding what truly constitutes a breaking change. By @JustSteveKing juststeveking.com/articles/a… 🥉 Eloquent Query Classes Pattern An in-depth exploration of the Eloquent Query Classes pattern in Laravel from @wendell_adriel, explaining how to organise complex database queries into dedicated classes to avoid duplication and improve maintainability as your application grows. By @wendell_adriel wendelladriel.com/blog/eloqu… 4️⃣ Audit your Filament app's security with Blueprint Filament Blueprint v1.2 introduces a new Security Audit skill that analyses your application's use of Filament and generates a remediation plan for security issues. The tool checks for common misconfigurations including access control, file uploads, XSS vulnerabilities, and query scoping, providing actionable fixes linked directly to the relevant documentation. By @danjharrin filamentphp.com/insights/dan… 5️⃣ PHPStan rules to measure cognitive complexity of your classes and methods @VotrubaT has released a PHPStan extension that measures cognitive complexity in your PHP code, helping you identify difficult-to-understand functions and class dependency trees. It provides configurable rules to keep your code maintainable by flagging overly complex classes and methods. By @VotrubaT github.com/TomasVotruba/cogn… 6️⃣ Laravel Collections Bug Caused by Arrow Functions @mmramadan496 explores a subtle Laravel Collections bug where arrow functions caused early iteration termination due to implicit return values. Switching to anonymous functions resolved the issue by returning null instead of false. By @mmramadan496 mmramadan.com/collections/la… 7️⃣ 3 Years of Laravel Jobs: What 699 LaraJobs Emails Actually Say About the Market A comprehensive data analysis of 699 Laravel job postings from 2023-2026 by @leopoletto, examining market trends through automated email processing with GPT-5 mini. Includes open-source pipeline code, salary insights, and detailed breakdowns of remote work patterns, engagement types, and skill requirements in the Laravel ecosystem. By @leopoletto leopoletto.dev/blog/larajobs… 8️⃣ Building a Ralph Loop With Laravel's AI SDK @jordankdalton demonstrates how to implement a Ralph loop pattern inside a Laravel application using the AI SDK, with durable database state instead of filesystem files. Learn how to build an agent system that processes 1,400 products with fresh context each iteration, custom tools, and verifiable completion conditions. By @jordankdalton jordandalton.com/articles/bu… 9️⃣ We had some interesting developments in the pursuit for Generics in PHP this week @ProjektGopher shares exciting updates about the ongoing discussion around implementing Generics in PHP from the internals mailing list. He covers the latest developments in his weekly PHP Internals recap video. By @ProjektGopher x.com/ProjektGopher/status/2… 🔟 My AI Writes Perfect* PHP | Ashley Hindle | PHPverse 2026 In this talk from PHPverse 2026, @ashleyhindle shows his real day-to-day setup live, explains what he's learned on this journey, and gives you a checklist you can use to get your own projects writing PHP you don't have to fight. By @ashleyhindle youtube.com/watch?v=957MaDK4… --- Follow us: Daniel Newns: @DanielNewns Artisan Weekly: @artisan_weekly

Help us map the herd! 🐘🐘🐘 Take part in the State of PHP survey we’re organizing with @ThePHPF and help us count the elePHPant population across the world! Join the expedition here 👉 jb.gg/stateofphp-26

"Make sure to capture it when you see an elephpant go across the screen for a chance to win" Bet. #phpverse

Getting ready for @jetbrains @phpstorm #PHPVerse 2026. Follow the purple ElePHPant. Will you be there? Register here: lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-20…

oh my god there's a whole elePHPant collectors subculture out there!! elephpant.me/ that one looks like OpenGoodies from 2015

#PHP ElePHPant new generation available online: Holly, from @phptek the 2026 PHP/JS elephpant, in gorgeous yellow color. store.phparch.com/en-eur/pro…

念願のElephpant Thank you @sentry team! #LaravelLiveJP

ElePHPant #LaravelLiveJP

Bring your elePHPant to conference day : all of them @safefive_de #afupday

ElePHPant (PHP): The "adorable, elephantine mascot of the PHP project.", designed by Vincent Pontier in 1998. They have so many plushies it's unreal please check the gallery flickr.com/groups/elephpants…

The best part is that a lot of companies and tools have their own elePHPant, so you can keep collecting them! Not pictured are my Laravel and Sentry elePHPants

He's called elePHPant, because of course he is!

Meet Erik the Red. Laravel Denmark is proud to present the newest member of the elephpant herd. May his trunk be mighty and his migrations clean.

Merci @tideways pour ce magnifique nouvel #elephpant 😍 Tout droit arrivé dans nos bureaux, il rejoint ses copains dans la très belle collection déjà en place ! Longue vie aux éléphants 🐘 #php 💙 Et merci de soutenir la communauté et l’observabilité !

I got @datadoghq @DatadogJ elePHPant! Thank you!!!

I’m always moved when a young elePHPant meets Trisaieul, the great grand parent of all elephpants. Thanks @tideways for making this reunion possible. Moni: welcome to the PHPamily!