PHP 8.1 Enums: Backed Enums and Laravel Eloquent Casts
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PHP 8.1 Enums: Backed Enums and Laravel Eloquent Casts PHP enums landed in version 8.1, and they've quietly become one of the most adopted features across the ecosystem. With 85.9% of Packagist users now running PHP 8.x (Stitcher.io, June 2025), there's little excuse to keep scattering magic strings and integer constants across your codebase. Enums give you type safety, autocompletion, and a single source of truth for fixed sets of values. This tutorial walks through backed enums f