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Let’s be real—setting up a traditional VPS or paying monthly for shared hosting just to run some personal PHP projects, APIs, or lightweight apps can
Today's work was a small piece of UX that's easy to underestimate: making an admin "browser" page scope itself to whatever you clicked to get there. T
The Cache Stampede Avalanche When engineering high-traffic applications at Smart Tech Devs, caching heavy database responses is your first line of de
Imagine you write a letter in a secret code that only your old house key can read. Then you move. You photocopy the coded letter, carry it to the new
Bundling an admin UI inside a Laravel package is a different game from building one in an app. The app's conveniences — a compiled Vite manifest, a re
There's a class of bug that's maddening: it passes every test you have, then crashes in the user's face. I hit one in the admin UI of laravel-config-s
Your first scaling problem rarely arrives with a bang. For a while, everything is fine: pages load fast, the database barely breaks a sweat, and the t
PHP has been around for a long time, but it is still widely used for building real-world web applications. The problem is not PHP itself. The problem
For most of this series I have been shipping the parts of a SaaS that you can see: auth, multi-tenancy, an admin console, billing. The affiliate progr
How to Build a WordPress AI Plugin (Step-by-Step Guide 2026) This guide builds a complete WordPress plugin with AI content generation: sett
How to Build a Telegram Bot with PHP and AI (2026) This guide builds a fully working AI Telegram bot with PHP: webhook setup, message handl
How to Integrate ChatGPT with PHP (Complete Guide 2026) This guide covers every approach: official PHP SDK, raw cURL, conversation history,
How to Build an AI Chatbot with PHP (Step-by-Step, 2026) This guide builds a working web AI chatbot with PHP: a backend that calls OpenAI,
OpenAI PHP SDK: Complete Guide with Code Examples (2026) The openai-php/client is the official PHP library for the OpenAI API. This guide c
How to Integrate OpenAI API with Laravel (Complete Guide 2026) Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, and adding OpenAI to it is straig
Originally published at hafiz.dev Every public property in your Livewire component is sent to the browser. Every single one. The snapshot that L
Flexible Eloquent filtering usually dies the same way: a clean index() endpoint turns into fifteen if ($request->filled(...)) branches, three whereHas
Building a Laravel MCP Server That Answers Questions Over Real Data A hands-on guide to the Model Context Protocol in Laravel — fr
TL;DR — We'll install dskripchenko/laravel-api, write one controller, and end up with a versioned API (/api/v1/...) and interactive OpenAPI 3.0 docs
How I revived a 128MB RAM NAS by building my own control panel It all started with boredom and old hardware I had an old Netgear