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Every few weeks somebody in a thread here tells me PHP is dead. I run an 11 person agency in Karachi. This month PHP paid 11 salaries, our office rent, two laptops and a very expensive coffee machine. If this is death, it is a well paid one. But "it pays" is not an argument about quality, so here are actual receipts. And at the end, what is still bad, because I am not a fan club. Receipt 1: the language grew up PHP…
Every few weeks a junior in my team (or a freelancer in my DMs) shows me a production server where the queue worker is running inside screen . It works until the server reboots, or the worker eats a bad job and dies at 3am, and then the client calls me asking why no invoices went out since Tuesday. Uff. So here is the setup we actually use. Nothing fancy. A 2 vCPU / 4 GB VPS for about 12 dollars a month runs Redis,…
I post the wins here, so I should post this one too. UK ecommerce client, Laravel, a payment gateway the client chose (a smaller provider, not Stripe). Checkout puts a ChargeOrder job on the queue. The job had $tries = 3 with backoff, because "network errors happen". One evening the gateway was slow. The charge request took longer than our HTTP timeout, so the job threw a timeout exception. Laravel did exactly what…
Code review in my agency used to be 40% "what values can this string have?" and "who changed this amount after the controller?". PHP 8 killed most of those comments. Here are the features that did it, with the code we actually write now. 1. Backed enums (8.1) enum OrderStatus: string { case Pending = 'pending'; case Paid = 'paid'; case Shipped = 'shipped'; case Cancelled = 'cancelled'; public function label():…
Story time, because this happened again this month and I want to have a link to send next time. Logistics client in Dubai. Laravel app we built in 2021, about 40k shipments a month, drivers, tracking page, invoices. They hired a new CTO from a big company. First meeting: "PHP is old, we need to rewrite in Node, NestJS, microservices. How long?" I did not argue. I said: give me two days to profile, and I will give…
Kids are asleep, so here's the webhook setup we've been running on an ecommerce client for two years. It came out of a Black Friday where we shipped some lucky customers two of everything. Not Cashier, plain stripe-php, because the client has a custom checkout. Why webhooks go wrong Stripe retries a webhook if you don't answer with a 2xx quickly, and it keeps retrying for up to three days. If your handler does the…
A Dubai client called last month. "The admin is slow, maybe we need a bigger server?" The orders page took 6.1 seconds. I opened Debugbar and the query counter said 1,214 . For one page. Of 50 orders. The server was fine. The loop was not. The code (simplified, but not by much) // OrderController@index $orders = Order::latest()->paginate(50); {{-- orders/index.blade.php --}} @foreach ($orders as $order) <tr> <td>{{…
Sugeng siang gan. Banyak klien saya koperasi dan toko kecil, budget hosting mereka 30-50 ribu sebulan, jadi VPS belum masuk akal. Ini langkah yang saya pakai sejak 2019 untuk deploy Laravel di shared hosting cPanel. Sudah dipakai di 20an klien, aman. 1. Struktur folder Jangan taruh semua isi project di public_html . Folder .env , vendor , storage jadi bisa diakses dari browser. Taruh project di luar:…
oxente, que semana. cliente meu aqui em salvador, uma pousada, comprou um plugin "premium" de reservas num site desses de plugin pirata. de graça. massa né? três semanas depois o google search console mandou alerta e o site tava cheio de página de cassino em russo e japonês. barril. como eu achei primeira coisa, ver quem é admin: wp user list --role=administrator tinha um usuário "wp_support" que ninguém criou.…
Aadab sab ko. School management software mein ek job hai jo ek school ke saare students ki fee receipt PDF banake parents ko email karti hai. Masla ye hai ki kabhi kabhi job do baar chal jaati hai, parents ko do emails jaate hain, aur principal sahab naraz hain. Setup: Laravel 11, PHP 8.3, QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis , worker: php artisan queue:work --tries=3 class SendFeeReceipts implements ShouldQueue { use Queueable;…
We are moving one high traffic client API (about 4M requests a day, mostly reads, Redis cached) from php-fpm to Octane with FrankenPHP. Staging benchmarks look great, p95 from 48ms to 14ms. But I have done this long enough to know staging lies. Setup: PHP 8.3, Laravel 11, Docker, 2 containers behind a load balancer. Questions for people who actually run it in production: Memory growth: do you set --max-requests ,…
made a topic for the PHP people 🐘 php_still_pays. rule 1: post your PHP version, 5.6 and 8.3 are different languages. rule 2: the "PHP is dead" joke has been made, bring code or bring nothing. my agency payroll says hi
Hello all. I maintain a savings and loan system (koperasi simpan pinjam) used by 40 cooperatives. Same features for all, each has 2,000 to 20,000 members. Laravel 10, PHP 8.2, MySQL 8, one VPS. Now it is single database, every table has koperasi_id , and I use a global scope: class KoperasiScope implements Scope { public function apply(Builder $builder, Model $model): void { $builder->where(…
Petite histoire, parce que je l'ai racontée trois fois cette semaine et que ça ira plus vite comme ça. Vendredi, 18h40. Une cliente boulangerie à Nantes m'appelle : "le site n'affiche plus rien quand on veut payer". Les commandes du samedi matin (le gros jour) passent par là. J'ai hérité du site il y a deux mois, et évidemment les mises à jour automatiques étaient activées pour tout. WooCommerce s'était mis à jour…
