Top Ten Laravel And PHP Things - 19-12-2025

It's Friday, some of you might have already finished work for the year, so lets get one more top ten Laravel and PHP things in before the we all take a long earned break.

In 🥇 place this week its Ana Margarida Tavares latest post over on the Laravel Blog - "How We Built Laravel Wrapped". Ana goes into details on how the Laravel team (Big shout out Josh Cirre) went about building Laravel wrapped. Given it only took the team 2 weeks to put together it's damn impressive. It's really interesting to go behind the scenes and see what the team used to help them build the application in such a short timescale. - https://t.ly/L2PyG

In 🥈 place this week its Mohammad Mahdi Taheri with "Railway-Oriented Programming in Laravel: Exceptions Are Not Your Business" - I really enjoyed this one as its not a coding technique I've come across before and it's certainly one I'm interested in looking at in a bit more detail - https://t.ly/d-R-z

In 🥉 place this week its Roberto Butti with "How to use local packages in Composer: a guide for PHP developers" - A nice walk through on how to use local packages with composer - https://t.ly/HkaCS

🥇 Ana Margarida Tavares - "How We Built Laravel Wrapped" - https://t.ly/L2PyG
🥈 Mohammad Mahdi Taheri - "Railway-Oriented Programming in Laravel: Exceptions Are Not Your Business" - https://t.ly/d-R-z
🥉 Roberto Butti - "How to use local packages in Composer: a guide for PHP developers" - https://t.ly/HkaCS
4️⃣ Harris Raftopoulos - "Charting with Chart.js - Laravel In Practice EP15" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/eQERq
5️⃣ Paul Redmond - "Measure Lines of Code and PHP Features Used" - https://t.ly/idwn5
6️⃣ Marian Pop - "Dependency Injection and the Container in PHP and Laravel" - https://t.ly/HuHFH
7️⃣ Jean-Marc Strauven - "Why Releasing Should Take 30 Seconds, Not 30 Minutes" - https://t.ly/6DV5X
8️⃣ Chris Morrell - "Let's make dump() event better" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/NYwE3
9️⃣ Scott Keck-Warren - "Why Your PHP Dates Keep Breaking" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/rk2IE
🔟 Josh Cirre - "Adding a MCP Server to Your Existing Application (w/ Laravel and WorkOS)" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/HXPYz

That's it for this week hopefully there is something there for everyone to enjoy reading. Don't forget to tag your posts with hashtag#PHP or hashtag#Laravel for a chance to be in next weeks top ten.

Thanks for reading/watching and let me know in the comments what your favourite read is or what you might have found this week.