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SensioLabs Stories is a blog offering expert tips, tutorials, and best practices for developers. Focused on PHP, Symfony, and web development, it’s a key resource for staying updated on tech trends.

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Thibaut Chieux New

How To Prioritize Messages When Building Asynchronous Applications With Symfony Messenger

Asynchronous processing offers benefits like decoupled processes and faster response times, but managing message priorities can become a challenge. When dealing with tasks ranging from password resets to complex exports, ensuring timely delivery of critical messages is essential. This article explores common asynchronous processing issues and provides solutions using Symfony Messenger, allowing you to optimize your application without extensive refactoring.

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PHP 8.5
Oskar Stark

What's New in PHP 8.5: A Comprehensive Overview

PHP 8.5 will be released in November 2025 and brings several useful new features and improvements. This version focuses on developer experience enhancements, new utility functions, and better debugging capabilities.

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Imen Ezzine

HTTP Verbs: Your Ultimate Guide

HTTP Verbs Explained: Learn the basics of GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and more. This article explains how they work, their applications, and their security implications.

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Salsabile El-Khatouri

A Symfony Training at SensioLabs: Behind The Scenes

What does Symfony training at SensioLabs look like? Find out in this interview with Guillaume Loulier, a passionate developer and trainer, who tells us all about the official Symfony training courses.

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AI and Symfony
Silas Joisten

Building AI-Driven Features in Symfony

AI is transforming web development — and with php-llm/llm-chain, PHP developers can easily add powerful LLM features to Symfony apps. This guide shows you how to get started with chatbots, smart assistants, and more.

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Silas Joisten

Supercharging Symfony Testing with Zenstruck Foundry

Zenstruck Foundry has revolutionized the way we write tests in Symfony. In this post, you’ll learn how expressive factories, isolated test data, and a smoother developer experience helped us streamline our testing workflow and boost productivity.

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Elise Hamimi

SymfonyLive Paris 2025: talks, community and 20 years of Symfony

On March 27th and 28th, the French-speaking Symfony community gathered at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris for another edition of SymfonyLive Paris. This year, in addition to inspiring conferences, great workshops and community time, Symfony enthusiasts kicked off the official celebration of Symfony's 20th anniversary.

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Jules Daunay

Symfony and AI: the video is now available

What about Symfony and Artificial Intelligence (AI)? This was the theme of the exclusive event organized by SensioLabs in partnership with Codéin on October 3rd. With the added bonus of feedback from a development project combining Symfony and AI. If you missed the event, check out the video now available for free on our Youtube channel.

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2025 a year of celebrations for PHP with windows about API Platform, PHP, AFUP and Symfony
Jules Daunay

2025: a year of anniversaries for PHP, AFUP, Symfony and API Platform

2025 is going to be a big year for anniversaries. We will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of Symfony, the 30th anniversary of PHP, the 25th anniversary of AFUP and the 10th anniversary of API Platform. For SensioLabs, this is a major milestone that proves the longevity of the technologies in our ecosystem. We are proud to celebrate these anniversaries with the community all year long.

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SymfonyDay Chicago 2025
Simon André

SymfonyDay Chicago 2025: A Celebration of Community

On March 17th, the Symfony community met in Chicago for SymfonyDay Chicago 2025. The event, held on St. Patrick's Day, was both a celebration of Symfony and a moment to support Ryan Weaver in his fight against cancer. It was more than just a conference — it was a gathering around a valued member of the community.

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Imen Ezzine

Optimize Your PHP Code: 8 Functions You Need for Efficient Table Handling

If you want to become a good PHP developer, you must learn to work with arrays. Arrays are used a lot in PHP: temporarily store, organize, and process data before it's saved in a database. Knowing how to work with them efficiently will help you manage and process data more effectively.

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Imen Ezzine

The DRY principle: striking the delicate balance between code reuse and clarity

This article explores the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle and its impact on code quality. While emphasizing its importance in avoiding repetition and facilitating maintenance, it highlights the risks of excessive application of this principle, which can be detrimental to clarity and project evolution. The aim is to strike the right balance between reuse and simplicity.

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Oskar Stark

Type-Safe Identifiers with Symfony and Doctrine: Using Dedicated ID Classes

Learn how to enhance type safety in Symfony and Doctrine by using dedicated ID classes like BookId and UserId instead of raw UUIDs. This approach prevents identifier mix-ups, improves code clarity, and ensures better integration with Symfony Messenger and repository methods. Explore practical examples and best practices for implementing type-safe identifiers in your Symfony applications.

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Rémi Brière

Agility and the Cargo Cult - Part 1

Agility is more than just rituals and tools. In this first article of our Scrum series, we explore the Cargo Cult phenomenon and how blind imitation can hinder true Agile transformation.

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Oskar Stark

Introducing PIE: The Modern PHP Extension Installer

Discover PIE, the new PHP Installer for Extensions, a modern tool that simplifies managing PHP extensions with a Composer-like workflow. Say goodbye to PECL complexities and streamline your development process with PIE.

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Jules Daunay

An Unforgettable SymfonyCon in Vienna

For the first time ever, SymfonyCon was held in the beautiful city of Vienna on December 5-6th. The much-anticipated flagship conference of the Symfony ecosystem, SymfonyCon Vienna 2024, brought together over a thousand eager framework enthusiasts in the Austrian capital. Let's take a moment to look back at the largest PHP conference of the year!

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Silas Joisten

SensioLabs Goes Headless: Unleashing Content Flexibility with Storyblok

SensioLabs has embraced the power of Storyblok, a leading headless CMS, to unlock greater content flexibility and scalability. By integrating Storyblok into our workflows, we empower both developers and content creators to deliver seamless, dynamic experiences across multiple platforms.

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Summer Sales: 25% off Trainings
Salsabile El-Khatouri

This Summer, Stand on Top of the Symfony Podium

Summer is going to be a blast with the Euro Cup and the Paris 2024 Olympics. While you’re enjoying the sports, why not challenge yourself with the latest versions of Symfony and PHP? Throughout the summer, SensioLabs is offering the tools you need to level up your performance and make your mark as a top Symfony developer. Ready, set, go!

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Jules Daunay

SensioLabs Germany Announces New Managing Director: Oskar Stark

Oskar Stark, a member of the Symfony Core team, has been appointed Managing Director of SensioLabs Germany. This new addition to the team will foster the growth of SensioLabs Germany, the official subsidiary of SensioLabs in Germany, to the benefit of German-speaking Symfony users.

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SymfonyLive 2024
Jules Daunay

SymfonyLive Paris 2024: Two Days of Conference and Fun.

On March 28th and 29th, the SensioLabs team and the French-speaking Symfony community gathered at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris for SymfonyLive Paris 2024. Were you not at this must-attend event? We’ll summarize it for you, but only because it’s you!

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Jules Daunay

Discover our Symfony events in February 2024

February was a busy month for SensioLabs regarding events related to Symfony. We attended Symfony meetups and conferences in France, Switzerland, England and finally Canada. We invite you to join us in this article for our review of February. Enjoy reading!

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