Tag Archives: php

The Null Coalescing Operator: A Small PHP Feature That Quietly Changed Everything

Posted on April 22, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

If you’ve been writing PHP for a while, you probably remember the days of nested „isset()” checks cluttering up every template and controller. Since PHP 7, there’s a much cleaner way — and if you haven’t fully embraced it yet, … Continue reading →

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BOLA in a Laravel Livewire app: when client-side state is the only thing standing between users and admin actions

Posted on November 26, 2025 by ronaldpringadi

A penetration test landed an interesting finding on a Livewire-powered admin panel I work on. The summary on the report read: Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA). A standard user can change a tenant-wide “who can access these assets” setting by replaying … Continue reading →

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Azure AD, Google Directory, and SCIM: picking a user-sync story for a multi-tenant Laravel app

Posted on December 5, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

Late 2024 I spent a few weeks digging into how a multi-tenant Laravel platform I was working on should let tenant administrators pull users in from external identity providers. The customer asks were predictable — “we use Azure,” “we use … Continue reading →

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Free Azure AD SCIM provisioning to a Laravel app on your laptop, via home router + dynamic DNS

Posted on November 22, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

In the last post I sketched why SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) won out over direct Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Google Directory integrations for a multi-tenant Laravel app I was working on. This one is the hands-on … Continue reading →

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Laravel Jobs, Queues, Batches, and Redis: A Field Guide

Posted on June 15, 2024 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel’s queue system is one of those features you can use for years without really understanding what’s happening underneath. You call SomeJob::dispatch(), a worker somewhere picks it up, and life goes on. But the moment a job mysteriously runs twice, … Continue reading →

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Laravel Sail: a developer’s cheat sheet 🐳

Posted on September 25, 2023 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel ships with Sail — a thin command-line wrapper around docker compose that gives you the whole Laravel toolchain (PHP, MySQL, Redis, Mailpit, Node) in containers, without you needing to install any of them on your host. The only thing … Continue reading →

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