PHP remains the language of a large part of the web: shops, content platforms, internal applications, Laravel and Symfony APIs. All of these are now getting assistants over content, semantic search, automatic classification and integrations with agents. The ecosystem has answered, with Symfony AI and with official PHP SDKs for the Claude API and for the Model Context Protocol, but the real requirement is a different one: understanding how a model behaves in production and integrating it without compromising the security of the application.
A PHP developer is usually the one closest to the real data and flows of a business: products, orders, customers, content. That is a good position for RAG over your own content, for automations with agents and for MCP tools exposed to assistants. What most PHP teams lack is not libraries but the mental model: non-determinism, cost per token, evaluation, prompt injection.
The pressure comes from two directions. Prompt-to-app tools generate complete web applications, on other stacks, for clients who used to order a PHP site. And coding agents rewrite whole modules in minutes. The answer is not to compete with them, but to be the one who uses them on real codebases and who builds what they cannot: the safe integration of AI into existing systems.
Products, articles, tickets and documents become embeddings and retrieval results. Chunking, indexing, permissions and the evaluation of answers are new responsibilities for the PHP backend.
Laravel or Symfony endpoints are exposed as MCP tools or as functions callable by models, with authentication, least-privilege permissions and strict validation of arguments.
Prompt injection through user-generated content, exfiltration through tools, cost abuse. A PHP developer who already knows XSS and CSRF has a head start, provided they learn these vectors too.
Claude Code and Cursor work on Laravel and Symfony projects. The difference is made by context, permissions and verification in CI.
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In the order in which they matter. If you already have experience with model APIs, skip the foundations. For each course, the reason it matters to someone who works with PHP.
The mental model of LLMs and correct prompting, before you write the first client in PHP.
The map of the field, from LLMs and APIs to RAG, agents and evaluation. Its module on AI tools for developers writes its prompts and generated code for a Symfony and PHP application; the other modules use mostly Python.
Key modules: Machine Learning Essentials · Large Language Models and Modern Architectures · Working with LLM APIs and Integrations · AI Tools for Developers
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthPrompt engineering for code, agents and business, plus prompt security: the base for any prompt placed in a web application exposed to users. Some of its project-instruction examples describe a Laravel application.
Key modules: Advanced Prompting Techniques · Multi-Modal Prompt Engineering · Prompt Engineering for AI Agents · Prompt Engineering for Code
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthThe AI components you add on top of existing Laravel and Symfony applications.
The streaming lesson implements the server side with FastAPI, Express and Symfony, so you see the PHP version next to the others. The rest, error handling, function calling, productionization and security, is in Python and is the logic you then implement in PHP.
Key modules: Streaming and Error Handling · Function Calling and Tool Use · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Multi-Model Orchestration and Optimization
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthRAG over the content of your application: chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, production and evaluation, with pgvector among the vector stores it covers. The examples are in Python.
Key modules: Implementing the RAG Pipeline · Embedding Models and Document Processing · Advanced RAG · Advanced RAG Architectures
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthProtocol architecture, transports, authentication, enterprise patterns and security. The example servers are in Python and TypeScript; you carry the design over to the PHP SDK.
Key modules: Building MCP Servers with Python · Building MCP Servers with TypeScript · Transport, Authentication and Configuration · Enterprise Patterns and Production Architectures
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthAgents with memory, tools and guardrails, design patterns for production, and workflow automation with n8n, Make and Zapier: the flows in which a PHP application is usually the source or the destination of the data.
Key modules: Memory, State and Advanced Reasoning · Frameworks and SDKs for AI Agents · Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Interoperability · Workflow Automation with AI
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthYou ship faster with coding agents and you protect the application against the new class of attacks.
Rules, profiles and Composer shown on a Symfony and PHP project: the course writes its .mdc rule examples for a Symfony backend.
Key modules: Composer Mastery · Model Selection and Intelligent Routing · Background Agents and Cloud · Design Mode and Terminal-Driven Development
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthAgentic coding from the terminal on large codebases, with the git workflow, hooks, CI and least-privilege permissions. None of it is tied to a language, so it applies to a Laravel or Symfony repository as to any other.
Key modules: Multi-File and Large Codebases: Plan, Edit, Review and Context Management · The Full Git Workflow: Branches, Commits, Conflicts, Code Review and PRs · Headless Mode (claude -p) and Non-Interactive Automation · Subagents and Agent Teams: Orchestration, Delegation and Controlled Parallelization
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthWhat Lovable, v0, Bolt and Replit Agent generate and where they fall short on security, sensitive data and production, so you know what you compete with and what you offer on top.
Key modules: The Anatomy of Prompt-to-App: From Specification to Application · A Comparative Tour of the Tools: Lovable, v0, Bolt, Replit Agent · Essential Integrations: Database, Auth, Versioning, Payments and Deployment · From MVP to Something Usable: Production Limits
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthPrompt injection, insecure output handling, guardrails and data protection: the extension of the web security you already know.
Key modules: Prompt Injection: The Defining Threat · Insecure Output Handling and Downstream Exploits · Guardrails: Input and Output Filtering · Securing RAG and Agents: Excessive Agency
Read the free preview Course details This course only: €99/monthThe courses in the track that end with a capstone project. The list comes from the real modules of the courses, not from a brochure.
What already exists, so that you do not start from zero. The courses in the track teach you what to build with it.
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Start the PHP trackCode examples, architectures and case studies, and in some courses a capstone project at the end. Not summaries of documentation, but structured material that you go through in order, at your own pace.
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The same skills, seen from each ecosystem. The languages close to PHP are highlighted.
A few. The introduction uses a Symfony and PHP application in its module on AI tools for developers, the LLM integration course implements a streaming endpoint with Symfony next to the FastAPI and Express versions, and the Cursor course writes its rules for a Symfony backend. Everything else is mostly in Python, and the MCP course also has a module in TypeScript. Model APIs are HTTP with server-sent events, which a PHP developer consumes without difficulty.
Yes. Assistants over content, semantic search, product classification and automations with agents are common requirements on these platforms. The RAG, integration and security courses apply directly, although none of them is written specifically for WordPress or for a shop platform.
They take the prototype part. The vibe coding course shows what they generate and where they fall short: security, sensitive data, integration with existing systems, production. The value of a PHP developer moves towards the safe integration of AI into real applications and towards using coding agents on large codebases.
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