The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP for the last two weeks, No. 25 (08.25.2013 - 09.09.2013)

We bring to your attention another collection with links to news and materials.

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News and Releases

• PSR-5 PHPDoc and PSR-6 Caching Interface - Just two weeks ago, the draft status was obtained by PSR-4 , and two new standards are coming up: PSR-5 is about documenting code and PSR-6 is a caching interface.
• Doctrine 2.4 has been released - The most popular ORM library has been updated. By the way, from now on, will not be available from PEAR, only Composer.
• Zend Announces 10,000th Zend Certified Engineer - Zend has announced 10,000 PHP certified developers. A small interview with the very ten thousand can be found here .

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• RFC: Autoload Functions - Continuing with a recent proposal to import functions and constants from namespaces , a new proposal was put forward: implement automatic loading of functions and constants by registering the appropriate callback in autoload_register. The proposal was perceived by the core-team rather ambiguously, as evidenced by disputes in php-internals . The author of the proposal, the well-known leader of the PHP community Anthony Ferrara, was outraged by the lack of constructive criticism and said that he was leaving php-internals . He wrote in more detail about the reasons for making such a decision, as well as the problems in the core PHP team in his post .
• RFC: Syntax of functions with a variable number of arguments - An excellent sentence from Nikita Popov, greatly simplifying the use of functions with a variable number of arguments. Where you used to use func_get_args() , you can now simply declare function fn($arg, ...$args) .
  A good overview of the proposals as well as examples can be found in this post .
• RFC: Unpacking Argument Lists - A sentence that complements the previous one, and which is to implement the functionality in PHP, for example, in Python and Ruby . In addition to convenience, the implementation of the new syntax is also significantly more productive .
• RFC: Named Arguments - And another excellent suggestion from Nikita Popov. If these changes are made to the kernel, then finally it will be possible to pass arguments to the function in random order and skip optional parameters. And although such a proposal was put forward earlier , as long as it is still literally RFC - a request for feedback. Discussions about the need for this functionality continue.
  A few thoughts and examples in this post .
• RFC: Skipping Optional Parameters - This sentence assumes the use of the default keyword in the argument list: fn(1, default, 3);

Instruments

• PHP FFmpeg - Excellent wrap over ffmpeg for PHP.
• Alice - Fixtures generator, which allows to describe data for testing in an easy-to-read and edit form.
• Geocoder - A library that will be useful when creating applications that process geo-data.
• Rx.PHP - A set of libraries for creating asynchronous and event-based PHP applications.
• Explain Shell - A great tool that clearly shows information about the console command and its parameters. For example tar xzvf archive.tar.gz .

Study materials

• Introduction to the Zephir Language - Not so long ago, the Phalcon team announced the creation of a new Zephir language - a mixture of PHP and C. Follow the link that describes how to install Zephir and analyze an example of creating a small event manager.
• Data structures, PHP. Part two - Continue translation a series of articles on data structures and their use in PHP. Considered a bunch and graphs.
• Why symfony? 7 facts - Post composed of a short interview with Fabien Potencier and supplemented by the opinion of the author.
• We create QR codes using PHP and Silex - A small note about the use of the endroid / qrcode library in conjunction with the Silex microframe.
• A look at the development of PHP - The main reasons for the popularity of PHP besides simplicity, the author also considers the fact that over the course of 18 years of its existence, the language has been constantly developing.
• Something about the new PHP.net design - A post about how the work on the design of php.net has been going on for the last years and about the plans for the future. The author plans to introduce a new Markdown-based markup tool instead of the current DocBook-based markup to increase the number of third-party contributors.
• We integrate SonarQube with Jenkins and PHP-project - Tutorial on setting up SonarQube for analyzing the quality analysis and collecting statistics on the PHP-project code.
• MVC is not enough - A small note in which the author writes that MVC should be part of your application, not your application.
• Watching the vote on "Russia 10" - The author wrote a small script for monitoring statistics, which is divided.
• Inheritance of application configurations on the Zend Framework 2 - The post demonstrates the approach of describing application configurations for various environments, which allows you to avoid duplication and specify only different parameters.
• CurlFile and Facebook SDK in PHP 5.5 - CurlFile was added to PHP 5.5, a small addition to the Curl extension, which allows you to specify a file to be sent in the request as a parameter. Post about the mini-bug in the Facebook SDK did not allow to use this feature.
• Integrating Codeship with Fortrabbit - Instructions for integrating the Codeship CI tool in popular PaaS hosting for PHP projects.
• Authors of libraries, do not create vulnerable interfaces - A number of recommendations for authors of libraries on how to make their tools safer. Recommendations relate to SQL injection.
• Xdebug - Professional PHP Debugging - Tutorial on using Xdebug as a debugger and an example of integration with PHPStorm.
• Create a web application from scratch on CodeIgniter - A series of tutorials on creating an application with a backend on CodeIgniter and Backbone on the front, as well as MongoDB as a data storage. In the first part of the basic setting.
• We process incoming mail using SendGrid - A small tutorial on using the SendGrid service.
• Automatic code generation in Yii - Overview of a pair of extensions for Yii, which significantly reduce the time to perform routine operations.
• New features PHP 5.5 - Another post with an overview of the capabilities of the latest version of PHP. Need more reviews: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 .
• Crime Scene: PHP - A blog that is updated with the pearls of PHP developers. It's funny, but I think many of us meet with the “pearls” pohlesche daily.
• Continuous integration for PHP using Jenkins - Tutorial on setting up a jenkins server to work with PHP projects.
• Laravel 4 Tutorials - More than a dozen Laravel 4 Tutorials.
• Implementing the Logging Aspect with Doctrine Annotations - Continuation of an article on logging using aspects and Go! Aop .
• Folder vendor in Composer - One of the frequently asked questions about Composer: how to install the package in a directory other than vendor . In a post, the author writes why this is a bad idea.
• Zend Framework 2 , 2 , 3 Blog Development Example - A series of articles for beginners. In the fourth part, the author promises to update the application with the recommendations from the comments.
• September issue of Web & PHP magazine - In the latest issue of the magazine there are several interesting articles on the topic of PHP and web development, for example, an overview of solutions for creating real-time web applications in PHP .
• Laravel 4 ACL - The previous tutorial dealt with authentication in Laravel 4 . This time a detailed tutorial on the Access Control List.
• How heavy is Silex? - Silex is often characterized as the largest microfreemvork. The author writes that in spite of the fact that Silex is somewhat larger than other microframes, it is nonetheless lightweight and contains the minimum necessary dependencies.
• Personal Maps , 2 , 3 , 4 - A series of articles that describe the entire cycle of creating a full-fledged web application from scratch. Used by Yii Framework and Angular JS.

Materials from past conferences

• CakeFest 2013 - Slides 17 reports from the San Francisco conference dedicated to the CakePHP framework.
• Practical refactoring - The virtual PHP user group NomadPHP was mentioned in digests , within the framework of which webinars are held monthly. Under the link slides of the August report.
• PHP @ FrOSCon 2013 - At the last FrOSCon 2013 conference in Germany, PHP was presented as a separate thread. The link slides 6 reports.
• Laracon EU - Slides 2 reports from the Amsterdam conference. There also the slides of the introduction to Laravel 4 .
• PHP: The Undiscovered Country - Video of reports from the San Francisco conference .

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