The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP over the past two weeks, number 26 (September 8-22, 2013)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.

Enjoy reading!

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News and Releases

• Releases PHP 5.4.20 and PHP 5.5.4 - Updated actual interpreter branches. Both releases contain exclusively fixes, including security. Complete lists of changes: for 5.5.4 and 5.4.20 . All users are encouraged to upgrade.
• Yii Framework joins PHP-FIG - In the PHP-FIG team a new member: in the person of samdark , the Yii Framework community joins the group, with which samdark personally and congratulations to all of us! By the way, this is the first Russian-speaking member of the group.
• WordPress Emergency Update 3.6.1 - A vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress to allow the execution of arbitrary PHP code. On another similar vulnerability, which affects even the latest version of Wordpress 3.6.1, read this post. .
• PhpMyAdmin is 15 years old - The anniversary of a truly legendary PHP-project.

Php

• RFC: Extended Keyword Support - This offer is designed to remove a number of restrictions on the use of keywords in PHP code. For example, at the moment it is impossible to create a method with the name, say, and or list .
• T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM v Sanity - Phil Sturgeon conducted a study on resisting changes in PHP Internals. I wonder if there is a name for a phobia, in which the developer is afraid of changes in the open-source project? Also reflections on topic from samdark .
• Troubleshooting PHP Internals - Another post about problems in PHP-FIG and PHP Internals. By the way, in the latter there is a small shift: instead of mailing lists, it was suggested to use the forum. Although the proposal was perceived as hostile by some participants, it was finally decided to update the interface http://news.php.net/ by adding a hierarchical display of messages.

Instruments

• ASIS 0.1.0 - Tool for efficient work with legacy-code through the automatic creation of tests.
• Extensions for Codeception - This page will collect the available extensions for Codeception .
• PHP API Builder - A small tool that makes it easy to turn MySQL tables into an application that implements the JSON API.
• Kint - Another PHP debugging tool.

Study materials

• HHVM is fast ... sorry my code doesn't start - Despite the tempting performance, HHVM does not support all the features of PHP. In the post is a table with a list of frameworks and information about their performance in HHVM based on data on the feasibility of unit tests. The priority goal for the HHVM team is to ensure that these frameworks work 100% on HHVM. Contributors help is welcome .
• PHP shell without a single alphanumeric character - The author of the shell was apparently inspired by these experiments: PHP nonalpha tutorial , Tweetable PHP-Non Alpha , PHP Non Alpha Numeric 7/6 Chars , It was evening, echo "there was nothing" .
• Travis-CI: what? what for? as? - Tutorial on the use of an excellent free platform for continuous integration. In the post an example of use on the Node.js project is given, however, everything described will be relevant for PHP projects.
• Outside of design patterns - An excellent post with an analysis of the purpose of patterns, an alternative classification of patterns, and a call to pay attention to the study of fundamental concepts: abstraction and interaction between objects.
• Password hashing in PHP 5.5 - A small tutorial on using the new password hashing API from PHP 5.5.
• Processing global data in PHP web applications - In a post, there are alternatives to using global variables: static classes, singleton, registry, dependency injection. For each considered the advantages and disadvantages of using.
• Interview with Maarten Balliauw - JetBrains Evangelist - An interesting interview in which Maarten shares his PHP development experience and talks about working with JetBrains and Microsoft.
• Run tasks in the cloud using IronWorker - Tutorial on implementing the task queue using the iron.io service.
• How to install Laravel on a virtual machine using PuPHPet - Video tutorial on installing and configuring the working environment for the Laravel project.
• Podcast PHP Town Hall. Episode 12: Cool RFCs - An interesting podcast release from Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds, which Igor Wiedler came to visit. Talk about the recently proposed RFCs ( details in Digest 25 ) and about the projects Igor Wiedler is working on.
• Review and classification of CMS by categories (2013) - A huge review of CMS, written in PHP, from small to large.
• React on the server side using PHP , 2 - In this case, it’s about a Facebook library developed for creating UI components - React . In two parts, the author demonstrates how, using the v8js extension, you can generate React pages on the server.
• Couchbase usage example in conjunction with PHP - Introduction to the document-oriented database Couchbase and its use in PHP-applications.
• Continuous deployment - A small note with an overview of basic concepts.
• We provide support for unicode in PHP - In a post a little about what is still wrong with Unicode in PHP and about using the Portable UTF-8 library.
• Resource Releases - The author implemented something like " using " from C # to release resources. In the case of files in PHP, this is unnecessary, since the interpreter itself will take care of closing and freeing resources. But other uses are possible.
• How did I count the time of arrival by the Monte Carlo method - A good translation of an entertaining article with an example of using the Monte Carlo method in PHP.
• We configure PHP for work on Nginx through FastCGI - A simple tutorial on setting up a web server on Debian.
• Returning errors in JSON in a ZF2 application - In case of an error, ZF2 returns an HTML response even if the client requested json. In a note on how to fix it.
• Understand AspectMock - A small post on how to use and how AspectMock is built - a framework that allows you to literally test everything.
• On the progress in the work on Phalcon 2.0 - The work on the new version of the framework is in full swing - the code is being rewritten to Zephir .
• DesignPatternsPHP - Collection of patterns, designs implemented in PHP.
• PHP IPC - Interprocess Communication in PHP - A brief introduction to multithreading in PHP.
• Laravel 4 Deployment - The author has already published authentication tutorials on Laravel 4 and the Access Control List . This time a comprehensive tutorial on deploying apps using Artisan.
• Creating a RESTful API - Everything you wanted to know about the implementation of the RESTful service in this post. Briefly and essentially.

Materials from past conferences

• Symfony Live London - Slides reports from the conference held in London.
• The principles of designing packages for PHP - Slides of the report from the meeting of the Amsterdam PHP user group.
• Web & PHP Conference 2013: 1 , 2 - Materials from a large-scale PHP conference. So far, not all, but let's hope for replenishment.
• php [architect] PHP 5.5 Web Summit - Slides 3 reports from a mini-conference on the latest version of PHP.

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