The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP for the last two weeks, No. 28 (October 6—20, 2013)

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

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News and Releases

• Apigility - At the recent ZendCon conference, Apigility was introduced, which allows you to instantly create applications that implement the REST API on Zend Framework 2. They also promise integration with Zephir, which will allow users to improve the performance of APIs created using Apigility.
  Video demo is available. and also a couple of posts with first impressions and comments: Exploring Apigility , Testing Apigility .
  
• PHP 5.5.5 - Update of the last interpreter branch is presented. In addition to a number of fixes, the release also includes an OPCache update: the opcache_compile_file function has been added , which allows you to load a file into the cache without performing it directly.
• PHP 5.4.21 - Branch 5.4 has also been updated . The release contains ten fixes .
• PHP support in Google App Engine! - In May of this year, Google App / PHP support was announced on Google I / O, and now this feature is available to all users without restrictions.
• Symfony CMF 1.0.0 - The long-awaited first stable version of Symfony CMF has been released . Detailed look here .
• HHVM 2.2.0 - The new version of the virtual machine for PHP from Facebook. HHVM is now available in packages for popular Linux distributions. In addition, the release includes a lot of changes and boasts support for most of the popular PHP frameworks.
• Codeception 1.7 - A fresh release of a great testing tool with a WebDriver module on board.

Php

• PSR-2 and CodeSniffer - a success story - Now it is possible to add amendments and clarifications to PSR standards. And the first amendment for PSR-2 has already been made. In a post about where this idea came from, how the decision was made and what it gave.
• RFC: Expectations - Offer to replace the current implementation of assert () with the improved implementation - expect.
  
  By the way, the proposal on anonymous classes was rejected , and on the nested ones - it has been withdrawn.

Instruments

• appserver - Multithreaded PHP application server for PHP. Also available fresh interview with the creators .
• Clockwork - An extension for the Chrome browser that adds a tab with PHP debugging information in the Developer Tools.
• PlacePhant - Use PHP elephants as placeholder images.
• Requests - Convenient library for making HTTP requests.
• atoum - A nice alternative to PHPUnit for implementing unit testing in PHP.
• Piwik - Do you want your statistics tool a la Google Analytics? Try Piwik.

Study materials

• Active Record vs. Data Mapper - A small comparison of two popular design patterns for working with data, the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Using web sockets in PHP - An example of creating a small application using the Ratchet library.
• Create a web application on symfony 2: Bootstrapping - The first post from the series of tutorials on creating an application on the symfony 2 framework. In the first part about the initial installation, as well as a little about the configuration of routs and database.
• Deploying repositories to services on Symfony2 - A note on how to implement a separate repository instead of the entire EntityManager, you can make the application code on Symfony2 + Doctrine better.
• Auto-completion of a set of parameters - In the case when the function takes a set of parameters, it is convenient to combine them into an array, but then prompts from the IDE are lost. As a solution, the author suggests using chains of methods.
• Using Event Dispatcher in a Silex application - A brief note with an example of using the component.
• Tricks and Tricks PHPUnit - Some useful recommendations for testing using PHPUnit.
• Startup vs. merging classes into one file - A small test of two approaches to connecting classes.
• Adaptive images using Picturefill and PHP - Tutorial on the use of Picturefill on the example of a simple application with the Slim framework and the ImageMagick extension.
• Sharding with MySQL Fabric - A small tutorial on using the recently released MySQL Fabric tool to implement sharding in your PHP application. Read more about MySQL Fabric here .
• OAuth Middleware for Slim - An example implementation of a middleware component for the Slim framework.
• How to load ACLs in advance to improve performance - The author shares an idea that improves the performance of a Symfony2 application.
• Introduction to Redbean - Tutorial on using lightweight ORM-library for PHP.
• Overview of symfony2 components: Routing - Continuation of a series of small posts about basic components from Symfony2. Earlier already were: HttpFoundation and HttpKernel .
• About ContainerAware - “ContainerAware is a new singleton” - the author writes. He considers the implementation of the DI container and, in particular, the use of the ContainerAware interface in Symfony 2, a bad practice and presents arguments in support of his opinion.
• Sublime Text and Jediism - Use Sublime as an IDE for PHP development.
• Virtualize your stack with Vagrant and Puppet - A detailed video tutorial on using Vagrant and Puppet.
• Zephir - create PHP extensions without C knowledge - A review post about a new language being developed by the Phalcon team.
• Create a module for Drupal 7 - Tutorial on creating a module from scratch.
• Personal Maps - A large series of articles that describe the entire cycle of creating a full-fledged web application from scratch. Used by Yii Framework and Angular JS.
• Deploying Symfony2 to Engine Yard - Continuing the post about deploying PHP applications on popular PaaS hosting.
• Composer - crash course - Composer in brief for those who have not tried.
• Laravel 4: Packages - Continuation of a series of tutorials on Laravel 4. Previously, it was about authentication , Access Control List , deployment, and about API .
• Rails-like console for PHP - The author described how to start interactive PHP mode with a loaded application. It is enough to use the auto_prepend_file directive. Examples for Magento and WordPress are attached.
• We need a closure - A detailed explanation of what closure is, how and when to use them in PHP.
• Pentest WordPress do-it-yourself - A small guide to researching WordPress-sites for security.
• Drupal 8 - revolutionary changes - Review of innovations of the upcoming version of Drupal.
• Laravel. Install, configure, create, and deploy applications - A huge comprehensive tutorial on using the Laravel framework.
• Backdoor deobfuscation without a single alphanumeric character - Detailed analysis of the shell itself. Bravo!
• Package Caching for Composer - Briefly on setting up a local package cache.
• Phalcon PHP freymork. Work with annotations
• Regenix: New non-standard MVC framework for PHP - Description of the features of the framework that has experienced the influence of Play! framework and java language.

Materials from past conferences

• Laracon EU 2013 - Video recordings of reports from a conference dedicated to the Laravel framework held in Amsterdam.
• ZendCon 2013 - In the first half of October, the largest PHP conference was held. Available slides 56 reports , video as well as a report from one of the participants.
• PHPNW 2013 - Slides 31 presentations from the conference held in Manchester.
• PHP Frameworks Day - Available materials and videos reports from the conference held in Kiev. There are also reports from participants here , here and here .

Interesting

• Interview with the creators of PHPWomen - Not so long ago, an exclusively female PHP user group was created - PHPWomen . Under the link interviews with creators, as well as comments from men.
• Stop pretending that PHP is a good language - The author urges you to recognize the obvious, in his opinion, flaws of PHP.
• Podcast: “Elephant in the Room” —In the list of podcasts for PHP replenishment: Konstantin Kudryashov (created by Behat, Mink and phpspec2) and Mathias Verraes recorded the first release.
• Verbs in class names - The author shares thoughts on how the use of natural language in class names can be useful.
• PHP in Tweet - A selection of PHP-tools whose code fits in one tweet. For example micromicrosoft µ . Join the game!
• Facebook source code for August 2007 - Code index.php and search.php once leaked to the web.

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