The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 29 (October 20 - November 10, 2013)

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

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News and Releases

• php.net was compromised - on October 24, Google marked the site php.net as containing a threat and later the fact of hacking was confirmed . Fortunately, the performance of the resource was quickly restored. Detailed analysis of the problem and malicious code can be found here .
• New PhpStorm 7: outside the language - Fresh release of the best IDE for PHP.
• WordPress 3.7 “Basie” - Light saw a new version of WordPress with auto updates on board.
• Joomla 3.2 - Also updated another popular CMS.
• Backdrop - Fork Drupal 7, the purpose of which is to keep the audience of Drupal users, for whom the ease of learning and use is more important than architectural flexibility.
• Bolt 1.3 - A fresh version of CMS, built on the basis of the Silex framework and symfony components.

Php

• RFC: Engine Exceptions - The most awaited offer! Finally, instead of fatal errors, it will be possible to use exceptions.
• RFC: Ripples - Offer to add support for another way to handle errors other than exceptions. So far, without a patch, but only in order to find out the expediency.
• RFC: list_reference_assignment - A small improvement is also proposed, making it possible to do an assignment by reference in the list: $array = [1, 2]; list($a, &$b) = $array; $array = [1, 2]; list($a, &$b) = $array;
• RFC: Extended Keyword Support - With a score of 11 vs 5, the proposal was rejected.
• Functions in PHP 5.6 - what's new? - An excellent overview of the proposals already taken for PHP 5.6 and those that are still under discussion.

Instruments

• Deployer - A simple and convenient tool for deploying applications written in PHP.
• phpsh - Advanced REPL for PHP from Facebook. Written in Python :-)
• Samsui - Library of object generation with test data. The author was inspired by Rosie for javascript and factory_girl for ruby.
• Flysystem - A library that abstracts work with files, which makes it easy to use both the local file system and the remote one without changing the application code. In addition to local, S3, Dropbox, FTP and SFTP are already supported.
• Respect \ Validation - Excellent validation library for PHP.
• Idiorm - Lightweight ORM for PHP. Idiorm-based Active Record implementations are also available: Paris and Granada .
• 5 most popular KNP libraries in the PHP / Symfony community
• Intervention Image Class - A handy shell over the GD library.
• iniscan - security scanner for php.ini. View specified php.ini file for potentially dangerous settings.
• esoTalk - Quick and easy PHP forum with plugin support.
• Sculpin - Static site generator implemented in PHP.
• forp - Simple and unobtrusive PHP profiler.
• php-daemon - A small library that makes it easy to turn your PHP script into a daemon.
• phpcs-security-audit - A set of rules for PHP_CodeSniffer that help detect potentially unsafe portions of code.
• Refactoring tools for PHP - Rephactor , Scisr , PHP Refactoring Browser .
• phpmig - Excellent implementation of migrations for PHP.
• PHP-VCR - A tool by which you can forget about creating mocks for external services. Just make real requests to the API, and the VCR will record them, after which the recorded answers can be used in tests. The tool is based on VCR for Ruby and nock for Node.js.
• php-extsample - Mikko Koppanen, which supports many popular PHP extensions such as imagick and php-zmq, created a small training extension that will be an excellent starting point for creating your full-fledged extension. Also, if you are interested in developing extensions, I recommend paying attention to the PHP-CPP - C ++ library specifically designed for developing PHP extensions.
• Symfony skeleton: quick start kit - Seed application for symfony 2 projects with a set of components out of the box.
• Gutscript - Programming language translated in PHP, which allows to reduce the syntactic structures and simplify the code. In short, CoffeeScript for PHP on Go.

Study materials

• GitPHP in Badoo - A story about solving performance problems in GitPHP.
• Use arrays in PHP correctly - Debugging PHP code often deals with arrays. The author gives recommendations on their proper use in order to simplify debugging.
• Yii: Active Record, Routes and Caching - Tutorial reveals the use of Active Record, URL management and caching in the Yii Framework 1.1 using the example of creating a simple application.
• Map service with PHP and MongoDB - Tutorial on creating a simple map service. MongoDB with its spatial-capabilities is used for data storage, and the application itself is implemented on Silex. To work with the map, the author uses Leaflet.js .
• Maps using Geocoder PHP and Leaflet.js - Continuing the tutorial on sharing Geocoder PHP and Leaflet.js libraries for creating interactive maps.
• Silex tracing with DTrace , PHPUnit tracing test for an example of using functional programming in PHP - Continuation of a series of posts ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) about using DTrace with PHP.
• Is my code compatible with PHP 5.4 or 5.5? - The post contains a list of changes in the new versions, as well as instructions on using PHP_CodeSniffer and additional rules to check the compatibility of your code.
• Secure random numbers for PHP developers - A look at the available methods for generating random sequences in PHP and in particular the use of /dev/(u)random . Particularly relevant in light of the recently published demonstration of the predictability of mt_rand () .
• Beyond Inheritance - In his previous post, Anthony Ferrara analyzed the use of design patterns. This time, the author dwells on the concept of inheritance, considering the weaknesses of classical inheritance.
• Introduction to Gearman - distributed PHP tasks - An introductory tutorial on installing, configuring and using Gearman in PHP.
• Using Google Translate API in PHP , 2 - Detailed tutorial on using API for getting translations on the fly.
• Symfony standard edition on HHVM - Tutorial, which shows how to configure the HHVM web server to start the symfony standard edition . There are also a couple of posts 1 , 2 with symfony HHVM performance tests.
• Debugging PHP applications using HHVM - Tutorial on using HHVM in debug mode. It is shown how to step through the code, set and manage breakpoints, inspect variables.
• HHVM on Heroku - HHVM is now possible on the popular Heroku cloud platform.
• Create a web application on symfony 2 - A series of three posts with a full cycle of creating a modern web application.
• Symfony2 components overview: EventDispatcher - Continuation of a series of small posts about basic components from Symfony2. Earlier already were: Routing , HttpFoundation and HttpKernel .
• Step-by-step guide to configuring the server for PHP (Symfony 2) project - Detailed instructions for installing and configuring all components of the environment: nginx, PHP, MySQL, Capifony and some others.
• Symfony 2 applications on OpenShift , 2 - A couple of posts about deploying and using Symfony 2 applications on a popular cloud platform.
• Deploy a symfony project on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
• Understand Zend Framework 3 ... until it comes out! - In the post, the author provides resources on which you can get relevant information on the upcoming release of ZF3, and also writes about why it is useful to keep track of them.
• Dynamic autogeneration of properties for your classes using magic methods and reflection - A couple of ways to implement accessors in PHP.
• Mocking the file system using php-vfs - An interesting post about writing unit tests for functionality using the file system.
• Signaling PHP - Fresh electronic mini-book, which deals with the use of PHP to create command line tools.
• We sell electronic (downloadable) products using Stripe and Laravel - Tutorial on creating a simple application on Laravel with the implementation of payments through Stripe .
• Google App Engine for PHP with PhpStorm - Tutorial and screencast on using PHPStorm to work with the cloud platform from Google.
• We play with the dispatcher of events and Silex. We send logs to a remote server - Continuing the post about using the Symfony-component EventDispatcher in the Silex-application.
• PHP debugging with Kint - A quick note on using a simple PHP debugging tool - Kint .
• Web & PHP magazine November 2013
• Git Branching Model - Description of a simple Git use model from Igor Wiedler.
• Create an API that you will not hate: Part 1 Filling the database - An example of using Faker to fill the database with random data.
• Implementation of two-factor authentication - Post describes an example of the implementation of its own two-factor authentication system. Twilio is used to send SMS.
• Laravel 4: Real Time Chat - Continuation of a series of comprehensive tutorials on Laravel 4. This time, the creation of a real-time application using ReactPHP is considered. Earlier it was about packages , authentication , Access Control List , deployment, and about the API .
• RabbitMQ , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 - Translations of tutorials with examples in PHP (1-2 in Python).
• How we made friends with PayPal - Using the PayPal REST API.
• Pimple? Not ... Not heard - On the use of a simple but convenient DI-container for PHP.
• Extending array capabilities in PHP - Useful examples of using ArrayObject .
• Creating a Live Account widget using PHP Web Sockets - Translation of a tutorial on creating a small application using the Ratchet library.
• Public properties, getters and setters or magic methods? - There are different opinions about how to access the properties of classes. The author considers the advantages and disadvantages of using each of the approaches.
• Active Record vs. Data Mapper for Data Preservation - Comparison of two popular design patterns, the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• PHP RUtils - a small library for processing Russian text - The author implemented the port of the pytils library in PHP and got an excellent result!
• Zend's new ZCPE certificate based on PHP 5.5 - About the testing process and preparation for certification.

Materials from past conferences

• True North PHP 2013 - Slides reports from the conference held in Toronto.
• PyConZA 2013: “PHP interpreter using PyPy technology” - An interesting report on the creation of a high-performance PHP interpreter using the PyPy toolkit.
• Symfony CAMP UA 2013 - Video recordings of reports from the conference held in Kiev.
• International PHP Conference 2013 - Presentations slides from the conference held in Berlin.
• CodeConnexx 2013 - Slides of reports from the conference held in Maastricht.
• Interview with Rasmus Lerdorf - A brief interview with his father PHP, taken during his stay in Kiev at the IDCEE conference.
• Northeast PHP Conference 2013 - Video of reports from the last conference in Boston.

Entertaining

• Reviving the GoPHP5 Initiative - In 2007, activists from the PHP community took the initiative to GoPHP5, urging developers to switch from PHP 4, which is still popular at that time, to PHP 5. A similar situation has developed now. Despite the fact that PHP 5.3 support has already been virtually discontinued, version 5.4 is used by only 10% of sites according to statistics from w3tech . PHP-FIG discusses the idea of ​​launching a campaign to popularize current versions of PHP.
• Required PHP versions on Packagist - Statistics on PHP versions specified as required on Packagist.
• Symfony2: as good as PHP? - By tradition, a little criticism of PHP.
• Interview with Michael Wallner - a full-time core-PHP-developer - An interesting interview with a developer who was hired by SmugMug specifically to work on the PHP core.
• PHP 2.0 Retrospective - Overview of everything that was in PHP back in 1997.

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