The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 31 (November 25 - December 8, 2013)

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

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News and Releases

• Yii 2 alpha - The long-awaited alpha release of the second version of the popular framework, which by the way is now uses the features of PHP 5.4.
• Symfony 2.4.0 - Planned release of the framework with many new features and full backward compatibility with symfony 2.3.
• PHP_CodeSniffer 1.5.0 - The latest version of the system of automatic code verification for compliance with standards.
• Slim 2.4.0 - Updated popular microfreemvork.
• The PSR-4 standard was adopted - After a short delay, the standard was still adopted. As well as the PSR-0, the new standard concerns the autoload rules.

Instruments

• Stringy - A library that implements many functions for manipulating strings and supporting multibyte strings.
• Dukt Videos - A small library that abstracts the work with the video services Vimeo and Youtube.
• Media Alchemyst - Need to extract audio from a video? Extract image from document? Generate an animated gif from video? This library will help to quickly solve this kind of problem.
• Voodoo - Another PHP framework with good documentation.
• Coupe - A simple web server implemented in pure PHP using coroutines from PHP 5.5. .
• Parm - A nice PHP implementation of ActiveRecord with autogeneration of models according to the scheme, web interface and other features.
• Rackem - Another attempt to transfer Rack from the Ruby world to PHP. This is already implemented in Stack .
• get-in - Useful functions for working with nested arrays.
• dbv.php - Versioning database, easy and convenient!
• Wikitten - Small and fast wiki-like application, ideal for storing notes, snippets and ideas.
• Miner - Simple and convenient Query Builder for PHP.
• XHProf.io - A graphical interface for analyzing code profiling results obtained using XHProf.
• Phabricator - Code management system from Facebook. Includes tools for viewing, reviewing and monitoring code, as well as many other features.
• PHP Toolbox - Directory of PHP libraries. Clone Ruby Toolbox .
• Awesome PHP - Another expandable list of excellent PHP libraries and frameworks.

Study materials

• Outside of clean code - A wonderful post from Anthony Ferrara in the continuation of the series "outside . " The author shares thoughts on how and when to write good code.
• A complete guide to remote debugging and unit testing with PHPStorm - A series of articles are planned detailing the features of using PHPStorm. While the first 2 parts are ready.
• Using Satis to quickly and reliably deploy applications - Not everyone knows that Composer has the ability to create your own package repository thanks to Satis , which the post is dedicated to.
• PHP Town Hall podcast video release: Episode # 16 - Away Taylor Otwell, the creator of the Laravel framework, who talks about what was done for Laravel during the year and a little about the plans. Go, Vagrant, Chef and other topics are also discussed.
• Automatic translation and text-to-speech using Microsoft Translator - Tutorial, which creates an application on Azure and shows an example of using the Microsoft Translator service for speech synthesis. Demo here .
• PHP and MySQL on Windows Azure - An introductory tutorial on using Azure to host PHP applications.
• Google App Engine and PHP - getting started - Tutorial on using the cloud platform from Google: creating an application, integrating with PHPStorm.
• Learn PHP - An interactive tutorial on the basics of PHP for those who are just introduced to the language.
• PHP Best Practices - A short practical guide to typical tasks that are presented to PHP developers.
• PHP The Right Way: Dependency Injection - A section on dependency injection was added to the wonderful PHP The Right Way resource. A great start for those who want to get acquainted with the concept.
• The difference between factories, registries and service locators - In previous posts, the author has considered the topic of using the service locator and dependency injection. This post continues the thought and this time the author compares three methods of working with objects: factories, registry and service locator.
• “Repository” design pattern — A detailed tutorial on the popular design pattern, as well as its application in PHP.
• Fun with Array Interfaces - About the implementation of the ArrayAccess , Iterator and Countable .
• Reduce the dependence on the framework - The author writes that the framework should not be part of the application. Provides an example of how to make an application less related to the framework.
• How to become a PHP professional: the importance of others - A post about the importance of other people in the process of professional growth, both as a trainee and as a mentor.
• MySQL 5.6 BOOL and the use of PDO and prepared queries - The author is confronted with the strange behavior of MySQL after the update and shares his little research on the problem.
• Contributing Advent - Author XDebug, Derick Rethans, publishes a series of posts in which he writes about how he corrected errors in various open source projects: XDebug ( 1 , 2 ), PHP DateTime , OpenStreetMap ( 1 , 2 ) and in others .
• Imagick vs. GD - Comparison of the two most popular PHP solutions for image manipulation. The library performance test was already on the habr .
• PHP and Capistrano 3 - A small guide to using the latest version of Capistrano to deploy a PHP application.
• Deploying Laravel Applications with Capistrano - Another tutorial on using Capistrano with PHP projects.
• Laravel Tricks - Tricks and tricks repository for the Laravel framework.
• Finding and Correcting Spelling Errors with Pspell - A small introductory tutorial on using the Pspell extension.
• Stack machines , 2 , 3 - A series of posts from Igor Wiedler about stack machines - computing machines, in which operations are based on the use of a stack. PHP implementation examples.
• I would like to know this when I first started developing in PHP - Some tips from an experienced developer.
• Create a RESTful API using Apigility - Tutorial on using Apigility presented at ZendCon, which allows you to quickly create RESTful applications based on Zend Framework 2.
• Creating a RESTful API for Symfony2 using Apigility - Although Apigility is implemented on Zend Framework 2, the service can, nevertheless, be used to create APIs for any PHP applications, for example, on Symfony2.
• Useful Console Commands for Effective Symfony2 Development
• Generators in PHP - a useful example - A little about the generators from PHP 5.5.
• Benchmark traversal of arrays in PHP - Several ways of traversing arrays are compared: foreach , array_walk , for and their variations.
• Tuning SQLite for PHP - About using SQLite in PHP-applications, as well as a small comparison with other DBMS (MySQL, PosgreSQL, MS SQL, MongoDB).
• Creating a brickwork for the site - An interesting task and no less interesting solution for PHP.

Materials from past conferences

• Symfony Live Berlin 2013 - Slides from the last conference, videotapes of reports are expected soon.
• ZendCon Europe 2013 - Slides 25 reports from the conference held in Paris.

Entertaining

• What's next for symfony2? - The post is more concerned not with the framework itself, but rather with the ecosystem. The author draws attention to the fact that bandlam lacks contributors.
• A Tale of Two PHP Developers - The author notices that the PHP community has a division into root developers and shared developers. And also shares thoughts about what follows from this.
• The decline of PEAR and the rise of Composer - A little history of PEAR and Composer, about the prerequisites for the appearance of the latter and the reasons for its success.

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