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The best of the world of PHP for 2013 + competition from the company JetBrains! The digest of interesting materials №32



Following the tradition, we decided to take stock of the outgoing year and highlight the most significant events in the PHP world, which, fortunately, were many. And, of course, a collection with links to fresh materials over the past three weeks.

Under the cut, you will also have a contest with prizes from the JetBrains company!

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Of course, the most important event of the outgoing year was the release of a new major version of the interpreter - PHP 5.5 . The release was not expectedly revolutionary, but the inclusion of the Zend Optimiser + cached opcode into the distribution was a huge step forward. In addition, the release contained a number of useful innovations, such as generators , a finally block and a number of others. More information on the links: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 .
The release also marked the end of an epoch 5.3. The latest regular release of this thread has already been released .
Not done in the past year and without problems. This, of course, is the recent hacking of php.net , fortunately quickly discovered and fixed. As well as the departure of Anthony Ferrara from php-internals , who, along with Nikita Popov, was a prominent representative of the progressive part of the PHP core development team.
2013 was a successful year for PHP, and the release of 5.5 and work on 5.6 make it possible to speak with confidence about the establishment of such a desirable PHP developers predictable release cycle.





Released this year, Laravel 4, no doubt, deserves the title of "breakthrough" of the year. The Internet was full of materials and tutorials on the framework six months before the final release, and after the announcement their stream does not stop. The community has done a lot of work over the year, especially pleased with the number of various resources for any occasion. This includes weekly collections of materials on laravel.io , and the repository of extensions - Packalyst , and screencast resource - Laracasts , snippets and tricks for Laravel archives, compilation of sites and applications made on the framework - builtwithlaravel.com .
You can also add two successful Laracon conferences in the USA and Europe to the community account.





This year, Yii 2 was presented to the community. First, in the form of a preview , and then a full alpha release , the work on which has been going on for more than two years. Someone even uses in production . Let me remind you that it was decided in Yii 2 to use the features of PHP 5.4 .
The samdark Yii Framework has joined the PHP-FIG group . Also periodically began to go dev-digest on Yii 2 .
And in branch 1.1 there was a massive release 1.1.14 .





The undisputed leader of the PHP frameworks this year was 2.2 , 2.4, and, of course, the release with long-term support - 2.3 , which will last until 2016. Based on the framework, universal solutions were released, such as Symfony CMF and Sylius e-commerce platform .
But, of course, nothing compares to the news of a € 5 million investment for the development of the Symfony ecosystem





The Facebook team that worked on HHVM has done an incredible job this year. And if earlier HHVM seemed to be an interesting solution, but suitable only for Facebook, now HHVM is a real tool that almost fully supports PHP 5.4, all popular frameworks work successfully, which is already talking about incredible performance. Installing a virtual machine is available to any user, thanks to the presence of packages for popular Linux distributions and on OS X using Homebrew . Windows users unfortunately so far deprived of attention.
HHVM can be easily used on Heroku cloud hosting , and more recently on the popular Travis CI continuous integration tool.
Also, the sensational news was kPHP from vk.com, which, however, for us as PHP developers has so far remained only news.





React is nothing but the implementation of the Reactor pattern in PHP. The library allows you to create asynchronous event-based applications a la Node.js. And, despite the skepticism that PHP scripts should die , React successfully proves the practical applicability of PHP for solving this class of problems. And this year a lot of examples of using PHP in asynchronous applications were demonstrated: primarily Ratchet , use with Arduino , creation of a search engine for React PHP , realtime chat on Laravel and Ratchet, and even drone control .





A tool that can rightly be called one of the most revolutionary PHP in the world, a tool that changed the "game", literally blowing up the PHP community! The number of libraries is growing by leaps and bounds, and even the growing popularity of PHP seems to owe more to Composer, and not to any frameworks. PEAR de facto died.
This year the seventh alpha release of version 1.0.0 took place.



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Forecast contest


PHP-digest together with JetBrains company in the last digest of the outgoing 2013 year announce a competition among regular readers.
We suggest you make a forecast for the PHP world for 2014, right in the comments to this post. The best three predictions that have scored the greatest number of advantages will receive excellent New Year's gifts! JetBrains will award all three winners with personal PHPStorm IDE licenses! Also, each winner will receive a t-shirt with the PHP logo from the #ITStuff online store. And the most successful forecaster will also win the real PHP elephant from #ITStuff! The results will be announced on December 31 at 19.00 Moscow time.
Let's dream together, what can we expect from the coming 2014?


Contest results


So, according to the voting results, we have three winners!
With a confident margin, Chris_Griffin takes the first place and receives a personal license for PHPStorm from JetBrains , a PHP elephant and a PHP t-shirt from #ITStuff .
Php will become the official language in India.

Second place went to SibProgrammer and also receives a license for PHPStorm and a T-shirt.
One of the futuristic forecasts for 2014: people switched to the side of Rails and Django, quietly looking again at PHP frameworks and trying to come back :)

The third most popular forecast is very realistic, and its author steppefox is awarded a license for PHPStorm and a T-shirt.
My thoughts about 2014:
1. The popularity of HHVM will increase.
2. Beta Yii2 will be released in spring, stable release in late autumn
3. In the Russian Federation will make your small Laracon 2014
4. On Habré there will be several dozen failed articles in the spirit of "Your PHP is not very", or "my favorite language" vs PHP.
5. Translate into Russian book on Laravel.
6. Will be a book on Phalcon
7. Another framework will attempt to break into the PHP scene.
8. Zend-certification rules will change.
9. Elephants can finally be ordered


Many thanks to all the participants, as well as to the company JetBrains and the #ITStuff store for the gifts provided!
Happy New Year! May this year be better for you even the most optimistic forecasts!

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/207812/

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