The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 33 (January 1 - January 12, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• Laravel has become the most popular PHP repository on GitHub - this is how the young framework overtook even Symfony. The creator of the framework, Taylor, commented on this event in his post. .
• PHP 5.5.8 and 5.4.24 updates - Releases of current branches with bug fixes.
• CakePHP 3.0.0 dev preview 1 - The light saw the public preview version of CakePHP 3. CakePHP maybe too early to write off?
• PSR-4 based autoload implemented in Composer

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• RFC: Unpacking Argument Lists - Another great suggestion has been made and sent to PHP 5.6! Goodbye call_user_func_array.
• New features PHP 5.6 - Beta release 5.6 has not yet been, so we can expect that there will be other new features, but those that are already exactly fall into the release discussed in the post.

Instruments

• PHP Option Type - The Option type is intended for cases where you sometimes need to return a value (usually an object), but sometimes the value can be empty (usually null):
  $this->findSomeEntity()->orElse($this->findSomeOtherEntity())->orElse($this->createEntity());
  Read more in the post of the author: Simplify algorithms with options .
• Password Validator - A library designed to simplify the use of a new password hashing API, as well as to simplify the update of “old” hashes in an application. Read more in the post of the author.
• alpaca - A tool for automatic generation of client libraries in php, nodejs, python, ruby ​​for your API.
• Macaw - Small, simple, fast and convenient router.
• Recurr - A library designed to work with repetition rules and translate them into DateTime objects.
• Minime \ Annotations - Working with annotations is easy and simple.
• MediaVorus - A library for getting all technical information about files.
• turing-php - Implementing a Turing machine in PHP.
• PHP Project Starter - A command-line tool that allows developers to quickly create PHP applications that follow standard conventions and use best-in-class development tools.

Study materials

• Functional library: Iteration , Traversal , Null - A series of excellent posts from Igor Wiedler in which he explores the state of functional programming in PHP and examines some of the libraries for solving typical problems.
• The case regarding the function ifsetor - Post from Nikita Popov. The problem of accessing an array element is considered when it is unknown in advance whether an element with a given key exists.
• Stored procedures in MySQL and PHP - On when the use of stored procedures is justified, their advantages, disadvantages and examples.
• Create a photo wall by tag using Twilio and PHP - An example of creating an application that uses the Twillio service to receive MMS messages with images.
• You don't need a framework - About why in the era of PSR and Composer, the use of frameworks is not necessary. In response, another post was written with counterarguments. And one more post in a subject: frameworks are good, components are cool .
• Message Queuing, Beanstalkd, IronMQ, and Amazon SQS Comparison - Briefly on the concept of message queuing and the strengths and weaknesses of the three designated solutions.
• Zend Certified PHP Developer 5.5 - Some useful materials to prepare for the new Zend certification.
• Technical interview and questions for warming up - Why you should ask simple questions to “warm up” a candidate for an interview.
• Task at a PHP interview - The author gives an example of a simple task that was offered to him at the interview: determine the day of the week for a given date. Considered a solution.
• We use Composer to install JavaScript, CSS and images in web root . The post shows how you can extend the use of Composer to install not only PHP packages, but also JS / CSS / images in a folder other than the vendor. For this, it is proposed to use the Asset Manager plugin.
• Magento 2 - Several posts about using new features of the upcoming version.
• Playing with dependency injection in PHP - Another good post about DI in PHP.
• Installing the LAMP stack on Debian - Detailed installation instructions for both Debian itself and all stack components: Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.5, as well as PostgreSQL, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick and others.
• Acceptance Testing with Codeception
• Nginx, PHP 5.5 and Phalcon on OpenShift - A small guide to installing and installing nginx and Phalcon on an OpenShift instance.
• We decode TLS for PHP - In the post, the author described his decoding steps, and also shared the result .
• Test Spies and Mockery
• What is the fundamental difference between Mockery and Prophecy?
• Outside of abstract classes - A series of interesting posts by Anthony Ferrara , decided to continue with Larry Garfield.
• PHP and Neo4j: an introduction to graph databases - The first post in a series of tutorials. The basic principles of graph databases are considered. Good topic: Graph database Neo4j in PHP .
• Already almost 2014, and we still commit broken code - To solve this problem, the author suggests using git-hooks and gives an example of a script that checks for syntax errors Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Bash, Go and PHP code.
• Introduction to Apache CouchDB for PHP Developers
• Explaining namespaces in PHP using Game of Thrones characters
• PHP Internals Book - The book is completely dedicated to the internal structure of PHP, has been supplemented with new chapters on Zvals and the PHP build system.
• Create an application to manage customer base using AngularJS and Laravel
• Laravel 4: Embedded Systems - On the use of Arduino, webcams and Laravel. Continuation of a series of comprehensive tutorials on Laravel .
• We make your package independent of the framework - A real example of modifying the package is considered in order to make it independent of the framework. And also thoughts on why this should be done even if you are not going to use your solution with another framework.
• Simple PHP Crawler with Goutte
• Best frameworks for 2014 - Based on a poll of PHP framework frameworks, the author highlights the top three most promising frameworks for the coming year. Alternative survey on Habré shows very different results
• Best PHP frameworks for 2014 - Mini-review of a dozen popular and not very PHP frameworks: Laravel, Flight, Yii, Medoo, PHPixie, CodeIgniter, Kohana, Symfony, Pop PHP, Phalcon.
• Cheat Sheet on SOLID Principles with PHP Examples
• Approaches to optimizing (web) applications
• How to connect Yii Framework and Doctrine 2 ORM?
• How I forced the API to work in Yiinitializr Advanced - In a post about the principles of designing the correct API architecture, as well as how to quickly deploy the API for your projects on Yii.
• Automatic tagging of cache in Yii
• Create a behavior for Yii2
• Fuzzy Cluster fuzzy clustering algorithm for PHP
• Creating a simple REST application on Silex
• HHVM, Nginx, and PHP (and Laravel) - How to install and configure HHVM and nginx to run Laravel applications.

Audio and video materials

• PHP Town Hall: Episode 17 - An interesting conversation with Sara Goleman, one of the main developers of HHVM, and also Joe Watkins, the developer of PHPDBG , which will be included in PHP 5.6.
• Startup of Larvel-applications based on PSR-4
• Getting started with Apigility - Learn more about the capabilities of Apigility, a tool from Zend for quickly creating all kinds of APIs. Considered the creation of API, the creation of services, authorization and authentication, as well as validation rules.
• Laravel from scratch - Excellent screencasts on Laravel.

Entertaining

• The Tribal Framework Mindset - An interesting post from Phil Sturgeon, in which he once again discusses the PHP community, as well as how some technologies can create the effect of isolating developers instead of involving them in the community as a whole. The reason for the post was the Laravel-community. It's funny, because Laravel more than other frameworks includes third-party dependencies. The creator of Laravel, Taylor, responded in his post: Integrating PHP .
• Zend: A few thoughts on the threshold of 2014 - A bit of the bottom line and plans from Zend.
• Funny quotes Rasmus
• How and why did PHP elephant appear? - Interview with the creator of the cult elePHPant.
• A few Easter eggs have been added to php.net - Try to access php.net , enter one of the following combinations and press <enter>: “rotate”, “mirror”, “I hate PHP”, “I love PHP”.

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