The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 34 (January 13 - 26, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• PHP 5.6.0 alpha1 - A little more than half a year has passed since the release of PHP 5.5.0, and now the first alpha version 5.6 is available. Those interested can familiarize themselves with the new features of the upcoming release. And even try and compare performance with previous versions right now at 3v4l.org .
  In addition, for the first time in a long time, php.internals has a serious discussion of plans for PHP 6, also known as PHP 5 ++.
• Phalcon 2.0 Alpha - The alpha version of the PECL framework for PHP has been released. There is a post with a review of Phalcon 2 and Zephir .
  Also now there is an opportunity to start working with Phalcon effortlessly thanks to official Vagrant boxes .

Php

• RFC: arrayof - It is proposed to implement a slight type hinting improvement for arrays: function foo(Bar[] $bars) {} - each element of the $bars array must be of type Bar .
• RFC: Alphanumeric Decrement - Along with the increment of alphabetic strings, it is proposed to add decrement.

Instruments

• Webception - Web interface for running Codeception tests.
• RoboTask - A simple, modern PHP task launcher, inspired by Grunt and Rake to create the author.
• PsySH - Another PHP REPL solution. Earlier there were also Boris and phpsh .
• Cockpit - CMS, which can be easily added to any application - plug & play CMS.
• Rocketeer - A simple and fast deployment tool implemented in PHP.
• Poche is an open source deferred reading tool. Want your Pocket / Instapaper or other Readability - just try Poche.
• Chrono - Library for working with date / time, independent of the system clock.
• Gush - A console tool designed to make life easier for open source contributors by automating frequently performed operations.
• Pux - High-performance router for PHP. Also comes with a PHP extension, thanks to which performance can be doubled again.
• conway-php - Game "Life", implemented in PHP.
• Mammouth - PHP programming language to reduce syntactic constructions and simplify the code. In short, CoffeeScript for PHP, written in JavaScript.
• DevDocs.io - An excellent resource with documentation on web tools and programming languages, including PHP.

Study materials

• Create a simple RESTful application using Silex , 2 - Silex Tutorial for beginners.
• Web Application Performance Tips - Some non-trivial tips for improving application performance.
• Code Coverage for Behat Tests
• 10 programming languages ​​that you should study in 2014 - An interesting list from Mashable, in which PHP comes in 6th place.
• What is PHP-FIG and what do they do? - Review group and PSR standards.
• PHP - the future of packages - Thoughts on the development of the ecosystem of “packages” for PHP, Composer / Packagist and PHPClasses.org , which also supports work through Composer.
• The framework is dead, long live the framework! - Recently, there have been quite a few posts on the topic that frameworks in the era of Composer and a huge number of packages are not needed. So whether the author finds out in a post. What do you think?
• Using Polymer / Dart and Symfony , 2 - An introductory tutorial on using Dart as a frontend solution and PHP (Symfony) on the server.
• S. O. LI D - Good tutorials on the fundamental principles of software development with examples in PHP.
• PHPClasses.org # 43 podcast - “Does HHVM replace the familiar Zend Engine in PHP6?” - Discusses the latest RFCs, PHP 6, and HHVM.
• HHVM vs Zend Engine in PHP 6 - A post in the continuation of the topic. Pros and Cons of HHVM.
• Outer Iterator - The author recently published a note about the interesting behavior of the CachingIterator , but this time in a post examines the whole OuterIterator interface and its application.
• Playing with HTML5. Making a WebWoker Pool - A small experiment with WebWorker and Silex. Demo here .
• Yii2 dev digest # 5
• Getting started with Vagrant - an automated system for creating working environments - Detailed introductory tutorial on using Vagrant.
• Horizontal scaling of PHP applications , 2 - General information on scaling and on horizontal in particular.
• Guzzle - PHP HTTP Client - The remarkable Guzzle library was mentioned more than once in digests, by reference a review post and an example of interaction with the GitHub API.
• Algorithm and architecture of processing forms on the server - For everyone who is interested in the scientific side of the Form component in Symfony 2. By reference the thesis on the designated topic.
• Taylor's answer to the article "Do not use facades" - Recently there was a discussion about the facades in Laravel. In a post, Taylor dotted all i's, and in the video demonstrates the use of DI and IoC in Laravel without calling facades.
• Multilingual site on Yii: Interface and URL
• Practice using Redis - A post about using Redis in the Yii Framework.
• UNIX_TIMESTAMP, ROUND and other DQL queries via queryBuilder in Symfony 2
• Sha512 support in wsse-authentication-bundle from Escape Studios, Symfony2
• Making web sites for PHP from scratch - An excellent post in which the author shares his experience of writing his own simple web server server in PHP.
• Encrypted client-server communication on Laravel 4
• Porting C # LINQ to PHP
• PHP LINQ similarity for EAV data storage model
• Creating 3D illustrations - a prototype system
• Debugging with XDebug and PhpStorm using the example of 1C-Bitrix site
• Transfer of Google Analytics tracks to third-party domains without javascript
• Convenient URL generation (CNC). Laravel 4 + third-party packages
• An example of using standalone actions in Yii2
• All about namespaces in yii1
• Your first PHP extension on Zephir
• Create PHP secure phar archives - Create custom PHP phar files to store sensitive data and check your password before use.

Materials from past conferences

• PHP Extensions Development Workshop - Slides by Jilien Pauli, release of PHP 5.5 manager.
• PHPBenelux Conference 2014 - Slides 28 reports.
• Ski PHP Conference 2014 - Slides 25 reports.
• PHP Conference Argentina 2013 - Video recordings of all reports from the last conference. Headers are in Spanish, but most reports are in English.
• SymfonyLive Berlin 2013 - Anthony Ferrara - Development in numbers - In his report, Anthony examines the available code quality analysis tools, gives theoretical information about the metrics used, demonstrates application on real projects like Drupal. In addition, it shows how to integrate metrics counting into the development process in order to improve the quality of created applications.
• SymfonyLive Berlin 2013 - Fabien Potencier - What's new in the world of Symfony
• SymfonyLive London 2013 - Video recordings of all reports.
• We take PHP seriously - Report from one of the developers of HHVM. Analyzed the strengths that, whether intentionally or accidentally, made PHP the dominant language in its niche. Facebook's attempts to eliminate the disadvantages of PHP are also highlighted, while preserving the merits.

Entertaining

• Popular convention coding - Space vs. Tab and other statistics based on the analysis of commits on GitHub.
• Ugh, are you using PHP? - A worthy response from MailChimp developers to anyone skeptical about PHP.
• PHP.XXX - Adult PHP .
• Orange PHP Elephants - The guys from php [architect] launched a campaign on Kickstarter to raise $ 1000 to create and distribute orange PHP elephants. In less than a day they managed to raise more than $ 20,000! The campaign ends on January 28 - have time to order your elephant!

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