The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 35 (January 26 - February 9, 2014)

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



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News and Releases

• PHP 5.5.9 and PHP 5.4.25 updates - Bug fixes, including PHP 5.5.9, eliminated the vulnerability in the GD extension, which allows to initiate a heap overflow when processing specially designed images through the imagecrop () function.
• PSR-7 HTTP message interfaces - Draft new standard from the PHP-FIG group.
• Mockery 0.9.0 - A fresh version of the popular mock creation tool.
• HHVM 2.4.0 - PHP Virtual Machine Update. Mostly just bug fixes.
• React v0.4.0 - The latest version of “node.js for PHP”. Details about React told the author himself.

Php

• RFC: Improve HTML escaping - The suggestion to escape ”/” turned into an interesting discussion in php.internals .
• RFC: debug-info - Most likely a new magic method __debugInfo() will be added in PHP 5.6, which will return debug information about the object.

Instruments

• Duct - Library for continuous parsing of JSON.
• Phrocco - Generator beautiful and convenient documentation for PHP. Port Docco .
• Fractal - The library provides a layer of representation and transformation of complex data that is often found in the RESTful API.
• Its Continuous! - Micro app for continuous integration of PHP projects.
• Phystrix - A library for solving the problem of fault tolerance of distributed systems. The port of the Hystrix Java library.
• Puli - A library that provides access to the files of your PHP project through a single naming system. There is also a plugin for Composer .
• Alice - Fixtures generator, which allows to describe data for testing in an easy-to-read and edit form.
• Pest - Library PHP client for RESTful web services.
• LiipMonitor - Library for monitoring the health of application systems.
• ohmy-auth - A library for working with OAuth-services in the style of a flowing interface (call chains) and promises.
• Assert - Essentially a data validation library. Post with a description from the author.
• Recoil - React's library from author that implements multitasking in PHP using Corutin .

Study materials

• We sprinkle images in PHP on the basis of entropy - Fitting the image to the desired size by cutting the sides is a trivial and daily task. Most often, the result is the central part of the image. But what if the main object is not centered? The author proposes a solution in which the most informative part of the image is selected. Under the link post with the description of the idea, the ready decision is implemented in the form of Crop library.
• Programming Google Glass for PHP - A new book for those who already want to look into the future.
• 4 Reasons Why All PHP Frameworks Suck - Not so long ago, Rasmus at the PHP Frameworks Days conference in Kiev, he suggested that the frameworks are often not needed . In the post on the link analyzed its main points, as well as what it means for PHP-developers.
• Using web sockets in PHP applications. Silex and socket.io together. - The author of the post considers the problem of authentication when working with web sockets. Screencast also included. .
• SOAP and PHP in 2014 - Despite the total dominance of REST, SOAP has certain advantages that the author writes about. Also describes the basic principles of using SOAP with examples in PHP.
• Arbitrary precision and large numbers in PHP - In PHP, unfortunately, there is no native support for large numbers, unlike, for example, Python, but solutions exist. In the post 3 modules for working with large numbers and arbitrary precision arithmetic in PHP are considered: GMP , BC Math and php-bignumbers . Examples are given: pi counting and RSA encryption, as well as module benchmarks.
• Singletons and PHP - about singletons, patterns and antipatterns. The theme is a funny hack from NightTiger , which demonstrates the creation of more than one singleton instance.
• Manage project dependencies with Bower and Composer
• Configuring a local mirror for Composer packages using Satis - A similar solution has already been considered in posts about using Satis for fast and reliable application deployment and about caching packages for Composer .
• Use HHVM to speed up Composer - A small note, the essence of which comes down to alias composer='hhvm /usr/local/bin/composer' .
• OWASP Cheat Sheet for PHP Security
• 4 HTTP headers to use for security.
• Making PHP safer: an introduction to Augmented Types - A post in support of the Augmented Types extension that implements type hinting based on annotations.
• HHVM with Symfony 2 looks great - Few benchmarks.
• WordPress as a full-fledged framework - The article, for obvious reasons, caused a heated discussion in the comments.
• PHP - Best Practices - Tips for young developers.
• Getting started with Phalcon , 2
• How to use filters in Laravel 4
• Laravel 4: File-Based CMS - Continuation of a series of comprehensive tutorials on Laravel .
• Node.js vs Laravel - Comparison of technology strengths and weaknesses.
• Tricks and hacks PhpStorm - Some useful tips to improve the efficiency of working with PHPStorm.
• zephir-boost-yii - The working concept on Zephir is the core of the Yii 2 framework.
• Example of using mongoDB - Briefly about MongoDB and use in the Yii Framework.
• SQL-injection in the Yii framework - The article on the example of Yii demonstrated which code is vulnerable and which is not.
• print or echo, which is faster?
• Best practices and recommendations for protecting php applications from XSS attacks
• Phpbrew PHP Version Manager. (+ installation and use in Ubuntu 13.10) - A post about the phpbrew tool that allows you to use several different versions of the interpreter on the same machine.
• We make web sites for PHP from scratch. Part 2. - An excellent post in which the author shares his experience in writing his own simple web socket server in PHP. The first part is here .
• Example of jQuery UI + PHP and GD. Application of the image
• Horizontal scaling PHP applications.
• Non-standard application of IT in everyday life: parsing, perceptual hash, image comparison = cost optimization - An excellent post, in which the author shared his experience in solving the problem of image comparison when they can be of different sizes, with watermarks, corrected colors and other distortions.
• Use EXPLAIN. Query Improvement - On optimizing MySQL queries.
• VagrantWebdev - a virtual environment for web development

Materials from past conferences

• SunshinePHP 2014 - Slides of all reports from a large-scale PHP conference held in Miami.

Audio and video

• PHPStorm Test Workflow
• PHPSpec is so good - A little tutorial on using PHPSpec .
• Laravel.IO Podcast # 9 - Translation of a podcast in which the creator of Laravel Taylor and other community members discuss the framework, its future and related topics.
• Voices of the ElePHPant # 5 podcast - Informal conversation with famous personalities from the PHP community: Sara Golemon (HHVM), Derick Rethan (Xdebug), Illia Alshanetsky, Ben Ramsey.

Entertaining

• Interview with the creator of the popular microframe Slim
• TDD may not be for you. A little excursion into the psychology of the developer
• XXX Framework vs. YYY Framework - On the resource you can compare many popular frameworks with each other.
• Statistics on the use of Vagrant - "PHP is used on 58% of the working machines created using Vagrant" and other figures in infographics.
• What programming language is best to learn in 2014? - Results of a survey of the popularity of programming languages.
• Purple PHP Elephants - Following a successful campaign of orange PHP elephants from php [architect], the PHPWomen community launched their campaign and already collected the necessary amount.

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