The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 36 (February 9 - 23, 2014)

We bring to your attention another selection of current news, interesting materials and useful tools.

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News and Releases

• PHP 5.6.0alpha2 - Second planned alpha release with exponentiation operator ** and other changes on board.
• Laravel Envoy - The SSH task management tool for PHP has been released. Analogue Fabric from the Python world. See Envoy screencast for details on usage. .
• Pimple 2.0 - The second version of the DI-container from the creator of symfony was released.
• Beginning of the End PEAR - Symfony Creator Fabien has announced that Pirum is no longer supporting . Also from now on, the PEAR version of Twig will not be updated .
• A security issue was discovered in Composer - Thanks to the replace directive, an attacker can execute code on your machine. On the topic spoke one of the authors Composer, as well as a more detailed explanation can be found here . Fortunately, the problem has already been solved .
• Codeception 2.0 alpha - Overview of the new features of the second version of the wonderful framework for testing.

Php

• RFC: Combined Comparison Operator - It is proposed to add a new operator (expr) <=> (expr) , which returns 0 if the operands are equal, 1 if the left operand is greater, and -1 if the right operand is greater.
• RFC: No php tags - Offer to make the opening <?php tag optional. The proposal itself is almost two years old, but perhaps now it will be implemented.
• Ideas for PHP 6 - Meanwhile, PHP5 ++ is being actively discussed in php.internals. The general vision is designed as a separate page on the official website. Also discusses options for implementing support for unicode .

Instruments

• cebe / markdown - The fastest markdown parser at the moment, which confirms the benchmark .
• Uniter is a PHP interpreter implemented in JavaScript. PHP in the browser? Easy!
• PHP Cheat Sheets
• Symfony2 Cheat Sheet
• PHP File Converters - A library that simplifies the conversion of files from one format to another: doc -> png and similar tasks.
• SliceableStringy - Working with Python style strings.
• dplr - Deployment tool in OOP style. Simple and very fast.
• Pathogen - A general purpose library for working with any paths in PHP: unix and win paths in the file system, URI paths, and so on.
• Embed - A small library for easily obtaining meta information about pages (oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, etc.)
• Less.php - less.js ported to PHP.
• Archer - A library for standardizing unit testing processes, continuous integration, and documentation using a convention-over-configuration approach.
• phpDox - Documentation Generator.
• Bakame.csv - A library for manipulating CSV data.
• Pash - Bash-like shell implemented in PHP.
• Zidisha: P2P Microfinance - The guys at Zidisha make a P2P lending platform and recently opened the source code.
• PhpDeal - Contract programming framework for PHP.
• Resty.php - A simple library for creating RESTful clients. Does not require curl.
• PHP-DI - Dependency Injection container for people.
• Dater - An excellent library for working with date / time and time zones in PHP.
• WhatTheWhat PHP - If an exception occurs, the library will automatically find information on the error on the network and output it along with the call stack. Clone Python's What the What .
• PH7 - Embedded PHP implementation.
  By the way, there is an idea to make a detailed overview of all alternative implementations of PHP: Parrot, PH7, Phalanger, Quercus, QB and others. Is this topic interesting?

Study materials

• Fast routing of queries using regular expressions - Nikita Popov conducted a very interesting study of existing routing implementations, in particular, the Pux library, which should be super-productive, since it is implemented, also in the form of an extension to C. However performance can be achieved using PHP. The result is in the form of the FastRoute library, whose performance is higher than the Pux C-extension.
• A look at HACK - a replacement for PHP in HHVM , 2 - In essence, HACK is PHP6 being developed in the depths of Facebook, that is, an attempt to solve existing problems in PHP and add new features. At the moment, the latest version of HHVM already supports HACK, so after reading these articles, you can try out its features, such as static typing.
• Magento and HHVM - An interesting post with brief instructions for installing and configuring HHVM to work with Magento, and, of course, a performance test for a snack.
• Expanding the boundaries of metaprogramming in PHP - aspect-oriented programming - The author did a little research on AOP in PHP. His conclusion: before you write a bike, study the ready-made solutions, because for AOP there is Go! Aop .
• Unusual way to organize a PHP backdoor call - A noteworthy PHP backdoor has been identified, which is activated without visible reference to such functions as eval , exec , system , assert and preg_replace .
• Keeping PHP code well documented - Some tips on how to write effective documentation.
• PHP-FIG: autoloaders, corrections and the "15th standard" - An interesting post from one of the most active members of the PHP community about the plans of the PHP-FIG group and the standards over which work is underway.
• Coding standards: people - not computers - How should standards be applied, and when is it evil?
• S. O. LI D - Good tutorials on the fundamental principles of software development with examples in PHP.
• Versioning data validation rules
• You are implementing the versioning of the API incorrectly - Not directly related to PHP, but an interesting post about how to implement versions of the API.
• In-depth review of RegexIterator - What is, how it works and how the RegexIterator can be used.
• Symfony2 Joboard: Data Model - Symfony 2 Tutorial.
• Custom annotations for controllers in symfony 2 - And the corresponding bundle .
• Indexing and easy searching with Elasticsearch and Symfony
• Fast sites: Nginx and PHP - Another detailed instructions on how to configure nginx and PHP.
• Automatic initialization of properties in PHP
• Using Laravel on Nitrous.io - Cloud hosting Nitrous.io announced PHP support , an introductory tutorial on its use of the link.
• Getting started with Eloquent - An introductory article on ORM from Laravel.
• Create a comment system on Laravel and AngularJS
• Create a blog on Laravel 4 - A series of tutorials for beginners.
• The Learning Laravel book is available for free download.
• Synchronization of files between servers in a cluster - Describes the solution to the problem of file synchronization, which is provided by the Jelastic platform.
• Yii - sharing experience: models , continued
• Typing (defining properties) of an object by the hands of site users
• Rethinking Zephir
• Namespaces in PHP, explanation - On namespaces in PHP with the help of the characters of the Game of Thrones, now in Russian.
• Simple build of virtual machines using PuPHPet - By the way, support for HHVM has been added to PuPHPet . You can also read about the benefits of using virtual devs here. .
  If you prefer Ansible for provisioning rather than Puppet, you can use the Phansible tool.
• PhpStorm - increase productivity: keyboard shortcuts , plug-ins and themes

Materials from past conferences

• Answers to questions on Yii for the mitap in London - Alexander SamDark Makarov answers topical questions on the framework.
• PHP UK Conference 2014 - Slides from the conference held in London.
• Yoopee cache (op cache internals) - Details on how OPCache works in slides of core developer and PHP 5.5 release manager.

Entertaining

• Statistics on the use of the symfony2 framework and its components
• PHP tools in tweet - A set of tools, the code of each of which fits in 140 characters: a router , a service container , a template engine , an observer (PHP 5.6) , a unit testing framework .
• There is no PHP user group here! - Brief instructions on how to create your own user group and hold the first meeting.
• PHP or ASP.NET: Have I made the right choice?
• PHP CEO on Twitter - Let such chiefs be on Twitter only!

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