The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 37 (February 24 - March 9, 2014)

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News and Releases

• Release KPHP and engines - VKontakte published the source code of its alternative implementation of PHP - KittenPHP. Together with the compiler under an open license, the developers also laid out a set of engines that can be used separately from KPHP.
• PHPUnit 4.0.0 was released - The latest release of the legendary testing tool with support for HHVM and other innovations.
• Apigility 0.9.0 - Update tool from Zend to quickly create all sorts of APIs based on the Zend Framework 2.
• PhpStorm 8 Early Access Program Started
• PHP Releases - Updated for current branches: PHP 5.5.10 and PHP 5.4.26 . Releases have fixed security issues, and therefore all users are encouraged to upgrade.
  In addition, the third and latest alpha version of PHP 5.6 was released . The first beta release, and therefore feature freeze, should be expected on March 20th.
• Source code Mt.Gox - Most recently, the largest Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox declared bankruptcy. The code leaked to the network exchange, which is available by reference.

Php

• RFC: arrayof - A proposal for improving type hinting for arrays was rejected on the ballot.
• PHP 6: Ideas for ZendEngine - Along with general ideas for PHP 5 ++ , php.internals actively discusses plans to improve the interpreter core.

Instruments

• virtPHP - Thanks to this tool, it became possible to use several isolated PHP environments on one machine at once. What has long been in Ruby and Python is now in PHP. Using the phpenv and php-build tools, you can create completely independent virtual environments.
  In addition, a post in the topic, about how useful virtual environments.
• Respect / Relational - A simple, convenient ORM that does not require any prior configuration.
• Vent - A library that implements the event system for variables in PHP.
• Regreph - Performance Regression Analysis Tool for PHP + XHProf.
• Phastlight - Asynchronous, self-oriented command line tool and PHP 5.3 web server. Implemented based on libuv, the library underlying Node.js.
• Phactory - Library of test object generation as an alternative to fixtures. The author was inspired by the Ruby Factory Girl .
• ImageCow - A library that solves the problem of adaptive images.
• Altax - Another application deployment tool for PHP.
• Teapot - A simple but useful library that provides a structured set of constants for HTTP status codes.
• Ansi - A simple library that allows you to use colors and formatting in console applications in PHP.
• PHPCR - Implementing a PHP content storage standard. A little more about the use can be found in the magazine Web & PHP .
  Another implementation is also available - Jackalope .
• phpSec - A library that helps in solving typical security problems of applications faced by PHP developers.
• WP-CLI - Command Line Interface for WordPress.
• PHP-Vars-To-Js-Transformer - Passing PHP variables to JavaScript transparently.
• php-CLIFramework - A framework for building command-line applications.
• libphonenumber for PHP - As the name suggests, the PHP implementation of the libphonenumber library from Google. Allows you to parse phone numbers and get detailed information about them: demo .
• PHPepl - Web REPL for PHP: demo .
• FUnit - Microframe for unit testing in PHP.
• PHP Shell Wrapper - Execute system commands in OOP style.
• whoops! - The library allows you to display beautiful and most important informative error pages and unhandled exceptions.
• Stash - Excellent library for caching implementation.
• Promises - Implementation of promises in PHP. Essentially a convenient shell over pthreads.

Study materials

• Cartoon Image Filter in PHP QB - Alternative PHP implementation - QB is now available as an extension. Static typing is implemented in the form of annotations. Super fast low-level work with pixels and vectors allows you to do very interesting things. Another example is the Mandelbrot fractal .
• High performance for your PHP application with ReactPHP - The author demonstrates how using ReactPHP and the php-pm process manager to improve the performance of a symfony application from 130 requests per second to 2000.
• The ideal working environment for PHP on Android - Turn the tablet into a workstation. The author uses VIM Touch and Palapa Web Server .
• Automatically injecting dependencies into PHP objects - A small addition to Pimple. We declare the type of the argument using type hinting, and thanks to reflection we inject the necessary dependency on the fly. The code on github .
• We work with PHP and Beanstalkd - A small but good introductory tutorial on the implementation of the queue system and the background execution of tasks using Beanstalkd and the Pheanstalk library.
• Swagger in ZF2,2 - A couple of notes about using Swagger to automatically generate annotation-based documentation. If you have not used Swagger to document and test your API, then I recommend to pay attention to it: Swagger UI demo .
• Dates are tricky . In developing the Uuid for PHP library, which implements the generation of UUIDs , the author encountered an unobvious behavior of date functions in PHP.
• Symfony2 Component Reviews: Validator , Routing , Config , EventDispather , HttpKernel
• Data fixes in symfony2
• Functional testing in Symfony2 - A small introductory tutorial, using WebTestCase.
• Autopsy: HHVM vs Zephir vs PHP - A good comparative description and test of the three applicants. The code and description of the test on GitHub , the results here .
• MySQLi implementation in HHVM - How the work on the implementation of MySQLi support in HHVM, what happened and what was planned.
• HHVM: next 6 months - Project plans for the next six months. Work is also underway to ensure full support for popular PHP frameworks , in addition, a resource is available with support statistics for HHVM packages .
• Storing Value Objects in Doctrine - Several approaches to storing value objects in Doctrine have been considered.
• Debugging with Xdebug and Sublime Text 3
• Thoughts on Composer security in the future - On security issues in Composer, on work to eliminate them and prospects.
• DateTimeImmutable - An example of working with the DateTimeImmutable class added in PHP 5.5, compared with the traditional DateTime.
• Rumors about the termination of support for MySQL in PHP - Release Manager PHP 5.3 comments on the subject. Actually, of course, I mean the exclusion of the obsolete mysql extension from PHP, but this will not happen in PHP 5.6.
• Sharding using MySQL Fabric in PHP - Fabric mainly adds two mechanisms to MySQL: fault tolerance and sharding . Thanks to the plugin mysqlnd_ms in PHP, it is still possible to use only sharding, which is what the post is about. Read more about MySQL Fabric here .
• Simple DIY captcha with PHP and GD
• PhpStorm Workshop - Explore all the features of PhpStorm.
• Simple PHP and MongoDB Blog
• Yii2 development news digest # 6 March'14
• Two design patterns that will make your applications better are the Patterns repository and the gateway in Laravel. And about the repository .
• Structure of large Laravel applications - How to organize a large project code.
• Laravel. Internet resources
• Magento Enterprise: What is Full Page Cache and why is it needed?
• PHP and various types of NoSQL - Excellent review of available solutions.
• What do gamedevs have in common with astronautics or working with iterators in PHP ? Examples of using iterators, as well as implementing a sample of hub-posts from the intersection of hubs.
• Contract programming in PHP
• PHP web sockets. Part 3. From chat to game: Battle City - Those same tanchiki for PHP.

Materials from past conferences

• Maximize application performance on ZF2 (PDF) - Excellent tips in slides.
• State of Selenium Webdriver in PHP - Report slides from Davert from Selenium Camp 2013.
• Service-oriented architecture on Symfony2 - Slides from conference report ConFoo.
• Security PHP-applications (PDF) - Slides report from Ilya Alshanetskogo with ConFoo.

Audio and video

• Magento vs. X-Cart - Comparison of two popular e-commerce platforms.
• Symfony 2: Basics - The first video from the series of screencasts for beginners, highlighting the basic concepts of symfony 2.
• Yii Training - Excellent screencasts on the Yii Framework 1.1. All topics from installation to multilingual are covered.
• PHP Town Hall: Episode 19 - Away Jeffrey Way creator of Laracasts and Laravel 4 Generators . Laravel-world news is discussed.
• PHP Town Hall: Episode 20 - Phill Sturgeon talks about Sculpin and Guzzle with their authors, and also discusses PSR-7 together.

Entertaining

• PHP chat room on StackOverflow - In this chat you can always chat and ask questions to Nikita Popov, Anthony Ferrara and other grandees of the PHP world.
• FlyFramework - A fun story that made noise in the PHP community. Someone "created" the FlyPHP framework, which actually turned out to be just a copy of the Lravel code with changed names and removed copyrights. Taylor, the author of Laravel, created a pull request requesting that copyright be returned to its place .
• Packages: the way forward for PHP - Phill Sturgeon once again talks about frameworks, PHP history, packages and the future.
• New PHP - Truly the world of PHP is experiencing an era of rebirth, which is what the blog post on O'Reilly Media publishers is dedicated to.
• PHP T-shirt: Respect The Double-Claw - The legendary T-shirt with the image of a PHP hammer can now be ordered anywhere in the world.
• PHP bard on Twitter - Soul sings.

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