The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 38 (March 9 - March 23, 2014)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.

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News and Releases

• Facebook officially introduced the Hack programming language - Although the language itself was available in HHVM for a long time, and even tutorials were published, the official announcement was made only last week. Hack is a programming language that extends the capabilities of PHP, adding features such as static typing , lambda expressions , generics , asynchrony, and others. Most importantly, Hack interacts transparently with PHP — you can implement applications in traditional PHP, and you can optimize the necessary sections using the Hack features. Or even use an automatic converter .
  The basic features of Hack can be found in an interactive tutorial . The site code for the language itself is written in Hack and is available on GitHub .
• PhpSpec 2.0 - The SpecBDD framework for PHP has been updated. If you are not familiar with this tool, I recommend watching the screencast .
• PHP-CPP 0.9 - Many updates to the C ++ library, specifically designed for developing PHP extensions. Also on the site is now available documentation .
• pthreads v2.0.0 - An excellent extension has been updated for implementing multithreading in PHP. List of changes here .
• Zend Framework 2.3.0 - A new version of one of the most popular PHP frameworks has been released. The first release in 10 months with new features, which, by the way, a lot.
• Zend Framework 2 Certification - Certification from Zend on ZF 2 has also now become available.
• Phalcon 1.3.0 - Fresh release of a PHP framework implemented as an extension. By the way, recently the framework has already been two years old .

Php

• RFC: Return Type-hinting — It is proposed to implement type-hinting for return values.

Instruments

• PHPWord is a PHP library for reading and writing documents of various formats: .docx, .odt, .rtf, and others. Part of the PHPOffice project.
• CSS Crush is a CSS preprocessor implemented in PHP.
• Magallanes - Another PHP application deployment tool.
• Jumper - Allows you to perform PHP-closure on a remote machine via ssh.
• Unirest PHP is an HTTP client for PHP. Good alternative to Guzzle .
• ProxyManager - A library for creating all sorts of proxy objects.
• Testify.php - Microframework for unit testing.
• Baobab - A library that implements storing and accessing hierarchical data using nested sets.
• Phang - Skeleton application on Silex and AngularJS.

Study materials

• About the future of PHP - An excellent post from Anthony Ferrara, in which he reviews the latest trends in the PHP world: PHP 6, HHVM and Hack.
• Methods for primitive types in PHP - As always, no less excellent post from Nikita Popov. Written in response to Anthony's thoughts. The problem of the implementation of primitive types as objects is considered. The author has long realized his idea in the form of an extension , thanks to which you can simply register a custom class as a handler of a specific scalar type.
• Dynamic change of forms in Symfony2 - About changing forms on the fly.
• Comparison of private members of classes in PHP - Post in a reminder that access modifiers in PHP operate at the level of classes , not objects.
• Overview of Symfony2 components: Translation , Templating - Previously also were: Validator , Routing , Config , EventDispatcher , HttpKernel .
• Parsim binary data in PHP for example PCAP format
• Explore Treyta - Another post about treyty in a piggy bank.
• Use a hash search, not a traversal of the array - Make the values ​​of the array keys and get a performance gain. How simple knowledge of algorithms and data structures can help. The translation of the article also arrived in time . .
• PHP 5.6 and splat operator
• Payback performance for early support for MySQL Fabric in PHP - In the last issue mentioned the possibility of using sharding using MySQL Fabric in PHP . A post describes possible performance issues.
• Why I do not recommend scrypt - Anthony Ferrara writes that you should not use the scrypt function to hash passwords.
• On the risks of password password hashing - Continuing the theme of a post about hashing problems.
• Thoughts on package signatures - One of the ways to solve the security problems of PHP-packages , the author sees their signing.
• Using composer without adding vendor / in .gitignore
• PHPUnit 4.0: Test Proxies , code coverage - A bit about the improvements of the latest release.
• Laravel: sessions, authentication, caching
• ORM and useless models - An interesting post in which the author implements the same business logic in terms of Active Record and Data Mapper.
• Create a contest application with hashtag tweets - A simple app with counting the number of tweets.
• Acceptance Testing with Codeception: Using Multiple Databases
• Building a Better PHP with HHVM and Hack
• Writing PHP extension on Zephir
• Delegator Factories in Zend Framework 2 - The author of the post is also the author directly of the Delegator service factories added in ZF 2.2. The post describes in detail the concept.
• Console application on Symfony and Pimple is a tutorial on creating a simple “hello world” application.
• Symfony CMF. Part 2 and the last
• Comparing the performance of enumerating arrays in a loop using for () and foreach ()
• You can already use two new libraries from the future PHPixie 3
• PHP design patterns. Part 1. Generating
• Advanced methods of implicitly calling php code used in malicious scripts
• JPHP - New php engine for Java VM + JIT - Adding to the ranks of alternative implementations of PHP. A full PHP compiler in JVM bytecode. Bravo!

Materials from past conferences

• MidwestPHP 2014 - Slides 25 reports.
• PHP North East Conference 2014 - Slides 14 reports.
• Hexagonal Symfony - Interesting slides about the framework architecture and applications.
• PHP UK Conference 2014 - Video of reports from the conference held in London.
• London Behat Users Group - Behat 3.0 - An interesting report from the creator of Behat everzet .

Audio and video

• Legacy Refactoring with PhpStorm - Record a webinar.
• PHP Town Hall Episode 21 - Visiting Phil Erika Heidi and Rafael Dohms . Talk mainly on the topic of Vagrant.

In the last issue , a survey was conducted among readers. Thanks to everyone who participated! Ideas in the process of implementation, but for now you can see the results of the survey .

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