The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 40 (April 14 - April 27, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• Behat 3.0.0 - After 2 years of work, the third version of the popular BDD tool for PHP has finally become available. Read more in the video presentation from the author. .
• The authors of PHPUnit announced the end of support for PEAR - The once popular repository of extensions and packages for PHP PEAR is confidently moving towards the end of its existence. The pear.phpunit.de channel has existed since 2006, but will be closed no later than December 31 of this year, and releases PHPUnit 3.7.35 and PHPUnit 4.0.17 will be the last available through this installation method. In addition, Fabien confirmed that PEAR symfony packages will also cease to be published soon.
• Yii 2.0 beta - A detailed review of the beta version of the long-awaited framework Yii 2.0. See also a selection of topics. which should be studied when switching to Yii 2.
• WordPress 3.9 “Smith” - The release contains mostly cosmetic changes and improvements.
• DevConf 2014 - on June 14 in Moscow a conference for web developers DevConf will be held. Among the confirmed in the PHP section reports from SamDark on Yii 2.0 and also from one of the core Laravel developers - Shawn McCool .

Php

• RFC: Return Type Declarations - The type-hinting implementation proposal for return values ​​has already been mentioned in the digest, an implementation has been added, so there is every chance to see it in action soon.

Instruments

• Monolog - The most popular PHP-library for logging.
• Open source tools from the company Box - Well-known data storage service Box laid out in a shared access a number of its internal tools, including PHP-solutions.
• Gaufrette - A library that provides an abstract layer for working with the file system. Allows you to transparently interact with both local storage and remote storage. A similar solution was previously mentioned - the Flysystem library.
• Obfuscalp - The tool allows you to find and delete suspicious / malicious code in PHP scripts.
• saber / http - Library for convenient work with HTTP requests and responses.
• ZFDeploy - A tool for deploying ZF2 applications.
• Structr - Definition, validation and processing of data structures in PHP. Take a look at an example to appreciate this interesting idea.
• Database Backup Manager - Library allows you to make backup copies of databases and save them to S3, Dropbox, FTP, SFTP and other storages.
• PINQ - LINQ for PHP. Although there are a lot of similar implementations, it was even on Habré .
• Pattern Lab - Static site generator.
• js-search - Search engine for static sites.
• Rollout PHP - Port popular tool from the ruby -world Rollout .
• Ardent - Alternative implementation of collections for PHP.
• Cartographer - Sitemap generator.
• Bldr - System build / run tasks for PHP.
• Thelia is an e-commerce solution based on symfony 2.

Study materials

• Getting started with PHP Underscore - The popular JavaScript library Underscore.js has been ported to PHP as Underscore.php . Under the link introductory tutorial.
• Database Versioning with DBV - Tutorial by dbv.php .
• Database Versioning with Ladder Migrations - This time the tutorial on using the Ladder migration tool. There are also other more popular tools for migrating to PHP: Phinx , Ruckusing , Phpmig .
• Running Composer with HHVM - not so fast! - As it turned out, HHVM exceeds PHP in speed when executing composer update, but for composer install the situation is opposite.
• Ensure standards compliance with Composer, Git-hooks and phpcs
• Flexible PHP development using PHPFarm - If it is necessary to test the code on different versions of PHP, the virtPHP , phpenv , PHPFarm tools come to the rescue . Use the last and dedicated post.
• Overview of the components of Symfony 2: Process - Previously also were: ExpressionLanguage , Finder , Validator , Routing , Config , EventDispather , HttpKernel , Translation , Templating , ExpressionLanguage , Finder .
• Tuples in PHP - In PHP, unlike, for example, Python does not have a built-in tuple data type, the post demonstrates the idea of ​​implementing SPLFixedArray based tuples.
• Store a PHP session or cache in memory using TMPFS - The author shows how you can organize the storage of session files in memory without using third-party solutions like memcached or Redis. To do this, it is proposed to use the virtual file system TMPFS . The obvious advantage of this solution is the speed of implementation, since no change in the application is required.
• Implementing multilanguage - Tips and tricks to implement multilingual support in a PHP application.
• A pair of tutorials on dependency injection in controllers in ZF2 , 2
• How to create a form element that uses external dependencies using FormElementManager
• Testing Laravel 4 controllers
• Using model events in Laravel 4
• Memberships with Laravel Cashier - This tutorial discusses the use of the Laravel Cashier package using the example of creating a site with a paid access.
• How gzip compression works
• Yii + WordPress = <3, or the Fascinating Experiment of Getting Frankenstein - About Crossing WordPress and Yii.
• Installing Sphinx Search for PHP and MySQL , 2
• Using Phing for Deploy and more
• Chat bot applications via skype, jabber and whatsapp
• Transition to PHP 5.5 and unit tests
• One of the opinions about the future of PHP - Translation of a post from Anthony Ferrar, in which he considers the latest trends in the PHP world: PHP 6, HHVM and Hack.
• Optional dependencies are not needed - On the misuse of the suggest directive in the description of composer dependencies.
• Vulnerability of the “remember me” functionality in Laravel - On the sensational security issue in Laravel. Also a selection of related links from the Russian-speaking community Laravel.
• PHP extension dom_varimport: fast conversion of nested arrays to DOMDocument
• Getting started with the graph database Neo4j

Materials from past conferences

• Lone Star PHP 2014 - Slides reports.

Audio and video

• PHP 5.6 in 10 minutes
• Symfony 2 and REST API - Introduction to building RESTful applications on symfony 2.
• How virtPHP works and how it works
• Routing in Symfony 2 - Short video review.
• Codeception Introduction and Its Use in Yii

Entertaining

• The source code of a popular resource 4chan leaked to the network.
• PHP Virgin - A non-standard approach to learning PHP.

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