The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 44 (July 1 - 20, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• 10 years of PHP 5.0.0 - July 13, 2004 saw the release of the PHP 5.0 interpreter. In the post on the link a brief history of PHP and tamlayn with the main events of the era.
• 0xDBE: First Look - JetBrains has announced a new product, 0xDBE, for working with databases and queries. The tool is available as part of a closed early access program after filing the application. In the post on the link you can find an overview of the capabilities of the tool.
• WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2 - Someone was expecting a significant update of the code and architecture in the release, but this did not happen. Nevertheless, WordPress 4.0 will please a number of new features. Also an interesting post , about the tendency of increasing the share of JavaScript-code in WP.
• Pickle - The first stable release of the PECL Extensions Manager, which is compatible with Composer, and may be included in the standard PHP distribution.
• Deployer Big Update - A simple and convenient PHP tool for deploying applications, Deployer received a number of new features, an updated website and documentation.
• REST in Symfony - There are FOSRestBundle and NelmioApiDocBundle bundles to implement RESTful services on symfony, but that's not all. In order to improve, popularize and simplify existing REST solutions for Symfony, a special working group has been created . A little more in the post creator of the group.
• SensioLabsProfiler - Launched a closed beta test of the PHP profiler from the creators of symfony.

Php

• RFC: Uniform Variable Syntax - The proposal from Nikita Popov, which involves the introduction of a single syntax of variables and calls in PHP, was adopted almost unanimously and will be included in PHP 5 ++. The only person who voted against was Xdebug author Derick Rethans, who outlined his point of view in a post .
• RFC: Name for the next PHP release - Php.internals actively resumed the discussion of choosing a number for PHP 5 ++. So is it PHP 6 or PHP 7?
• RFC: Scalar Type Hinting With Casts - The sentence implies the implementation of type hinting for the types: int, float, bool, string and numeric. The original version was proposed by Anthony Ferrara, who withdrew all his proposals for the charter to argue . Perhaps this time the proposal has chances.
• RFC: intdiv () - Offer to implement the possibility of integer division in PHP: var_dump(3 %% 2); // int(1) var_dump(3 %% 2); // int(1)
• Benchmarking PHPNG! - An interesting post from Zeev Suraski, in which he compares PHPNG and HHVM, as well as classic PHP in work on popular PHP projects, including a separate post Magento . In a series of tests, PHPNG bypasses HHVM. However, alternative tests from HHVM developers show slightly different results. However, PHPNG's productivity is growing - already twice as high as PHP 5.6 and slowly catching up with HHVM.

Instruments

• Spork - Library for easy creation of forks PHP-processes.
• Pilog - A simple logger implemented according to PSR-3 and PSR-4 standards.
• Phake - Not the Phake , which is a mocking framework, but one that is a task manager and a clone of a rubish Rake . Tutorial and usage examples here .
• vfs.php - Virtual file system implemented as a wrapper object for the data stream.
• Purse - PHP-framework for the creation of which the author was inspired by the popular Ruby-tool Sinatra.
• uprofiler - Lightweight xhprof based profiler .
• symfony-console-completion - Autocomplete commands for symfony console applications.
• php-box - A tool for easy creation and management of phar archives.
• woothee-php - Parser user-agent strings.
• Respect / Validation - One of the best PHP validation libraries.
• yo-php - PHP client for the revolutionary Yo messenger.
• Phystrix - A library for solving the problem of fault tolerance of distributed systems. Port of the popular Java tool Hystrix . Post with a description .
• Cronos - A library for creating and managing cron tasks from PHP.
• FluentPDO - SQL query-builder for PHP, as well as a tutorial on its use .

Study materials

• The 10 most common PHP developers ' mistakes - And 7 more errors .
• Pagination for real-time data - For frequently updated data, it is inappropriate to use the classic limit-offset pagination, since when switching pages you will see already viewed records. In a post the decision on the basis of use of the cursor is considered.
• Authentication using social networking accounts. - Tutorial of 4 parts on the implementation from scratch login accounts Google+, Twitter and Facebook.
• Sending PSR-0 to Heaven - A great post in which Phill Sturgeon convinces why PSR-0 is out of date and you should use PSR-4 .
• About data streams and PSR-7
• Tricks and recommendations for passing Magento certification
• What is reflection in php?
• Improving the experience of testing in PHP , 2 , 3 - A series of tutorials with tips and best practices on unit testing in PHP.
• BDD Workflow With Behat and Phpspec
• Continuous integration using PHP-CI - A small tutorial on using PHPCI .
• Container Injection: Bad Practice to Avoid
• Violation of the SOLID principles in the Symfony Cookbook — A bad example of implementing the Twig extension was considered
• Improving Web Application Security with Zend Framework 2
• Comparison of Doctrine 2 and Eloquent
• 15 Wordpress Applications You Couldn't Know About - Examples of WP-based solutions: online store, forum, job board, bug tracking system, Quora clone and others.
• Symfony 2 Joboard: API for partners - Tutorial on API implementation in a symfony application.
• When to use static methods
• Named constructors in PHP
• 9 steps to optimize YII
• Server load analysis - Principles and methods for analyzing the load on a processor, memory, disks, network.
• WordPress Projects: Optimization Tips
• Make the simplest filter by product properties using ElasticSearch on Symfony2
• Link Doctrine Entity and Doctrine Document on the form in the Sonata Admin Bundle
• Fast morphology or files against MySQL
• Facebook XHP. Object Templates
• Syringe - declarative IoC Container for PHP
• YaLinqo (LINQ to Objects for PHP) - version 2.0
• Introduction to the PHP messaging services
• PHP Zend certification today

Materials from past conferences

• Introduction to the creation of PHP extensions
• DevConf 2014 Report

Audio and video

• Creating a programming language - Record the report of the author of a simple PHP interpreter in JavaScript - PHP.js.
• Interview with the creator of Laravel Taylor Otwell in the Three Devs And Maybe podcast - Discusses the framework itself, Forge and Homestead .

Entertaining

• PHP Test Club - A forum for discussing all types of automated testing in PHP.
• Twitter user accounts of PHP user groups from around the world

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