The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 46 (August 3 - 24, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• The latest release of the PHP 5.3 branch - PHP 5.3.29 - After 5 years after the release, support for the 5.3 branch has been officially completed. Release 5.3.29 was the last in the history and included a number of security fixes implemented earlier in branches 5.4 and 5.5. No further updates are planned. More about the history of the 5.3 branch was written by its release manager Johannes Schlüter in his post .
• PHP 5.6.0RC4 - The fourth and final release candidate of the new version of the interpreter. The final release is expected on August 28th. Review of innovations 5.6 here and here .
• PHP 5.5.16 , 5.4.32 - Updates on current branches. By the way, the next release of the 5.4 branch will be the latest release, which contains not only security fixes (more in the internals ). Thus, together with release 5.6, the practice of two current branches and one branch with security support will continue.
• CodeIgniter got a new home - A little more than a year ago, the company EllisLab, engaged in the development of CodeIgniter, announced that it could not support the framework and was looking for a new owner . On Twitter, EllisLab says that a new owner has been found, but detailed information will be available later. Does CodeIgniter with a new company have a chance to truly return to the race?

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• RFC: Include PHPNG in the master branch - Since PHPNG is already fairly stable, it was suggested to include the former experimental PHPNG branch in the master, and thus make the new implementation the basis of PHP 7. The proposal is almost unanimously accepted and already implemented , which means if everything goes according to plan, the world will see PHP 7 in a year or later, depending on the number of other changes. Go PHP 7!
• RFC: Closure :: call - Offer to add a new call method. It allows you to perform a closure, passing the first parameter to the object that will be used as $this in the body of the closure. Analogue of the call method in JavaScript.
• RFC: Add pecl_http to core - As the name implies, it is proposed to integrate the popular PECL extension directly into the kernel.
• RFC: Switch default multiple - The first results of the publication of the PHP language specification — a sentence in which it is proposed to correct the incorrect behavior of the interpreter and to prohibit the use of several default blocks in the switch construction.
• RFC: Abstract syntax tree - Voting on the implementation of an abstract syntax tree ends tomorrow and risks becoming the first completely unanimous decision - not a single vote against.
• Other proposals: RFC: Function Referencing as Closures , RFC: Binary String Comparison - a proposal for putting in order a non-strict comparison of numeric strings.

Instruments

• Phred - A PHP extension that adds string handling to the OO language, full Unicode support, components for internationalization / localization, and many other useful features.
• patch-installer - The library allows you to patch other packages after installing or upgrading using Composer.
• patchwork - The library allows you to override user functions in runtime. Also, for example, it allows replacing static and private methods with test stubs.
• Patchwork-Dumper - Advanced dump variables.
• Gliph - Library for working with graphs in PHP. There is also a Graph library for working with graphs.
• TechDivision_ApplicationServer - Multi-threaded PHP application server.
• Negotiation - A library for implementing content negotiation in a PHP application.
• php-resque - Port of the popular Ruby Ruby library for working with Redis-based task queues. Tutorial for use here .
• php-webshells - Large collection of web shells for PHP.
• onduit - Middleware for PHP, Sencha Connect port for Node.js.
• Grav - File CMS.
• Dice - Minimalistic Dependency Injection container.
• Factory Muffin - A library for quickly generating test objects. Analogue Factory Girl from Ruby.
• Elcodi - A set of e-commerce components for symfony 2.
• 30 most used symfony bundles

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony2 for high-load applications - An excellent post about the architecture of an application on Symfony 2, processing a billion requests per week.
  • Handling POST requests from AngularJS to symfony
  • Guidelines for symfony-certification - Collection of topics and links to them for passing certification from SensioLabs .
  • Symfony 2 Joboard - A detailed tutorial on how to implement an application on Symfony 2 from start to finish. The last part deals with sending letters using Mailer .
  • OAuth authorization in symfony
  • Optimization of RequireJS modules in symfony2
  • The implementation of the tag system in the admin with the SonataAdminBundle bundle
  • Acceleration of the symfony bandla with Zephir
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Create an application on Laravel and EmberJS in Vagrant
  • Data Validation in Laravel , 2
  • Expanding queues in Laravel
  • Creating a basic site on Laravel - Tutorial on Laravel for beginners.
  
  
• Python basics for PHP developers
• Comparative performance test of Dependency Injection containers - Tested by PHP-DI , Zend / Di , Aura.Di. Symfony / DependencyInjection , Orno / Di and Dice .
• Testing the code that outputs something - The task of testing the code by displaying headers or content. To do this, the author proposes to use the tricks with the namespaces.
• How to generate a unique 64-bit integer from a string - An example of a hash function based on md5 and GMP .
• Preventing dogpile-effect — The post deals with caching and a problem when the validity of the cache has expired and a lot of requests are sent to the application at once, for each of which the application tries to generate new data. A typical solution is proposed in the form of using a semaphore.
• Fast routing with PHRoute
• How to put in order a PHP application , 2 - Some recommendations for improving performance.
• Check the quality of your code with SensioLabs Insight - Overview tutorial on using the service from the creators of symfony. Free for open source projects.
• Fractal - practical application - Considered the use of the Fractal library to solve the problem of a painless change of the database schema in a RESTful application.
• Digital signature of the project releases - Fabien writes on how to use the PGP key to sign Git tags and archives.
• Legacy code is a disease - About why the “support everything while we are able” approach can turn into problems.
• Profiling with Xhprof & Xhgui , 2
• Using Composer for Magento - Composer in brief and using the Magento Composer Installer .
• Reasoned PHP - Logical programming and PHP. The author has implemented a logical language interpreter in PHP.
• Implementing API in your application with Toro - About using ToroPHP .
• Making requests secure with JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• PECL / mysqlnd_ms: summer time, (connection) pool time - A post about using the PECL / mysqlnd_ms extension to implement replication and load balancing of MySQL database clusters.
• Flight Rules for Git - Collection of typical problems and solutions for everyday effective work with Git.
• PHP Strings - Beginner's Guide.
• echo vs print - About the difference for beginners.
• Design Patterns in PHP: Chain of Responsibilities
• From Yii 1.1 to Yii 2.0: Part 1 , Part 2
• Open source-im php code
• Understanding and working with data in WordPress. Part 1. Introduction
• WordPress Optimization. Part 2. Results of the contest "UPU for the year for the best ideas!"
• Little known features in WordPress
• Major vulnerability in WordPress and Drupal can put a site
• And again the attack on Wordpress sites - brute force + XMLRPC
• Wordpress themes and “free cheese” - 54% of the popular WP themes contain malicious code.
• An instructive story about what can happen with a site on a shared-hosting
• Speeding up a wordpress site with Microsoft Azure in a quick way
• Your screenshot service for a restful sleep
• Multiple PHP versions in ISPmanager
• Magento step by step: REST API
• Badoo PHP Code Formatter. Now in open source!
• Generating xkcd passwords in PHP
• And again about monads in PHP
• Sessions in PHP - an underwater pebble with asynchronous requests - A well-known question, but it pops up regularly. In the subject of another solution proposed here - the session data is read only.
• mysqlnd - explorer between PHP and MySQL

Audio and video

• Development of loosely coupled (decoupled) libraries for PHP
• Scaling Symfony2 Applications with RabbitMQ
• How Silex saved me from Legacy code
• A practical look at the Angular / Laravel app
• Goodbye LAMP stack? - Videotape of the HHVM report.
• Coding and Dreaming - PHP in 2014 - PHP Tour Lyon 2014 - Video recording of the Rasmus Lerdorf report. About PHP history and PHP 5.6 innovations.
• virtPHP - how it works - About how the tool is designed, which allows you to use several isolated PHP environments on one machine at once.
• Software Development podCAST # 7 - Talk with samdark about Yii, PSR, PHPNG, HHVM and more.

Entertaining

• PHP Conference 2014 - List of events in the PHP world in the second half.
• Stop pretending it's okay - An interesting post from Phill Sturgeon, about open-source and life.
• Updated statistics on the use of PHP built-in functions . Earlier in the digest there was a link to a study in which the author analyzed PHP repositories on GitHub and published a list of the most frequently used PHP functions . This time the list is updated and also includes language constructions like empty and isset .
• Study of programming languages ​​in Reddit - Interesting statistics on the mutual mentioning of various languages ​​in the corresponding threads on Reddit.com. Also offered statistics on the use of various words in the text messages. PHP won by the number of words crap, fuck, hate, shit.
• the @phpbard - In addition to the @phpbard twitter account with PHP quatrains, a blog has been created with entire sonnets and songs.

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