The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 48 (September 7 - 21, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

New PhpStorm 8: developing together. - Supports Blade, Behat, WordPress, remote PHP interpreters, multi-allocations and more.
Laravel removed Issues on GitHub - From now on, only pull-requests are accepted to the repository, but not bug reports. At the same time, the development team of the framework introduced a special tool Liferaft , which automates the routine operations necessary to create the correct bug reports.
Updates on current PHP 5.4.33 and 5.5.17 branches

Php

RFC: Null Coalesce Operator - Has an early proposal for an implicit isset call in a ternary operator been transformed into a proposal to introduce a new operator ?? which will return the first operand if it exists and is not NULL , otherwise the second: $_GET['mykey'] ?? ""; $_GET['mykey'] ?? ""; Voting has already started.
RFC: loop + or control structure - Offer to add a block or for all existing loop constructs in PHP, which would be executed if the loop condition is false already at the first iteration.
RFC: Fix list () behavior inconsistency - A suggestion is to correct the behavior of list() when used with strings.
RFC: Remove alternative PHP tags - It is proposed to remove support for the <% and <script language=php> tags.
RFC: Switch default multiple - The proposal to ban the use of several default blocks in the switch construction was adopted unanimously.

Instruments

PHP-Parser 1.0.0 - The first stable release of the PHP parser for PHP. Versions> = 5.3 are supported including 5.6.
Rocketeer 2.0 - A quality tool for launching tasks and deployments updated to version two.
HTTP Mock - As the name implies, it allows you to get HTTP requests in your tests.
Minime \ Annotations - Simple work with annotations.
ClassPreloader - The tool allows you to optimize autoload by generating a single file with all classes.
PHP Cron Expression Parser - Allows you to parse CRON expressions, determine the date of the last and next launch.
Recoil - Multitasking with Corutin - React core, which implements generator-based asynchrony.
PHP Shell Framework - Framework for creating console applications.
Shell php module - An extension written in Zephir, and also intended for creating console programs.
Requests - A simple and convenient library for making HTTP requests.
humhub - Flexible social network on Yii 1.
epilog - Paint logs in the console.
Geocoder - An indispensable library for creating applications that process geo-data.

Study materials

Laravel
- Laravel 5.0 - The next release of Laravel will be numbered 5.0. Under the link a series of posts about innovations. Also a post about upgrading Laravel to 5.0
- Laravel Models on Steroids - A post about Ardent , a library that extends the capabilities of Eloquent-models.
- Controllers in Laravel - The chapter from the upcoming book.
Symfony
- Symfony Development with PhpStorm
- Tutorial on using Vagrant to create a symfony 2 working environment
Yii
- What to expect from Yii 2.0
- Yii + WordPress = <3, or the Fascinating Experiment of Getting Frankenstein
Access to protected properties of objects with a common ancestor - Post with a reminder that the access modifiers in PHP operate at the level of classes, not objects.
Creating an application with movie recommendations using Prediction.io
Sending Attachments with ZendMail
10 of my favorite limitations PhpSpec
Generating Excel Documents with PHPExcel
Learning the code base - Some tips on how to get acquainted with the new code.
18 critical misses in web development - A good set of recommendations and a checklist at the end.
10 tips for reviewing PHP code
Proper use of the @ operator in PHP
Protected Classes - The author demonstrates the implementation of the approach of defining classes that can be created / used only in the context of some other class.
Proxy Injection - The post covers the concepts of Service Location, Dependency Injection, Dependency Resolution, as well as a small trick using proxy classes.
Horizontally scalable web applications - A good guide with general principles.
Windows 2012 R2 + IIS + MS SQL + PHP installation, configuration, pitfalls
Simple export to Excel XLSX and XML

Audio and video

Migrating Wikipedia to HHVM - Developer from the Wikimedia Foundation talks about switching to HHVM.
Hip Hop Virtual Machine - The Need for Speed - More on HHVM.
PHP Roundtable - A new PHP podcast. The latest issue deals with the design and development of an API.
Interview with Sara Golemon - Conversation with one of the main developers of HHVM.