The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 49 (September 21 - October 5, 2014)

Today it is exactly two years since the publication of the first PHP-digest on Habré. Many thanks to all who somehow helped to create digests, thanks to the developers for their wonderful tools, to the authors for their useful articles. Thanks to the entire PHP community, and most importantly, thank you for reading and supporting the PHP digest!

Under the cut, as always, another collection with links to news and materials.
Enjoy reading!

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News and Releases

• Yii 2.0 RC - Release candidate of the second version of the popular framework, which means the final release very soon.
• PHP 5.6.1 - The first update of the new interpreter branch. Full list of changes.
• Drupal 8 beta

Php

• RFC: Include pecl_sync in the kernel - It is proposed to enable the sync extension.
• Accepted RFCs: fixing consistency of list () behavior , deleting alternative PHP tags , operator ??

Instruments

• Mr. Clean - Advanced data filter for PHP. Post about use after.
• Whip - Class for determining client IP.
• PhpInfo Daemon - A web server with the sole purpose to show phpinfo.
• WordPressed - ActiveRecord for WordPress implemented on the basis of Eloquent ORM from Laravel.
• Cronner - Simple CRON task manager.
• Transform PHP Vars to JavaScript - As the name implies, the library allows you to transparently transfer variables from PHP to JS.
• Intervention Image - Convenient library for working with images.
• JustWriting - A simple Markdown based blogging platform.
• Proton - Another PHP mic. Post with a description .
• League \ Event - Universal tool for managing events in the application.
• Query Auth - Generation and validation of signatures for authentication requests in the REST API.
• retry - Mini -library that allows you to repeat unfulfilled actions. An example of using goto in PHP .
• Flintstone - Key-value repository for PHP based on simple files.
• zmm - Module Manager for Zephir.
• FBMock - Mocks framework from Facebook.

Study materials

• Yii

  
  
  • Awesome Yii Framework - Moderated list of useful extensions and tutorials for Yii.
  • Yii 2.0: Dynamic addition of validated form fields through a “jacket” (pjax) for a multi-model form
  • Yii2 development news digest # 9 May Sept.'14
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • What's new in Laravel 5? - And one more series of tutorials about new features of Laravel 5.0 .
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Deploying Symfony Applications with Capifony
  • Create your own PHP framework based on symfony components. - Short tutorial. A more detailed guide to creating your own framework was previously published by Fabien: Create your own framework ... on top of the Symfony2 Components .
  
  

• Zend Framework

  
  
  • Using ZF2 Forms with Twig
  • Zend Framework 3 Status - An interesting post about the present and future of the Zend Framework.
  
  
• Travel thousands of bytecodes - On the compilation process in HHVM from PHP-script to machine code.
• PHP 5.6 - what's new?
• Using the Google Analytics API in PHP
• Rabbit behind the scenes - On the use of RabbitMQ in PHP applications. The author writes about how to choose a suitable message broker, and also gives examples of using RabbitMQ using the php-amqplib library .
• Composer and Virtual Packages - About one of Composer’s capabilities and the use of the provide keyword.
• Interactive PHP Debugging with PsySH - About excellent REPL for PHP - PsySH and how to integrate the tool into the process of debugging an application.
• Tweet “mood analysis” - Using the viracore / caroline library, tweet text is evaluated.
• Guzzle-Ring and Future Responses - Description of the new features of the development version of Guzzle. In the post we are talking about a major change, which allows for asynchronous requests.
• Creating Twitter Applications for PHP - About using the Twitter REST API using the twitter-api-php library.
• Reducing the connectivity of packages - Recommendations for designing libraries.
• LDAP to PHP basics - In a tutorial about LDAP itself, installing and configuring a local LDAP server, and using the Zend / Ldap component.
• Tips on how to study the source code of an unfamiliar product - Continuing a few more recommendations for working with someone else's code .
• Optimization. Search / store temporary objects
• Launch TravisCI builds locally with RoboCI and Docker
• 27 useful functions for working with arrays in PHP
• Benchmark Recki-CT - Not so long ago, Anthony Ferrara presented his compiler for PHP - Recki-CT . On synthetic tests, the compiler is hundreds of times larger than the traditional PHP interpreter.
• How to use PHPbrew and VirtPHP - Excellent post about using multiple versions of PHP on the same machine.
• Regular Expression String Generation

Audio and video

• DevConf 2014 - Video recordings of reports of the PHP section of the conference held in Moscow.
• Video report from WebCamp: Developer Day

Entertaining

• Possible future of PHP - The founder of ownCloud and the developer of the same name open source cloud storage solution, talked about the reasons for choosing PHP to implement his project and thought about the features he would like to see in future PHP releases.
• What should a PHP developer know , 2 , 3 .

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