The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 51 (October 26 - November 16, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• About symfony 3.0
• PHP releases: 5.4.35 , 5.5.19 and 5.6.3 - Updates on current branches, including fixes vulnerabilities in fileinfo.
• Facebook has opened the osquery monitoring system code - The tool allows you to track the status of the operating system by executing SQL queries to a virtual database. PHP shell available.
• Hack Transpiler - Also Facebook has announced the release of the h2tp tool, which allows you to translate the Hack code back to traditional PHP.
• Graph of supported versions of PHP - New PHP.net page with a visual representation of the periods of support for existing versions of the interpreter.
• Symfony Marketplace - Catalog of symfony and ecosystem related services and products.

Php

• RFC: Return Type Declarations - Vote Canceled - Voting on such an expected proposal was canceled because a bug was found that cannot be fixed in the current implementation. Read more about the bug here .
• RFC: Additional Usage for the Splat Operator - It is proposed to use the splat operator to implement array_merge :
  $arr1 = ['d' => 4, 'e' => 5, 'f' => 6]; $arr2 = ['a' => 1, 'b' => 2, 'c' => 3, ...$arr1]; .
• RFC: Filtered unserialize () - Offer to extend the unserialize() function to prevent security issues. More in the post of the author .
• RFC: Standardized PHP Http Interface - It is proposed to add the HttpMessageReceive and HttpMessageSend interfaces to the kernel, as well as the HttpRequest and HttpResponse classes for working with HTTP requests.
• RFC: Default constructors - It is proposed to implement the concept of default constructors.

Instruments

• PackageTrack - Download composer.json and track package updates via RSS.
• PHP Secure Configuration Checker - Check PHP configuration for possible security issues.
• PHP dotenv - Automatic loading of environment variables from an .env file. Ruben clone dotenv .
• Peridot - Event-oriented BDD testing framework.
• Period - Object value for working with date ranges. More information about using here and motivation - here .
• Process - The library provides an improved API for working with processes on unix-like systems.
• oauth2-server - 100% compliant with the specification OAuth 2.0 PHP server.
• hook - Open-source Back-end as a Service for PHP.
• phly / http - Implementation of the proposed PSR HTTP message interfaces and a node-like http-server.
• Money - Object-value for working with monetary data.
• Medusa - Permanent persistent collections for PHP.
• Hippo - Code verification for compliance with standards.
• Morphos - A library for declining the names of your own Russian language.
• PHP CS Fixer - A tool to automatically fix the style of the code got to a stable release .
• Sismo - Continuous testing server for PHP.
• Pipes - A wrapper over SPL iterators, representing a fluid interface.
• Yona CMS - Implemented in Phalcon .
• Blueberry - A programming language that is broadcast in PHP. The author was inspired by Ruby, Coffeescript and Python. Do not forget about Gutscript .
• php-amqplib - Implementation of the AMQP protocol in PHP.
• Docker PHP - Docker client for PHP.

Study materials

• Yii

  
  
  • Getting started with Yii2
  • The process of connecting Yii 1.1.15 to the CMS as an application on the example of Shop-Script 5
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • CSRF vulnerability detected in Laravel 4
  • Meet Laravel 5 Elixir - In the next version of Laravel, it is proposed to use Elixir as a build tool - an add-on for Gulp, which in turn is implemented in JavaScript and requires node.js.
  • Under the hood Laravel 5: Composer autoloader
  • Localized date formatting in Laravel
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Routes using annotations in symfony2
  • Symfony2 Bundle, standalone - Describes the idea of ​​including a minimal application directly in a bundle, in order to test it without including it in a full application.
  • Defining and checking configuration parameters for a bundle in symfony 2
  • Using Voter Classes to Test Symfony 2 Permissions
  
  
• Theoretical minimum -nix-based-systems for WebDev-padawan
• Creating a basic project skeleton using Composer
• All about composer.lock - Why composer.lock should always be committed to VCS. In continuation of the topic post from Phill Sturgeon , in which he writes whether it is worth commits composer.lock for packages.
• Bower vs BowerPHP - Comparison of dependency managers for frontend libraries.
• Security Lesson - Detailed analysis of a SQL injection type vulnerability found not so long ago in Drupal.
• 5 easy ways to get started with PHP on Vagrant
• The Basics of Object-Oriented Design - On the difference between simple and complex solutions.
• Manage changelogs with Chag - The author created the chag tool to standardize work with change lists.
• Compiling Brainfuck - Creating a Brainfuck compiler for PHP .
• Interfaces for traits
• PHP Package Checklist - Checklist that will help your package to be taken seriously in the PHP community.
• PHP Value Objects
• Optimization for beginners, or the benefits of profiling
• GUI for xdebug trace files
• IceCash 1.3. Linux workplace cashier on php, with the driver Shtrih-M
• Interactive site with post-hawk? Easy!
• HTML generation: more convenient than helpers and pure HTML
• Codeship.io: a free CI server for a private Github / Bitbucket repository

Audio and video

• Symfony Camp 2014
• RIF Voronezh 2014 - One of the reports - "Overview Yii 2.0".
• Interview with Taylor Otwell
• Laracon EU 2014 - Amsterdam
• ZendCon 2014 - Video of key reports. Slides of others - here .

Entertaining

• Statistics on the use of different versions of PHP - And in addition statistics based on data from packagist.org .
• PHP Evolution - Major development milestones on beautiful graphics.
• CodeFightClub - Fight Club for programming languages.

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