The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 52 (November 16 - 30, 2014)

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

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News and Releases

• Symfony 2.6.0 - Under the hood, hundreds of improvements and innovations .
• HHVM 3.4.0 release
• Box switches to HHVM - Following Wikimedia , Box announced the move to HHVM.

Php

• RFC: PHP 7.0 timeline - Release Plan for PHP 7 approved by vote. Overall, in the middle of next year, it is planned to complete the development of new features, and in October 2015 it is expected to release PHP 7 itself. An alternative plan with the release of intermediate version 5.7 was also considered.
• RFC: Remove PHP 4 Constructors - Offer to remove support for constructors in the style of PHP 4, that is, functions with a class name.
• RFC: Static classes - It is proposed to add the ability to describe static classes.
• RFC: Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax - Offer to add the ability to set unicode characters as codes: echo "\u{202E}Reversed text"; .

Instruments

• Lock - High-quality implementation of ACL for PHP 5.4
• Cachet - Status page for your project.
• ABLincoln - Library for the implementation of A / B tests. Port PlanOut from Facebook.
• PHP Geocode - Wrapper for the Google Geocoding API.
• TimeParser - A date / time parser written in natural language.
• OpenLocalization - Localization manager for managing translations in your projects.
• libphutil - A collection of helper classes for PHP. Full list of features here .
• OAuth 2.0 Client - A library for quick integration with OAuth 2.0 based services.
• PHP Copy / Paste Detector (PHPCPD)
• commonmark-php - Markdown Parser that supports the CommonMark specification.
• The most popular Wordpress plugins in 2014
• Magento Module Composer Repository
• mustached - Codeception -based framework for testing solutions on Joomla!
• Nymph - ORM for PHP and JS.
• lime - LALR (1) PHP parser generator.
• Stairtower - Experimental document-oriented database for PHP.
• php.tools - PHP toolkit for testing, code coverage, formatting.
• nightrain - Create desktop applications for OS X, Windows, Linux using PHP / HTML / JS.

Study materials

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii2 test on HHVM
  • Tutorial on ActiveRecord in Yii 2.0
  • Using Real-Time Twitter API on the example of Yii Framework
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • We deal with the IoC container in Laravel
  • Experimental update to Laravel 5 - how I did it
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Two-factor authentication on symfony 2
  
  
• It's All About Time - Excellent post about attacks in time in general and in PHP in particular.
• Domain Validator in PHP 7
• Geosearch with SOLR and Solarium - An example of an airport search application within a given radius.
• MVC tutorial on the web for beginners - Placing points above i from Anthony Ferrar.
• MVC Alternatives - Continuing the theme, Anthony writes about HMVC , MVVM , MVP , MVA , PAC , RMR , Action Domain Responder, and others.
• Higher Order Programming - About truly functional PHP programming.
• Continuous integration for symfony applications - Quality checks, private repository for Composer, testing.
• 84% of WordPress sites can be hacked: what next?
• Inversion of Control: Implementation Methods with PHP Examples
• We write a simple encyclopedia on the Slim Framework
• PHPStamp - fair generation of DOCX documents from a template
• Vagrant for PHP project
• Collect the best of two worlds - frameworks and CMS
• eBay API: Step Two
• PHPixie Amalgama - Internationalization in PHPixie
• PHPixie Illusion - a simple mock HTTP server for your tests.
• Python Web Development through the eyes of a PHP programmer
• Gearman and PHP 5.4: Problems and Solutions
• Do it yourself search on the site

Audio and video

• PHP Frameworks Day 2014 - Video of reports from the conference held in Kiev.
• AWS re: Invent 2014 - At the last conference on Amazon services, three reports were presented related to PHP: Creating applications using the AWS SDK for PHP Best Practices for Using WordPress on AWS , Running and Scaling Magento on AWS .
• SymfonyLive London 2014
• Static sites using Sculpin
• PHP Standards and Best Practices - Paid video course, in the creation and recording of which Phill Sturgeon participated .

Entertaining

• Thanks to the best authors of PHP packages!
• Do you know PHP? - A test of 25 questions on the knowledge of history and some features of the language. And a review of the test results.

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