PHP Digest number 54 - interesting news, materials and tools (December 22, 2014 - January 11, 2015)

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

Enjoy reading!

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News and Releases

• PHP 7 will get two times more efficient Hashtable - See also the original post from Nikita Popov .
• Yii 1.1.16
• WordPress 4.1 “Dinah”
• CakePHP 2.6.0

Php

• RFC: Add PHP files to auto_prepend from extensions - The implementation of the proposal will allow you to create extensions with PHP code.
• RFC: Preserve Fractional Part in JSON encode - It is proposed to add an option for json_encode , which allows storing zero values ​​in the fractional part of real numbers.
• RFC: Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7 - Completed voting on the issue of excluding obsolete functionality from PHP 7 - all decided to remove.
• RFC: Improve array to string conversion - At this point, when you try to convert an array to a string, E_NOTICE is thrown and the string 'Array' is output. It is proposed either to exclude such a transformation and throw a 'fatal catchable error' , or to implement some kind of transformation, for example, a recursive implode .

Instruments

• DUnit 2.0.0 - Allows you to test the code on different versions of PHP using Docker.
• Composer against security issues - The roave / security advisors tool helps prevent dependencies with known security problems from being installed. Data is taken from FriendsOfPHP / security advisors .
• kbariotis / documer - The implementation of the Bayes algorithm for text classification.
• Polr - Service shorten links to PHP.
• Packanalyst - Online tool for finding classes, interfaces in Packagist packages.
• openbay - The actual source code for The Pirate Bay.
• ApiGen - Documentation generator with markdown support, fuzzy search and other features.
• Flarum - Forum for PHP.
• marmelab / microrest.php - Micro web application that provides REST API on top of any relational database.
• Humbug - Framework for mutating PHP testing.
• colors.php - Color text in the console is very simple.
• Phprest - Interesting REST framework.
• PHP Semantic Versioning Checker - A library that determines the level of changes (minor / major) between two revisions.
• Piwik / Cache - A library for caching, created on the basis of Doctrine Cache.
• UnPHP - Online tool for deobfuscating PHP code.
• Titon Framework - Full framework on HACK.

Study materials

• Laravel

  
  
  • 5 resources to explore the IoC container Laravel
  • 75 Laravel Tutorials, Tools and Resources for 2014
  • Laravel - 5.0 ACL with Middleware
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • How to fix a project on symfony2 on AWS
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Using Twitter API. Application on Yii 1.1
  • Yii 2 Gii code generation
  • Building a scalable IT system for delivery from the USA to Russia: Comparing Drupal, Symfony2 and Yii2
  
  

• Wordpress

  
  
  • Unit Tests for WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress Site Migration Guide
  
  
• PHP output buffer in deep - An excellent post about how output buffer works in PHP.
• Again about DoS attack in PHP - An interesting post about a potential vulnerability in PHP. By transferring a specially formed set of parameters to the script, you can cause a long execution due to collisions in the hash table. By the way, with the new hash table from PHP 7 is not so noticeable.
• Sockets in your API - About using RatchetPHP .
• Gearman in your sockets - About using ReactPHP and Gearman.
• About HTTP, Middleware and PSR-7 - About why PSR-7 is so important.
• Command Bus , 2 , 3 - About pattern usage, how commands differ from events. Also about the command bus here .
• Improving the quality of tests using mutated testing
• Developing PHP Extensions with C ++ and PHP-CPP - About using the PHP-CPP library.
• Wikipedia on HHVM - As previously reported , Wikipedia has migrated to HHVM. Details of the transition are also disclosed in the Wikimedia blog post , and in the video of the report of one of the engineers of the Mikimedia Foundation .
  List of major projects using HHVM .
• Code Coverage: Pathfinding - In a previous post, Derick Rethans wrote about how code coverage works . This time we are talking about a new feature - code coverage for paths and branches, which will be added soon.
• Using the eBay Trading API
• PHP resources and best practices for 2015
• Using Varnish to overcome API speed limits
• Visualize code quality metrics with PhpMetrics - About using PhpMetrics . Having generated a report for your project, you can compare it with the metrics of popular frameworks .
• When a class should be declared final
• Creating a programming language - A series of posts about creating your own PHP interpreter.
• Pattern "Repository"
• 10 questions that a web developer should ask himself
• REST API for a couple of minutes with Lionframe
• Development of Magento modules with application deployment through Magento Composer
• Requests to Yandex live
• One-page store on Phalcon PHP + AngularJS. Bug work
• Using different VCS repositories in PhpStorm
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 2
• I am a certified PHP specialist
• Multiple versions of php on the same server. suphp
• Solving the traveling salesman problem using the branch and bound method

Entertaining

• PHP installation statistics - The statistics collected by Anthony Ferarr show that almost 75% of all PHP installations contain known security issues. And the topic of what it means to be a responsible developer .

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