PHP Digest number 55 - interesting news, materials and tools (January 11 - 25, 2015)

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

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News and Releases

• Announced Zend Framework 3 Roadmap
• PHP releases: 5.4.37 , 5.5.21 and 5.6.5 - Fixed security issues, including with the unserialize function, and fixed other bugs. Full list of changes here . All users are encouraged to upgrade.
• HHVM 3.5.0
• Yii 2.0.2

Php

• RFC: Return Type Declarations - Voting on this proposal was previously canceled due to a bug , but now the voting has successfully ended with a score of 47 for and 3 against. So in PHP 7 we are waiting for the possibility of declaring return types:
  function foo(): array { return []; } function foo(): array { return []; } .
• RFC: Combined Comparison (Spaceship) Operator - It is proposed to add a new operator
  (expr) <=> (expr) , which returns 0 if the operands are equal, 1 if the left operand is greater and -1 if more than the right.
• RFC: Default constructors - The proposal to implement default constructors did not pass the 2/3 vote threshold and was rejected.
• PHP 7 Homework from Rasmus Lerdorf - In order to help detect errors and stabilize the code faster, Rasmus suggests installing PHP 7 and running any PHP application on it.

Instruments

• Flysystem - A library that abstracts work with files, which makes it easy to use both the local file system and the remote one without changing the application code. In addition to the local supported impressive list: AWS S3, Dropbox, Copy.com, Rackspace, FTP, SFTP, GridFS and others.
• UtilPHP - A collection of useful functions and snippets for a PHP developer for every day.
• PdfParser - Library for obtaining meta-information from PDF-documents.
• Robo - A simple modern PHP task launcher updated and acquired a new website.
• NumPHP - Mathematical library for PHP.
• OWASP / phpsec - A set of libraries for solving typical security tasks in PHP applications.
• thephpleague / container - Small but powerful DI container.
• krakjoe / strict - An extension for PHP that allows you to use tile-taking scalar values.
• phpws - WebSocket server and client, uses ReactPHP components.
• Kahlan - Unit & BDD testing framework a la RSpec / JSpec.
• ifsnop / mysqldump-php - PHP version of the mysqldump tool.
• Repo2 / query-reactor - Non-blocking execution of MySQL queries.

Study materials

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Video Tutorials
  • Laravel 5.0 - Events and Event Handlers
  • Development on the Laravel framework in PhpStorm
  • Upgrading applications from Laravel 4 to Laravel 5
  • What is so beautiful about Laravel?
  • Magic Eloquent - On strict notation, and building simple relationships in data models.
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • What's New in Symfony 2.7: Twig as a Full Component of the Framework
  • Symfony2 components overview: Authorization
  • Improving project performance on Symfony2 with Doctrine2 ORM
  • Creating your own vendor bundle in symfony2
  • Symfony best practices
  • Deploying symfony2 applications on Heroku
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii 2.0: Running Applications with Docker
  • From Yii 1.1 to Yii 2.0, Part 3: Appendices - Previous Parts: 1 and 2 .
  
  
• About function calls in PHP - Julien Pauli continues to reveal the features of the internal structure of the interpreter.
• clearPHP - Collection of recommendations for writing clean code in PHP.
• What happens when you enter google.com in the address bar of your browser and hit enter? - A comprehensive answer to the classic question.
• Pattern "Decorator"
• How to encrypt large messages using asymmetric keys and phpseclib - Briefly about encryption algorithms and the use of the phpseclib library.
• Simple load balancing for MySQL and PHP using the MySQLnd library
• Query caching using PHP and MySQLnd
• Resolving a class name in PHP 5.4 — Beginning with PHP 5.5, the class name can be obtained by referring to ::class ; however, in earlier versions, you can implement a similar trick.
• Create a new PHP package correctly.
• Prevent PHP XSS Attacks
• Implementing a search for consonant words in PHP - A small example of using the functions metaphone and levenshtein .
• Creating a WordPress child theme
• Repository pattern. Basics and explanations
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 3
• Productivity of shared folders in Vagrant
• Create dynamic websites using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5. 3rd ed
• How Bitrix didn’t ruin the New Year
• Creating a plugin for PHP Composer
• PHP7 revolution: return types and artifact removal

Audio and video

• List of YouTube channels for web development training
• Database Migrations with Doctrine
• Security programming - How to program in PHP so as to reduce the number of bugs and improve the maintainability of the code.
• PHP Roundtable - Secure PHP code - Podcast discussing the security issues of PHP applications.

Entertaining

• Interface boolean, classes true and false - Amusing, but quite explicable behavior of the PHP interpreter.
• Please do not break our language - Not everyone is happy with the changes in PHP 7. So, the author of the post asks not to remove from the language that has worked well for years.
• Fashionable to hate PHP

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