PHP Digest number 56 - interesting news, materials and tools (January 25 - February 8, 2015)

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

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News and Releases

• They waited for the release of Laravel 5 - Also announced the conference Laracon American and European .
• PHPUnit 4.5.0 - Support for the Prophecy mocks framework has been added to the update. Learn more about PHPUnit 4.5.0 and Prophecy here .
• Vulnerability of GHOST in Glibc can manifest itself in PHP web applications.

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• RFC: Scalar Type Hints - In the midst of a vote on the tip-hinting proposal for scalars, supplemented by the possibility of specifying strict or non-strict type checking. In order for the proposal to be accepted, 2/3 of the votes are necessary, and at the moment the score is 40 for and 23 against. In php.internals, controversy continues and arguments are made on both sides.
  In the meantime, the author of the proposal makes PHP Predictions for 2015 , and enthusiasts even register comic domains: http://BecauseWeCantHaveNiceThings.com .
• RFC: Add cyclic string replacements - It is proposed to extend the capabilities of str_replace() so that the replace parameter is used cyclically. This allows you to make similar replacements: str_replace("?", array("'Joe'", "'Smith'"), "SELECT * FROM people WHERE first = ? AND last = ?");
• RFC: Fix "foreach" behavior - Due to a strange implementation, the foreach behaves unpredictably in rare cases. It is proposed to change the implementation, so that the behavior will be consistent and slightly improved performance.
• RFC: Group Use Declarations - Suggestion for improving the syntax of use for namespaces:
  use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Expr\{ Comparison, Value, CompositeExpression };
• RFC: Remove the date.timezone warning - Every PHP developer has seen a Warning about the date.timezone option when working with date functions. It is proposed to disable this message.
• RFC: Skipping optional parameters for functions - Started voting on the old proposal — add the ability to skip optional parameters using the default keyword in the argument list: foo(1, default, 3);

Instruments

• rlerdorf / php7dev - Rasmus Lerdorf had previously asked php.internals participants to test any of their applications on PHP 7 and help in detecting errors. To simplify the task was created Vagrant-box with pre-installed PHP 7, as well as other versions of PHP. In addition, a Docker container with PHP 7 is available .
• amphp / artax - Asynchronous HTTP / 1.1 client.
• phpMemAdmin - Web interface for Memcached.
• SnappyRouter - Lightweight router.
• SuperClosure v2.0.0 - Library that allows you to serialize closures and anonymous functions.
• GovernorFramework - CQRS library for PHP 5.5+.
• php-git-hooks - Git-hooks for PHP projects.
• Glide - A library for working with images. Video about integrating Glide with Laravel .
• Intervention / image - And another solution for image manipulation.
• Pomm - PHP / Postgresql object model manager
• PHP Enums - A mini collection of PHP implementations of Enum type.
• saber / uri - Library for working with URI. Also, an excellent detailed post from the author about what the link really is.
• CockpitCMS - CMS, which can be embedded in any application. Also a short tutorial on usage .
• Riimu / Kit-CSRF - Library for prevention of CSRF .
• YiiGist - Extension Catalog Yii.
• Thruway - Router and client for the WAMP v2 protocol in PHP. More about WAMP here and on Habré here .

Study materials

• Dive into the Zend Execution Engine - Continuation of a series of posts from Julien Pauli about the features of the internal structure of the interpreter.
• PHP output buffer
• PSR-7 on an example - There was a lot of controversy around the PSR-7 standard: some say it is too complicated, others are not detailed enough. In the post, the author writes about what the standard is needed for and, using the example of interface implementation , shows its completeness and, at the same time, ease of use.
• “Remember me on this computer” - Secure long-term authentication strategies
• ClassManager - You shall not pass - Recommendations for effective naming.
• Do I need to escape user data when using MongoDB
• MVC and ADR are UI patterns, not application architecture patterns.
• SPL iterators and performance
• Dredd: Do Your HTTP API Justice - Automatic verification of compliance with the documentation and implementation of the RESTful API described using the Blueprint API .
• Running HHVM with a web server - HHVM does not have an embedded web server, and this prompted the author to implement a special mini-server on Go .
• Obfuscating an id in a URL using Laravel 5
• ReactPHP: Timers
• Learning OOP in PHP - A collection of resources on OOP and related concepts.
• Preparing for Zend Certification: PHP Basics - For those who are preparing, a paid selection of 70 questions and answers with explanations is also available.
• Understanding NGINX HTTP Proxy, Load Balancing, Buffering, and Caching
• We program on Yii2: MVC, forms, layouts
• WordPress: Best Practices on AWS
• Deploy WordPress with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Configuring Jenkins with Codeception
• BemPHP: implementation of the BEM methodology using PHP
• Static analysis of PHP code on the example of symfony2
• WSGI / Rack for PHP

Materials from past conferences

• Good Chemistry - Slides Rasmus Lerdorf report on PHP 7. Other sweets from the SunshinePHP conference are available here .
• PHPNW14 - Video of all reports.

Entertaining

• The purpose of framework benchmarks is about why we need 'hello world' benchmarks.
• The history of PHP frameworks
• PHP developer life

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