PHP Digest number 59 - interesting news, materials and tools (March 16 - 29, 2015)

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

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News and Releases

• CakePHP 3.0.0 - More than 3 years have passed since the release of 2.0.0, and now the world has an updated version of the popular framework. Version back is incompatible, requires PHP at least 5.4.16, uses Composer. Many components have been updated, some of which are now also available as independent libraries.
• PHP releases: 5.6.7, 5.5.23 and 5.4.39 - Fixed three vulnerabilities ( CVE-2015-0231 , CVE-2015-2305 , CVE-2015-2331 ) and fixed about 30 errors .

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• Scalar Type Hints - The proposal for scalar type hinting in the version from Anthony Ferrar was accepted with a score of 108: 48. This was also facilitated by a conciliatory post from Zeev Suraski . The corresponding branch is already in PHP 7 , which means that we are waiting for the possibility of explicitly defining the scalar types int , float , string and bool for the arguments and values ​​of the functions: function foo(int $abc): int . And of course, a type- declare(strict_types=1) mode has been added: declare(strict_types=1) , in which a mismatch of the type of value being transferred or returned will result in an error. Support for type checking mode will be added, including for PHP extensions and built-in functions.
• RFC: Anonymous Classes - Offer accepted, anonymous classes will be available already in PHP 7.
• RFC: Generator Return Expressions - Support for return in generators is accepted.
• RFC: Generator Delegation - Delegation of operations by generators to Traversable objects and arrays is accepted.
• RFC: Reclassify E_STRICT notices - Remove the E_STRICT error class - accepted.
• RFC: Easy User-land CSPRNG - Add a simple cryptographically strong pseudo-random number generator as functions random_bytes(int length) and random_int(int min, int max) - accepted.
• PHP 7 Feature Freeze - Overview of already accepted and voting proposals. According to the schedule , proposals for new features for PHP 7 will no longer be accepted.

Instruments

• Icicle - A library that implements asynchronous capabilities in PHP using generators.
• widmogrod / php-functional - Functors, applicative functors and monads in PHP.
• Mashape / unirest-php is an HTTP client for PHP. Good alternative to Guzzle .
• m6w6 / pharext - Distribute PHP extensions as self-installing phar files.
• Analogue ORM - Implementing Data Mapper for PHP.
• ircmaxell / PhpGenerics - Experimental implementation of generics (generics) in PHP.
• cpliakas / git-wrapper - PHP wrapper for working with Git.
• hnw / php-timecop - The extension allows you to "change" and "freeze" time, changing, respectively, the result of calling functions for working with date / time. Inspired by the timecop from the Ruby-World.

Study materials

• Asynchronous PHP

  
  
  • Joint multitasking in PHP - Also on the topic, see the famous post from Nikita Popov .
  • Reactive PHP Events - About the asynchronous capabilities of PHP.
  • Writing a web server in pure PHP
  • Asynchronous I / O and network programming in PHP - The author described the simplest implementation of node.js in PHP.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Time tracker on Laravel 5 and AngularJS
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Overview of the components of Symfony 2: Stopwatch - Previously also were: ExpressionLanguage , Finder , Validator , Routing , Config , EventDispather , HttpKernel , Translation , Templating , ExpressionLanguage , Finder , Process .
  • Enhance security and simplify development in Symfony2 using annotations and Doctrine filters
  • Briefly about the new symfony installer
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Development on Yii2: Working with Active Record , User Registration
  • Yboard - Yii bulletin board engine
  
  
• PHP objects and classes under the microscope - Continuation of a series of posts from Julien Pauli about the features of the internal structure of the interpreter.
• Security tools for PHP projects - Security Advisories Checker , Roave Security Advisories , iniscan , versionscan .
• Using the GitHub API in PHP
• Quickly create a REST API using the Slim framework
• Thoughts on API design - Anthony Ferrar on design principles for good APIs.
• Phalconist - Resources by Phalcon Framework.
• Contribution Guide to the WordPress Core
• Effective use of interfaces in PHP
• SOLID in PHP examples
• Integration Testing of PHP Applications with Behat
• HHVM - Accelerate PHP. Is free. Without SMS - Slides.
• How to upgrade your open-source project using code quality badges
• Linking tests via @ ticket annotations with Jira
• About HTTP, Middleware and PSR-7 or what is wrong with the current approach - Sent by zviryatko .
• Optimization of ISPmanager for projects on Bitrix or how I crossed ISPmanager and VMBitrix (Bitrix environment)
• Rock Sanitize - simple and flexible sanitizer
• Snacks from the new PHPixie Template
• We write processing Asterisk AMI do it yourself. Part one: create a class in PHP to refer to the asterisk or how to make a php socket client with your own hands
• Meet the Rock Validate
• Meet Envoyer.io , 2
• Simple PHP complex HTML table generator

Entertaining

• HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails - According to the author, the project HippyVM, a PHP virtual machine implemented on top of PyPy , did not find a source of funding and is currently dead.
• Infographics: 5 things you need to know about PHP 7
• The results of a survey of the popularity of PHP frameworks from Sitepoint
• Benchmark of popular PHP frameworks - It is noteworthy that in the test Laravel 5.0 was in last place.

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Thank you for the photo Leszek Krupiński .

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