PHP Digest number 62 - interesting news, materials and tools (April 26 - May 11, 2015)

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

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News and Releases

• Announced Laravel 5.1 LTS - The closest release of Laravel will be the first with long-term support.
• HHVM 3.7.0
• WordPress 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 - Both updates contain fixes for critical vulnerabilities.
• Yii 2.0.4
• Zend Framework 2.3.8 and 2.4.1
• Symfony 2.3.8 and 2.6.7
• Started a second vote on the PSR-7 - Previously, the vote was canceled and returned to the review stage. Review of changes from the previous version. Also in the topic of PSR numbering standards and why PSR-7 after PSR-4 .

Php

• RFC: Short Closures - PHP 7.1 proposes to implement a short syntax for anonymous functions: $x ~> $x + 1; Similar has already been implemented, for example, in Hack: $x ==> $x + 1; .

Instruments

• voryx / Thruway - WAMP (Web Application Messaging Protocol) router and client for PHP.
• Sami - API documentation generator. Tutorial .
• MacFJA / PharBuilder - Automates the creation of phar from the Composer package.
• Visithor - A library for testing routes for expected HTTP codes. Post in support .
• phpbadge - A tool for creating svg-badges.
• davispeixoto / PHP-Batch - Library for the implementation of batch processing.
• wapmorgan / PhpCodeAnalyzer - Analyzer of used PHP extensions in code not included in the kernel. Sent wapmorgan .
• PHPPm - Package Manager, one of the possible options for the development of composer. Sent wapmorgan .
• AsyncTask - AsyncTask makes possible the proper and simple use of the stream. Sent by dmamontov .
• DavBackup - Creating backup copies of sites in the clouds through WebDAV. Sent by dmamontov .
• gatakka / PGF-Router - Concept router without using regular expressions.
• Codebug - PHP Xdebug client frontend - Lightweight debugger for Mac OS X.
• dantleech / phpbench - A tool for benchmarks.
• libphonenumber for PHP - Library for parsing, formatting and validating international telephone numbers.
• BitOne / php-meminfo - The extension provides information about the memory usage in PHP.
• JakubOnderka / PHP-Parallel-Lint - A syntax checker that analyzes files in parallel.
• TidalLabs / Slacker - Console client for Slack.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • 10 things that I would like to know before starting a project on symfony - Sent by Igor Onachenko .
  • Laravel vs Symfony - 5 Steps to Choosing a PHP Framework - Sent by Igor Onachenko .
  • Symfony2 Tutorial: Authorization and Authentication
  
  

• Laravel, lumen

  
  
  • Broadcast events in Laravel 5.1 - We send events to the browser using pusher.com and socket.io .
  • Mini API on Lumen
  • Tutorial: Developing microservice on Lumen
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Localization of a web application using the Google Translate API
  
  

• Phalcon, zephir

  
  
  • Zephir in the eyes of a PHP developer
  • Sweet future: Phalcon and Zephir
  
  

• Zend Framework

  
  
  • ZF2 Modules, Services, and Events
  • Accelerate the application on ZF2
  
  
• About the internal representation of values ​​in PHP 7 - Part 1 - A great post from Nikita Popov about how zval changed in PHP 7.
• Automated Deployment Scalable Solution for WordPress - Cluster using MySQL, GlusterFS and Nginx.
• Recommendations for using stderr in Laravel / Symfony console commands
• PHP's callable typehint too loose? - About mismatch call_user_func($a) and $a() .
• Comparing Type Hinting in PHP 7 and Hack
• JPHP - an alternative PHP implementation for JavaVM - A detailed description was also earlier on Habré .
• Effective logging in PHP with Loggly
• Satis: create your package repository for Composer
• PHP7 Resources
• Kopipast taxis! In PHP.
• Monolithic repositories for PHP and Composer
• SPL iterators contrary to performance
• Easy debugging with PHPixie Debug
• Upload and store photos in web applications
• Habrahabr PDF for e-book
• We spread PHP
• The progress of the heavy task in PHP

Entertaining

• Cherimola Library - When ordinary true and false not enough. Sent by elfet .

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