PHP Digest 64 - interesting news, materials and tools (June 1 - 14, 2015)

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News and Releases

• The PHP language turned 20 years old - June 8, 1995, the Danish programmer Rasmus Lerdorf announced the first release of the Personal Home Page Tools project (PHP Tools), a small set of CGI scripts written in C. For 20 years, from a small craft PHP has grown into a tool that is used by more than 80% of all websites in the world, as well as on 5 of the top 10 sites.
  
  At the same time, PHP has changed not only the world of web development itself, but also the lives of many people.
  
  
  
  
  Developers from all over the world described their PHP history:

  • Ilia alshanetsky
  • Cal evans
  • Chris Hartjes
  • Stephan hochdorfer
  • Pascal martin
  • Ben ramsey
  • Davey shafik
  • Anderson casimiro
  • Mark railton
  • AWS PHP SDK Blog
  • Amanda Folson
  • Michelangelo van dam
  • Joe watkins
  • Anderson casimiro
  • Chris Tankersley
  • Shameer c
  • Tudor barbu
  • Erika heidi
  • Matthew Weier O'Phinney
  • David Carr
  • Rafael dohms
  • Derick rethans
  • Wim godden
  • Christian wenz
  • Oscar merida
  • Patrick stephan
  • Rob allen
  • Matthew setter
  • Matt raines
  • Justin carmony
  • Sherif ramadan
  • John bafford
  • thePHP.cc
  • Laravel news

  
  
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• PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 - The first alpha version of the new PHP 7 branch is available for testing. Incredible performance and plenty of new features - a complete list of changes . PHP 7 can be tested by compiling the sources yourself , using ready-made Zend builds , on a specially crafted Vagrant image, or simply on 3v4l.org .
• PHP 5.4.42 , 5.5.26 , 5.6.10 - Updates on current PHP branches. According to the plan , the term of active support for branch 5.5 will expire on June 20, which means that only security fixes will be released within a year after this period.
• PHPUnit 4.7 - In a fresh release, improved coverage reports and other minor changes. In August, version 4.8 is expected, which will be the latest release with support for PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. In October, PHPUnit 5 will be released that supports only PHP 5.6 and 7.
• saber / dav 3.0 - Update an open PHP implementation of a WebDAV / CalDAV / CardDAV server.
• Laravel 5.1 LTS - The first release of the Laravel framework with long-term support. Under the hood, support for PSR-2, broadcast events and other improvements. Work requires PHP version 5.5.9 or higher.
• Phalcon 2.0.3 release
• Updated site design packagist.org
• PHP-DI 5.0 - Update popular DI-container for PHP.
• Fat-Free Framework 3.5 - Update a popular web framework.
• Zend Framework 2.5.0 - The main framework repository has been divided into a set of small components , and the minimum required PHP version is now 5.5.

Php

• RFC: JSON numeric as string - It is proposed to implement additional options when working with JSON. JSON_FLOAT_AS_STRING - makes it possible to convert real numbers to strings, and JSON_INT_AS_STRING - convert all integers to strings.

Instruments

• GraPHP - Web framework focused on working with graph databases.
• laruence / yaconf - Container configurations in the form of a PHP extension. Parses configuration ini-files at startup.
• mybuilder / conductor - The tool allows you to manage shared repositories, that is, isolated packages inside a shared repository, as, for example, this is done in popular PHP frameworks. More in the post of the author .
• imanee / imanee - Library for image manipulation. More in the post of the author .
• nicolopignatelli / valueobjects - A library / set of classes for working with immutable objects in PHP.
• Vectorface / whip - Class for determining client IP.
• meyerweb / px2svg - Library allows you to create SVG from raster images.
• walkor / Workerman - Asynchronous event PHP framework.
• relayphp / Relay.Relay - PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
• box / spout - Scalable reading and writing of CSV and XLSX files.
• vlucas / spot2 - DataMapper based on Doctrine DbAL.
• PHP Browser - Library for parsing HTTP_USER_AGENT. Defines the browser, operating system, device, and user language. Sent by igusev .
• wapmorgan / PackageBuilder - Packer composer-packages in deb and rpm-packages. Sent wapmorgan .

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  
  • Transparent pixel using symfony - how to track email scans
  • Avoiding Memory Leaks in Symfony2 Doctrine EntityManager
  • Symfony2 components overview: OptionsResolver
  • Implementing Single Sign On in a Symfony2 Application
  • Testing RequireJS Modules in Symfony2
  
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  
  • New Features in Laravel 5.1
  • Real-time Laravel 5.1 apps using Event Broadcasting
  • Tutorial on creating a website for sharing of links to Laravel
  • Working with nullable fields in Eloquent - All the fun about Laravel
  • Understanding IoC in Laravel
  
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  
  • Development on Yii2: We work with resource bundles (Asset Bundles)
  • Development on Yii2: Special Validators
  
  
  

• Zend Framework

  
  
  
  • ZF2 Cheat Sheet
  
  
  
• HHVM Performance Results - The PHP 7 and HHVM performance race continues. This time, the HHVM team published the results of their work and presented tests in which HHVM is 55.5% faster than PHP 7 in MediaWiki, 18.7% in WordPress and 10.2 in Drupal 7. Improvements are expected in the next HHVM release.
• PHP authorization using JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
• PHP 7 - What has changed inside? - Slides of the report from Nikita Popov.
• Aspect Oriented PHP with Go! AOP Framework
• 10 pillars of modern development in PHP
• Linters for PHP projects
• What to look for when choosing a library for an application
• Using public events on Github using PHP and Google BigQuery
• Choosing a framework for testing API Testing: PHP Unit vs Codeception vs Behat
• Upgrade to Middle PHP developer in 3 months
• Getting ready for a PHP interview: pseudo-type "callable"
• Preparing for a PHP interview: the keyword "static"
• Mad PHP. Fury code
• How to identify duplicate pictures using PHP
• Loading models, traits
• Type casting in PHP == stool with two legs?
• Why Doctrine ORM is Bad for PHP
• PHP for the little ones. MVC in its own way
• Under the press. Break and protect Wordpress with your own hands
• PHP Five Minutes Podcast : Issue # 4 , Issue # 5

Entertaining

• How to draw attention to your github repository
• PHP Warrior - A game for learning PHP in a fun, interactive way. Inspired by Ruby Warrior.
• PHPointless / monolol - PSR-3 compatible LOL-ginger.
• Golden elePHPant - On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of PHP, a golden elephant has been created and is being sold.
• Mammoth PHP - A crowdfunding campaign has begun to raise funds for the production of toy PHP mammoths with the logo of the community True North PHP

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