PHP Digest number 65 - interesting news, materials and tools (June 14 - 28, 2015)

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

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News and Releases

• PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 - The second alpha release includes a modified exception hierarchy with the new Throwable interface . The next release is expected on July 9 and will be the first beta, which means that new features will not be added.
• Google App Engine for PHP came out of beta - PHP support in App Engine has been available in test mode for more than two years , and finally it was announced about the general accessibility of the platform.
• The PHP 5.5 support period ends. Two years after the release of the first version of PHP 5.5, 26 updates were released. On July 9, PHP 5.5.27 is expected to be released, which will be the last regular update of this thread. After that, only security bug fixes will be issued during the year.
• The PHP-FIG group proposed a new standard for the Interface - The introductory vote on this proposal was successful and the standard moved to the draft stage.
• The long-awaited release of Zephir 0.7 Beta - Sent by ovrweb .
• The implementation of Hack language support in PhpStorm has been postponed.
• PHPPackages.org - New resource where php packages are ranked by popularity.

Instruments

• Roave / StrictPhp - Strong type checking based on the Go! Aop .
• ovr / phpsa - Static code analyzer. Sent ovrweb .
• drewm / morse-php - Library for checking available options in the environment.
• thephpleague / pipeline - Implementing the Pipeline pattern in PHP.
• soundasleep / html2text - A library for converting html to text.
• jpauli / symfony_dic_optimizer is a PHP extension that accelerates the operation of a Symfony DI container.
• cartalyst / sentinel - Framework independent system of authentication and authorization.
• yzalis / Identicon - Generator of unique icons based on strings.

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • About the internal representation of values ​​in PHP 7 - Part 2 - An excellent post from Nikita Popov about how the representation of strings, arrays and objects in PHP 7 has changed. The first part about the changes to zval is here .
  • PHP 7 Alpha 1. What's new
  • Run PHP 7 alpha on Windows 8.1
  • Overview of new features and changes in PHP 7
  • Exceptions and Errors in PHP 7 - About the Exception Hierarchy in PHP 7.
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Integration of symfony 2 and google calendar
  
  

• Laravel / Lumen

  
  
  • Creating APIs with Lumen and Fractal - #Fractal
  • Using WordPress with Lumen
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Development on Yii2: Using the AuthClient component to integrate with Twitter, Google and other providers
  
  

• Zend Framework

  
  
  • Emails in Zend Framework 2 using ZF2-AcMailer 5
  
  
• Recursion and generators
• PHP and HTTP 2 using H2O and HHVM - # H2O
• Chain of Responsibility pattern
• SPL FileObject & LimitIterator
• Access to Slim 3 services
• Nette Framework: first impressions - #Nette
• How to contribute to the PHP Manual - If you want to help PHP, but do not have sufficient knowledge of C - there is an opportunity to edit and add documentation.
• Packages vs. Components: The Dependency Problem. - An interesting post about addiction problems. As, for example, the impossibility of using two different versions of the package at the same time.
• Introduction to Property Based Testing (Property Based Testing)
• Trait and interface requirements in Hack - On one particular feature of Hack - the possibility of setting restrictions on the use of traits.
• All you need to know about preventing XSS in PHP
• Propel2 - current state and future
• Packaging an application in phar is easy and simple with the help of Box - #Box
• Sublime Text (3) for PHP developers
• Web application structure
• Ways to Organize Class Namespaces
• Fast filter catalog for online stores based on Redis bitmaps
• The importance of the output serialization API
• The importance of controlling the output of the serializing API
• PHP extension. Writing a simple array with Traversable and ArrayAccess
• Some unit testing and external APIs in PHP
• Static code analysis in PHP: regular expressions

Audio and video

• Video of reports from PHP UK 2015
• Five minutes PHP: №6 , №7 , №8

Entertaining

• Compartmentalization in the PHP community
• Jii - a JavaScript framework with architecture from Yii 2
• elePHPant.com - Finally, the original PHP elephants with worldwide delivery!

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