PHP Digest number 66 - interesting news, materials and tools (June 28 - July 12, 2015)

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

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News and Releases

• PHP 7 beta 1 has been released - This release ends the active development phase, and therefore no significant changes will be added. The next version is expected on July 23.
• Codeception 2.1 - The long-awaited release of an excellent testing tool. Added the ability to record tests in a slide show, Guzzle 6, PSR-4, automatic injection of dependencies in tests and other improvements.
• PHP 5.5.27 - The latest full release of the branch 5.5. According to the release calendar , only bug fixes will be released during the year.
• Updates on current branches: PHP 5.4.43 , PHP 5.6.11
• New PhpStorm 9: constant advance. Postfix code completion for PHP, Inline Debugger, and more.
• Yii 2.0.5 (security fix)
• Phalcon 2.0.4 release
• PsySH v0.5.0 - Excellent REPL for PHP has been updated. Added support for PHP 7.
• Symfony Moscow Meetup - Symfoniacs - July 16 - A meeting of Moscow-based PHP / Symfony2 developers will be held in Badoo’s office next Thursday.

Php

• RFC: Additional soft reservations for PHP 7 — It’s proposed to add a couple more to the list of future reserved words in PHP 7 : void , enum .
• RFC: Enumerated Types — It is proposed to implement the Enum type in the PHP core.

Instruments

• rlerdorf / phan - Static code analyzer for PHP 7 from Rasmus Lerdorf.
• ircmaxell / Tuli - Another static analyzer for PHP. This time from Anthony Ferrara.
• PHP Telegram Bot Api - Wrap over Telegram Bot API. Sent by igusev .
• QR code decoder / reader for PHP - The first QR code reader for PHP, without third-party extensions. Sent by khanamiryan .
• swoole / swoole-src - Asynchronous IO, timers, events, http / websocket servers, workers and other features in the form of a PHP extension.
• Mike724 / Frameworkless - An example of creating an application on components without the use of frameworks.
• afilina / nestedsql - Small function for converting nested structures from database query results. When there is no need to pull large ORM.
• fruux / saber-vobject - A library for working with iCalendar and vCard formats.
• paragonie / random_compat - Implementing safe methods for generating random sequences for PHP 5: random_bytes() , random_int() .
• PUGX / badge-poser - A library for generating badges with information about the Composer package.
• jdorn / sql-formatter - A tool for formatting SQL queries.
• ajbdev / php-struct - Simple structures for PHP 7.
• samdark / sitemap - sitemap generator.
• SimpleTypes - The library is designed to simplify as much as possible any arithmetic operations when working with data that requires mandatory conversion. For example, temperature, weight, currency, etc. Sent by smetdenis .
• fzaninotto / Streamer - OO wrapper over data streams in PHP.

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • Internal representation of values ​​in PHP 7 (part 2)
  • Throwable exception and php7 errors
  • PHP 7 benchmarks
  • PHP7 tutorial - Tutorial in the form of exercises on all the new features and changes in PHP 7.
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony 2.3 achieves 100% compatibility with HHVM
  • Create your own framework on symfony components - A series of posts from Fabien has been updated and is included in the official framework documentation.
  • Introducing SymfonyBundlePlugins - A system of plugins for symfony bundles.
  • Localization in symfony2
  • How to start learning symfony
  • Symfony2 architecture
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Using Behaviors Behaviors in Yii2
  
  

• Magento

  
  
  • Creating a custom API in Magento
  • Magento 2 Object Manager
  
  
• Closures in PHP - An excellent post about how closures in PHP are arranged and about the history of their implementation.
• Microservice Container with Guzzle
• How to generate safe random strings and numbers in PHP
• PHP vs Node.js , 2 - Surface comparison technology.
• The factory should only create, not save - On the correct use of generating patterns.
• PHPExcel Performance Optimization
• PHP caching: Zend Opcache, Etags and MySQL query caching
• Analyzing PHP code - About the results of the scan of the interpreter code with the PVS-Studio static analyzer.
• Class constants, how do they work? - About non-standard way of working with constants.
• Array_filter - On the use of additional flags in array_filter .
• API Testing: Installing and Using Codeception
• We sign data: HMAC in practice in API and Web-forms
• Polymorphic bonds for the smallest
• How to replace a homogeneous background with a transparent imagemagick
• Action-Domain-Responder - revision of MVC for web tasks
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 10
• Top PHP 7 developer: “Criticize further, and we will work” - Interview with Dmitry Stogov.

Audio and video

• Pyatiminutka PHP Issue №9 - Alexander Makarov (core Yii)
• Five Minutes PHP Release # 10 - Codeception
• Video from the next meeting of the PUG: Phalcon and Zephir
• Designing a Model Architecture - Shawn McCool talks about designing multi-layered architectures.
• PHP Hampshire May 2015: Voodoo PHP - Report by Marco Pivetta (@ocramius) on the "magic" of PHP.

Entertaining

• Code Galaxies Visualization - The original visualization of a variety of Composer packages in the form of a star galaxy.
• Illustrations on Open Source and PHP
• 3D ElePHPant

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