PHP Digest number 67 - interesting news, materials and tools (July 12 - 27, 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 Beta 2 - Fixed 28 bugs in the second beta release. The next release is expected on August 6th. Also PHP 7 builds are now available from the Remi repository .
• HHVM 3.8.0
• WordPress 4.2.3 - Several security issues fixed in the release, users are advised to update immediately.

Php

• RFC: Property type-hints — It is proposed to implement type checking for class properties.
• RFC: DateTimeInterface removal - It is proposed to remove the DateTimeInterface interface.

Instruments

• ikwattro / guzzle-stereo - The tool allows you to "record" and "play" HTTP requests.
• asyncphp / doorman - Child Process Manager for PHP 5.3. Post from the author in support.
• Favicon Generator - This class allows you to generate Favicon images for websites and mobile devices. Sent by dmamontov .
• PHP 7 Compatibility Checker (php7cc) - A tool for testing PHP code versions 5.3-5.6 for compatibility with PHP 7 . Generates reports with brief information about problem areas. An alternative tool with the same purpose - PHP 7 Migration Assistant Report .
• ondrejbouda / php7backport - Porting PHP 7 code to PHP 5.
• ionux / phactor - High-performance PHP implementation of elliptic curve functions. It is used in bitcoin cryptographic operations.
• Roave / BetterReflection - Improved implementation of the Reflection API with additional features.
• mmeyer2k / dcrypt - Miniature library with encryption functions.
• StyleCI / StyleCI is a CI service for testing PHP coding style.
• cweiske / phorkie - pastebin clone for PHP.
• rybakit / twig-extensions-deferred - An extension for Twig that allows you to delay the rendering of a block. Sent by rybakit .
• clue / php-redis-server - Realization of the Redis-server in pure PHP.
• jkoudys / immutable.php - Unchangeable collections. Work especially fast on PHP 7.
• composer / semver - A tool for parsing and validating versions.
• backbee / BackBee - CMS based on symfony components and Doctrine 2.
• scotch-io / scotch-box - Configured Vagrant-box for working with LAMP-stack.
• VisualPHPUnit / VisualPHPUnit - Web interface for PHPUnit.
• Gush - A console tool designed to make life easier for open source contributors by automating frequently performed operations.
• Snipper - a small programmer assistant - A simple console application for easy import of code fragments from the GitHub Gist service.
• Comparing CLI libraries for PHP - Considered symfony / Console , hoa / console , webmozart / console .

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • Test your PHP application using PHP 7 - An example of using PHP 7 boxing from Rasmus .
  • Preparing for PHP 7 - Another review of the innovations presented in PHP 7.
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Overview of application frameworks on symfony2
  • Installing and configuring symfony2
  • 5 ways to optimize symfony performance
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Nested Intervals and their implementation under Yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Application Building Guide A to Z
  • Laravel and Vue JS: Web Application Architecture
  • ACL on Laravel 5.1 using middleware
  • OAuth with Angular and Lumen
  
  

• Wordpress

  
  
  • WP API and OAuth - use WordPress without WordPress
  • WordPress Acceleration Guide
  • Under the press. Break and protect Wordpress with your own hands
  
  
• Validating data with Respect Validation - Respect / Validation
• Practical PHP Course - PHP Course at Hexlet. The narration is based on the famous book The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs . Sent by freetonik .
• Operations on a binary tree in PHP - The reason for writing the article was a tweet from the creator of Homebrew , who was asked to invert the tree during an interview with Google. And another post about binary trees in PHP .
• How Box migrated to HHVM
• PHP caching: Varnish, Memcached, and PHP libraries
• CodeIgniter 4 Essentials - A bit of information about what the next release of the popular framework will be.
• Using Elastic Beanstalk Multi-Container with PHP
• Simple workflow from development to deployment - Tutorial on the use of Vagrant, PuPHPet, Git.
• Apache vs Nginx: A Practical Look
• Accelerate database queries with PDO and iterators
• Unobvious performance problems in Doctrine related to the hydration of objects
• Pussy: Refactoring. Part two or addiction treatment. Part three or brushing roughness
• PhpStorm: Tips and tricks. Part 1
• Automatic generation of API doc via Annotations or how to come to API documentation
• Integrating Jira and Slack for PHP
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 11
• Splitting an application into layers
• Using Travis CI to generate documentation

Audio and video

• The review of novelties in PhpStorm 9
• Interview with Christopher Pitt - github.com/assertchris , medium.com/@assertchris
• PHP Roundtable podcast: PHP7 Release Management - Chatting with PHP 7 release managers: Anatol Belski and Kalle Sommer Nielsen.
• Interview with Jeffrey Way
• Five Minutes PHP - Issue # 11 - Domain Driven Design (#DDD) - everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask Ragazzo.
• Pyatiminutka PHP - Release №12 - PhpStrom vs PhpED debug, PHP vs Nodejs, PHP vs Java and more.
• Video with Symfony Moscow Meetup - Isolating Symfony software environments with Docker , Advanced caching in Doctrine , Enterprise application architecture for Symfony according to Alpari .
• Zeev Suraski: The PHP 7 Story

Entertaining

• mt_rand (1, PHP_INT_MAX) generates only odd numbers - Although a documented , but interesting feature.
• PHP mammoth be! - The campaign to raise funds for the creation of plush mammoths PHP was successful - $ 35,312 was raised!

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