PHP Digest number 68 - interesting news, materials and tools (July 27 - August 24, 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 RC 1 - As promised earlier, on August 20, the PHP development team announced the release of the first release candidate. RC2 is scheduled for September 3rd. The release schedule can be found here .
• Updates to current PHP 5.4.44, 5.5.28 and 5.6.12 branches - Twelve vulnerabilities fixed and bug fixes fixed.
• WordPress 4.3 “Billie” - Review of innovations .
• Yii 2.0.6
• HHVM 3.9.0
• PSR-6 Cache went into the review stage - the standard itself can be found at the links: cache , cache-meta .

Php

• RFC: Random Functions Throwing Exceptions in PHP 7 - Using the functions random_int() and random_bytes() can potentially be unsafe if for some reason the execution failed. It is proposed in this case to throw an exception.

Instruments

• Owl Framework - Super fast Zephir framework. Sent by ovr .
• SocialConnect - A project designed to create standardized API clients. Included are the common base library, OAuth1 / OAuth2 / OpenID providers , as well as client examples for popular social networks ( Instagram , vk ). Sent by ovr .
• edefimov / async-sockets - Event library for working with sockets.
• Phone-com / mason-php - A set of tools for developing hypermedia REST API in PHP.
• zwilias / beanie - Lightweight client for the beanstalkd queue server.
• AgencyPMG / Queue - A simple but ready-to-use library for working with queues in PHP.
• bernardphp / bernard - A framework for creating tasks and deferred execution in the background with the support of various backends.
• wapmorgan / MiniThreader - A simple library for working with PHP threads.
• kasperisager / phpstack - Docker-based PHP development environment: Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP-FPM, HHVM, Memcached, Redis, Elasticsearch.
• dshafik / guzzlehttp-vcr - Middleware for Guzzle, which will record the answers and play for subsequent requests. The idea is borrowed from PHP • VCR .
• thephpleague / tactician - Simple and flexible implementation of the command bus.
• bandwidth-throttle / token-bucket - The library implements the algorithm of the current bucket , with which you can limit the use of resources.
• rdlowrey / auryn - IoC Dependency Injector. Post with an example of use.
• malkusch / lock - Implementing locks for PHP.
• PHP Web Scraping - List of PHP libraries for scraping and data processing.
• regex101.com - Online regular expression debugging tool.

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • Official Migration Guide for PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x
  • Exclusive change in PHP 7.0 - On the new hierarchy of exceptions.
  • Getting ready for PHP 7
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony supports PHP7 at 100%
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Message Formatting for Yii :: t ()
  • samdark / yii2-webshell — Web shell for running Yii console commands from a browser.
  • Authentication in Facebook using authclient in Yii2
  • Exception catching and handling in Yii2
  • Displaying Yii 2 data with GridView and ListView
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Using exclusion in Laravel API applications
  • Start using BDD in Laravel - #Behat, #PhpSpec.
  
  

• Wordpress

  
  
  • WordPress Core Vulnerability Scan
  • As a regular Wordpress site, dial 99/100 in PageSpeed ​​Insights
  • Choosing a plugin for caching WordPress: benchmarking 18 plugins
  
  

• DB

  
  
  • How relational databases are organized - Excellent detailed article.
  • SQL style guide - A great standard for SQL style.
  • Deadlocks are not dangerous - Useful post about transactions and locks.
  • About restrictions GROUP_CONCAT in MySQL
  
  
• Working with front-end PHP without Nodejs - About using BowerPHP , markstory / mini-asset and Robo instead of Nodejs-tools.
• Rethinking Event Listeners - Logic should not be written in the event handler.
• Avoid hard-coded HTTP status codes
• Create moki objects with Go! AOP - About using Go! AOP framework in tests.
• 6 rules for creating fast web applications
• Tutorial on creating the simplest router
• Save memory by using generators
• Introduction to Elasticsearch in PHP
• Classes-services - Described a small refactoring on the example of Yii 1. In another post, an improvement is suggested.
• Secure data encryption in PHP web applications
• Testing PDF Content with Behat
• How to develop PHP with Docker
• About HTTP Headers in PSR7
• Event Loops - Multi-Process PHP - On the use of multi-threaded solutions with popular event loop libraries Icicle , ReacPHP .
• Extremely Defensive PHP - Useful tips in Marco Pivetta slides .
• Accelerate the application using the cache on Redis
• Effective use of interfaces in PHP
• The factory should only create, not save
• Commenting code and generating documentation in PHP
• How to speed up the site using a caching proxy Varnish
• Performance comparison of autoloading and merging classes into one file
• Comparison of Drupal code execution speed for PHP 5.3-5.6 and 7.0. "Battle of code optimizers" apc vs xcache vs opcache
• ReactPHP speeds up PHPixie 8 times
• Quick start with PHPixie 3
• Proper use of Exception in PHP

Audio and video

• Tutorial for beginners in the development of PHP-extensions
• Introducing Clojure for PHP Developers - From PHP to Clojure .
• Five Minutes PHP Release # 13 - PHPixie
• Five Minutes PHP Release # 14 - Functional

Entertaining

• Updated statistics on the popularity of programming languages ​​on GitHub - PHP - means stability.
• phpversions.info - The site contains information about PHP versions available on popular hosts.
• HAPHPY BIRTHDAY - Enthusiasts prepare a congratulatory video in honor of the 20th anniversary of PHP and accept videos and images related to PHP from everyone.
• PHP 7 logo downloads
• A Field Guide to Elephpants - Guide to PHP-elephants.

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