PHP Digest number 71 - interesting news, materials and tools (September 21 - October 5, 2015)

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Under the cut, as always, you will find a selection with links to news and materials.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.0.0 RC 4 - The release contains 22 fixed bugs and a total of about 100 commits with changes. RC 5 is expected on October 15, then RC 6, and the final release should be expected on November 12.
• PHP 5.5.30 and 5.6.14 - Updates on current branches. Made a total of 15 changes , including eliminated two vulnerabilities in Phar expansion. As you can see, there is no update for the PHP 5.4 branch.
• PHPUnit 5.0.0 - Release contains several new features . Support for PHP 5.3, PHP 5.4, and even PHP 5.5 has been discontinued, but PHP 7 support has been implemented.
• REST API in WordPress out of the box - The developers of the WP REST API plugin have announced a plan for integrating the solution into the WordPress core. The merger is planned phased: first, the plug-in infrastructure in version 4.4, and then in WordPress 4.5 and endpoints themselves.
• Otto - Vagrant developers presented a new project. Otto is a toolkit for creating microservices from isolated applications. Otto is a continuation of the development of Vagrant, but both will be maintained in parallel for some time.
• Elasticweb - the most affordable shared hosting - New PHP hosting on the horizon.

Php

• RFC: Consistent Callables - The author of the proposal points to inconsistency of the Callable type depending on the context. Examples are given and it is proposed to correct inaccuracies of behavior. The proposal also suggests making a call using call_user_func($callable) and direct calling $callable() equivalent in all cases.
• RFC: Closure from callable function - It is proposed to add a function function closure(callable $callable) : closure {...} that allows the converted callable parameter to be converted to a full closure.
• RFC: Arrow Functions - The short syntax suggestion for anonymous functions was not voted on. Therefore, an alternative syntax was proposed, a la EcmaScript 6, but with the addition of the function keyword. Total syntax is proposed: function($x) => $x + $y . In addition to the syntax, it is also proposed to implement the ability to "auto-capture" variables from the parent scope.

Instruments

• bocharsky-bw / Arrayzy - Library / wrapper over all built-in functions for convenient work with native PHP arrays in OOP style. Sent by bocharsky_bw .
• corpsee / phpell - Virtual machine constructor with PHP environment for Vagrant based on bash scripts. Sent by corpsee .
• shadowhand / destrukt - Simple immutable data types for PHP. Post about the use of the author here .
• artalyst / sentinel - Framework independent system of authentication and authorization. Tutorial for use here .
• SimpleBus / MessageBus - Classes and interfaces for creating a messaging and bus system. An example of use in the post .
• laruence / taint - An extension for detecting XSS and other vulnerabilities when working with potentially unsafe strings.
• wapmorgan / builder - A tool to automatically install and configure popular PHP projects: WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal and others.
• amphp / amp - A non-blocking framework for PHP applications. Post about using here .
• FGRibreau / mailchecker - A library for checking the existence of an email address.
• scaninc / kss-php - PHP implementation of KSS: CSS documenting and generation methodologies.
• claudehohl / Stikked - Clone Pastebin for PHP.
• ramsey / uuid - Implement a UUID generator as per RFC 4122 standards.
• sphido / cms - File CMS.
• Awilum / morfy-cms - And another file CMS.
• JayBizzle / Crawler-Detect - This class allows you to identify bots / spiders / crawlers by user agent.
• QafooLabs / php-refactoring-browser - Command line refactoring tool. If for any reason there is no phpstorm.
• krakjoe / pthreads-polyfill - Polyphil for pthreads.
• paragonie / halite - PHP cryptographic library. Wrap over libsodium .

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • New PHP, Part 1: Return types
  • New PHP, Part 2: Scalar types
  • PHP 7 Overview
  • New in PHP 7: null coalesce operator - About the operator ?? added in PHP 7.
  • HHVM vs PHP 7: competition is coming
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Sending Configurable Emails to Symfony
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Expansion Yii 1.1 oci8Pdo and CLOB / BLOB parameters band
  • DevGroup-en / dotplant2 - E-commerce CMS on Yii 2.
  • gugoan / economizzer - Finance manager application on Yii 2.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Video Course: Basics of Laravel 5.1
  • Management of "context" in the application on Laravel , 2
  • Flexible and easy to maintain applications on Laravel + Angular Material
  • Using Eloquent and Schema Builder without Laravel
  
  

• Wordpress

  
  
  • Create a mobile app using WordPress, Ionic and AngularJS
  
  
• Creating secure web applications in PHP - *
• Why Avoid Over-Abstraction - Tips for using abstract classes in PHP.
• Quickly create a chat application using Ratchet - Let me remind you that there is a suitable WAMP protocol and its PHP implementation, Thruway , for creating services based on webboxes.
• Disguised dependencies - On the problem of service locators. The author describes the idea of ​​implementing small additional locators with explicit methods for obtaining specific dependencies.
• Importing large CSV files in PHP , 2
• HTTP / 2 Server Push using symfony HttpKernel
• Automatic recommendation: some theory and practice
• PHP and OData: we are moving from bicycles to technology from Microsoft
• New in Runkit 1.0.4: PHP 5.6+, closures everywhere and 12 more new features
• Bad "Spring" or as the reasons for the delays were looking for
• PHP: programming culture
• ZF2 + Blitz templates

Audio and video

• PHP dev box with Vagrant and PuPHPet
• Features of testing PHP projects - #Codeception

Entertaining

• joho / 7XX-rfc - RFC for 7xx HTTP Status Codes - Developer Errors

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