PHP Digest 72 - interesting news, materials and tools (October 5 - 18, 2015)

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

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• The company Rogue Wave Software has absorbed Zend - How this will affect Zend itself and PHP is not yet clear, but there are suggestions . What do you think?
• PHP 7.0.0 RC 5 - The penultimate release candidate contains fixes for 11 errors and a total of more than 100 commits. RC 6 is expected on October 29th.
• Drupal 8.0.0 RC 1 - After long months of waiting and 16 beta versions, the first release candidate of the popular CMS is finally available. Let me remind you that Drupal 8 actively uses symfony components.

Php

• RFC: Revisit trailing commas in function arguments - It is proposed to implement the possibility of using a comma after the last parameter in the definition of functions and when called by analogy with arrays: function myFunc($foo, $bar,) { /*... */ } available in HHVM.
• RFC: Void Return Type - In PHP 7, it is now possible to declare return types . And now it is proposed to extend this feature by adding the void type, which means that the function cannot return values, including null .
• RFC: Support Class Constant Visibility - It is proposed to implement access modifiers for class constants.

Instruments

• Puli - The tool is built on top of Composer and allows you to manage various resources in a project: configuration files, images, CSS, translations, and others. Read more in the post , as well as in videos of the author’s report .
• sensiolabs-de / deprecation-detector - The tool detects the use of deprecated methods, classes, and interfaces.
• Docker containers for php development: nginx-php , apache-php , mysql , postgresql , mongodb , redis , sphinxsearch - Sent by romeoz .
• psecio / propauth - The library allows you to implement permissions based on "policies". Post with examples of use in Laravel.
• volter9 / 8-cms - CMS in 8 lines of code.
• theseer / Autoload - A lightweight autoloader generator.
• ldaptools / ldaptools - A library for working with LDAP in PHP 5.6+.
• essence / essence - A simple library for extracting media from web pages, such as youtube videos, tweets, etc.
• hassankhan / config - Lightweight configuration file loader.
• adminer - Web interface for databases of one .php file size.
• Relay - PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
• crysalead / kahlan - Unit & BDD testing framework a la RSpec / JSpec.
• huyanping / php_crontab - Implementing a crontab in PHP.
• odesk / phystrix - A library for solving the problem of fault tolerance of distributed systems. Port of the popular Java tool Netflix / Hystrix .
• spiral / spiral - PSR-7 HMVC framework.
• dlevsha / compalex - A tool for comparing schemas of two databases. Post in support.
• cronario / cronario - Queue server for background tasks.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • HTTP / 2 Server Push using symfony HttpKernel
  • Testing symfony applications in production
  • Custom Events in Symfony 2 Bundle
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Programming with YII2: get down to work
  • Productive unit testing of web applications using the example of yii2 and codeception
  • Jii: A complete application with Yii2 architecture in the browser
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Custom directives in Blade
  • mattstauffer / IlluminateNonLaravel - Examples of using Illuminate components without the Laravel framework.
  • LaravelRUS / GitterBot - Bot for gitter.im chat, implemented on Laravel 5.1 + PHP 7 + EcmaScript 6 \ 7. Sent by serafimarts .
  
  
• CSPRNG in WordPress 4.4 - An interesting post about the history of a cryptographically secure random value generator.
• How to safely implement cryptographic capabilities in any application
• About nuances of incrementing values ​​in PHP
• Separate application from frameworks and libraries
• Docker Tutorial for PHP Developers
• Using a symfony router in wordpress
• Hacking with PHP (ex Practical PHP) - PHP Tutorial.
• Disguised dependencies
• Why avoid excessive abstraction
• PHPUnit for beginners. Part 2: Data Provider.
• Module example for Magento 2
• The first steps into the world of the web in real time
• Server clustering of markers on the map. From theory to practice

Audio and video

• PHP Roundtable: 031: Checking in with PHP & HHVM internals - Podcast featuring Nikita Popov, Julien Pauli, Sara Golemon and Bob Weinand.

Entertaining

• PEAR 1.10.0 was released with PHP7 support
• hmlb / phpunit-vw - Based on the Volkswagen scandal - an extension for PHPUnit that will make all failed tests green on any CI.

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