PHP Digest number 73 - interesting news, materials and tools (October 18 - November 5, 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 6 - The latest release candidate contains 10 bug fixes. If critical problems are not found, then on November 12 the final release of PHP 7.0.0 will be released. In the meantime, you can test your code for compatibility with PHP 7 using php7cc or run the application directly on the new version thanks to php7dev .
• PHP 5.6.15 - The update fixes a number of errors in the operation of closures, DateTimeImmutable, mcrypt_encrypt and gc_remove_from_buffer. Full list of changes here .
• PhpStorm 10 - The new version of the IDE added REPL, support for PHP 7 and Docker, Dataflow Analysis, and more.
• HHVM 3.10.0
• Drupal 8.0.0 will be released on November 19

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Php

• RFC: Support Class Constant Visibility - The proposal for access modifiers for class constants successfully passed the vote. This feature should be expected in PHP 7.1.
• RFC: Trailing Commas In List Syntax - Previously it was proposed to implement the ability to specify a comma at the end of the function argument list by analogy with arrays. The proposal has been expanded and it is now proposed to make it possible to use a comma in any lists: grouped namespaces, function arguments, in the list of class interfaces, in the list of class traits, for lists of constants and class variables, in closures.

Instruments

• icicleio / concurrent - A complete solution for implementing parallel execution in PHP - multithreading, process synchronization, shared memory, workers.
• amphp / aerys - Asynchronous PHP application server.
• fabfuel / prophiler - Debugging panel for PHP. It can also be used as PSR-7 middleware .
• Qafoo / QualityAnalyzer - A tool for obtaining and visualizing code quality metrics. Post from the authors in support.
• symfony / polyfill - Polyphil , in which the latest PHP versions are implemented. Can be used for backward compatibility. Post in support.
• bixuehujin / blink - A web framework in the form of a daemon based on the swoole extension.
• pyrech / composer-changelogs - The tool conveniently displays information about updated packages after running composer update . After that, you can copy it and use it in your change log for example.
• coduo / php-humanizer - Library converts various values ​​into human-readable text.
• giorgiosironi / eris - A new tool that implements the concept of property-based testing. QuickCheck for PHP.
• mevdschee / php-crud-api - A simple script that implements the REST API over MySQL InnoDB. Post in support.
• s4n7h0 / xvwa - Specially poorly written PHP / MySQL application for studying security aspects.
• theodorejb / PolyCast - The tool implements several functions for safely casting scalar types. Post in support.
• vimeo / ABLincoln - Library for the implementation of A / B tests.
• FriendsOfPHP / uprofiler - Lightweight profiler based on xhprof .
• reactphp / espresso - Silex + React / Http.
• BinaryKitten / ZeffMu - ZF2 Based Micro Framework.
• ipfspics / server - Decentralized image storage server.

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • Using Huge Pages in PHP 7 - The latest version of PHP introduces a new feature, Opcache, which allows you to move code segments to huge pages . Read more about what it is and why you need it in a post from Julien Pauli.
  • PHP 7 - What has changed inside? - Slides from Nikita Popov.
  • Moving to PHP 7
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Road to Symfony 3 and “Deprecation Detector” - Symfony 3 release is expected in late November. You can determine how ready you are to migrate using a special CLI tool .
  • Api-platform
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • PHPUnit and Codeception: Theory and Practice of Testing in Yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Manage Cron Tasks with Laravel
  • New podcast Laravel News
  • How facades work in Laravel and how to use them elsewhere
  
  

• HHVM

  
  
  • Code generation using LLVM in HHVM - About why LLVM is not used by the HHVM command.
  • Hack array improvements
  
  
• Improving memory usage with generators and Nikic / Iter
• Secure upload of user files
• Getting started with Icicle - Asynchronous PHP.
• Randomness in PHP - A short post about using cryptographically secure random number generators in PHP. Translation available .
• Formatting messages in exceptions - The author shares the idea of ​​using static methods in exceptions following the example of Doctrine .
• Documenting regular expressions in PHP - A little trick to use the x modifier.
• Creating custom @requires annotations for PHPUnit
• Testing applications on the Zend Framework using Codeception , 2
• Testing PHPixie applications using Codeception
• Text Recognition (OCR) in PHP: Read the text on the image using Tesseract
• Writing PSR-7 middleware
• Reduce packet connectivity
• Validation of complex structures with PHPixie Validate
• Creating GUI Applications in PHP
• Converting multi-page xls / xslx to csv with PHPExcel
• Puli: Resource Management in php applications
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 14
• Hexagonal architecture

Audio and video

• PHP Frameworks Day 2015 - Video recordings of all reports from the conference held in Kiev.
• Create and maintain your own PHP user group - Podcast with tips.
• PHP Security Video Series - Selection of clips about the security of PHP-applications.
• PHP Roundtable: 033: Design Patternmania - A podcast featuring Anthony Ferrara , Adam Wathan , Ross Tuck on how to keep code simple in the age of patterns.
• Five minutes PHP Release №15

Entertaining

• The acquisition of Zend does not mean anything yet - The question of changing the license for Zend Engine was commented by Zeev Suraski in php.internals : "... PHP is protected no matter what happens".
• PSR-8 - Hugs

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