PHP Digest number 74 - interesting news, materials and tools (November 5 - 22, 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 7 - The release of PHP 7 was expected on November 12, however, due to the instability of RC 6, it was decided to release an additional release candidate. The final release should be expected in a week, of course, if no significant problems are found.
• Drupal 8.0.0 - After four and a half years of development and thanks to the efforts of 3 thousand contributors, Drupal 8 saw the light of the video release. . The system has been completely redesigned, it uses Symfony components and is compatible with PHP 7. Nevertheless, in the performance tests, the new version shows results worse than Drupal 7 - critical look . It was also announced the termination of support for Drupal 6 February 24, 2016 .
• Symfony 3.0.0-BETA1
• Magento 2
• A quarter of the largest sites run WordPress - According to the W3Techs ranking, WordPress’s share among the ten million popular sites reached 25%.

Php

• RFC: Default Value in List Assignment Syntax - It is proposed to implement the default values ​​for the list() construction: list($a, $b='default') = [1]; // a = 1, b = 'default' list($a, $b='default') = [1]; // a = 1, b = 'default'
• RFC: Void Return Type - Voting on the void function proposal ended with a positive result. Improvement is expected in PHP 7.1.
• RFC: Resource typehint - It is proposed to add support for the type of resource for timing the parameters and return values.
• RFC: ext / curl HTTP / 2 Server Push Support - As the name implies, it is proposed to implement HTTP / 2 Server Push support in curl.

Instruments

• oscarotero / Embed - A library for easily obtaining meta information about pages (oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, images, etc.). Sent by tkf .
• akalongman / php-ip-tools - Universal tool for working with IPv4 / IPv6. Sent by l0ngman .
• bitExpert / disco - DI container compatible with the standard container-Interop .
• php-http / httplug - A set of abstract interfaces for unifying HTTP clients in PHP. Post with an example of use.
• dunglas / phpdoc-to-typehint - The tool adds the appropriate tile points for PHP 7 based on docblock comments. Post in support.
• Payum / Payum - Excellent library that simplifies integration with various payment services: Paypal, Payex, Authorize.net, Be2Bill and others. In the subject comparison Payum and Omnipay .
• Spomky-Labs / otphp - Implement one-time passwords based on RFC 4226 (HOTP) and RFC 6238 (TOTP).
• eloquent / phony - Moki, stubs.
• Ocramius / PSR7Session - Implementing sessions in the form of PSR-7 middleware.
• bitExpert / adroit - PSR-7 middleware implementing the Action-Domain-Responder pattern.
• etsy / applepay-php is a PHP extension that allows you to verify and decrypt Apple Pay payment tokens. Post with a description.
• vinkla / climb - The utility checks if there are more recent versions of dependencies than those specified in your composer.json.
• briannesbitt / carbon - Extended wrapper over DateTime. Post with examples of use.
• reactphp / espresso - Silex + React / Http

Study materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • Upgrade to PHP 7 - Free Book by O'Reilly and Davey Shafik.
  • My PHP 7 migration experience
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • New in symfony 2.8: Improved console
  • New in symfony 2.8: symfony as microfragm
  • Managing Users in Symfony2 with FOSUserBundle
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii2: Framework Architecture
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Meet Elixir - a tool for asset management in Laravel
  • Doctrine ORM and Laravel 5
  
  

• Security

  
  
  • Prevent time attacks when comparing strings using a double hashing strategy (HMAC)
  • Guide for choosing a cryptographic library for a PHP project
  • Risks and problems of password hashing
  • mattiasgeniar / php-exploit-scripts - A small selection of malicious scripts found on hacked servers.
  • 103 of the 1000 most popular WordPress plugins contain vulnerabilities - Static code analysis thousands of popular plugins.
  
  
• Neat with threads - Excellent post about multithreading and working with pthreads .
• Rational approach to coding style
• About Composer commands - composer test and other examples.
• Symfony, Xdebug and the maximum nesting problem
• ReactPHP: HTTP Client - Examples of using a non-blocking HTTP client.
• Introduction to Zend Expressive - Zend microframe tutorial that allows you to quickly implement projects based on PSR-7 middleware.
• Doctrine 2 ORM - best practices - Slides by Marco Pivetta (Ocramius).
• Create test data using fixtures
• PHP vs Ruby - Let's Live Together
• Asynchronous PHP - A selection of links to the topic of asynchronous PHP.
• PHP Study Guide - A quick guide to preparing for PHP certification.
• Protected classes
• Description of PDO :: FETCH_ * constants. - Analysis of the assignment of constants of data acquisition modes in PDO with examples. Sent by FanatPHP .
• Symfony2 two-factor authentication with a certificate
• Forcing open_basedir + realpath_cache to work together
• We force the php-fpm 5.6 service running through systemd to read global environment variables
• Next, in search of palindromes
• Using large pages in memory in PHP 7

Audio and video

• Five minutes PHP Release # 16 - Composer Virtual Packages
• PHP Roundtable: 034: Debugging is more than var_dump ()
• Video reports from SymfonyCampUa 2015 - Sent by Igor Onachchenko .
• Rasmus Lerdorf - Deploying PHP 7
• Rasmus Lerdorf - Speeding up the Web with PHP 7
• PHP 7 Up and Running - Review of new features.
• Video recordings of reports from the conference php [world] 2015

Entertaining

• POPSuL / brainfuck - PHP brainfuck interpreter. Sent popsul .
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