PHP Digest number 75 - interesting news, materials and tools (November 22 - December 6, 2015)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials. Also under the cut you will find a special selection for PHP 7.

Enjoy reading!

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PHP 7

• PHP 7.0.0 - The long-awaited major release of PHP. Almost two years of work, 10033 committees, 48 ​​accepted RFCs, 189 contributors. Many thanks to Dmitry Stogov, Nikita Popov, Xinchen Hui, Anatol Belski and everyone who helped PHP 7 come to light. Congratulations to all of us on this wonderful event!
  
  Among the most notable changes:
  
  • Substantial increase in productivity
  • Type Scaling
  • Returning Typhingting
  • Anonymous classes
  • Operator <=>
  • Operator ??
  • Group use for neymspeysov
  • Functions of a cryptographically pseudo-random number generator
  • Common variable syntax
  • Exceptions instead of fatal errors
  
  
• Video:
  
  • Zeev Suraski: The PHP 7 Story
  • Rasmus Lerdorf: Speeding up the Web with PHP 7
  • Pierre Joye: PHP 7, what's coming
  • Anthony Ferrara: PHP7 and Beyond, The Future of PHP
  • Julien Pauli: En route pour PHP7
  • Erika Heidi: Getting Ready for PHP 7
  • PHP 7 Up and Running
  
  
• Reviews of new features:
  
  • Official Migration Guide for PHP 5.6.x to PHP 7.0.x
  • PHP7-Reference - List of all changes in PHP 7 with a brief description.
  • Overview of new features + video
  • PHP 7 Overview: Scalar Typehints, Return Types, Spaceships, Null Coalescing Operator
  • 5 less visible features of PHP 7
  • PHP 7 Review from Sitepoint
  • PHP 7 - What changed internally? - Nikita Popov's slides about PHP 7 internals.
  
  
• Benchmarks:
  
  • PHP 7.0 benchmarks
  • PHP 7 vs Python 3 - PHP 7 benchmarks in comparison with other languages.
  
  
• Discussion on Habré
• PHP history: infographics
• Is PHP 7 Out Yet?
• PHP 7 Is Here!

News and Releases

• Symfony 2.8.0 - Massive framework update: new LDAP components, PropertyInfo , form enhancements , an updated debugging panel , MicroKernelTrait treit for creating micro applications . Full review of changes in the beta1 announcement .
• Symfony 3.0.0 - The release does not contain new features compared to 2.8. In fact, this is 2.8 without backward compatibility layers. Minimum supported version of PHP 5.5.9. A guide to transition from 2.x to 3.0 is available .
• PHP 5.6.16 - List of changes .
• Zend Framework 3 Update and Roadmap
• Admin Interface for WordPress on JS - The company Automattic, which is behind the development of WordPress, announced Calypso - admin interface for wordpress.com, implemented on modern JavaScript-tools. Some sources mistakenly rushed to report that WordPress has been rewritten to Node.js.

Instruments

• phpfunct / funct - A selection of useful functions in one library. Post in support.
• phergie / phergie-irc-bot-react - ReactPHP-based IRC bot.
• K-Phoen / rulerz - PHP Rationalization Pattern Specification . Tutorial with an example of use.
• etsy / phan - Syntax analyzer for PHP. It was written by Rasmus Lerdorf and refined by Andrew Morrison .
• do-aki / gophp_sample - An example of creating a PHP extension on Go.
• gnugat / redaktilo - The library allows you to work with text strings through an editor object.
• memio / memio - Code Generator .
• nikic / PHP-Parser 2.0.0 - The PHP parser for PHP from Nikita Popov is updated and supports PHP 7.
• Bacon / BaconPdf - Library for working with PDF for PHP. Supports read and write.
• imbo / imbo - RESTful server for image management.
• flaupretre / pecl-pcs - Allows you to use C and PHP code in PHP extensions.
• php-school / cli-menu - Interactive command line menus.

Study materials

• Yii

  
  
  • The implementation of authentication, authorization and RBAC in Yii2
  • Announced end dates for support Yii 1.1 - Yii 1.1 will receive critical fixes and compatibility fixes with PHP 7 until the end of 2016. After that, at least until 2018, only security problems will be corrected. Sent by SamDark .
  • In the Yii team replenishment - Dmitry Naumenko SilverFire from Kiev joined the role of core developer. Sent by SamDark .
  • The code for the new yiiframework.com is uploaded on GitHub - Sent by SamDark .
  • yii2tech - A set of extensions for Yii 2 from one of the core developer's. Sent by SamDark .
  • Benchmark Yii2 for PHP 7
  • Yii2 Development: Uses Advanced Application Template
  • Yii2 Development: Google Authentication
  
  

• Laravel / Lumen

  
  
  • Zero to API with Lumen
  
  

• Drupal

  
  
  • The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 15
  • Drupal 8. Educational materials and not only
  • Drupal 8: under the hood
  • Decline of Drupal or how to fix Drupal 8
  
  
• realpath () cache size tuner - A small but useful script for tuning a PHP performance-critical setting. Sent by SamDark .
• About packages, versions and dependencies
• Fill PDF Forms with PDFtk and PHP
• New MongoDB drivers for PHP and HHVM
• Is it possible to develop on the iPad?
• How Badoo generates images for “sharing” in social networks
• PHP developer life
• Introduction to Slim 3
• 24 Days of Blackfire - A series of tutorials on using the Blackfire profiler. In the topic post about accelerating the component PropertyAccess from symfony , and also about speeding up Behat tests in Sylius
• Is PHP suitable for machine learning?
• MaximAbramchuck / awesome-interviews - A selection of questions for interviews, including PHP.
• Useful Snippets for Nginx Configs
• PHP ORM Benchmark - Performance Comparison Doctrine ORM, Eloquent ORM, FuelPHP Orm, Phalcon ORM, Yii AR 1.1, Yii AR 2.0.

Audio and video

• Config is not a code. How to use environment variables in PHP
• PHP Roundtable: 035: Immutable PHP - Talk about immutable objects and functional programming in PHP.
• What's new in PhpStorm 10
• PHP Neural Networks

Entertaining

• HaPHPy Birthday - The PHP Movie - Congratulatory video for the 20th anniversary of PHP.
• Jordi Boggiano: PHP version usage statistics based on packagist.org
• Stichoza / phemoji - Write the PHP code using emoji.
  

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