PHP Digest number 77 - interesting news, materials and tools (January 1 - 17, 2016)

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News and Releases

• PHP 5.6.17, 5.5.31 and PHP 7.0.2 - Updates of current branches with security fixes: buffer overflow in escapeshell functions, incorrect type handling in XMLRPC, two problems with deserialization of packages in the WDDX extension, ability to read from areas outside the buffer in gdImageRotateInterpolated, FPM buffer overflow. Also 7.0.2 improved stability.
• Yii 1.1.17
• Lumen 5.2
• Drupal project is 15 years old
• PrestaShop on Symfony - A popular e-commerce platform in the next release will be rewritten using the symfony framework and its components.
• PHP 5 will be supported until the end of 2018 - A proposal was made to extend support for PHP 5, which means that another year 5.6 branch will be updated actively and then two years in the mode of fixing security errors.
• PHAP - PHAP project announced, which promises the possibility of developing mobile applications in PHP.

Php

• RFC: Adopt Code Of Conduct - Anthony Ferrara proposed the introduction of a formal code of conduct for a PHP project. The rules are based on the popular Contributor Covenant and are supplemented with sections on conflict resolution and the application of punitive measures to violators.
  
  The proposal generated a wave of discussion and a series of posts ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).
  
  
• RFC: Simple Cryptography Library - It is proposed in PHP 7.1 to implement the Crypto layer to abstract work with cryptographic functions on top of Libsodium and OpenSSL. At the same time, Libsodium itself is proposed to be included in PHP 7.1, and mcrypt is proposed to be deprecated .
• RFC: Allow specifying keys in list () - It is proposed to add the ability to specify keys in list() : list("name" => $this->name, "colour" => $this->colour) = $attributes;
• RFC: On-demand Name Mangling - It is proposed to disable automatic conversion of parameter names in superglobal arrays: ab, a%20b, a[b => $_GET['a_b'] .
• RFC: Warn about invalid strings in arithmetic - It is proposed to throw E_NOTICE and E_WARNING when using non-numeric strings where numbers are expected:
  
  $numberOfPears = 5 * "orange"; // E_WARNING

$numberOfApples = "10 apples" + "5 pears"; // E_NOTICE
• RFC: array_key_ (first | last | index) - It is proposed to add the functions array_key_first() , array_key_last() , array_key_index() , which return the array key by its index (sequence number).
• RFC: Operator Overloading - To implement operator overload, it is proposed to add magic methods __add() , __sub() , __mul() , __div() , __pow() , __concat() .

Instruments

• atlasphp / Atlas.Orm - Data mapper for persistance model - Passive Record.
• fruux / saber-xml - Library for convenient work with xml. Post about using the latest version.
• padraic / humbug - A framework for mutation testing .
• alexpts / php-simple-events - A simple event manager. Sent by AlexPTS .
• bixuehujin / blink - A web framework in the form of a daemon based on the swoole extension. Post with an overview of the framework.
• kapolos / pramda - A set of functions for conveniently using the functional approach in PHP.
• ellipsesynergie / api-response - A tool for managing API responses.
• plumphp / plum - Pipeline for processing data in PHP.
• sebastianfeldmann / phpbu - A tool for managing database backups and files.
• fusonic / linq - LINQ implementation of 2 objects for PHP. Athari / YaLinqo is also available.
• malukenho / PsyGit - Library for working with Git from PHP.
• PHPFastCGI / FastCGIDaemon - FastCGI is a daemon implemented in PHP. Allows you to demonize the application, rather than restarting for each request. Implemented adapters for Slim, Symfony, Silex, Drupal, Zend Expressive.
• VerbalExpressions / PHP VerbalExpressions - Allows you to construct regular expressions in a fluid interface.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  
  • TDD for your APIs using symfony and PHPUnit
  • Benchmarks Symfony: Symfony Proxy vs. Varny
  • Symfony benchmarks: PHP 5.6, HHVM 3.11 and PHP 7.0.1
  • Symfony benchmarks: Symfony Microkernel, Lumen, Silex, Slim ...
  • Symfony Benchmarks: PHP-FPM vs. PHP-PM (for PHP 7 and HHVM)
  • Symfony Benchmarks: Scaling PHP with CPU & RAM
  • The biggest sites on the symfony2 framework
  • Pagekit: Symfony Modular CMS Review
  • Symfony 3 video tutorials for beginners
  • True Dependency Injection in Symfony2 Application
  
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  
  • ActiveRecord's inheritance describing one table (single table inheritance pattern) in Yii2
  • Yii2 bad behaviors
  • Yiimine - Analog Redmine on the Yii Framework.
  • Ideas for Yii 2.1
  
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  
  • TDD to Laravel from scratch
  • Laravel and Content Negotiation
  
  
  
• Objects in PHP 7 - An excellent post from Julien Pauli about the features of the internal implementation of objects in PHP 7.
• Detailed tutorial on optimizing performance using Blackfire - About using the online profiler from SensioLabs.
• League / commonmark optimization with Blackfire
• Introduction to the WP REST API
• New MongoDB drivers for PHP and HHVM: architecture
• Tutorial on using the Wunderlist API using Guzzle
• Improving DI in PHP applications with the help of Zend Framework plug-in managers.
• About designing and implementing a hidden backdoor in a web application
• Programming Principles for PHP Developers - Part 1: Reducing Complexity
• Porting Clojure functions to PHP to improve functional programming
• Repository with a demonstration of common web application vulnerabilities
• Principles that form successful frameworks
• Configuration values ​​are also dependencies.
• How to make a contribution to the Open Source project: simple tips
• Collect the best of both worlds - frameworks and CMS (part 3)
• Weak links in PHP 7
• Quickly create phar files using Box

Entertaining

• donutdan4114 / conway-game-of-life-php - Realization of the game "Life" in the form of a CLI-script.
• PlacePhant - Stub Pictures with PHP elephants.
  
  

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