PHP Digest number 78 - interesting news, materials and tools (January 18 - 31, 2016)

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

Enjoy reading!

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News and Releases

• Expressive 1.0.0 - The first stable release of the tool from Zend, which allows you to build web applications based on PSR-7 middleware.
• CakePHP 3.2.0
• CodeIgniter 4 - About the future of the popular framework.
• Information about critical XSS vulnerability in Magento revealed

Php

• RFC: Generalize support of negative string offsets — In some string functions, a negative position value is supported. It is proposed to implement this feature in all relevant functions, as well as when accessing a string as an array:
  $str = 'text'; echo $str[-1];
• RFC: Add HTTP / 2 Support to the CLI Server - It is proposed to implement HTTP / 2 support in the PHP embedded web server.

Instruments

• hirak / prestissimo - Composer plugin for parallel installation of packages. Significantly speeds up the installation of dependencies.
• marcioAlmada / yay - Preprocessor for PHP. Allows you to extend PHP by describing new features in the form of macros. Just take a look at the examples.
• filp / whoops 2.0.0 - Beautiful and informative pages of errors and unhandled exceptions.
• tarantool-php / queue - PHP bindings for Tarantool Queue. Sent by rybakit .
• thephpleague / commonmark - Markdown Parser . Video review of use .
• soy-php / soy - A tool for running tasks.
• mvdbos / php-spider - PHP web spider.
• kohkimakimoto / altax - Deployment tool.
• icicleio / filesystem - Asynchronous access to the file system.
• ReactiveX / RxPHP - Reactive tools for PHP.
• niutech / node.php - The tool allows you to run a node.js application from PHP, even on regular hosting.
• movim / movim - Decentralized social network for PHP and based on the XMPP protocol.
• lastguest / pixeler - Drawing of images in the console with unicode characters.
• jgrossi / corcel - Wrappers for using WordPress with various PHP frameworks.
• thephpleague / tactician - Simple expandable command bus. Post with an example of use.
• matthiasmullie / scrapbook - Cache system, supports PSR-6 and has adapters for Memcached, Redis, Couchbase, APC, SQL.
• nazar-pc / CleverStyle-CMS - Simple CMF. Screencasts on use. Sent by nazarpc .

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • drgomesp / symfony-docker - Symfony Docker Edition
  • DunglasActionBundle: Recycled Symfony Controllers
  • Export the symfony route to PDF without additional code in the controller
  • Symfony2 interceptor of exceptions using services or how to avoid using Event Listener
  • Fast and Furious Symfony + HHVM + MongoDB + CouchDB + Varnish
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Deploying Yii with Deployer
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Release Plan
  • Feature Flags in Laravel
  • AltThree / Bus - Command Bus for Laravel.
  • A few tricks to work with Laravel Homestead
  • How to use Eloquent ORM migrations outside Laravel
  • WordPress and Laravel - Several tools for integrating the framework and CMS.
  • Selection of links to materials on the Laravel framework in Russian - Sent by atehnix .
  
  
• (The only proper) PDO tutorial - Detailed PDO tutorial .
• EdgeRouter Lite PHP Update - Rasmus Lerdorf writes about how he updated PHP to 7 on his router.
• Introduction to PHP internals
• Examples of using generators in PHP
• We work with generators in PHP
• Introducing dependencies without a container - An example of using a trait instead of a container.
• Correcting spaghetti: how to work with legacy code
• About working with UTF-8 in PHP and MySQL
• Metatesting - Status report and testing tools in PHP.
• Doctrine ORM good practices and tricks from Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta
• Automate PHP performance testing using Blackfire.io
• Programming Principles - Part 1: Reducing Complexity
• Principles of programming - Part 2: Getting rid of null
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 17
• Objects in PHP 7

Entertaining

• ramsaylanier / WordPressExpress - WordPress to javascript.
• tannernelson / vapor - A Swift web framework inspired by Laravel / Lumen.

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