PHP Digest number 79 - interesting news, materials and tools (February 1 - 14, 2016)
We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.
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News and Releases
PHP 5.6.18 , 5.5.32 , 7.0.3 - Updates to current branches, in which about 40 changes have been made, including several vulnerabilities. Also in 5.6 and 7.0 added support for HTTP code 451.
phpschool.io - A new resource for learning PHP. Provides a special console tool that will help step by step solve educational problems.
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RFC: Add PHP Engine Identifier Constant - It is proposed to add a constant PHP_ENGINE , the value of which would indicate the type of engine. For example, php - for Zend PHP, or hhvm - for HHVM.
RFC: Allow specifying keys in list () - The proposal was adopted by vote . Already in 7.1, the ability to specify keys in the list() construction will be implemented: list("name" => $this->name, "colour" => $this->colour) = $attributes;
Instruments
php-ds / ds - Effective data structures for PHP 7. A post with a description, benchmarks and comparison with structures from SPL.
doubleleft / hook - An open alternative to the dead, deceased Parse . Implemented in PHP and has a set of ready-made clients for JavaScript, C # / Unity3D, iOS / OSX, Java / Android, etc. Slides with a description.
linkorb / libcloud-php - Unified API for working with cloud service providers. Linode, Digital Ocean hosting is supported; DNS provider GoDaddy. Sent by dali .