PHP Digest number 81 - interesting news, materials and tools (March 1 - 13, 2016)

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

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News and Releases

• Composer 1.0.0-beta1 - 4 years after the first alpha release, a beta version of the package manager has been published. The show --tree commands have been show --tree to display the installed packages as a tree, why-not — shows why the package cannot be update --interactive , update --interactive - allows you to select which packages to update, as well as many other improvements and fixes.
• Xdebug 2.4.0 - Updated popular debugger, added support for PHP 7 and several new features.
• PHP 5.5.33 , 5.6.19 , 7.0.4
• PhpStorm 2016.1 RC1 and JetBrains Release Versioning System
• Peachpie Compiler - PHP compiler for .NET.
• Badoo switched to PHP7 and saved $ 1M

Php

• RFC: Null Coalesce Equal Operator - Is it proposed to implement the combined operator ??= in addition to the usual ?? added in PHP 7.
  

   //     $this->request->data['comments']['user_id'] = $this->request->data['comments']['user_id'] ?? 'value'; $this->request->data['comments']['user_id'] ??= 'value'; 

  
  
• RFC: Short ternary Equal Operator - It is also proposed to implement a combined ternary operator:
  

   $x = $x ?: $y; $x ?:= $y; 

  
  
• RFC: "var" Deprecation - It is proposed to obsolete the keyword var . Interestingly, this keyword was already obsolete in versions 5.0.0 - 5.1.2, and at the moment is just a synonym for public .
• RFC: Catching Multiple Exception Types - For consideration it is proposed to catch several types of exceptions in a single catch block:
  

   try { // Some code... } catch (ExceptionType1 | ExceptionType2 $e) { // Code to handle the exception } catch (\Exception $e) { // ... } 

  
  
• RFC: Traits with interfaces - It is proposed to enable the use of interfaces in traits:
  

   interface I { function foo(); } trait T implements I { function foo() { } } 

Instruments

• thephpleague / route 2.0 - Popular FastRoute based router. Now with PSR-7 support.
• thephpleague / glide - A library for working with images. Tutorial for use.
• PHPixie / Image - An independent component from the PHPixie framework for working with images.
• kamranahmedse / smasher - The library allows you to get a json-representation of the directory structure, or recreate the structure of the json-representation.
• gabordemooij / redbean - An interesting ORM that can create or change a database schema on the fly.
• IcecaveStudios / archer - A library for standardizing approaches to testing, continuous integration and documenting PHP projects.
• domnikl / statsd-php is a PHP client for sending statistics to statsd .
• paragonie / constant_time_encoding - Constant time coding to protect against time attacks.
• daylerees / scientist - A library for conducting experiments in code. Post about painless refactoring in support.
• erusev / base - Simple query builder to work with the database.
• Tolerance / Tolerance - A library for implementing fault tolerance + microservice helpers.
• jakubkulhan / bunny - Simple and fast implementation of AMQP client (RabbitMQ) with synchronous and asynchronous (ReactPHP) modes.
• wsdl2phpgenerator / wsdl2phpgenerator - Generates PHP classes from a WSDL document.
• Php Inspections (EA Extended) 1.4.0 - Extension for PhpStorm, supplementing the possibilities of static code analysis.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony selection
  • KonstantinKuklin / AsseticStaticGzipBundle - Smart Static Compression. Sent KonstantinKuklin .
  • Symfony Bundle Guide
  • Symfony Console Guide
  • How to make friends JMS Serializer and LiipImagineBundle
  • Symfony how to use FOSRestBundle
  • SonataAdminBundle: Creating an Object from a List View (Part 1)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii 2.0 Cookbook: RBAC - An example of role-based access control in Yii 2.0.
  • Launched beta.yiiframework.ru
  
  

• Laravel / Lumen

  
  
  • Attendize / Attendize - Open source platform on Laravel for managing events and selling tickets to them.
  • Authentication with JSON Web Token for Lumen
  • Create a Hacker News reader with Lumen
  • Lumen selection
  • The repository pattern in Laravel 5
  • Creating a passwordless authentication system on Laravel
  • What is new is waiting for us in Laravel 5.2.23
  
  
• Implementing a new range statement in PHP , 2 - An excellent post about PHP internals, detailing the steps for adding a new statement to the interpreter.
• Command Bus and Action-Domain-Responder
• LAMP stack performance optimization
• Principles of programming - Part 2: Getting rid of NULL - Sent by haruatari .
• How Cloud@mail.ru saved all * my files and what came of it
• We continue to accelerate the blog on WordPress - PHP7, ESI in Varnish, XtraDB, effective compression and shutdown of excess
• Long story about date localization without a year in PHP
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 18
• How does split-testing in Badoo work?

Audio and video

• PHP Roundtable: 041: The PHP-FIG: Past, Present & Future
• Five Minutes PHP Release # 18 - What is the RFC in the PHP world?
• SDCast # 40: Visiting Anatol Belsky, core-developer, PHP 7 release manager

Entertaining

• List of PHP conferences in 2016.

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