PHP Digest number 83 - interesting news, materials and tools (March 27 - April 10, 2016)

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News and Releases

• Composer 1.0.0 - On April 4, the first stable release of Composer was introduced. The development was carried out for 5 years and during this time 92,328 packages were published, and the total number of package installations reached 1,894,686,035. Many thanks to the authors and all contributors for making the PHP world better.
• The cause of the leak of Panamanian documents could be a plug-in Revolution Slider for WordPress
• PHP 7 in Ubuntu 16.04 - The new version of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu 16.04, which will be released on April 21, will have PHP 7 installed by default.
• PHP 5.5.34 , 5.6.20 , 7.0.5
• Deployer 3.2.0 - Update a simple and convenient PHP-tool for deploying applications. Tutorial for use. Sent by Anton Medvedev .
• Symfony CMF 1.3
• Behat 3.1.0

Php

• RFC: Typesafe callable - In fact, it is proposed to implement interfaces for anonymous functions. Alternate RFC Callable Interfaces .
  

  callable FilterCallable(string $input) : string; function foo(FilterCallable $filter) : string { return $filter('bar'); } foo(function (string $foo) : string { return trim($foo); }); 

  
  
• RFC Short List Syntax - It is proposed to implement the ability to use square brackets instead of the list() construction:
  

   <?php //    list($a, $b, $c) = array(1, 2, 3); [$a, $b, $c] = [1, 2, 3]; list("a" => $a, "b" => $b, "c" => $c) = array("a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => 3); ["a" => $a, "b" => $b, "c" => $c] = ["a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => 3]; list($a, $b) = array($b, $a); [$a, $b] = [$b, $a]; 

Instruments

• gabrielrcouto / php-gui - The tool allows you to create desktop applications with a graphical user interface in PHP without having to install additional extensions.
• Imangazaliev / DiDOM - A simple and fast library for parsing HTML. Comparison with other parsers .
• morozovsk / websocket - A simple WebSocket server with PHP 7 support and integration with Yii / Yii2. Sent by morozovsk .
• FriendsOfPHP / Sismo - Continuous testing server. Tutorial for use.
• phpconsole / phpconsole - Debug Tool, allows you to send and then view debug information on phpconsole.com .
• azuyalabs / yasumi - Library for calculating national holidays.
• yuloh / expect - An alternative to the Unix expect tool in pure PHP.
• versionpress / versionpress - A plugin for WordPress implements a Git-based version control system. Allows you to control virtually any changes in the content and infrastructure of WordPress.
• Corveda / PHPSandbox - Sandbox for PHP, allows you to execute any code, without allowing the call of potentially dangerous structures.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony CLI Guide
  • Symfony Web Guide
  • Symfony and command bus
  • SonataAdminBundle: Creating an Object from a List View (Part 2)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • HumHub 1.0.0 - Social Network Engine on Yii 2.
  • Yii 2.0: do not download client packages
  • Q & A Pro Yii # 2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • themsaid / laravel-langman - Console translation manager for Laravel.
  • Resource-intensive processing with Laravel
  • Guide to sending letters to Laravel
  • Using UUID instead of sequential identifiers in Laravel 5+
  • Cheat Sheet by Laravel 5
  • API development for third-party applications (Laravel 5)
  • Development of a package for Laravel 5. - Step-by-step instruction on the example of a callback order form.
  
  
• Children's diseases of your first class to work with the database
• Stream PHP - Disable output buffering in PHP, Apache, Nginx, Varnish
• Dock your PHP application with Nginx and PHP7-FPM
• Validation and release packages using Producer - About using producerphp / producer.producer . Sent by WaveCut .
• Cron Guide
• How to contribute to the PHP manual
• Overview of standardization options for compatible PHP packages
• Why do PHP developers think MVC is an application architecture?
• Installing PHP 7 (for php-fpm) using phpbrew + php 7 benchmarks
• What a PHP Junior Developer Should Know
• Expanded PHPixie Project Skeleton with Authentication and Admin Panel
• CodeIgniter 4 Database Layer
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 19
• Efficient data structures for PHP 7

Entertaining

• On which framework will you write a PHP application in 2016?
• RFC: Merge Nikita Popov into Core
• Enrise / Frisbee - Exception Driven Development - the library allows you to create applications based on exceptions.

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