PHP Digest number 84 - interesting news, materials and tools (April 10 - 24, 2016)

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

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News and Releases

• High-performance PHP - PHP-PM - Two years ago, the author of the post published a note about starting a symfony application using ReactPHP. Then it is possible to get a tenfold increase in productivity. In a post, the author conducts a retrospective review of the current state of the project. For example, now with the help of php-pm you can also launch applications on Laravel, Zend, Drupal.
• WordPress 4.5 “Coleman” - The released version contains a number of subtle improvements, but among the changes planned for 4.6 you can notice a proposal to implement the PSR-4 autoloader.
• league / oauth2-server 5.0 - Fresh update of the implementation of the OAuth 2.0 server in PHP. Under the hood, support for PSR-7, JWT, and many improvements. Post in support.
• nikic / php parser 2.1.0

Php

• RFC: Attributes - It is proposed to implement a native annotation mechanism in PHP. The syntax is borrowed from Hack . Attributes are not executed, but are stored in the abstract PHP syntax tree and can then be used in PHP extensions, preprocessors, and directly in scripts.
  

  <<...>> <<...>> function foo() {} 

  
  
• RFC: Anonymous Class Lexical Scope - The author proposes to solve the problem of passing dependencies to an anonymous class. For this purpose it is proposed to use use as in closures:
  

   $foo = 5; $foo = new Bar() use($foo) { public $foo; }; 

  
  
• RFC: Union Types - Starting with PHP 5.1, you can explicitly specify the type of parameters passed, and with PHP 7.0 also the type of return values. It is proposed to make it possible to specify multiple types:
  

   function (Array | Traversable $in) { foreach ($in as $value) { echo $value, PHP_EOL; } } 

  
  
• RFC: Nullable Types — It is also proposed to make it possible to specify a type that can be null:
  

   function foo_nullable(?Bar $bar) {} foo_nullable(new Bar); // valid foo_nullable(null); // valid foo_nullable(); // invalid 

  
  
• RFC: Generic Types and Functions - The proposal to implement generics (templates) in PHP has generated a wave of discussion.
  What do you think, how justified is this feature in PHP? Leave your vote in the poll at the end of the post and share your opinion in the comments.

Instruments

• teamtnt / tntsearch - Full-featured full-text search engine for PHP.
• PHPMessageBus / messagebus - The implementation of the message bus (CommandBus, QueryBus, EventBus) in PHP 7.
• paragonie / csp-builder - The library simplifies the implementation of the security standard Content Securiy Policy , which allows you to protect against XSS and similar attacks.
• lavary / crunz - Library for working with cron-tasks. Allows you to set execution intervals in a human-readable form.
• SerafimArts / Properties - Implementing properties in PHP based on phpdoc declarations. Sent by serafimarts .
• simplepie / simplepie - A simple parser for Atom / RSS feeds.
• tightenco / jigsaw - Static site generator based on Blade template engine. Post in support.
• Corollarium / cachearium - A library for caching.
• DusanKasan / Knapsack - Convenient library for working with collections.
• leroy-merlin-br / mongolid - ODM for MongoDB.
• sebastianbergmann / phploc - A classic tool for estimating project size.
• jmespath / jmespath.php - The library implements the query language for JSON documents.
• ramsey / uuid - The implementation of the UUID generator according to RFC 4122 . Post in support.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Super Speed ​​Symfony - ReactPHP
  • Super Speed ​​Symfony - nginx
  • Symfony: processing requests in the API
  • Filtering data in symfony
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Flexible modular architecture on Yii2 - Sent by HaruAtari .
  • yeesoft / yii2-yee-cms - CMS on Yii 2.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • zeeshanu / dingo-project-managment - Trello Clone on Laravel.
  • hyn / multi-tenant - The package allows you to implement a multisite on Laravel.
  • InfyOmLabs / laravel-generator - API code generator and admin kits.
  • Mahmoudz / Hello-API - The skeleton and platform for developing a RESTful API on Laravel.
  • Send Laravel logs to ElasticSearch using Logstash
  • Laravel Timestamp Validator
  
  
• PHP 7 Arrays: HashTables - Excellent article from Julien Pauli about the internal structure of hash tables in PHP.
• Multilingual apps with Twig and Gettext
• Acceleration of autoload in PHP 5.6 & 7.0+
• How to contribute to PHP: Fix bugs in the PHP core
• About security issues when deserializing in PHP
• PHP transducers easy and simple
• PSR-7 and session cookies
• Using PSR-7 middleware with ReactPHP - An interesting post about PSR-7 adaptation in ReactPHP, which resulted in the phly / react2psr7 package .
• breakthenet / HackMe-SQL-Injection-Challenges - Interactive SQL injection detection tutorial.
• Review of ZF3 changes and plans over the past three weeks
• Analysis of malicious spam script
• PHPUnit for beginners. Part 3: Test "doubles"
• Query caching using PHP and MySQLnd
• Benchmark Magento 1.9 CE and Magento 2.0 CE for PHP 7
• Increase Magento Performance
• PHP UK Conference 2016
• How I tried Microsoft Project Oxford + Telegram Bot API
• Optimizing the Nested Set model in PHPixie

Audio and video

• Zend Expressive in 15 minutes
• What's new in PhpStorm 2016.1
• PHP Roundtable # 044: Asynchronous PHP
• Five Minute PHP: Issue # 19 - PHP Annotated Monthly
• SDCast # 42: Visiting Anton Shevchuk

Entertaining

• Jordi Boggiano: File Statistics in Composer Packages

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