PHP Digest number 87 - interesting news, materials and tools (May 29 - June 12, 2016)

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

Enjoy reading!

')

News and Releases

• PHP 7.1.0 Alpha 1 - The first alpha version of the new PHP 7.1 branch is available for testing. The final release is scheduled for November. PHP 7.1: Upcoming Changes
• Codeception 2.2 - The new version of the popular testing tool has added support for Gherkin syntax, the AngularJS module and other improvements.
• Symfony 3.1.0
• CleverStyle Framework 4 Release
• Vulnerability in Wordpress Plugin Threaten Million Sites at Risk
• PSR-SimpleCache - At the discussion stage, the proposal of the new PSR standard on a simpler caching interface. Sent by tkf .
• PHP 5.5 support ends on July 10 - If you are still using PHP 5.5, then it's time to think about updating, because in less than a month the release of security bug fixes will be discontinued.

Php

• RFC: Iterable - It is proposed to add an Iterable pseudotype, which would combine both regular arrays and objects that implement Traversable.
• RFC: Closure from callable function - Offer accepted unanimously. In PHP 7.1, the function Closure::fromCallable(callable $callable) : Closure {...} will be added to convert the passed callable parameter to a full closure.

Instruments

• asset-packagist.org - Alternative for fxp / composer-asset-plugin . Allows you to install Bower and NPM packages through Composer without plug-ins and Node.js. Sent by hiqsol .
• consolidation-org / cgr - Replacing the standard composer global require . Sets each global dependency to a separate folder, eliminating the possibility of conflicts. Post in support.
• paragonie / airship - a safety- focused CMS developed under the Paragon Initiative .
• jgrossi / corcel - The tool allows you to use WordPress as an admin for an application, and for the front to use any framework to retrieve data using Eloquent ORM.
• willdurand / Hateoas - Popular library for creating HATEOAS REST web services.
• smalot / pdfparser - A library for retrieving information from PDF documents.
• chrissimpkins / tweetledee - Easy access to data from Twitter.
• maciejczyzewski / bottomline - A set of useful features for each day.
• phanbook / phanbook - StackOverflow clone, forum and CMS in one platform. Implemented on the framework of Phalcon.
• yohang / Finite - The state machine for PHP. It can be used, for example, to describe the states and transitions of objects in the system.
• jderusse / composer-warmup - Plugin for Composer designed to warm up OpCache.
• nextcloud / news is an open source RSS reader that also implements a RESTful developer interface.
• behance / php-sniffs - Several additional rules for PHP_CodeSniffer.
• Youshido / GraphQL - Implement GraphQL protocol in pure PHP.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Creating a blog on symfony 2.8 lts [Part 3] , [Part 4] , [Part 5]
  • A few words about REST API on symfony in the FOSRestBundle + JMSSerializerBundle bundle
  • Symfony Realtime: WebSockets
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Application Configuration on Yii2 for scaling to multiple servers
  • Caching of fragments and pages in Yii2
  • Generating classes and data fixtures in Gii to Yii2
  • Reduce the pain in the navigation of the application on Yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • nahid / talk - Private messaging system for an application on Laravel.
  • What is expected in Laravel 5.3
  • Create a control panel with Laravel and Vue.js
  • Launch queues and the Laravel scheduler in the Elastic Beanstalk environment
  
  
• Khaki Fitbit - we emulate a pager for personal messages in Twitter - Work with the PHP fitness tracker API is shown.
• Single authentication between socket.io and PHP using JSON Web Token
• Using ELK for monitoring PHP applications , and Wordpress in particular - Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana for collecting and analyzing logs.
• Detailed tutorial on generators in PHP
• We pass the exam Zend Certified PHP Engineer in 2016 - sent ruslanbes .
• Fault tolerance and its implementation in PHP - What is fault tolerance and how to implement it in PHP-applications.
• Setting up jenkins + bitbucket + slack integration for a php project
• Deployer - convenient and flexible application deployment
• Screwing the Gantt chart
• Preparing for PHP interviews using tests (phpt) from PHP source
• PHPixie Social - easy integration with social networks
• Prepare a simple blog on microservices, write your microframe in php and run everything on Docker with examples
• PHP7 Guide

Audio and video

• PHP Roundtable: 046: Character Encoding and UTF-8 in PHP
• Dmitry Stogov "Analysis of internal changes in PHP 7"
• Video recordings of reports from the Symfony Moscow Meetup meeting
• Pyatiminutka PHP: Issue number 20 - announcements
• Five Minutes PHP: Release # 21 - list ()

Entertaining

• Ruby (on Rails) ecosystem bittersweet or "we like to hate PHP" - An interesting comparison of the Ruby and PHP ecosystems, revealing a number of advantages of the latter.
• Why is Middleware important to PHP?
• PHP Version Usage Statistics 2016.1 - When connected to packagist.org, the composer sends information about the version of PHP being used. Jordi Boggiano shares these statistics. The share of PHP 7 is already 20%.
• Analysis of coding conventions - Analyzed the code of 193 popular PHP-projects to follow this or that coding style. For example, using short array syntax, naming, etc.
• Story by Jordi Boggiano about deleting the nelmio organization on GitHub
• emir / euro2016 - EURO 2016 match results in a PHP script.

Thanks for attention!

If you notice an error or inaccuracy - please inform the PM .
Write questions and suggestions by mail or twitter .

Send links to interesting articles or useful tools that were not in PHP Digests , and your name will be next to the sent link in the release.

Send link
Quick search in all digests
← Previous release: PHP Digest number 86