PHP Digest number 88 - interesting news, materials and tools (June 13 - July 17, 2016)

After a short break, the PHP Digest is back in business! We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.

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News and Releases

• Zend Framework 3 - The long-awaited major release of the popular framework. Almost 4 years have passed since the release of the previous version. Under the hood of users waiting for PHP 7 support, updated components, more than 4 times improved performance, microformvr out of the box, middleware support and much more.
• End of support for Zend Framework 1 - Together with the announcement of the ZF3, Zend announced the termination of support for ZF1. Security patches will be released only until September 28 of this year.
• PyroCMS v3 - Release of the once popular CMS. The project is actually rewritten from scratch to Laravel.
• PHP 7.0.8 , 5.6.23 , 5.5.37 - Updates of the current interpreter branches.
• Support for PHP 5.5 has expired - the release of PHP 5.5.38 is expected on July 21, which will be the last in the 5.5 branch.
• PhpStorm 2016.2 released
• PHP 7.1.0 Alpha 3 - The third alpha includes recently adopted sentences: type Iterable , short syntax for the list statement , creating a closure from callable, and others.

Php

• RFC: Iterable - A proposal was made to add the Iterable pseudotype, which combined both regular arrays and objects that implement Traversable .
• RFC: Throw Error in Extensions - In many extensions, instead of errors of the class E_ERROR or E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR, they will throw exceptions like Error. Offer accepted.
• RFC: New operator for context-dependent escaping - Read more at the author of the sentence: Poll. New tag for HTML data escaping in PHP .

Instruments

• GitaminHQ / Gitamin - Clone GitHub implemented on Laravel.
• Opulence - New PHP7 framework. Sent by tkf .
• franzose / kontrolio - Simple data validation library with no additional dependencies, inspired by Laravel and Symfony. Sent by franzose .
• layershifter / tld-extract - Package for correct parsing of domain names using Public Suffix List.
• rinvex / repository - Independent implementation of the Repository pattern. Sent by tkf .
• paragonie / halite - PHP cryptographic library. An example of using Halite for two-way encryption of email-messages.
• dunglas / doctrine-json-odm - ODM for Doctrine with support for JSON types added to PostrgeSQL and MySQL.
• JakubOnderka / PHP-Parallel-Lint - A syntax checker that analyzes files in parallel.
• Codeception / AspectMock 2.0 - A library for creating test twins, which allows you to make mocks for literally everything.
• Bacon / BaconQrCode - QR Code Generator.
• paragonie / multi_factor - The purpose of the library is to implement a single interface for working with various two-factor authentication providers. GoogleAuth is supported out of the box.
• simplesamlphp / simplesamlphp - The implementation of the SAML standard, in turn, used to implement single sign-on (SSO).
• heiglandreas / JUnitDiff - The library allows you to show what has changed between the two runs of the PHPUnit tests.
• bitExpert / disco - DI container compatible with the standard container-Interop . Detailed tutorial on use.
• gabrielbull / omnimail - A library for sending emails using popular mailing services: AmazonSES, Mailgun, Mandrill, and others.
• PiPHP / GPIO - Library for accessing Raspberry Pi from PHP. Tutorial in support.
• hoaproject / Websocket - A suitable implementation of a client and server web socket.
• pavelfluffy / connector - Signals and slots in PHP. Same as in Qt. Almost.
• larabros / elogram - A library for accessing the Instagram API in the style of Eloquent.
• klermonte / zerg - Library for easy parsing of structured binary data.
• php-ai / php-ml - Library with the implementation of machine learning algorithms for PHP.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • grena / gruik - Markdown notes service, implemented on symfony.
  • veloxy / purl - link shortening implemented with symfony. Sent by tkf .
  • Creating a blog on symfony 2.8 lts [Part 6]
  • REST API on Symfony, FOSRestBundle + GlavwebDatagridBundle
  • Report with Symfony Moscow Meetup June 2
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • yii2-migration-generator - Generator of migration files for yii2 based on annotations.
  • Tutorial on handling file uploads on Yii2
  • The official HTTP client for Yii 2 has been released
  • Passed the hackathon on the Yii Framework in TACC
  • Several useful tricks for developing on Yii 2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Zizaco / entrust - Role-based access control.
  • tightenco / mailthief - An extension for testing mail sending.
  • canvasowl / ribbbon - A simple Laravel-based project management system.
  • Laravel Doctrine - Doctrine2 instead of Eloquent for Laravel. Post in support.
  • spatie / laravel-activitylog - Package for logging events and actions in a Laravel application. Post in support.
  • Hifone / Hifone - Forum engine.
  • austintoddj / Canvas - Laravel-based blogging engine. Sent by tkf .
  • Writing advanced search filters for Eloquent
  
  
• Bloom Filter for PHP - On the implementation of a fast probabilistic data structure .
• Your own custom annotations - more than just comments - Example using doctrine / annotations .
• A series of tutorials on creating an application using the principles of MonoRepo, CQRS, Event Sourcing, TDD.
• PHP, Arduino and Minecraft , 2
• Zend loop traversal macros (HashTable Iteration)
• We write an extension for PHP (7.0.7) without knowledge of C / C ++ and how it works in general
• Debugging php functions using phpdbg, as an alternative to Xdebug via IDE
• Geographer Package - First Working Version
• How to start developing a large, atypical project. Practical guide
• Impressions from the best reports at the International PHP Conference
• Process management. Do not exceed RPS API limit (QPS)
• Php tools for japanese

Audio and video

• DevConf2016 - Security: from basic principles to PHP features
• PHP Roundtable # 47: All About HTTP / 2
• PHP Roundtable # 48: Docker & PHP
• PHP Town Hall: Episode 50: Low down on PSR-15 - Discussion PHP Middleware.
• PHP Serbia Conference 2016 - Video reports.

Entertaining

• PHP Sucks - A post from a well-known member of the PHP community Evert Pot, in which he writes about the bad reputation of PHP and why he decided to switch to another language.
• PHP ranked 6th in the TIOBE programming language ranking
• externals.io - A new tool that displays the PHP Internals newsletter in a convenient way and makes it easy to follow discussions.

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