PHP Digest number 89 - interesting news, materials and tools (July 17 - 31, 2016)

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News and Releases

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  PHP Frameworks Day 2016 - September 3, Kiev will host a large-scale annual conference dedicated to PHP.
  The list of speakers is being formed, but Marco “Ocramius” Pivetta , the creator of the framework Phalcon Andres Gutierrez , Dmitry Naumenko from the core team Yii, and others, have already been announced. A rich program is planned: reports in 2 streams, communication with speakers, lunch, prizes from partners, and, of course, after-party.
  Especially for readers of PHP-Digest is available promo code «PHPDIGEST» with a 15% discount.
  
  
• PHP 5.6.24 , 7.0.9 - Updates to current branches, in which 34 changes were made, including several vulnerabilities fixed. In particular, the HTTPoxy vulnerability has been eliminated , which allows to organize a MITM attack through manipulations with the http header “Proxy”.
• The latest release of branch 5.5 is PHP 5.5.38
• PHP 7.1.0 Beta 1 - With the first beta release, the active development phase ends, which means that new features in the 7.1 branch will not be added anymore. The next release is expected on August 8th.
• Phalcon 3.0.0 - Major LTS release of the popular PECL framework (supplied as a PHP extension). Under the hood, support for PHP 7 and many improvements.

Instruments

• mikey179 / vfsStream - Virtual file system implemented as a stream wrapper. Allows you to substitute work with real files in tests. Tutorial for use.
• kosinix / grafika - A library for working with images. Among the possibilities out of the box: smart crop, perceptual hash, image comparison.
• ksubileau / color-thief-php - A library for getting a palette of dominant colors from an image.
• Sulu CMS - CMS built on the symfony 2 and symfony CMF framework. Sent quber .
• pilot / eventator - The engine for creating an event site. Sent pilouanic .
• JBZoo / CrossCMS - The library allows you to write once an extension for CMS, which will work in Joomla and Wordpress. Sent by smetdenis .
• solariumphp / solarium - PHP client for working with the Solr full-text search engine. Tutorial for use with Laravel.
• padraic / humbug - A framework for mutation testing. Tutorial for use: Testing tests .
• icicleio / http - Implementation of the HTTP server in PHP.
• ColinWaddell / CurrantPi - A library for retrieving data from a Raspberry Pi.
• clue / phar-composer - A simple tool for creating phar archives.
• bitExpert / adrenaline - MIC Framework based on PSR-7 middleware.
• Gert-dev / php-integrator-base - Package for Atom, which allows you to turn the editor almost into a full IDE.
• eloquent / phony - An interesting implementation of test twins for PHP.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • July 28 marks 5 years of symfony 2
  • Updated symfony documentation
  • The queue of events. How to reduce the load on the site - Sent khaperets .
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • bizley / yii2-podium - Yii 2 forum engine.
  • yiister / yii2-mappable-ar - Implementation of the Pattern of Conformity for ActiveRecord in Yii 2.
  • How to use Elasticsearch with Yii 2
  • When Active Record in Yii 2 is Appropriate
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Innovations Laravel 5.3
  • Tutorial on creating applications for working with Google Drive API
  • Create a bot for Slack based on Laravel
  
  

• Zend expressive

  
  
  • Content Based Error Handler for Zend Expressive
  • Scalable project on Zend Expressive
  • Is it possible to create applications on Zend Expressive as easily as on Laravel?
  
  
• As we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $ 20,000 - Three researchers carried out a multi-stage attack on PornHub, which resulted in the execution of arbitrary code. Vulnerabilities were found in systems for garbage collection and deserialization in PHP . At the moment, bugs fixed, and researchers received a reward. Recommendation from them - never deserialize user data.
• Hiding "Hamlet" in the image - The author is experimenting with steganography in PHP.
• About new features in PHP 7.1 Closure :: fromCallable ()
• Microsoft API Development Guidelines
• Installing the Caddy web server for PHP 7 on Debian Jessie
• Keep data under control
• Ruby Ecosystem (on Rails) with a bitter aftertaste, or “How we love to poke PHP”
• How we started real MS Excel in PHP and what came of it
• Increment in php

Audio and video

• SOLID video tutorials
• Static analysis for PHP
• Video reports from DevConf 2016

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