PHP Digest number 90 - interesting news, materials and tools (August 1 - 14, 2016)

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

News and Releases

• PHP 7.1.0 Beta 2 - The next beta is expected on August 18 and will be the last before RC1.
• CakePHP 3.3.0 - Under the hood, support for PSR-7 Middleware and other improvements.
• PHP FIG 3.0 - It is proposed to reform the FIG group for more productive work. A full description of the new structure and processes can be found here .
• Symfony Moscow Meetup - Symfoniacs - # 9 - August 25 in Moscow will host the 9th meeting of PHP / Symfony developers.
  
  
• PHP Frameworks Day 2016 - September 3, Kiev will host a large-scale annual conference dedicated to PHP.
  ')
  
  
  The program has already been formed. Among the declared speakers:
  
  
  • Marco “Ocramius” Pivetta, core developer Doctrine and Zend Framework, will deliver two presentations at once: Doctrine Best Practices and Extremely Defensive PHP ;
  • Andres Gutierrez, the creator of the Phalcon framework, will talk about Phalcon 3.0, Zephir & PHP7 ;
  • Olivier Dolbeau and Benjamin De Bernardi, the developers at BlaBlaCar, will tell you how Symfony 2 works and scales with 25+ million users in 22 countries. By the way, at the Symfony Business Awards website BlaBlaCar became the best in 2015;
  • and many others.
  
  Especially for readers of PHP-Digest is available promo code «PHPDIGEST» with a 15% discount.

Php

• RFC: Immutable classes and properties - A draft proposal for implementing immutable classes and properties:
  
  

  immutable class Email { public $email; public function __construct ($email) { $this->email = $email; } } $email = new Email("foo@php.net"); $email->email = "bar@php.net" //   Fatal Error 

  
  
• RFC: Arrow Functions - Last year, the proposal for the short syntax $x ~> $x * 2 for anonymous functions did not pass. An alternative syntax was then proposed, a la EcmaScript 6, but with the addition of the function keyword: function($x) => $x + $y . Now the sentence is updated and the syntax is submitted for consideration: ^(parameter_list) => expr
  
  

   $y = 1; $versionA = ^($x) => $x + $y; //  $versionB = function($x) use($y) { return $x + $y; }; 

Instruments

• Sqon / sqon - Self-executing PHP archive. An alternative to the Phar format from the author of box-project / box2 .
• malkusch / lock - Library for synchronization of simultaneously running threads using mutexes.
• pinepain / php-ref - An extension for PHP 7 that adds support for soft and weak links in PHP.
• OndraM / ci-detector - Allows you to determine the used CI-server and obtain data about the build.
• cakephp / chronos - Library for working with date and time in PHP. Redesigned and enhanced Carbon . Post with a description and examples.
• opis / string - Mini-library for working with multi-byte strings of OO style and without dependencies.
• PrivateBin / PrivateBin - Minimalistic pastebin clone with browser encryption.
• florianv / swap - The library allows you to receive exchange rates from various providers.
• egulias / EmailValidator - Email address validator with multiple strategies.
• globalcitizen / php-iban - Library for working with international bank account numbers IBAN.
• webmozart / assert - Another library for data validation.
• webmozart / key-value-store — The library provides an abstract API for operating various key-value stores.
• akalongman / php-telegram-bot - Package for creating Telegram bot.
• Postleaf / postleaf - Blogging platform with inline editing.

Study materials

• Yii

  
  
  • luyadev / luya - CMS on Yii2.
  • Yii, fxp and Asset packagist
  • Simple system of demons for Yii2
  • Variant of working with the cache without access to the backend using the example of Yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • laravel / scout - Full-text search for Laravel. Tutorial for use.
  • Laravel Development with Docker
  • Stub links in Eloquent to speed tests
  • Sending and receiving SMS using Laravel and Nexmo
  • Taylor Departed posted a vacancy in search of an employee to work on Laravel and infrastructure
  
  
• Book Using Zend Framework 3 - A free open-source book about the new version of Zend Framework for beginners with examples. Russian translation assistance is welcome.
• Events in Zend Expressive application
• Writing "Hello World" extension for PHP 7
• CouchDB Tutorial with PHP usage examples
• Changes in CleverStyle Framework 5
• Routing in the CleverStyle Framework
• The smuggling of "Hamlet" with the help of a cat - PHP steganography.
• We control the computer through a browser

Audio and video

• PHP Roundtable 050: PHP For Beginners - Tips for beginners learning PHP.
• PHP Roundtable 049: Event Sourcing in PHP
• Laracon US 2016 - Video of all reports.

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 89