PHP Digest number 92 - interesting news, materials and tools (August 29 - September 11, 2016)

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News and Releases

• PHP 7.1.0 RC 1 - The release of 7.1 candidates has started. Expected total at least 6 issues for stabilization. The final release is scheduled for release by the end of the year.
• JIT for PHP - Dmitry Stogov announced the start of work on the implementation of JIT in PHP. Sources are available here . The code can be compiled and tested as usual PHP. However, at this stage, the performance gain JIT does not. It is planned to get the result for the next version of PHP, probably 8.0.
  We wish Dmitry and the team good luck!

Php

• RFC: Deprecate PEAR / PECL & Replace with composer / pickle - It is proposed to get rid of the outdated PEAR, instead include in the delivery of Composer and Pickle to install extensions.
• RFC: Add PHP Engine Identifier Constant - It is proposed to add a constant PHP_ENGINE , the value of which would indicate the type of engine ( php / hhvm , etc.). And also optionally some more PHP_(*_)ENGINE(_ID) , which will PHP_(*_)ENGINE(_ID) version information.

Instruments

• Simple Regex Language - Library allows you to write regular expressions in human-readable language. Sent askew . Habrapost in support of.
• etsy / phan - Static analyzer for PHP. Post in support: Preparing legacy applications for PHP 7 using Phan .
• ovr / phpsa - Another static analyzer for PHP. Tutorial for use.
• Youshido / GraphQL - Implementation of GraphQL protocol according to the specification from Facebook .
• Maikuolan / phpMussel - Malware File Scanner for PHP, uses ClamAV signatures.
• ircmaxell / RandomLib - Library for generating random numbers and strings of different cryptoresistance.
• deuill / go-php - PHP bindings for Go lang.
• swarrot / swarrot - Expandable library for working with messages from various brokers (AMQP out of the box).
• prolic / HumusAmqp - PHP 7 AMQP.
• php-vcr / php-vcr - Records HTTP calls in your tests and then “plays” the answers in time for subsequent test launches, thereby speeding up launches and determining the result.
• markrogoyski / math-php - Mathematical library for PHP. Implemented possibilities for working with matrices / vectors, numerical analysis, statistics, and more.

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Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Simple Rest API on symfony 3.1
  • Scale Symfony Sessions with Memcached
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii 2 Conference 2016 - Mini-conference on Yii 2 in Kiev on September 24.
  • How to use UrlManager to set up routing and create “friendly” URLs
  • Yii 2 Tutorial: Meeting Planner
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel 5.3: Preparation for development (for beginners)
  • Lumen 5.3
  • krlove / eloquent-model-generator - A console utility for generating Eloquent model code from DB tables.
  
  
• Detection of potentially malicious PHP code using checksums and heuristics on the syntax tree
• How to avoid almost unchangeable objects in PHP - On the use of arrays and resources in immutable objects.
• We get acquainted with PageObject - About use in tests.
• Data Types in PHP and MySQL
• PHP 7.1 Overview
• Magic build project on WordPress using package managers and a file
• CRUD and related operations in the CleverStyle Framework
• About frameworks
• PHPixie vs Laravel
• Did not put favicon on the site - get double traffic from Chrome
• PHP: the wrong way

Audio and video

• 9th Symfony Moscow Meetup - Video of reports.
• Codeception tutorial on the example of Laravel
• Video of reports and master classes with PHP Conference Asia 2016
• Symfony Catalunya 2016 - Video reports.

Entertaining

• Sample code that is syntactically valid in PHP and Java and produces the same output.
• sbesselsen / js.php - JavaScript interpreter for PHP.
• Why does the quality of PHP questions fall on Stack Overflow? - Funny SO data analysis.
• Exchange of stickers between PHP 2016 user groups
• PHPMap - Map of PHP developers around the world.

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