PHP Digest number 94 - interesting news, materials and tools (September 25 - October 9, 2016)

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

News and Releases

• PHP FIG 3.0 - The PHP-FIG group supported a change in the structure and processes called FIG 3.0. Read more about the changes here . Members must confirm their membership by the end of the month. Only representatives of Stash and Aura expressed their desire to leave the group.
• PHP 7.1 RC3
• Drupal 8.2.0
• PHPUnit 5.6.0
• Hacktoberfest 2016 - DigitalOcean and GitHub announced a campaign to support open source projects. Anyone who registers and makes 4 pull requests before October 31 will receive a T-shirt. If you want to participate, but don’t know where to start, take a look at the issues tagged with GitHub: #hacktoberfest .
• Codewars announced support for PHP - A popular service with programming tasks now supports PHP. In addition, soon promise SQL support.

Php

• RFC: Comparator interface - It is proposed to add the Comparator interface, by implementing which you can compare objects using ordinary operators ( <, <=, ==, >, >= ), as, for example, you can compare DateTime objects.

Instruments

• Ne-Lexa / php-zip - Manipulate ZIP files in pure PHP without using ZipArchive. Sent by nelexa .
• 3v4l pl4g1n - Plugin for PhpStorm, which allows you to run the code from the editor on the site 3v4l.org . Submitted by artspb .
• crazycodr / standard-exceptions - Extended set of exceptions. Sent by jerkalukic .
• xv1t / OpenDocumentTemplate - Class for generating ODS files from templates. Sent by xv1t .
• wimg / PHPCompatibility - PHP_CodeSniffer ruleset for checking code for compatibility with different versions of PHP. Tutorial for use.
• ezdeliveryco / snorlax is a lightweight client for RESTful services.
• commerceguys / tax - Library for calculating taxes.
• lanthaler / JsonLD - JSON-LD processor for PHP.
• gordalina / cachetool - CLI tool for managing apc and opcache.
• goetas-webservices / soap-client - Implementing a SOAP 1.1 client in pure PHP (without ext-soap).
• biberlabs / ddd-embeddables - A collection of value objects for use in your applications.
• rybakit / msgpack.php - MessagePack serialization in pure PHP.
• spatie / opening-hours - The tool allows you to configure business hours and then make requests to determine whether it is open on a specific date.
• kanboard / kanboard - Kanban board.
• jasvrcek / ICS - Library for working with iCal-files in object style.
• kraken-php / framework - Framework for developing distributed asynchronous applications.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony packages downloaded 500 million times
  • Symfony Week # 509 (September 26 - October 2, 2016)
  • Symfony Week # 510 (October 3-9, 2016)
  • Workflow component tutorial
  • Single-file symfony application with MicroKernelTrait
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Export iCal files to calendar events
  • Validation of MongoDB Attached Data to Yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • YABhq / Laracogs - Tool automates routine operations for the rapid development of Laravel applications.
  • mpociot / captainhook - WebHooks for your application.
  • cviebrock / sequel-pro-laravel-export - Bundle for Sequel Pro to generate Laravel migrations.
  • Host Laravel app on AWS Lambda
  • Adding support for Firebird DBMS to Laravel framework
  
  
• Secure communication with remote servers using hpseclib
• How to migrate from Zend Framework 2 to Zend Expressive
• Fighting Recruitment Spam with PHP
• Configuring Elasticsearch with MySQL
• Nginx Tricks for PHP Developers - Report slides from Ilya Alshanetsky.
• Where to put the logic: static method or service?
• What to choose: functional programming or OOP?
• Functional programming in PHP: Calculating the cost of goods
• Writing an extension using the php-cpp library for php7
• How do we test the server code without mobile clients?
• A few notes about MySQL
• GUI for php, or we cross written extension with a screenshot
• Asterisk and information about incoming calls in the browser
• Unit testing in complex applications
• Springboard Calling Magic Functions in PHP 7

Audio and video

• RFCs of the Future: Tick Talk - About asynchronous signal processing in PHP without ticks, implemented in PHP 7.1 .
• Laracon EU 2016 - Video recordings of all the reports from the Amsterdam conference.

Entertaining

• AndrewCarterUK / PHPSnake - Multi-user console snake for PHP.

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