PHP Digest number 98 - interesting news, materials and tools (November 28 - December 11, 2016)

We offer to your attention another selection with links to news and materials.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.1.0 - The long-awaited major release of PHP delivered strictly on schedule. Thanks to all contributors and release managers for their work! The new version of the interpreter has improved performance and added a number of new features:
  
  
  • The ability to pass null as an argument with the specified type
  • Return value of type void
  • The pseudotype Iterable , which combined both regular arrays and objects that implement Traversable
  • Access modifiers for class constants
  • List () improvements: short syntax and the ability to specify keys
  • Ability to catch several types of exceptions in a single catch block
  • and others
  
  
• PHP 5.6.29 , 7.0.14 - Security updates for current branches.
• WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” - New theme, REST API development, and other improvements.
• Symfony 3.2.0
• PHPUnit 5.7.0
• Symfoniacs # 11 - December 14, a meeting of PHP / Symfony developers in Moscow.

Php

• RFC: Chaining Comparison — It is proposed to implement a small improvement for comparison operators and to make double conditions possible:
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  $a = 10; if (0 < $a < 100) { echo "Value is between 0 and 100\n"; } 

Instruments

• nikic / PHP-Parser 3.0.0 - PHP parser for PHP with support for 7.1 and other improvements.
• WP-CLI 1.0.0 - Command Line for WordPress.
• eugene-manuilov / phalcon-vm - Dev environment on Vagrant with a set of pre-installed services and configuration from the web interface. Sent by 2fast4rabbit .
• Solodkiy / memorize - Memoization for closures. Sent by doctorx .
• ericmann / sessionz - Alternative session manager. More in the post of the author.
• mpociot / botman - Library for creating chat bots. Out of the box supports Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Slack, HipChat and others.
• vimeo / psalm - Static analysis tool for finding errors in PHP applications.
• phpstan / phpstan - Static analyzer.
• exakat / exakat - Static analyzer. Also available is a list of all such tools: exakat / php-static-analysis-tools .
• hbattat / verifyEmail - A tool for validating email addresses by connecting to a mail server and verifying its real existence.
• Adldap2 / Adldap2 - Authentication via LDAP and work with Active Directory in the style of Active Record.
• prooph / service-bus - Lightweight message bus.
• spatie / schema-org - Builder Schema.org entities with a fluid interface.
• atk4 / data - A framework for accessing SQL / NoSQL data warehouses. Implements its own DataSet and Action Mapping pattern.
• SilentByte / sb-dynlex - Leaker for PHP with a flowing interface

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • AndrewCarterUK / NoMoreLeaksBundle - Bundle for detecting memory leaks. While using Doctrine and Monolog is being analyzed.
  • Managing Background Processes in Symfony
  • Slides: Processing 10k requests per second using symfony and Varnish
  • Symfony Week # 518 (November 28 - December 4, 2016)
  • Symfony Week # 519 (December 5 - 11, 2016)
  • Videos from Symfoniacs # 10
  • Blocking duplicate symfony ommand
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Development on Yii2: Using Amazon S3
  • Launched a new http://yiiframework.ru
  • Alexander Makarov - Yii2: Structure of a Large Project
  • Yii2-advanced: alternative folder layout for multiple applications
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Eloquent in examples
  • renatomarinho / laravel-gitscrum - Scrum task management system implemented on Laravel.
  
  
• Overview of PHP 7.1 Innovations
• Tutorial on Event Sourcing with examples
• Build PHP Projects on AWS CodeBuild
• Automate a project using Composer scripts
• PHP performance evolution from 5.0 to 7.1
• About using eval and exec
• How to create your own dependency injection container in PHP
• About C language and performance
• Brilliance and misery php. Language evolution from 4.x to 7.1
• We cover the project with smoke tests until it burns out
• Pseudo-encapsulation of legacy include when there is no time to refactor
• Caches for "dummies"

Audio and video

• PHP podcast # 11 - PHP 7.1, Symfony 3.2, cache deduplication, React instead of Twig, RabbitMQ for scaling.
• PHP podcast # 12 - JIT in PHP8, JWT for SSO.
• Five Minutes PHP: Release # 25 - PHP 7.1
• Videos from ThinkPHP # 13
• Video conference from PHP Australia - Sent by im_special_one .

Entertaining

• SQL injection statistics for PHP issues on Stack Overflow - Sent by im_special_one .

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