PHP Digest number 99 - the results of 2016 and a selection of interesting links (December 11 - 25, 2016)

By tradition, let's summarize the outgoing year and recall the most significant events in the PHP world, which, fortunately, were many. And of course, a selection with links to fresh materials over the past two weeks.

Happy New Year! Enjoy reading.

The outgoing year can rightfully be called the year of PHP 7. Despite the fact that the seventh version of the interpreter was released in 2015, it was this year that large companies switched to PHP 7: Badoo , Tumblr , Dailymotion , WordPress.com , Etsy (changed HHVM to PHP 7) . Some even called the graphs of the load drop on the servers after the update just as "php7 porn". Next year, PHP 7 will be the minimum version for the Laravel 5.5 and Symfony 4 frameworks.

The end of the year was marked by the release of a new major version of the interpreter - PHP 7.1 with a ton of improvements .
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At the same time, work continued on the next version 7.2 and a number of RFCs have already been adopted. In addition, Dmitry Stogov and the team are working on the implementation of JIT .

This year the PHP 5.5 branch received its latest release 5.5.38 and is no longer supported. And the branch 5.6 in the next two years will receive only security updates .
Alternative PHP implementations also remain popular. Known HHVM received LTS release . In addition, Peachpie , a PHP compiler for .NET, and Tagua VM , a Rust virtual machine, appeared.


The PHP-FIG group, although experiencing some crisis , was reformed according to the plan of PHP-FIG 3.0 . And also released a number of new standards:

• PSR-13: Link definition interfaces - accepted
• PSR-11 Container Interface - Review
• PSR-14 Event Manager - draft
• PSR-15 HTTP Middlewares - draft
• PSR-16: Simple Cache - draft
• PSR-17 HTTP Factories - draft

As well as within the framework of Interoperability initiatives, standards are developed in narrower areas:

• Asynchronous Interoperability
• Container Interoperability
• Configuration Interoperability
• Framework Interoperability
• Event Bus Interoperability

This year’s popular framework has become the latest release, including improvements in branch 1.1 - Yii 1.1.17 . And a number of updates of the current second version of the framework: 2.0.7 , 2.0.8 , 2.0.9 , 2.0.10 . Version 2.1 is actively planned , and work has begun in the appropriate branch.

@Dynasource joined the core team. New yiiframework.ru launched . Yii received the Tagline award for best backend framework. A book was published with recipes for Yii 2 - Yii 2 Application Development Cookbook . Also this year, a conference was held in Kiev and the first Hackathon on Yii .



This year, the symfony 2 framework is 5 years old . Meanwhile, the world saw as many as 2 releases: the Symfony 3.1.0 framework and Symfony 3.2.0 . Symfony packages have been downloaded over 500 million times .



The framework is 5 years old . Laravel 5.3 was released in the middle of the year. And also a plan for the release of the next versions is available , according to which 5.4 will be released early next year, a 5.5 will become the LTS version and is expected in July 2017.

This year, paid products from the Laravel: Forge , Spark , Envoyer ecosystem actively developed.



The outgoing year was marked by the long-awaited release of Zend Framework 3 , the work on which lasted almost 4 years. The framework repository was renamed from zf2 to zendframework. The framework is available book , including in Russian. At the same time, the end of Zend Framework 1 support was announced. And also Zend Expressive saw the light - a microframe for creating a web application based on PSR-7 middleware.

Among other events of the outgoing year should be highlighted:

• Composer 1.0.0 - The first stable release of Composer
• Phalcon 3.0.0 - LTS release of the popular PECL framework
• Go! AOP Framework 1.0.0 , 2.0.0
• Andy Gutmans left Zend
• 15 years of the Drupal project

And what would you have identified yet? Write in the comments to the post!

News and Releases

• Packagist Private - Presented by packagist.com - a corporate SaaS solution for using private dependencies instead of Satis and Toran Proxy .
• Phalcon 3.0.3

Php

• RFC: Class-like Primitive Types - A draft proposal for implementing quasi-object behavior for primitive types. At the same time, their internal representation will not change and cannot be expanded, but instanceof will be available, and in the future - the implementation of common ancestors, for example, \Number for float and int .
• RFC: Server-Side Request and Response Objects - It is proposed to include in the kernel the recently announced request extension, which adds Request and Response objects instead of superglobal arrays.
• RFC: Debugging PDO Prepared Statement Emulation v2 - A proposal was made to emulate prepared expressions directly in PHP for easy debugging.

Instruments

• pbudzon / dhcp-php - Implementing a DHCP server in PHP. Post and video demo in support of the author.
• clue / php-commander - A tool for creating simple console applications with a concise interface.
• PHP API Clients - Organization within which asynchronous clients are implemented for various services.
• naneau / php-obfuscator - Obfuscator for PHP, which parses code and replaces variable names, etc.
• frickelbruder / kickoff - The tool checks some SEO parameters of the site and is intended for use in CI.
• mgp25 / Instagram-API - The library implements the Instagram features hidden in the official API.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony: myth about bloated framework
  • Symfony Week # 520 (December 12-18, 2016)
  • Symfony Week # 521 (December 19-25, 2016)
  • Symfony - combine GridFS files with ORM entities
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Development on Yii 2: Routing and URL creation
  • tuyakhov / yii2-json-api - Implementation of the JSON API specification for Yii 2.
  • Yii2 RESTful API for AngularJS
  • Yii2-advanced: Making internationalization with a source in Redis
  • Multilanguage widget in YII2 without using a database
  • An example of creating a practical Debug panel in Yii
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Scale Laravel with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Creating a PHP web application using Firebird and Laravel
  • Polymorphic Relations in Eloquent
  • An example of the implementation of a login link without a password on Laravel
  
  
• Optimizing PHP performance through the use of full function designation - Research on why calling global functions \foo() faster than foo() . The roave / functionfqnreplacer tool is also available, which will scan the sources and add a slash where necessary.
• pds / skeleton - Recommendation for PHP package structure.
• Prevent PHP script from running multiple times at the same time - About locking implementation.
• Inheritance vs composition and the principle of openness / closeness SOLID
• Improving tests: waiting vs implementation
• Semantic highlighting of variables in PhpStorm 2016.3
• Optimizing recursive algorithms with trampoline
• Everything you know about public key encryption in PHP is wrong
• On vulnerabilities (including PHP) in multimedia modules of aircraft
• PHP module in C ++
• How not to use the Repository pattern
• Alameda, Bower and NPM integration in the CleverStyle Framework
• Scaling ClickHouse, managing migrations and sending requests from PHP to the cluster
• As we have 4 years survived in terms of two releases per day
• PHP 7 performance improvement

Audio and video

• PHP podcast # 13
• PHP 7.1 video review
• PHP Roundtable Podcast # 057: All About Zend
• Abusing PHP 7's OPcache to Spawn Webshells

Entertaining

• Ask Badoo backend developers. Part 1. Platform

Thank you for your attention and once again with the upcoming New Year! May it be better for you than the previous two in the amount!

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