PHP Digest number 101 - interesting news, materials and tools (January 15 - 29, 2017)

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

• PHP 5.6.30 - The latest full release of the branch 5.6. According to the release calendar , security bug fixes will be issued for another two years.
• PHP 7.0.15 , PHP 7.1.1 - Updates on current branches.
• Laravel 5.4 - Under the hood, a new testing tool Laravel Dusk , building the frontend using webpack instead of Gulp, automatic facades, markdown for letter templates, and other improvements. Overview of innovations in Laravel 5.4 .
• Secure Updates for WordPress - A proposal has been made to implement a crypto-check for automatic updates using paragonie / sodium_compat .
• Deployer 4.1.0

Php

• RFC: Permit trailing whitespace in numeric strings - At this point, PHP ignores whitespace at the beginning of a numeric string, that is, " 123" and "123" equivalent. But if the whitespace characters come at the end, then such a number is considered not valid. It is proposed to correct the injustice.
• RFC: Disallow Multiple Constructor Calls - It is proposed to prohibit multiple constructor calls.
• RFC: Deprecate and Remove Bareword (Unquoted) Strings - In current versions of PHP, using a string without quotes throws an error of the E_NOTICE level. It is proposed to throw E_WARNING in the nearest version, and then ParseError.
• RFC: Deprecations for PHP 7.2 - Passed a vote on the list of functionalities on an obsolete ad: __autoload , $php_errormsg , create_function() , mbstring.func_overload , (unset) cast , parse_str() without second argument, gmp_random() , each() , assert() with a string argument, the $errcontext argument in the error handler.

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Instruments

• corpsee / php-censor - PHP CI server. Fork virtually abandoned PHPCI . Sent by Corpsee .
• denisyukphp / tmpfile - A class for working with a temporary file as an alternative to the standard tmpfile () function. Sent by Alexander Denisyuk . Habrapost in support.
• Microsoft / tolerant-php-parser - At the moment, an experimental PHP parser for PHP from Microsoft. Intended for use in IDE, that is, where the code is obviously not complete, which means that the parser must be error resistant.
• php-fig / http-message-util - A pair of interfaces with a set of HTTP constants status codes and HTTP methods.
• php-enqueue / enqueue-dev - Components for working with message queues. Supports transports Amqp, Stomp, file system.
• shadowhand / latitude - SQL query builder.
• ezimuel / PHP-Secure-Session - Encryption for native sessions.
• jmolivas / phpqa is a CLI tool that combines popular code quality control solutions for ease of use.
• digitalkaoz / php-ipfs - Client for IPFS .
• flyimg.io - Application for resizing, cropping and compressing images on the fly.
• cweagans / composer-patches - Plugin for Composer, which allows you to apply patches to dependencies.
• asyncphp / paper - Asynchronous HTML to PDF Converter.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • matthiasnoback / symfony-console-form - The package integrates the Form and Console components and allows you to fill out forms from the console. Post in support.
  • Symfony Week # 525 (January 16-22, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 526 (January 23-29, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • loveorigami / yii2-plugins-system - Plugins system for Yii 2. Sent by loveorigami .
  • Example of using Yii2 in WordPress plugin
  • Yii2: Which cache is faster? - A simple benchmark DbCache, FileCache, MemCache and RedisCache.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • plank / laravel-metable - Package for adding metadata to Eloquent models.
  • orchestral / testbench - Package to simplify testing when developing your own Laravel packages.
  • jcc / blog - Blog on Laravel and Vue.js.
  
  
• Tutorial on using Google Calendar API
• Create a SOAP Server with zend-soap
• PHP likes to sort - array_unique() , glob() , scandir() by default perform sorting, which can slow down the result a lot on large input data.
• About PHP configuration and security - Why tuning php.ini has virtually no effect on application security.
• Tutorial on using Eloquent ORM without Laravel
• About the directory structure of PHP projects
• 3 reasons to use immutable objects
• On Aggregates and Domain Service interaction
• Detailed tutorial on running WordPress on AWS
• Comparative Review GraphQL vs REST
• Catalog of design patterns with examples in PHP - Code is available here .
• Defect Detection Code Type Expression Issues (CWE-569)
• New quick start with PHPixie: we build quote-by-commit commit
• Generating documents in doc, excel, pdf and other formats on the server
• Application Monitoring with Pinba
• PHP 7.1.1 FPM vs Node.js 7.4.0 as a web backend server

Audio and video

• PHP Roundtable Podcast # 057: All About Zend

Entertaining

• Where is the senor going?
• Miss Universe contest participant from Indonesia programs in PHP
• The most frequently used words in open source code in various PLs -

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