PHP Digest number 104 - interesting news, materials and tools (March 1 - 12, 2017)

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

News and Releases

• Zend Expressive 2.0
• Composer 1.4.0 - Optimized memory usage + several other improvements.
• Prophecy 1.7.0 - Update popular tool for creating test twins.
• PhpStorm 2017.1 Public Preview - Support for Codeception, PHPUnit 6, improved PHP 7 support, and other improvements.
• HHVM now supports ARM architecture
• WordPress is launched on .NET . After a year of development, the Peachpie project, which develops an open compiler from PHP to .NET, has reached the possibility of compiling WordPress.
• Several well-known contributors of the PHP community launched crowdfunding campaigns to develop their projects. Support the guys and wish them success and strength!
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  • Vladimir Reznichenko - Php Inspections
  • Sebastian Bergmann - PHPUnit
  • Alexander Makarov - Yii - Read more in post Alexander SamDark .
  
  

Php

• RFC - Deprecation of fallback to root scope - Currently, if a function or constant is not found in the namespace, an attempt will be made to find an entity with that name in the global space. It is proposed to declare the functionality obsolete and throw a Notice level error:
  
  

  Undefined function \My\NS\strlen(), assumed \strlen() Undefined constant \My\NS\PHP_VERSION, assumed \PHP_VERSION 

Instruments

• fzaninotto / Faker - Library for generating test data. Fresh tutorial on use. Submitted by im_special_one .
• tarantool-php / mapper - Transparent work with the Tarantool database. Sent by nekufa .
• makasim / yadm - Fast implementation of schema less ODM for MongoDB.
• magium / configuration-manager - A library for managing configs. Video Tutorial
• Maxlab / stacker - Dev-based Docker environment for developing on popular frameworks. Habrapost in support .
• justinrainbow / json-schema - A tool for validation as per json-schema.org . Fesor suggested an alternative solution to thephpleague / json-guard .
• BrainMaestro / composer-git-hooks - Manage Git hooks from the Composer config.
• ScriptFUSION / PHPUnit-Immediate-Exception-Printer - Prints information about errors that occurred during the execution of tests without waiting for them to end.
• tuupola / server-timing-middleware - PSR-7 and PSR-15 component, which makes it easy to add a Server-Timing header with timer values ​​that appear on the Network tab of the developer tools in the browser.
• cilex / cilex - A framework for creating command line tools.
• woohoolabs / yang - Client for JSON: API .
• spatie / server-monitor-app - Server status monitor, can send notifications via email and to Slack.
• antanas-arvasevicius / enumerable-type - A strongly typed implementation of Enum.
• violet-php / streaming-json-encoder - JSON stream coding on the fly, compared to json_encode there is no need to load all data into memory before encoding and the entire result after encoding.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • About integrating Disqus comments into a symfony application
  • About routes performance in symfony
  • Symfony 2017 Community Survey
  • Symfony video tutorials for beginners
  • New in symfony 3.3: Preloading resources using HTTP / 2 Push
  • Symfony Week # 531 (February 27 - March 5, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 532 (March 6-12, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • codemix / yii2-configloader - Configs for Yii 2 from environment variables or .env files.
  • Development on Yii2: ActiveRecord
  • PhpStorm Plugins for Yii
  • Yii2, quick start. The easiest site on Yii2 with static pages without using a database
  • Logging in Yii 2.0 and PSR-3
  • Enterprise Architecture on Yii2. Abstraction, dependency inversion, business logic encapsulation and variability management
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • laravelio / pastebin - Clone Pastebin on Laravel. Demo .
  • mattstauffer / Torch - An example of using each Laravel component outside the framework.
  • cybercog / laravel-ban - Allows you to add the ability to block (ban) to any Eloquent-model.
  • lubusIN / laravel-decomposer - A module for Laravel that displays information about installed packages, dependencies, environments.
  • Laravel Homestead V5.0.0 - Updating Vagrant-based dev environments can be used not only for Laravel. Video tutorial on use.
  • Awesome Laravel - A Selection of Materials and Tools by Laravel. There is also a small selection of Russian-language materials.
  • Laravel Forge API - Service API is now documented. There is an unofficial mpociot / blacksmith client .
  • Tutorial on Laravel and ElasticSearch - Sent by im_special_one .
  • Two-factor authentication in Laravel via SMS (Twilio)
  
  
• Laravel vs Symfony. What to choose? - Sent by im_special_one .
• Status of PHP MVC frameworks in 2017
• Basic refactoring techniques: extracting a method
• Google Spreadsheets Tutorial for PHP
• Work with PUT-requests to download files in PSR-7 middleware applications
• Closures, anonymous classes and alternative approaches to mokam in testing
• Separated Tokens - On the method of protection against attacks by time with token authentication.
• Debugging a PHP application with strace
• On the vulnerability in OPCache fixed in PHP 5.6.29, 7.0.14
• Composer autoloader optimization - Official documentation has been slightly updated.
• JetBrains Webinar on PhpSpec and PhpStorm - Sent by im_special_one .
• Continuous integration for PHP projects using PHP Censor
• Magento BarCamp - the new season of reports. March 2017
• Revitalize FirePhp in Firefox
• Magento U has published a free course Fundamentals of Magento 2 Development

Entertaining

• From 0 to 1000 stars on GitHub for three months on a side project - On the success of the PHPStan static analyzer.
• Taylor Otwell: How I Work

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