PHP Digest number 105 - interesting news, materials and tools (March 13 - 26, 2017)

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

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.0.17 , PHP 7.1.3
• PhpStorm 2017.1 - Support for Codeception, PHPUnit 6, improved PHP 7 support, and other improvements.
• Phalcon 3.1.0 - Some improvements, but still no PHP 7.1 support.
• The list of crowdfunding campaigns to support PHP projects has been supplemented by three more participants:
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  • Alexander Makarov - Yii
  • Vladimir Reznichenko - Php Inspections
  • Sebastian Bergmann - PHPUnit
  • Taylor Otwell - Laravel
  • Anton Medvedev - Deployer
  • Ondřej Mirtes - PHPStan

Php

• 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. Offer accepted unanimously.

Instruments

• Payum / Payum - A powerful library for processing payments. Supports many providers and payment scenarios.
• wapmorgan / UnifiedPlaylist - Library for reading all popular playlist formats: aimppl, asx, xspf, zpl, m3u, pls, upf.
• mnapoli / dbal-schema - A tool for describing a database schema using Doctrine DBAL .
• marcioAlmada / yay - Preprocessor for PHP. About use here and here .
• mautic / mautic - An open platform for marketing automation.
• leocavalcante / siler - microframework without dependencies and implemented with extremely simple functions without classes.
• paragonie / airship - CMS with an emphasis on safety. As we have made the CMS Airship safe .
• DaveRandom / CallbackValidator - A small tool for validating signatures.
• php / pecl-php-operator - The extension allows you to implement operator overloading for objects.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • lexxpavlov / LexxpavlovSettingsBundle - Bundle allows you to manage settings - create, modify and receive in code and template. Sent by lexxpavlov .
  • lexxpavlov / SpellingBundle - Bundle allows users to indicate errors in the text. Sent by lexxpavlov .
  • Symfony 4.0 is expected in November
  • About trademark symfony
  • Symfony Week # 533 (March 13-19, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 534 (March 20-26, 2017)
  • Deploying the symfony development environment for Windows
  • Frequently used passwords: how not to get caught yourself and protect users
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • zhuravljov / yii2-queue - Task queue for Yii 2. Able to work through the database, Redis, RabbitMQ, Beanstalk and Gearman.
  • tunecino / angular-yii2-model - Service for AngularJS 1.x to use the Yii 2 REST API.
  • bizley / yii2-migration — Generates migration based on the current state of the base and previous migrations.
  • Updated Yii2 plugin for PhpStorm
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • viacreative / sudo-su - Package for login on behalf of any user when debugging.
  • cmgmyr / laravel-messenger - Private messaging system for Laravel.
  • mpociot / laravel-face-auth - Authentication through face recognition. Wrap over Microsoft Face API . Submitted by im_special_one .
  • The process of creating packages for Laravel
  • Launch Laravel on a smartphone with Android
  • How does Laravel work?
  • Update on the fly (zero downtime deploy) Laravel application using Deployer
  
  
• PHP and immutability
• How to implement refactoring of service retrieval when there are no tests
• JOSE (Javascript Object Signing and Encryption), and JWT in particular, is a bad standard and should not be used
• Basics of Parallel Programming with Pthreads
• Typed arrays and collections in PHP
• How to become a web developer in 2017 - Sent by im_special_one .
• How to optimize REST API by grouping requests - Sent by im_special_one .
• About dependency management in a WordPress ecosystem
• PHP assert features
• Simple chat with Ratchet, Siler, and React (js)
• PHP FAQ
• PHP 7.1 for Google App Engine - Also in the near future promise support for Phalcon in App Engine. Submitted by im_special_one .
• Using Google Container Engine to Deploy Scalable and Secure PHP Applications - Google Cloud Next 2017
• Composer boot loader optimization
• How we started to develop our own project management system and what came out of it
• The policy of backward compatibility in the development framework for the example of Magento 2. Part 1
• Web push notifications quick and easy

Entertaining

• NodeJS framework with Laravel syntax (and no noodles in code)
• PHPUnicorn is a LED test indicator for the Raspberry Pi.
  
  
  
  
• Almost pipe-operator for PHP 7 - While the discussion of the implementation of the pipe-statement from Hack is dead, you can use a simple solution:
  
  

  <?php declare(strict_types=1); require_once "pipe.php"; pipe($_)->strlen("foo")->var_dump($_); 

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