PHP Digest number 109 - the latest news, materials and tools (May 14 - 28, 2017)

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News and Releases

• The end of support for HHVM in popular projects - If some two years ago the alternative PHP virtual machine from Facebook could boast an impressive performance advantage, today the difference is insignificant. According to Composer statistics , the proportion of HHVM users is less than PHP 5.3 and is 0.36%. Nevertheless, thanks to the HHVM team for pushing PHP to develop.
  Starting with the symfony 4 version, the framework will not support HHVM . Laravel has discontinued support since version 5.3 . In Yii, the termination is scheduled in version 2.1 . MongoDB driver support for HHVM stops . Support for Doctrine , Twig (from version 2), Silex, and Swiftmailer also stops.
• Codeception 2.3 - Update popular testing tool. Under the hood, support for PHPUnit 6, installation templates, and other improvements.
• Deployer 5

Php

• RFC: UUID — It is proposed to add a UUID class to the kernel to generate unique values ​​according to RFC 4122 . As part of the implementation of polyphiles are available for versions of PHP <7.2. In addition, there is a proposal to make obsolete the uniqid () function, which, contrary to the name, does not guarantee the return of a unique value.
• RFC: Object typehint - There is a vote on the proposal to add the object type as an option for typing. This type can be used for any objects, which can be useful when a particular type is not known in advance.

Instruments

• wapmorgan / Imagery - Image wrapper over GD. Sent wapmorgan .
• IcyApril / WhatsChanged - Allows you to run PHPUnit tests for classes that have changed. Post in support.
• kitetail / zttp - Wrap Guzzle around with concise and convenient syntax.
• teresko / palladium - Component for authentication and user registration.
• iranianpep / botonomous - A framework for creating bots for Slack.
• mcustiel / phiremock - A tool for mock HTTP requests and REST services for use in acceptance tests.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • EasyCorp / easy-deploy-bundle - A bundle without third-party dependencies for seamless deployment of symfony applications.
  • Architecture and code of the website for the President of France
  • Symfony Week # 542 (May 15-21, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 543 (May 22-28, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Development on Yii2: Add votes, comments, sharing
  • YiiConf 2017 June 16 in Moscow - a program is formed
  • Alternative project organization on Yii2 - Plugin system and method of structuring projects. Sent by hiqsol .
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • spatie / laravel-medialibrary - Allows you to attach files to any Eloquent-models.
  • davestewart / laravel-sketchpad - Dev interface for fast development on Laravel.
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Shielding with zend-escaper
  • Organizing a large project on the Zend Framework 2/3
  
  
• The list () function and the practical use of array restructuring
• PHP Language Trivia - Nikita Popov's report about interesting features of PHP.
• Composer command line auto-completion scripts
• Retrieving Value Objects
• Web Application Security Checklist
• Encrypted database with search for PHP and SQL
• Performance Testing with Siege
• Message Bus for PHP Applications
• Preparing a local Docker environment for PHP development
• Video reports Symfony St. Petersburg Meetup # 1
• Getting ready for a PHP interview: Everything you wanted to know about interfaces, signature compatibility and were not afraid to learn
• We do GraphQL API on PHP and MySQL. Part 2: Mutations, variables, validation and security , Part 3: Solving the problem of N + 1 queries
• Type hinting according to all canons of polymorphism in old versions of PHP
• Backend I / O Performance: Node vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Go
• Another logging system, now on ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana and Prometheus
• How to write logs
• Building a modular architecture of the application on Forwarding decorators (author's translation)
• SQL vs ORM
• Learning neural network geometry
• Execution Threads and PHP
• About generics in PHP and why we need them

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