PHP Digest number 111 - the latest news, materials and tools (June 12 - 25, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2, a couple of new RFCs, materials from YiiConf and FWDays, PHP rootkits, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2 - Another alpha is scheduled before feature-freeze on July 20th. A list of innovations can be found in the last issue of the digest .
Phalcon 3.2.0 - Review of new features.

Php internals

RFC: Retry functionality - It is proposed to expand the try-catch-finally block and the keyword retry. If an appropriate exception is thrown if there is a retry, the try block will be repeated:

try { somethingSketchy(); } retry 3 (RecoverableException $e, $attempt) { echo "Failed doing sketchy thing on try #{$attempt}. Retrying..."; sleep(1); } catch (RecoverableException $e) { echo $e->getMessage(); }

 try { somethingSketchy(); } catch (RecoverableException $e) retry; // Go to top of try block }

RFC: Unary null coalescing operator - Is it proposed to implement a unary version of the operator ?? added in PHP 7.0:
')
```
 if ($_POST["action"]?? === "submit") { // Form submission logic } else { // Form display logic } 
```

Instruments

amphp / amp 2.0.0 - A powerful asynchronous framework with a concise interface thanks to generators. A number of additional components are also available: asynchronous mysql and postgres clients, DNS resolver , HTTP / WebSocket server , and others.
wapmorgan / ServerAvailabilityMonitor - Utility monitors the servers for availability and sends error reports to the mail. Supports http, mysql, pgsql, memcache and redis. Sent wapmorgan .
paragonie / sapient - Library for ensuring the security of the API, even when TLS is broken. Post in support.
genkgo / mail - Library for sending mail. A suitable alternative to PHPMailer or Swift Mailer.
prooph / event-store - PHP 7.1 EventStore for implementing Event Sourcing pattern.
jonathantorres / construct - The tool generates the folder structure and files for the new PHP project.
wikimedia / composer-merge-plugin - Plugin for Composer, which combines several composer.json files on the fly. Convenient for the separation of the project into internal components with their dependencies.