PHP Digest number 113 - the latest news, materials and tools (July 16 - 30, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In release: PHP 7.2.0 Beta 1, fresh RFC from PHP Internals, materials on asynchronous PHP, video from conferences and meetings, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 Beta 1 - With the first beta release, the active development phase ends, which means that the list of new features in branch 7.2 can be considered final. The next beta is expected on August 3rd. In the meantime, you can try PHP 7.2 from a prepared Docker image .
• PhpStorm 2017.2 - Improved integration with Composer and Docker, autostart tests, and more. Video review innovations.
• OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0 - A release specification for describing an API, formerly known as Swagger.
• silexphp / Pimple 3.2.0 - DI-container now with full support for PSR-11 .
• Bolt 3.3.0 - Popular CMS on symfony components.

Php internals

• RFC: Same Site Cookie - setcookie() and other functions for working with cookies are suggested to add support for the Same-site Cookie standard.
• RFC: Raise warnings for json_encode () and json_decode () issues - When an error occurs during a call to json_encode()/json_decode() suggested to throw an error of class E_WARNING instead of using the function json_last_error() .
• RFC: Short Closures - A short syntax is proposed for converting Callable to Closure:
  
  

   $writeln = {Util\writeln}; // is a simplification for $writeln = Closure::fromCallable('Util\writeln'); $writeln = {$terminal->writeln}; // instead of $writeln = Closure::fromCallable([$terminal, 'writeln']); 

  
  
• RFC: Mixed typehint - It is proposed to add a mixed typehint:
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   function foo(mixed $arg): mixed { return $arg; } 

Instruments

• jakzal / phpqa - All popular tools for static PHP analysis in one Docker image.
• vaimo / composer-patches - Plugin for Composer, which allows you to apply patches to dependencies. Sent by mougrim .
• SecureHeaders v2.0 - Library for working with HTTP-related security headers. In the second version, integration with frameworks is simplified. More about the tool in the post .
• igorw / evenement - Event dispatcher inspired by EventEmitter from Node.js.
• leproxy / leproxy - HTTP / SOCKS proxy server for PHP.
• jcupitt / php-vips - Bindings for libvips , a very fast and lightweight image library.
• travello-gmbh / amazon-alexa-skill-skeleton - A skeleton application on Zend \ Expressive for developing skills for Amazon Alexa.
• nikic / php-ast - An extension that makes abstract syntax tree available in userland.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Changes to the symfony core team
  • Event Naming Guidelines for the Symfony Event Dispatcher
  • Sound of Symfony podcast: Episode 18 - Event sourcing
  • Symfony Week # 551 (July 17-23, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 552 (July 24-30th, 2017)
  • Doctrine Specification Pattern or your reusable QueryBuilder
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-queue - Yii extension for working with queues.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Presented by Laravel Horizon - Dashboard for monitoring and managing queues based on Redis. More in the announcement .
  • JosephSilber / bouncer - Package for managing roles and permissions in Laravel.
  • orchestral / tenanti - A multi-site based on Laravel with the preservation of each tenant in a separate database.
  • Vuedo / vuedo - Another blog platform on Laravel and Vue.js.
  • Laravel Middleware Basics
  • Using Service Providers in Laravel
  • New in Laravel 5.5
  • Orchid CMS - another CMS on Laravel
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Reuse of factories at Zend ServiceManager
  • Zend Expressive Module Tutorial
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-07-27
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-07-20
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • Async PHP - The full book on the development of asynchronous applications for PHP.
  • Asynchronous HTTP requests using ReactPHP
  • Create video streaming server on ReactPHP
  
  
• How to write a test test a la javascript for php
• Do not call instance methods statically.
• Compilation of good PHP development practices - Also rules for Phpstan for automatic verification of compliance with practices.
• Debugging Remote Xdebug for NAT
• Warehouse management system using CQRS and Event Sourcing. Design
• Application of the principle of poka-yoke in programming using the example of PHP
• Singletons and Shared Instances
• Magento Dare to Share - Open Platform for Reports on Magento, PHP and eCommerce

Audio and video

• PHP Roundtable # 065: TestFest 2017
• Video recordings of reports from PHP Odessa Conf 2017
• Superjob PHP-meetup. Live broadcast
• Five Minutes PHP: Release 28 - Superjob PHP-meetup

Entertaining

• The open serverless Apache OpenWhisk platform (similar to AWS Lambda) now supports PHP .
• owl-lang.org - Programming language translated in PHP. A mix of PHP and JavaScript.

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