PHP Digest number 114 - the latest news, materials and tools (August 1 - 14, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 Beta 2, about the history and security of unserialize (), start PSR HTTP Client, StackOverflow Driven Development, video from conferences and meetings, and much more. Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 Beta 2 - A list of new features of the 7.2 branch here , and you can test it from a prepared Docker image . The third and final beta release is scheduled for August 17th.
• Composer 1.5.0
• PHP 7.0.22
• PHP 7.1.8
• [PSR] HTTP Client - According to the accepted process , new proposals for the PSR must pass an input vote before a draft is developed. Such a vote was held for the HTTP Client standard, which means in the near future the group will begin work on the document.

Instruments

• mihaeu / dephpend - A static analysis tool that can help identify problems in architecture.
• spatie / phpunit-watcher - A tool to run tests automatically when code is changed. Post in support.
• Imangazaliev / DiDOM - A simple and fast library for parsing HTML.
• hirak / prestissimo - Composer plugin for parallel installation of packages. Significantly speeds up the installation of dependencies. Sent by chilic .
• clue / php-commander - A tool with a convenient interface for creating simple console applications.
• thephpleague / json-reference - Library for working with JSON-links.
• paragonie / easydb - Simple and concise wrap over PDO.
• hjr3 / php-rpm - Process Manager for PHP on Rust.
• spiral / goridge - High-performance RPC from PHP to Go without dependencies.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Wishlist on symfony and Vue.js according to DDD principles - Sent by franzose .
  • Symfony Week # 553 (July 31 - August 6, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 554 (August 7-13, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • yii2tech / content - CMS for Yii2 from Pavel Klimov.
  • Yii Slack Community
  • Yii development notes # 12
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • tightenco / ziggy - A package for using named Laravel routes on the frontend. Post in support.
  • owen-it / laravel-auditing - Allows you to track the change of Eloquent models. Post in support.
  • sebastiaanluca / laravel-helpers - A selection of helpers for Laravel and PHP.
  • What's new in Laravel 5.5?
  • Taylor Report on Laracon US 2017
  • Laracon 2017 - a brief overview and a bunch of useful links
  • Laravel - an ecosystem, not just a PHP framework
  • How to cross a hedgehog with a snake. We use GridView from Yii 2 in the project on Laravel
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • REST Representations for Expressive
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-08-08
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • reactphp / datagram - Client and server sockets for UDP on ReactPHP.
  • Managing child processes with ReactPHP
  
  
• Reflections on code “smells”
• Why not use the terms of Yoda
• Bad code scents
  
  
• PHP: Understanding with unserialize () - An article from one of the core developers about PHP's unserialize () / serialize () history and their security issues. Sent by andrewnester . On the question of why unserialize () bugs will no longer be considered security errors:

  PSA: Don't use unserialize () on untrusted input (see https://t.co/8GZb1xqE1u )
  PHP will no longer treat unserialize () bugs are security bugs.

  - Nikita Popov (@nikita_ppv) August 10, 2017

• Application Testing with Command Bus Architecture
• Life hacking by using __debugInfo
• We use php-fpm as asynchronous queue
• Architecture for clean, testable application logic
• Queue for Swiftmailer
• Recognize and neutralize. Search for unorthodox backdoors
• Optimization of presentation templates in the Codeigniter Framework using AST transformations
• Microservices and Actor Model
• Writing extensions for PHP 7 in C ++
• The calculation of the priority of combinations in Texas Hold'em (poker) for PHP

Audio and video

• PHP Serbia Conference 2017
• Interview with Nils Adermann (Composer) about private Packagist
• Video with PHP of BY # 23: How to start contributing to PHP , PHP: generics, strong typing of arrays and ...

Entertaining

• Great PHP chat in Telegram
• BrandonShar / stack-overflow-buddy - StackOverflow Driven Development - just write what you need to do with the arguments and the solution will be automatically found on SO:
  

  StackOverflowBuddy::substringBetweenTwoStrings('platypus', 'pl', 'us'); // atyp 

• PHP and other maps -
  

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