PHP Digest number 116 - the latest news, materials and tools (August 27 - September 10, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 RC 1, Laravel 5.5 LTS, clean PHP code, sentences from PHP Internals, video from conferences and meetings, and much more.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 RC 1 - The release candidate cycle for 7.2 started. Expected total at least 6 issues for stabilization. In the meantime, you can read what's new in PHP 7.2: here and here .
• PHP 7.0.23 , PHP 7.1.9
• Laravel 5.5 LTS - Under the hood, filp / whoops for errors, autodetect packages, improve task queues, improve exceptions, front-end presets for React, and much more.
• Behat 3.4.0 - Updating the popular BDD framework.
• NGINX Unit - An application server from the Nginx team with PHP support was announced.

Php internals

• RFC: Operator functions - For all operators except assignment, it is proposed to add functions of the same name so that they can be used as arguments of higher-order functions:
  
  

  //    ( array_sum()) $sum = array_reduce($terms, '+', 0); 

• Add Fiber (sackful coroutine) support - An interesting improvement to PHP generators, which would simplify asynchronous code. It is not yet formalized as a formal RFC, but there is already a rough pull request .

Instruments

• Botman 2.0.0 - A framework for creating chat bots. Out of the box supports: Slack, Telegram, Nexmo, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, WeChat. Tutorials Laravel + Botman: Telegram , FB Messenger , Slack .
• nkkollaw / zubr - The tool is designed to fix the problems of the PHP built-in functions: namespaces, consistent naming, and argument order have been added.
• Prooph - Tools for implementing CQRS and Event Sourcing in PHP. Tutorial . What is Event Sourcing and why is it cool .
• parpalak / rose - Embedded search engine with support for the Russian language.
• spatie / fractalistic - Wrap over thephpleague / fractal that adds a short flowing interface.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony packages have been downloaded over 1 billion times.
  • Using custom types in symfony and doctrine
  • Do not use Entities in symfony forms. Use better value objects
  • Gentlemen's Doctrine 2 for Symfony 3.3.6: Creating Entities, Associations, and Recursive Links
  • Symfony Week # 557 (August 28 - September 3, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 558 (September 4-10, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • yiisoft / yii2-debug 2.0.10
  • Interview with Jeff Reifman: Oh Yii and not only
  • Alexander Makarov: Yii development notes # 13
  • We write GraphQL API server on Yii2 with a client on Polymer + Apollo. Part 1. Server , Part 2. Client , Part 3. Mutations , Part 4. Validation. findings
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Certification - Announced a framework certification program.
  • Lumen 5.5 - Also updated microframe from the ecosystem Laravel.
  • bestmomo / nice-artisan - Web interface for Laravel Artisan. Submitted by im_special_one .
  • Authentication with JWT in Lumen 5.4
  • Understanding Pipelines in Laravel
  • Laravel 5 Relationships and greedy download in Eloquent
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Rapid Development of Enterprise Applications at Zend Expressive
  • Rapid Development of Zend Expressive Modules
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • clue / php-ami-react - Event access to Asterisk Manager Interface based on ReactPHP.
  • Resolv DNS asynchronously using ReactPHP
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • WordPress Month: August 2017
  • Immersion in pricing Magento 2, we remove pennies after discounts
  • Magento Tech Digest # 2 (August 21 - September 3, 2017)
  
  
• The correct way to use DIC
• Generate autoloader for legacy code
• Updating old password hashes on bcrypt
• Selenium for everyone: how we teach QA engineers to work with autotests
• Declarative web programming
• Experience in the development of a high-loaded system within the HighLoad Cup
• In the wake of highloadcup: php vs node.js vs go, swoole vs workerman, splfixedarray vs array and more
• Clean PHP Code - Adaptation of Robert Martin's Clean Code for PHP.

Audio and video

• Mitup PHP of BY # 24: MySQL table engines , About aspects of working with date and time
• PHP Roundtable # 066: Docker and Vagrant Transition
• Video reports from Laracon US 2017 - Sent by Nicklasos .

Entertaining

• THT - PHP programming language. A mix of PHP and JavaScript.
• How PHP was “Serverless” 20 years ago

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