PHP Digest number 118 - the latest news, materials and tools (September 24 - October 9, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 RC 3 and other releases, 5 years of digest, sentences from PHP Internals, a fresh book on asynchronous PHP, a new extension profiler, and much more.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 RC3 - Another release candidate delivered on schedule . A fresh overview of what 's new in PHP 7.2 .
• PHP 7.0.24
• PHP 7.1.10
• PHP 7.1 is available on Google App Engine
• PostgreSQL 10
• Hacktoberfest 2017 - DigitalOcean and GitHub announced a campaign to support open source projects. Anyone who registers and makes 4 pull requests before October 31 will receive a T-shirt. If you want to participate, but do not know where to start, take a look at the issues marked with: #hacktoberfest .
• Symfony Moscow Meetup # 13 - October 17, Moscow, a meeting of PHP / Symfony developers.

Php internals

• [RFC] Allow a trailing comma in function calls - It is proposed to allow the use of a comma at the end of the function argument list:
  
  

  var_dump( $whatIsInThere, $probablyABugInThisOne, $oneMoreToCheck, ); 

• PHP 7.2 has not yet come out, and work on the following versions is already well underway. For example, in 7.3 , the optimization of sparse conditional constant propagation is implemented . This allows the interpreter to simplify the following function:
  
  

   Class C { public $i; } function fn(int $x) { $c = new C; $c->i = 1; if ($x) { $a = [1, 2, 3]; } else { $a = [3, 2, 1]; } return $a[$c->i]; $c->i++; return $x; } 

  
  to this:
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   function fn(int $x) { return 2; } 

  
  We are waiting for news about JIT, which is also being worked on .

Instruments

• jenssegers / date - Carbon- based library for working with dates and multilingual support. Sent by denisyukphp .
• json-api-php / json-api - The library describes the JSON API business rules in the domain logic language. Sent by f3ath .
• codeception / codeception-progress-reporter - Progress bar for Codeception. Sent by fr05t1k .
• hybridauth / hybridauth - One of the most popular libraries for authentication using social networks.
• Bit-Wasp / bitcoin-php - Bitcoin implementation of the PHP protocol.
• Webiny - Interesting CMS with a PHP backend and ReactJS on the frontend.
• nbs-system / snuffleupagus - Expansion for PHP 7+, designed to improve security by eliminating some classes of errors in the bud.
• NoiseByNorthwest / php-spx - A simple but very interesting profiler in the form of an extension. It can be a suitable alternative to XDebug and XHProf.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Deploying symfony API - CircleCI, Docker, AWS.
  • Sonata import bundle
  • Symfony + RabbitMQ Quick start for young
  • Symfony 3.4 and 4.0 are switching to “feature freeze” - the stabilization stage starts, and releases are expected by the end of November.
  • Symfony Week # 561 (September 25 - October 1, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 562 (October 2-8, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii development notes # 14
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • nicolaslopezj / searchable - Treyte for easy searching by Eloquent models.
  • appstract / laravel-blade-directives - A selection of Blade directives.
  • Testing Laravel Middleware using HTTP
  • Measuring anything in Laravel with StatsD
  • Cheat Sheet by Relationship in Eloquent
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-09-28
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • Event-driven PHP with ReactPHP - A complete book on asynchronous PHP from the author of ReactPHP articles .
  • Understanding Ticks in the ReactPHP Event Loop
  • clue / php-redis-react - Asynchronous Redis client.
  • clue / php-soap-react - Asynchronous SOAP-client.
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • WordPress Month: September 2017
  • Drupal 8.4.0
  • Magento 2.2.0
  • Magento Tech Digest # 4 (September 20 - October 9, 2017)
  
  
• The book "Microservices for everyone" with examples in PHP
• Using Argon2 for passwords in PHP 7.2
• Detailed story about realpath_cache
• Request handlers instead of controllers - Sent by denisyukphp .
• Node.js and transition from PHP to JavaScript
• Experience in implementing PSR standards in a single project
• Fast pool for php + websocket without node node jua based on lua + nginx
• About design patterns for working with RDBMS

Audio and video

• www.phppodcasts.com - All English-language PHP podcasts on one site.

Entertaining

• The PHP community poisons itself and we need to stop it.

• Idea of ​​the day: Hide `echo" \ 033 [37; 41mF \ 033 [m ";` in a PHPUnit Test suite: troll:

  - Gregoire Pineau (@lyrixx) September 25, 2017

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