PHP Digest number 119 (October 10 - 29, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 RC5 and other releases, suggestions from PHP Internals, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 RC5 - The penultimate release candidate of the planned . The final release of PHP 7.2 is expected on November 30th. Reviews of innovations can be found here , here , and here .
• PHP 5.6.32
• PHP 7.0.25
• PHP 7.1.11
• Symfoniacs SPB Meetup # 2 - Datanyze (31 oct 2017) - Meeting of PHP / Symfony developers in St. Petersburg.
• MODXpo 2017 - A MODX conference will be held for the first time in Minsk on November 11 and 12.

Php internals

• RFC: JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR - Offer accepted for PHP 7.3. The json_encode() and json_decode() functions will throw an exception in case of an error and the presence of a corresponding flag.
• [RFC] Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntaxes - Improved multi-line text blocks. Support for indentation, as well as the abolition of the need for a newline after the closing marker.
  

   <?php $values = [<<<EOT a b c EOT, 'de f']; 

Instruments

• nunomaduro / collision - Whoops for console applications - displays beautiful and informative error reports.
• itsgoingd / clockwork - An extension for Chrome that adds a dev tools tab for debugging PHP applications.
• Teein / Html - Template based on the idea of ​​a virtual DOM.
• mark-gerarts / automapper-plus - Clone .NET AutoMapper , simplifies the transfer of data from object to object.
• sebastianbergmann / object-graph - Allows you to display a graph of PHP objects.
• apioo / fusio is an open source API Management platform.
• antonioribeiro / ci - Simple Laravel-based CI.
• php-censor / php-censor - Another popular PHP CI server.
• enygma / expose - A library for detecting attacks against an application.
• ircmaxell / PHP-Yacc - YACC grammar parser generator.
• paragonie / certainty - Automatic control of cacert.pem for PHP projects. Read more about the problem in the post .
• infection / infection - AST mutational testing framework. Post in support.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Using the event model in Doctrine 2 + Symfony 3
  • Symfony Flex: The Future of Symfony
  • Some PHP 7.1 vs 7.2 benchmarks with Docker and Symfony Flex
  • Symfony 4: HTTP / 2 Push and Preload
  • Symfony Week # 563 (October 9-15, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 564 (October 16-22, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 565 (October 23-29, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii development notes # 15
  • Yii development notes # 16
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Announced by Laracon Online 2018
  • renatomarinho / laravel-page-speed - Minify HTML.
  • laravel-shield - Middleware for protecting endpoints intended for use by web hooks of third-party services.
  • stefanzweifel / laravel-stats - Artisan-team, which will display a variety of code statistics.
  • ajthinking / tinx - Tinker improvements.
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • recoilphp / recoil 1.0 - A set of tools for working with corutines in PHP.
  • seregazhuk / php-react-memcached - Asynchronous client for memcached. As well as a couple of posts from the author about creating a client: requests and response processing , connection and errors .
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Git and WordPress: auto-update posts from pull requests
  • About the future of Drupal in the context of using JS frameworks, in particular React
  • Magento Dare to Share. Autumn - season Magento mitapov
  • Magento Tech Digest # 5 - News, Tutorials and Tools (October 9-30, 2017)
  
  
• About transferring data from external layers of a PHP application to a logic layer
• Logs sent from Monolog to ELK
• Injectables vs.Newables
• Fast and secure array iteration -
  foreach ($definition ?? [] as $id => $val) { }
• Continuous performance monitoring of PHP applications using Blackfire - About using an excellent Blackfire.io profiler.
• PHP task queue with bernardphp / bernard
• Everything you need to know about PHP environment variables
• Code hiding and refactoring areas
• array_ * vs foreach or PHP7 vs PHP5
• Ama. Avito. Backend
• Search and fix bugs in PHP source

Audio and video

• Alexander Makarov: Large projects, architecture and frameworks
• PHP Roundtable # 067: Imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect
• PHP Roundtable # 068: PHP's Dirty Little Segfault Secret

Entertaining

• josephernest / Yopp - A brilliant solution for transferring a file from phone to computer and back.

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