PHP Digest 120 (November 1 - 19, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 RC6, PHP-FIG news, a couple of adopted RFCs for PHP 7.3, a portion of useful tools, materials on asynchronous PHP, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 RC6 - The sixth and, probably, the last release candidate of the 7.2 branch. Holding our breath, we are waiting for the final release on November 30th.
• PHP Version Usage Statistics 2017.2 - Traditional compilation of statistics for half a year based on the information Composer sends when connecting to packagist.org. The total share of PHP 7 is already 67.39%.
• PHP Month Month FIG # 1: October 2017 - The first regular review of news from the PHP-FIG group. PSR-12 on advanced coding style entered the draft stage; many ideas for new standards and other news.
• New HTTP response code - 103

Php internals

• [RFC] Allow a trailing comma in function calls - The proposal is accepted, which means that in branch 7.3 it will be possible to use a comma after the last function argument:
  

  var_dump( $foo, $bar, $buz, ); 

• [RFC] Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntaxes - A proposal for improving multi-line text blocks is also accepted. Indent support and the removal of the need for a newline after the closing marker will become available:
  

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

Instruments

• spiral / goridge - High-performance RPC from PHP to Go without dependencies.
• BitOne / php-meminfo - An extension that displays information about memory usage and is designed to detect leaks.
• simplario / quedis - Simple queue on Redis. Sent by Vlad Groznov .
• daveearley / cli.fyi - The service code of cli.fyi that will display various information in the console when prompted with curl.
• ausi / slug-generator - Library for generating urls (slug) based on CLDR .
• vozlt / nginx-module-vts - An extension for nginx that displays a useful page with status.
• colinodell / json5 - Implementing JSON de / coding with JSON5 standard.
• mnapoli / pretty - CLI interface to simplify working with CodeSniffer and PHP-CS-Fixer.
• LambdaPHP - A quick-start PHP application on AWS Lambda.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Bundle of vulnerabilities in symfony components: CVE-2017-16653 , CVE-2017-16652 , CVE-2017-16654 , CVE-2017-16790
  • Symfony Week # 566 (October 30 - November 5, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 567 (November 6-12, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 568 (November 13-19, 2017)
  • Comparison of PHP 7.1 and 7.2 performance (on Docker and Symfony Flex)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii 2.0.13
  • Yii development notes # 17
  • Discussion of plans and ideas for Yii 2.1 in Russian and English , the results of which formed a board in Trello , where you can track the status of ideas.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • TheOrchid / WebSocket - WebSockets server for Laravel based on Ratchet .
  • akalongman / laravel-lodash - Various utilities for Laravel> = 5.5.
  • Self-testing system with alerts on Laravel + Bitbucket + HipChat
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • clue / php-stdio-react - A library for convenient work with console I / O (STDIN, STDOUT) in asynchronous mode.
  • seregazhuk / php-react-promise-testing - Helper for PHPUnit for testing ReactPHP promises.
  • About Asynchronous PHP Magic
  • Extending child processes for ReactPHP
  • Creating a client for Memcached at ReactPHP: Events
  • Create a server for streaming video - Chapter from a book on asynchronous PHP .
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • WordPress 4.9 “Tipton”
  • SQL injection vulnerabilities in WordPress - technical details , background .
  • postlight / headless-wp-starter - WordPress as a RESTful backend and React on the front.
  • tim-field / graphql-wp - GraphQL for WordPress.
  • Magento Tech Digest # 6 - News, Tutorials and Tools (October 31 - November 13, 2017)
  
  
• Optimizing "switch" expressions in PHP 7.2
• Export functions a la Javascript - An interesting trick using the return value of require:
  

   <?php return [ 'times2' => function (int $x): int { return $x * 2; }, 'answer' => function (): int { return 42; } ]; 

  
  

   <?php ['times2' => $mul] = require 'foo.php'; var_dump($mul(21)); // int(42) 

  
  
• How to Deploy with Deployer - Sent by Anton Bagaev .
• About the implementation of the blackfire.io profiler in the CI process
• How to read large files in PHP
• An interesting article by Nikita Popov about performance when using PHP-Parser
• How to connect Monolog and ELK
• MySQL optimization: indices, slow queries, configuration
• Levenshtein distance in MySQL and fuzzy search algorithms using PHP
• PHP OPCache is to blame?
• Golang, PHP, Film Search and Telegraph - What unites them?

Entertaining

• All about PHP elephants

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