PHP Digest 123 (January 1 - 14, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP-PM 1.0 and other releases, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP-PM 1.0 - The first stable release process manager for PHP. Allows you to demonize applications and increase performance up to 15 times. Under the hood, the long-awaited support for multipart and file downloads, support for symfony 3+, PSR middleware, Docker images, and other improvements.
• Composer 1.6.0
• PHP 5.6.33
• PHP 7.0.27
• PHP 7.1.13
• PHP 7.2.1

Php

• High resolution monotonic timer - In PHP 7.3, the new function hrtime() will be added, which returns a high accuracy time and does not depend on the system time.

Instruments

• paragonie / past - A secure stateless token — just like JWT, but without its flaws .
• Codeception / Stub - A flexible wrapper for building mocks from PHPUnit with a simple syntax.
• tideways / php-profiler-extension - The popular XHProf profiler is not supported and does not work well with PHP 7. However, an updated fork from Tideways is available.
• alek13 / slack - Reincarnation of the popular PHP-pack for Slack .
• ackintosh / ganesha - Implementing the CircuitBreaker pattern in PHP.
• unreal4u / telegram-api - Implementation of the Telegram API for PHP 7 with asynchronous support.
• ankitpokhrel / tus-php - Server implementation for the protocol of renewable file downloads - tus.io.
• PhpStorm plugin selection
• NikitchenkoSergey / idg - Wrap over Imagick to generate simple images of documents (blocks, text columns, images). Sent by yjurfdw .
• doctrine / coding-standard - Rules for PHP_CodeSniffer based on PSR-1/2 with additions.
• hutnikau / job-scheduler - Simple PHP Task Scheduler .

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • End of Symfony Standard Edition - It is proposed to use symfony/website-skeleton
  • The end of Silex - Symfony 4 is quite lightweight and it is proposed to use it instead of Silex.
  • composer.json for symfony flex
  • Symfony Week # 574 (December 25-31, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 575 (January 1-7, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 576 (January 8-14, 2018)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • One entry point for the Yii2 Andvanced application
  • Yii development notes # 19
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Deploy to Laravel Forge with Alexa Voice Commands
  • Logging in Sentry on Laravel
  • About model caching
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Overview of the procurement of web applications on the Zend Framework 3
  • Zend Framework Week 2018-01-11
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • reactphp / http 0.8.1 - Minor update, which improves performance by up to 50%.
  • spatie / async - Wrap PCNTL for easy execution of parallel tasks. Post in support.
  • Improving Glide performance 6 times with PHP-PM
  
  
• About mutation testing with Infection
• About optimizing colinodell / json5 using Blackfire
• Local Composer Packs for Dummies
• Creating and safely distributing PHAR archives - About using phar.io.
• About the principle of DRY and why it is not what you think
• sergeyklay / php-orm-benchmark - Benchmark of popular ORM: CakePHP ORM, Doctrine ORM, Eloquent, PHP ActiveRecord, Phalcon, Propel ORM, Yii ActiveRecord, DMS.
• How to put in memory 11kk items? - Comparison of methods: array vs object vs SplFixedArray vs pack vs swoole_table vs swoole_pack vs redis vs node.js arrays in php7. Continued post In the wake of highloadcup .
• slimframework.ru - Slim Documentation in Russian. Sent by bad4iz .
• Writing a PSR-7 framework: Middleware and Pipeline
• Defer: from Go to PHP
• Memory segmentation (Computer memory scheme)
• 21 tips to make better use of Composer

Audio and video

• PHP TownHall Episode 56: GraphQL is better than REST

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