PHP Digest number 129 (April 8 - 22, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: CakePHP 3.6.0 and other releases, php-ffi extension, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• DevConf 2018 - May 18 in Moscow will host the annual conference of professional web developers. Declared interesting reports on PHP and not only.
• Composer v1.6.4 (with security fixes)
• CakePHP 3.6.0 - About future releases of the framework.
• Deployer 6.2.0
• PASETO v1.0.0 - Stateless token, a safe alternative to JWT.

Php internals

• PHP FFI extenesion - Dmitiriy Stogov introduced an experimental dstogov / php-ffi extension that allows calling native C functions from PHP code, as well as using data structures and C variables.

Instruments

• xobotyi / beansclient - Client for server queues beanstald, without dependencies and with 100% coverage tests. Sent by xobotyi .
• vimeo / psalm - Static code analyzer to search for possible errors. Alternatives: phpstan , phan . Docker image with these and other PHP code analysis tools: jakzal / phpqa .
• matomo-org / matomo - An open version of Google Analytics implemented in PHP. Previously known as Piwik.
• formapro / pvm - A powerful library for describing business processes, such as BPMN.
• makasim / yadm - Efficient library for working with MongoDB in PHP. Very fast preservation and hydration. About using in symfony.
• PeeHaa / mailgrab - Simple SMTP server for debugging letters. Implemented on Amphp asynchronous components
• rybakit / msgpack.php - Serialization to MessagePack in pure PHP.
• wapmorgan / UnifiedArchive - Utility for unified access to 9+ different archive formats.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Bolt CMS 3.5.0 - CMS on symfony components.
  • Symfony Week # 589 (April 9-15, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 590 (April 16-22, 2018)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Own validations of fields for Rules in one class
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • 20 Eloquent ORM tricks
  • Authentication with JWT in Lumen 5.6
  • JosephSilber / page-cache - Caching responses.
  • lorisleiva / laravel-deployer - Deploy-based Laravel Seamless.
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • OxCom / zf3-twig - Twig Integration into Zend Framework 3.
  • Zend Framework News 2018-04-19
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • Introduction to ReactPHP and Asynchronous PHP
  • ReactPHP Basics: Promises
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Drupalgeddon2: SA-CORE-2018-002 operation began
  • Magento Tech Digest # 11: April 9 - 16, 2018
  
  
• What is planned for PHP 7.3? The release-cycle of the new PHP branch will start on June 7th according to the plan .
• What would be PHP with strong typing and generics
• Configuring code style checks in Composer scripts
• Basics of debugging PHP internals with GDB
• Entertaining video parsing vulnerabilities in PHP code
• Video from the first Badoo PHP Meetup 04/07/2018
• The book "Security in PHP": Part 3 - Cross-site scripting (XSS), Part 4 - Lack of security at the transport level (HTTPS, TLS and SSL), Part 5 - Lack of entropy for random values
• Manage your browser with PHP and Selenium
• Implementing domain-specific design in PHP
• And again about translating PHP documentation
• Choose Yii2 or laravel
• Dockarize Socket.io, redis and php

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