PHP Digest number 131 (May 13 - 27, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: a Serverless PHP framework and articles, a Rasmus Lerdorf report on PHP in 2018 and other videos, a proposal from PHP Internals, a portion of useful tools, and much more. Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PhpStorm 2018.2 EAP - PhpStorm early access program has been launched , thanks to which you can use new versions of IDE for free. Among the innovations: support for touch bar, improved autocompletion for neuralspaces, structural search and replacement, simplified installation of CodeSniffer / MessDetector, and other improvements.
• Adobe bought Magento for $ 1.68 billion - Announcement on Magento and Adobe blogs.
• Malicious PHP script spam bot bot found on 5000 sites
• PHP 7.2.6
• PHP 7.1.18
• PHP version usage statistics - 2018.1 - 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 78.22%. Closer to reality statistics downloads PHP packages from the Remi repository .

Php internals

• [RFC] Weak References - A draft proposal for implementing weak links in the PHP core. At the moment, this option is available only through the colder / php-weakref or krakjoe / uref extensions .

Instruments

• Roave / BetterReflection 3.0 - Reflection without loading classes.
• fe3dback / str - Library in which many functions are implemented for manipulating strings in OOP style and support for multibyte strings.
• psecio / secure_dotenv - Secured .env file handler with encryption.
• php-opencv / php-opencv-examples - Examples of using php-opencv for detecting objects and people, using pre-trained networks. Sent by morozovsk .
• xobotyi / emittr - A small library that implements events. Sent by xobotyi .
• atlasphp / Atlas.Query - Another query builder for SQL queries.
• getopt-php / getopt-php - Library for parsing command line arguments.
• mindplay-dk / middleman - The simplest dispatcher PSR-7 middleware.
• spatie / typed - The concept of typing improvements in PHP: generics, structures, tuples, typed lists.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • How to test private services in symfony
  • By symfony4 via ansistrano
  • twigfiddle.com - Fiddle for Twig.
  • Symfony Week # 595 (May 21-27, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 594 (May 14-20, 2018)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Organization of configs in Craft CMS
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • spatie / laravel-event-projector - Package for implementing Event Sourcing in Laravel. Minitutorial .
  • ponich / eloquent-traits - Virtual attributes for models in Eloquent. Sent ponich .
  • beyondcode / laravel-credentials - The package allows you to store passwords and other secret data in encrypted form directly in the repository.
  • About how Telegram-bot was created - LaravelQuizBot .
  • Laravel blogpost contest with a $ 1,500 prize - The contest has already written over 50 posts about Laravel and ecosystem products .
  • REST-API automatic documentation system in Laravel projects
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Zend Framework 2018-05-24 week
  • Zend Framework 2018-05-17 week
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • clue / reactphp-ndjson - Stream parser and new-line JSON encoder ( NDJSON ) for ReactPHP.
  • clue / reactphp-flux - The package allows you to limit the number of simultaneously executed competitive tasks in ReactPHP. Detailed post about the motivation and use of the tool.
  • We write a simple chat using ReactPHP sockets: server , client , we direct beauty .
  • About using ReactPHP in production + some benchmarks
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Magento Tech Digest # 17: May 21 - 28, 2018
  • Magento Tech Digest # 16: May 14 - 21, 2018
  • About the release of Drupal 9 and future plans
  • Drupal JavaScript Initiative: On the implementation of the new Drupal admin panel on ReactJS
  
  

• Serverless

  
  
  • Serverless and PHP - A great introduction to serverless in PHP, as well as a presentation of the mnapoli / bref framework .
  • mnapoli / bref - Framework for creating and deploying serverless PHP applications.
  • Bref Symfony Startup Example
  • Serverless Laravel - Deploy a Laravel app on AWS lambda using Bref .
  • Serverless PHP performance.
  
  
• Strange operators in PHP
• When empty is not empty at all - On empty features when used with magic methods.
• API paradigm selection: gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL
• Excellent slides about design patterns with examples on symfony
• Cognitive complexity: Is it easy for a person to read your code?
• Google Cloud Storage with PHP: saving files with public access
• 10 (not) obvious tips for novice web developers
• Integration with ESIA based on oauth2-client (PHP)
• Magic link or story about how we simplified the life of the user
• Two types of PHP extensions. Zend extension VS PHP module
• PHP, GDB and arrays

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Audio and video

• Report by PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf: PHP in 2018
• ThinkPHP # 16 - Video from the last mitap: microservices, serverless.
• ScotlandPHP 2017 - Video recordings of all reports.
• PHP Roundtable # 070: All About WordPress
• PHP Roundtable # 071: PHP 7.2 Discussion

Entertaining

• PHP allows you to create X - Arguments about when or not to use PHP.

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