PHP Digest number 138 (August 20 - September 2, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. At issue: the latest beta version of PHP 7.3, Laravel Nova, a site with ideas for the next versions of PHP, news about Yii 3, a portion of useful tools, videos, and much more. Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.3.0 Beta 3 - Last beta in the loop. The next release will be RC 1, which is expected on September 13th .
  
  • Among the changes:
    • Heredoc and Nowdoc RFC syntax enhancements
    • The json_encode () and json_decode () functions will throw an exception if there is an error and the corresponding RFC flag is present .
    • Ability to use a comma after the last argument of the RFC function
    • New function hrtime (), which returns high precision time and does not depend on system time PR
    • Added is_countable () function to check for enumeration RFC
    • Using links in list () RFC
    • Some features are deprecated RFC 1 , RFC 2
    • Cook function added Same Site Cookie RFC
    • Significant improvement in PR garbage collection
    and other improvements. Full list of changes .
    You can read more about the changes in a detailed analysis of what's new in PHP 7.3 or quickly look at diffs .
• Remote code execution on packagist.org - Vulnerability that could allow the execution of code on the Packagist PHP repository server by transferring a specially crafted string instead of a URL to the form for adding a new package. Already fixed .
• Highload fwdays'18 - September 15 in Kiev will host a large-scale conference on highload. There are no reports directly about PHP, but the program has interesting presentations on scaling, architecture, and optimization. Promo code for discount: PHPDIGEST_HL .
• php-vote.com - What would you like to see in the next version of PHP? On the site, you can add an idea or discuss and vote for already added.

Instruments

• nbs-system / snuffleupagus - Security extension for PHP 7 inspired by Suhosin . Prevents the launch of potentially unsafe code in runtime.
• adsr / phpspy - Lightweight profiler for PHP 7.
• adhocore / phint - A tool for quickly generating an application skeleton from a template.
• phpstan / phpstan - Powerful static analyzer. Look What's new in v0.10 in the author's report.
• unreal4u / telegram-api - Asynchronous library for PHP 7 to work with the Telegram bot API.
• nette / utils - A set of useful features for every day. Post in support.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony Week # 609 (August 27 - September 2, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 608 (August 20-26, 2018)
  • 9 features of the symfony plugin for PhpStorm in gifs
  • Setting up a symfony project to work using subdomains in Docker
  • Docker for symfony 4 - from lokalki to production
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii development notes # 24 -
    • A new member Andrey Vasiliev joined the core team
    • Yii 3.0 will use yiisoft / di container
    • The main package will be yiisoft / yii-core , a list of all packages is available.
    • A document is available with core team plans.
  • Sharing Authentication yii1 / yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Nova - Taylor announced a paid admin panel for Laravel. Demo can be viewed in Taylor's report on Laracon, or in an introductory post . Additional packages are available at novapackages.com .
  • Introduction to Laravel Nova Part 1 , Part 2
  • Passwordless Laravel Authentication with Signed Routes
  • About views in MySQL and using them in Laravel Eloquent
  • swooletw / laravel-swoole - Allows you to run Laravel on the asynchronous Swoole engine. Alternative hhxsv5 / laravel-s .
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • ReactPHP Tutorial # 11: Using PSR-15 Middleware - View the entire series of ReactPHP tutorials .
  • Fast web scraping with ReactPHP: download all images
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Magento Tech Digest # 29: Aug 20 - Aug 27, 2018
  • Magento Tech Digest # 28: Aug 13 - Aug 20, 2018
  • Early Rendering: Debugging Lesson in Drupal 8
  • Setting up PhpStorm to work with Drupal 8
  
  
• Refactoring legacy PHP code with examples
• To do a method in essence or not?
• On anemic (without behavior) domain models
• When to add an interface to a class
• About arguments in the form of bit masks in PHP
• PHP secure deserialization offer
• How and why do developers use asymmetric encryption in real-world applications?
• Running PHPUnit tests with code coverage in PhpStorm when working in Docker

Audio and video

• Laracon US 2018 Video
• PHP today: an engineering approach to developing in Badoo

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