PHP Digest number 156 (May 6 - 20, 2019)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the issue: PHPRussia, PHP fwdays'19, WordPress 5.2, about PHP in 2019, news from PHP Internals, a portion of useful tools, and much more.

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP Russia 2019 - The conference was powerful and I hope it will become annual! Photos can be found in FB and VK . Slides are available now, and soon there will be video reports.
• PHP fwdays'19 - Kiev, June 1
  
  
  Soon another great conference will take place! The program is formed among speakers: Fabien Potencier (Symfony), Marco Pivetta (ZF, Doctrine), Dmitry Naumenko (Yii), and many other speakers in 3 streams. By tradition, especially for readers of the PHP Digest, a 15% discount on the promotional code: PHP-digest-fwdays .
• WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” - In the release, the minimum version of PHP has been upgraded to PHP 5.6.20, added protection against fatal errors in plugins and themes, secure updates .

Php internals

• [RFC] Change the precedence of the concatenation operator - A proposal was made to lower the priority of the concatenation operator . . The behavior will be changed in PHP 8, and in PHP 7.4, a warning will be thrown when using expressions with . before + or - without brackets.

   echo "sum: " . $a + $b; //   echo ("sum: " . $a) + $b; //   PHP 8 echo "sum :" . ($a + $b); 

• [RFC] Numeric Literal Separator - It is proposed to add the ability to use the _ symbol as a separator in numbers, to increase readability:

   $i = 197_823_459; // 197823459 

  The proposal had already failed in the voting two years ago, but since then a similar opportunity has been added to Python, JavaScript and TypeScript.
• PHP Internals News podcast # 10 - With Nikita Popov on the Liskov substitution principle and operator priorities.

Instruments

• bramus / composer-autocomplete - Autocomplete command line composer commands, including scripts from the scripts section.
• krakjoe / parallel - An extension from pthreads with a simplified interface for multi-threading. In the new version of the channels and events for communication between threads. An example of use .
• lezhnev74 / openapi-psr7-validator - Validates PSR-7 messages (HTTP requests / responses) based on the OpenAPI specification.
• nunomaduro / phpinsights - The console tool runs quality checks on the code and displays it in a beautiful way.
• ircmaxell / phpvm - PHP version manager (concept), an analogue of rvm for Ruby.
• paragonie / multi_factor - Secure multi- factor authentication for your PHP applications.
• BitOne / php-meminfo - An extension that displays information about memory usage and is designed to detect leaks.

Symfony

• Symfony Week # 646 (13-19 May 2019)
• In Symfony 5, you probably won't be able to specify the symfony / symfony dependency in composer.json, but only to list specific packages.
• Why you shouldn’t use Event Listeners from symfony

Laravel

• We write less duplicate code using Binding in Laravel

Yii

• CRUD widget generator for Yii

Async php

• apisearch-io / symfony-async-kernel - The concept of asynchronous adapter for symfony Http Kernel. A series of posts in support.
• clue / reactphp-sqlite - Asynchronous library for working with SQLite database. Works through a child process. More in the post .
• Asynchronous PHP and the history of a single bike ( service bus )

Study materials

• PHP in 2019 - Today, PHP is not the same as it was 7 years ago . In the post review of the ecosystem for those who are not in the subject of PHP or stuck in Legacy.
• New in PHP 7.4
• PSR-14 usage example: multilayer caching
• Writing a Serverless Lumen Application for AWS Lambda and DynamoDB
• Memo on PhpStorm hot keys in Russian - Sent by tommyv888 .
• FunPHP # 6: A little more magic in PHP7 - More magic in the report of Alexander Lisachenko on PHPRussia.
• PHP module for working with hierarchical data in InterSystems IRIS
• Fix design pattern - Singleton in PHP
• PHP 7.4 will include switch functions (abbreviated writing of anonymous functions)

Thanks for attention!

If you notice an error or inaccuracy - please inform the PM .
Write questions and suggestions by mail or twitter .

More news and comments on the PHP Digest Telegram channel.

Send link
Search links for all digests
← Previous release: PHP Digest number 155