The digest of interesting news and materials from the world of PHP No. 52 (November 16 - 30, 2014)

We bring to your attention the next selection with links to news and materials.

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• Symfony 2.6.0 - Under the hood, a hundred improvements and innovations .
• HHVM 3.4.0 Release
• Box switches to HHVM - Following Wikimedia , Box announced the switch to HHVM.

Php

• RFC: PHP 7.0 timeline - Release plan for PHP 7 approved by vote. So, in the middle of next year it is planned to complete the development of new features, and in October 2015 the PHP 7 release itself is expected. An alternative plan with the release of the intermediate version 5.7 was also considered.
• RFC: Remove PHP 4 Constructors - A proposal to remove support for constructors in the style of PHP 4, that is, functions with the class name.
• RFC: Static classes - It is proposed to add the ability to describe static classes.
• The RFC: the Unicode codepoint the Escape Syntax - The proposal to add the ability to set Unicode characters in code: echo "\u{202E}Reversed text";.

Instruments

• Lock - Quality ACL Implementation for PHP 5.4
• Cachet - Status page for your project.
• ABLincoln - A library for implementing A / B tests. PlanOut port from Facebook.
• PHP Geocode - A wrapper for the Google Geocoding API.
• TimeParser - A date / time parser written in a natural language.
• OpenLocalization - Localization manager for managing translations in your projects.
• libphutil - A collection of helper classes for PHP. Full list of features here .
• OAuth 2.0 Client - A library for quick integration with services based on OAuth 2.0.
• PHP Copy / Paste Detector (PHPCPD)
• commonmark-php - Markdown parser that supports the CommonMark specification .
• Most Popular Wordpress Plugins for 2014
• Magento Module Composer Repository
• mustached - Codeception -based framework for testing solutions on Joomla!
• Nymph - ORM for PHP and JS.
• lime - Generator of LALR (1) parsers in PHP.
• Stairtower - An experimental document-oriented database in PHP.
• php.tools - Toolkit for PHP - testing, code coverage, formatting.
• nightrain - Create desktop applications for OS X, Windows, Linux using PHP / HTML / JS.

Learning Materials

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii2 testing on HHVM
  • ActiveRecord Tutorial in Yii 2.0
  • Using the Real-Time Twitter API with the Yii Framework Example
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Dealing with an IoC container in Laravel
  • Pilot upgrade to Laravel 5 - how I did it
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony 2 two-factor authentication
  
  
• It's All About Time - A great post about time attacks in general and in PHP in particular.
• Domain Validator in PHP 7
• Geo -search using SOLR and Solarium - An example of an application for searching airports in a given radius.
• Beginner's Guide to MVC on the Web - Anthony Ferrara's Dotting Over i.
• Alternatives to MVC - In continuation of the topic, Anthony writes about HMVC , MVVM , MVP , MVA , PAC , RMR , Action Domain Responder and others.
• Higher Order Programming - About truly functional PHP programming.
• Continuous integration for Symfony applications - Quality checks, a private repository for Composer, testing.
• 84% of WordPress sites can be hacked: what's next?
• Inversion of Control: Implementation Methods with PHP Examples
• Writing a Simple Encyclopedia on Slim Framework
• PHPStamp - honest generation of DOCX documents from a template
• Vagrant for a PHP project
• Collect the best of two worlds - frameworks and CMS
• eBay API: Step Two
• PHPixie Amalgama - Internationalization in PHPixie
• PHPixie Illusion - a simple mock HTTP server for your tests
• Python web development through the eyes of a PHP programmer
• Gearman and PHP 5.4: Problems and Solutions
• Do-it-yourself site search

Audio and video

• PHP Frameworks Day 2014 - Video recordings of reports from the conference held in Kiev.
• AWS re: Invent 2014 - At the last Amazon Services Conference, three PHP-related reports were presented: Creating Applications Using the AWS SDK for PHP , Best Practices for Using WordPress on AWS , Launching and Scaling Magento on AWS .
• SymfonyLive London 2014
• Static Sites Using Sculpin
• PHP Standards and Best Practices - Paid video course, in the creation and recording of which Phill Sturgeon participated .

Entertaining

• Thanks to the best authors of PHP packages!
• Do you know PHP? - A test of 25 questions on knowledge of history and some features of the language. And a review of the test results.

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