PHP Digest No. 137 (August 6 - 20, 2018)

PHP 7.3.0 Beta 2 and other releases, a sentence from PHP Internals, a portion of useful tools, video recording “Writing a blockchain in PHP”, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.3.0 Beta 2 - The third and final beta is expected on August 30th. A complete list of changes to the branch 7.3 . For extension developers, a list of changes in the internal API is also available .
  Innovations PHP 7.3 for 30 seconds in the form of diffs
  
• PHP 7.2.9
• PHP 7.1.21

Php internals

• [RFC] Nullable Casting - A draft document in which the author proposes a type conversion with regard to possible null values:
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  $foo = (int) null; // int(0)
  $bar = (?int) null; // null

Instruments

• php-enqueue / enqueue-dev - Message queue with support for AMQP (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ), STOMP, Amazon SQS transports, Redis, Doctrine DBAL, Filesystem, MongoDB. In recent versions , performance has been improved , and asynchronous symfony commands are expected .
• DavidBelicza / PHP-Science-TextRank - Implementation of the TextRank algorithm for automatic summarization of text.
• picocms / Pico - Simple and fast file CMS.
• acelot / resolver - Autoresolver dependencies for PHP 7. Sent by eee .
• tebru / gson-php - google / gson port in PHP.
• Roave / BackwardCompatibilityCheck - The library finds potential backward compatibility issues between the two versions of your package.
• apisearch-io / search-server - Full-text search engine implemented in PHP.
• noximo / PHP-colored-ascii-linechart - Draws color graphics in the console with ASCII lines.
• soluble-io / soluble-mediatools - Wrap ffmpeg to work with video files.
• maxbeckers / amazon-alexa-php - A skill development library for Amazon Alexa. Alternative phoice / phlexa-expressive-skeleton .

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony Week # 607 (August 13-19, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 606 (August 6-12, 2018)
  • 40% discount on passing symfony and Twig certification until the end of September
  • How to build a scalable symfony application on Kubernetes
  • Determine dynamic access rules in the database
  • Running base migration on production system using symfony and doctrine
  • Step-by-step creating a symfony 4 bundle
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • degree757 / yii2-s - Another attempt to run Yii2 on Swoole . Alternative deepziyu / yii2-swoole .
  • PHP, YII2 and the formation of large excel-files
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel v5.6.30 , v5.5.42 - Security Bug Fixes.
  • Handling Laravel Email Inbox with Mailgun
  • Laravel + JWT Tutorial
  • Configuring Xdebug with PhpStorm and laravel / valet
  • Docker for Laravel multi-stage builds
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • ReactPHP Tutorial # 10: Middleware
  • clue / reactphp-csv - CSV stream parser. Post in support.
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Magento Tech Digest # 27: Aug 06 - Aug 13, 2018
  • Max Pronko AMA # 9 - About Bootstrap JS / CSS in Magento 2, Performance, PHPStorm live templates
  
  
• We configure PhpStorm with Xdebug for local development in Docker
• Recipe for automatically changing the PHP version when moving to a folder with the cd command
• Good practices for using comments in code
• About negative architecture - rules that ensure that certain situations cannot occur in your code.
• Service locator - antipattern
• Do not clone your PHP objects - use myclabs / DeepCopy
• New technique of hacking PHP-applications - Previously unserialize(), there was a constant source of vulnerabilities, but for more than a year now, problems in it have not been treated as security . In a post about vulnerabilities in the stream handler (stream wrapper) phar://.
• Swoole PHP extension vulnerability analysis [CVE-2018-15503]
• Book: Creating your first PHP application with Docker - Available for free after subscribing to a newsletter. Sent by lex111 .
• What's wrong with popular articles telling that foo is faster than bar?

Audio and video

• Dependency management is more than just “composer update”
• Fabien Potencier: Writing a blockchain in PHP

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