PHP Digest No. 129 (April 8 - 22, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: CakePHP 3.6.0 and other releases, php-ffi extension, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• DevConf 2018 - May 18 in Moscow will host the annual conference of professional web developers. Declared interesting reports for PHP and more.
• Composer v1.6.4 (with security fixes)
• CakePHP 3.6.0 - About future releases of the framework.
• Deployer 6.2.0
• PASETO v1.0.0 - Stateless token, a safe alternative to JWT.

PHP internals

• PHP FFI extenesion - Dmitry Stogov introduced the experimental extension dstogov / php-ffi , which allows you to call native C-functions from PHP code, as well as use data structures and C variables.

Instruments

• xobotyi / beansclient - Client for the beanstald queue server, without dependencies and with 100% test coverage. Sent xobotyi .
• vimeo / psalm - Static code analyzer to look for possible errors. Alternatives: phpstan , phan . Docker image with these and other tools for analyzing PHP code: jakzal / phpqa .
• matomo-org / matomo - An open analogue of Google Analytics implemented in PHP. Formerly known as Piwik.
• formapro / pvm - A powerful library for describing business processes, such as BPMN.
• makasim / yadm - Effective library for working with MongoDB in PHP. Very fast preservation and hydration. About using in symfony.
• PeeHaa / mailgrab - A simple SMTP server for debugging emails. Implemented on Amphp Asynchronous Components
• rybakit / msgpack.php - Serialization in MessagePack in pure PHP.
• wapmorgan / UnifiedArchive - Utility for unified access to 9+ different archive formats.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Bolt CMS 3.5.0 - CMS on Symfony components.
  • Symfony Week # 589 (April 9-15, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 590 (April 16-22, 2018)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Native field validations for Rules in one class
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • 20 Eloquent ORM Tricks
  • JWT Authentication in Lumen 5.6
  • JosephSilber / page-cache - Caching responses.
  • lorisleiva / laravel-deployer - Seamless deployment for Laravel based on Deployer .
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • OxCom / zf3-twig - Twig Integration in Zend Framework 3.
  • Zend Framework News 2018-04-19
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • Introduction to ReactPHP and Asynchronous PHP
  • ReactPHP Basics: Promises
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Drupalgeddon2: SA-CORE-2018-002 launched
  • Magento Tech Digest # 11: April 9 - 16, 2018
  
  
• What's New in PHP 7.3 - The release cycle of the new PHP branch will start on June 7 according to the plan .
• What could PHP be with strong typing and generics
• Configuring code style checks in Composer scripts
• The basics of debugging PHP internals with GDB
• Entertaining video parsing vulnerabilities in PHP code
• Video from the first Badoo PHP Meetup 04/07/2018
• Book "Security in PHP": Part 3 - Cross-site scripting (XSS), Part 4 - Lack of security at the transport level (HTTPS, TLS and SSL), Part 5 - Lack of entropy for random values
• We control the browser using PHP and Selenium
• Implementing domain-specific design in PHP
• And again about translating PHP documentation
• Choose Yii2 or laravel
• Docking Socket.io, redis and php

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