PHP Digest No. 127 (March 1 - 25, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: Zend Expressive 3 and other releases, a couple of improvements in PHP 7.3, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.3
• PHP 7.1.15
• PHP 7.0.28
• PHP 5.6.34
• Zend Expressive 3 - PHP 7.1+, tile hints, PSR-15 support, many new components and other improvements.
• Php Inspections (EA Extended) v3.0.0 - A must-have extension for PhpStorm, significantly complementing the capabilities of static code analysis. In the new version, a bunch of improvements and additional checks.
• Codeception 2.4
• nikic / PHP-Parser 4.0.0 - Updating PHP parser to PHP. A lot of improvement, including the ability to save the formatting of pieces of code that have not been changed, which allows you to use the parser for automatic refactoring.
• The share of WordPress among the largest sites reached 30%
• Welcome to Badoo PHP Meetup April 7th
• Tutu PHP Meetup # 1

Php

• PHP 7.3 implemented a significant improvement in the garbage collector
• [RFC] is_countable - A function has been added in PHP 7.3 to check for enumeration.
  Before:

  if (is_array($foo) || $foo instanceof Countable) {
      // $foo is countable
  }
  

  
  After:

  if (is_countable($foo)) {
      // $foo is countable
  }
  

Instruments

• implode.io - A great analogue of JSFiddle for PHP only.
• avantarm / memcached-emulator - Memcached expansion emulator, works directly with the server through sockets. Replaces the original \ Memcached class and runs on Windows. Sent @avantarm .
• Brunty / cigar - A utility for quick smoke testing of web applications.
• hamburgscleanest / guzzle-advanced-throttle - An extension for Guzzle that allows you to limit requests by various rules
• san-kumar / lambdaphp - Fast hosting of simple sites on AWS Lambda.
• eventsauce.io - A library for implementing Event Sourcing in PHP applications.
• reisraff / phulp - Gulp port in PHP.
• koriym / print_o - Visualization of the graph of objects in the form of a thought card.
• hoaproject / Kitab - The tool allows you to add unit tests directly to the section dockblock to a function, a la doctest in Python.
• wapmorgan / SystemDaemon - Base for creating system daemons.
• wapmorgan / Threadable - Library for easy parallelization of work.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony Week # 585 (March 12-18, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 586 (March 19-25, 2018)
  • Testing Symfony 4.1 Router
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • New official site Yii
  • Release of Yii 2.0.15 and Vulnerability Database Extensions
  • Yii development notes # 21
  • Yii 2.1 Early Access
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • LarrockCMS - the new Laravel-based CMS
  • How do you work with Laravel?
  • spatie / laravel-medialibrary 7.0-7.1.2 - Update the popular library for linking files to models.
  • Laravel is again in search of a developer for a bugfix for the framework and components, and work on new features.
  • Mutators and Accessors at Eloquent ORM
  • Laravel interview questions and answers
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Zend Framework Week 2018-03-01
  • Zend Framework Week 2018-03-16
  • Want an Asynchronous Zend Expressive? Try a bunch with Swoole - wshafer / swoole-expressive
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • clue / php-mq-react - Lightweight in-memory message queue on ReactPHP. Post from the author in support.
  • friends-of-reactphp / mysql v0.3.0 - Asynchronous MySQL client.
  • Working with the file system in ReactPHP
  • Using a router with the Http component from ReactPHP
  • Fast Web Parsing with ReactPHP: Limiting Requests
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Drupal 8.5.0
  • Drupal 8: hooks, events, subscribers
  • Drupal 8 + Varnish: Caching HTML correctly
  
  
• How Automattic (WordPress.com & co.) Partially switched to atoum instead of PHPUnit
• Domain-Driven Design - Repository
• Chatbot for Facebook using BotMan
• Video reports from phpCE 2017
• Exhaustive benchmarks PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and HHVM (2018) - Original .
• Erroneous understanding of the DRY principle
• Functional programming with PHP generators
• Experience moving a project to phalcon from php 5.6 to 7.1
• code-basics.ru - Free hands-on programming lessons for those who start from scratch.

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