PHP Digest No. 118 - Latest News, Materials and Tools (September 24 - October 9, 2017) / Zfort Group Blog

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 RC 3 and other releases, 5 years of digest, offers from PHP Internals, a fresh book on asynchronous PHP, a new profiler extension, and much more.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 RC3 - Another release candidate delivered on schedule . A fresh overview of what 's new in PHP 7.2 .
• PHP 7.0.24
• PHP 7.1.10
• PHP 7.1 available on Google App Engine
• PostgreSQL 10
• Hacktoberfest 2017 - DigitalOcean has teamed up with GitHub to launch an open source campaign. Everyone who signs up and does 4 pool requests before October 31 will receive a T-shirt. If you want to participate, but don’t know where to start, take a look at the issues labeled: #hacktoberfest .
• Symfony Moscow Meetup # 13 - October 17, Moscow, a meeting of PHP / Symfony developers.

PHP internals

• [RFC] Allow a trailing comma in function calls - It is proposed to allow the use of a comma at the end of the list of function arguments:
  
  

  var_dump(
      $whatIsInThere,
      $probablyABugInThisOne,
      $oneMoreToCheck,
  );
  

• PHP 7.2 has not yet been released, and work on the next versions is already in full swing. For example, in 7.3 , sparse conditional constant propagation optimization is implemented . This allows the interpreter to simplify this function:
  
  

  Class C {
      public $i;
  }
  function fn(int $x) {
      $c = new C;
      $c->i = 1;
      if ($x) {
          $a = [1, 2, 3];
      } else {
          $a = [3, 2, 1];
      }
      return $a[$c->i];
      $c->i++;
      return $x;
  }
  

  
  to this one:
  
  

  function fn(int $x) {
      return 2;
  }
  

  
  We are waiting for news about JIT, which is also being worked on .

Instruments

• jenssegers / date - Carbon- based library for working with dates and multilingual support. Sent denisyukphp .
• json-api-php / json-api - The library describes JSON API business rules in domain logic language. Sent f3ath .
• codeception / codeception-progress-reporter - Progress bar for Codeception. Sent fr05t1k .
• hybridauth / hybridauth - One of the most popular social media authentication libraries.
• Bit-Wasp / bitcoin-php - Implementation of the Bitcoin protocol in PHP.
• Webiny - An interesting CMS with a backend in PHP and ReactJS on the frontend.
• nbs-system / snuffleupagus - An extension for PHP 7+ designed to increase security by eliminating some error classes in the bud .
• NoiseByNorthwest / php-spx - A simple but very interesting profiler as an extension. May be a good alternative to XDebug and XHProf.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony API Deployment - CircleCI, Docker, AWS.
  • Sonata import bundle
  • Symfony + RabbitMQ Quick Start for Young
  • Symfony 3.4 and 4.0 are moving to "feature freeze" - The stabilization phase is starting, and releases are expected at the end of November.
  • Symfony Week # 561 (September 25 - October 1, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 562 (October 2-8, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii development notes # 14
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • nicolaslopezj / searchable - Trait for easy searching on Eloquent models.
  • appstract / laravel-blade-directives - A selection of directives for Blade.
  • Testing Laravel Middleware with HTTP
  • Measuring anything in Laravel with StatsD
  • Relationship Crib at Eloquent
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-09-28
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • Event-driven PHP with ReactPHP - A complete book on asynchronous PHP from the author of articles on ReactPHP .
  • Dealing with ticks in the ReactPHP Event Loop
  • clue / php-redis-react - Asynchronous Redis client.
  • clue / php-soap-react - Asynchronous SOAP client.
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • WordPress Month: September 2017
  • Drupal 8.4.0
  • Magento 2.2.0
  • Magento Tech Digest # 4 (September 20 - October 9, 2017)
  
  
• Microservices for everyone book with PHP examples
• Using Argon2 for passwords in PHP 7.2
• Detailed story about realpath_cache
• Request handlers instead of controllers - Sent by denisyukphp .
• Node.js and the transition from PHP to JavaScript
• Experience in implementing PSR standards in one legacy project
• Fast pool for php + websocket without layer nodejs based on lua + nginx
• About design patterns for working with RDBMS

Audio and video

• www.phppodcasts.com - All English-language PHP podcasts on one site.

Entertaining

• The PHP community is poisoning itself and we need to stop it

• Idea of ​​the day: Hide `echo" \ 033 [37; 41mF \ 033 [m ";` in a PHPUnit Test suite: troll:

  - Gregoire Pineau (@lyrixx) September 25, 2017

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