PHP Digest No. 111 - Latest News, Materials and Tools (June 12 - 25, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2, a couple of new RFCs, materials from YiiConf and FWDays, PHP rootkit, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2 - Another alpha planned before feature-freeze on July 20th. The list of innovations can be found in the last issue of the digest .
• Phalcon 3.2.0 - Overview of new features.

PHP internals

• RFC: Retry functionality - It is proposed to extend try-catch-finally with the block and keyword retry. In case of throwing the corresponding exception in the presence of retry, the try block will be repeated:
  
  

  try {
      somethingSketchy();
  } retry 3 (RecoverableException $e, $attempt) {
      echo "Failed doing sketchy thing on try #{$attempt}. Retrying...";
      sleep(1);
  } catch (RecoverableException $e) {
      echo $e->getMessage();
  }
  

  
  

  try {
      somethingSketchy();
  } catch (RecoverableException $e)
      retry; // Go to top of try block
  }
  

  
  
• RFC: Unary null coalescing operator - It is proposed to implement a unary version of the operator ??added in PHP 7.0:
  
  

  if ($_POST["action"]?? === "submit") {
      // Form submission logic
  } else {
      // Form display logic
  }
  

Instruments

• amphp / amp 2.0.0 - A powerful asynchronous framework with a concise interface thanks to generators. A number of additional components are also available : asynchronous mysql and postgres clients, DNS resolver , HTTP / WebSocket server , and others.
• wapmorgan / ServerAvailabilityMonitor - The utility monitors servers for availability and sends error reports to e-mail. Supports http, mysql, pgsql, memcache and redis. Sent wapmorgan .
• paragonie / sapient - A library for securing the API, even when TLS is broken. Post in support.
• genkgo / mail - A library for sending mail. A good alternative to PHPMailer or Swift Mailer.
• prooph / event-store - EventStore in PHP 7.1 for implementing the Event Sourcing pattern .
• jonathantorres / construct - The tool generates a folder structure and files for a new PHP project.
• wikimedia / composer-merge-plugin - A plugin for Composer that combines several composer.json files on the fly. It is convenient for dividing a project into internal components with its dependencies.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony developers unveiled Webpack Encore , a front-end resource management tool that makes it easy to configure WebPack for projects beyond Symfony.
  • Symfony 4: application structure
  • Symfony 4: Testing the Symfony Flex Plugin
  • Symfony Week # 546 (June 12-18, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 547 (June 19-25, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • YiiConf 2017, slides, photos and podcast
  • Five Minute PHP Issue No. 27: YiiConf 2017
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Virtual number and voice menu using Laravel and Twilio , as well as SMS control
  • nunomaduro / laravel-zero - A microframework for console applications based on Laravel components.
  • Laravel notifications
  • Queues in Laravel
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Convert objects to and from arrays using zend-hydrator
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-06-22
  • Zend Framework Week 2017-06-15
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Drupal 8.3.4 and 7.56 with the removal of critical vulnerabilities
  • Creating faster and more optimized WordPress sites
  • Create your own Style plugin - Theming Views in Drupal 8
  
  
• Your interpreter is at risk - PHP rootkit - The author demonstrates how easy it is to implement a rootkit as a PHP extension and how dangerous it is.
• PHP Internals Book - Significantly replenished section of PHP 7.
• Overview of Maybe monad implementations in PHP.
• Is snapshot testing applicable in PHP? - Tutorial on using spatie / phpunit-snapshot-assertions .
• Event Sourcing Tutorial
• Simple chat on ReactPHP
• What are immutable objects for example a date
• Sharding with Doctrine
• CakePHP Release Plans
• Non-breaking spaces in test method names - Interesting idea.
• About scaling a service on AWS, Kubernetes, React, PHP, and Elixir
• We write a bot for cryptocurrency trading
• Deploying a PHP Application Using Docker
• Custom Types in PHP
• PHP fwdays '17: How it went and video reports

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