PHP Digest No. 109 - Latest News, Materials and Tools (May 14 - 28, 2017)

We bring to your attention the next selection with links to news and materials.
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News and Releases

• The end of HHVM support in popular projects - If only some two years ago, the alternative PHP virtual machine from Facebook could boast a huge performance advantage, today the difference is not significant. According to Composer statistics , the percentage of HHVM users is less than PHP 5.3 and is 0.36%. Nevertheless, thanks to the HHVM team for pushing PHP to develop.
  Starting with Symfony 4, the framework will not support HHVM . Laravel discontinued support from version 5.3 . In Yii, a termination is planned in version 2.1 . Support for the MongoDB driver for HHVM is phasing out. And also support in Doctrine stops, Twig (since version 2), Silex, and Swiftmailer.
• Codeception 2.3 - Updating the popular testing tool. Under the hood, support for PHPUnit 6, installation templates, and other improvements.
• Deployer 5

Php

• RFC: UUID - It is proposed to add a class UUIDto the kernel to generate unique values ​​according to the RFC 4122 standard . As part of the implementation , polyfiles are available for PHP versions <7.2. In addition, there is a proposal to obsolete the uniqid () function , which contrary to the name does not guarantee the return of a unique value.
• RFC: Object typehint - There is a vote on the proposal to add a type objectas an option for typinghinting. This type can be used for any objects, which can be useful when a particular type is not known in advance.

Instruments

• wapmorgan / Imagery - GD wrapper for working with images. Sent wapmorgan .
• IcyApril / WhatsChanged - Allows you to run PHPUnit tests only for classes that have been changed. Post in support.
• kitetail / zttp - A wrapper around Guzzle with concise and convenient syntax.
• teresko / palladium - Component for authentication and user registration.
• iranianpep / botonomous - A framework for creating bots for Slack.
• mcustiel / phiremock - A tool for mocking HTTP requests and REST services for use in acceptance tests.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • EasyCorp / easy-deploy-bundle - A bundle without third-party dependencies for seamless deployment of Symfony applications.
  • Website architecture and code for French President
  • Symfony Week # 542 (May 15-21, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 543 (May 22-28, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Development on Yii2: Add polls, comments, sharing
  • YiiConf 2017 June 16 in Moscow - the program is formed
  • An alternative project organization on Yii2 - A plug-in system and a way to structure projects. Sent hiqsol .
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • spatie / laravel-medialibrary - Allows you to attach files to any Eloquent-models.
  • davestewart / laravel-sketchpad - Dev-interface for quick development on Laravel.
  
  

• Zend

  
  
  • Shielding with zend-escaper
  • Organization of a large project on Zend Framework 2/3
  
  
• The list () function and the practical use of array destructuring
• PHP Language Trivia - Slides by Nikita Popov about interesting PHP features.
• Autocomplete Composer scripts on the command line
• Retrieving Value Objects
• Web Application Security Checklist
• Encrypted database with the ability to search in PHP and SQL
• Performance Testing with Siege
• Message Bus for PHP Applications
• We prepare the local Docker environment for development in PHP
• Symfony St. Speaker Video Petersburg Meetup # 1
• Getting ready for a PHP interview: Everything you wanted to know about interfaces, signature compatibility, and were not afraid to learn
• We make the GraphQL API on PHP and MySQL. Part 2: Mutations, variables, validation and security , Part 3: Solving the problem of N + 1 queries
• Type hinting according to all canons of polymorphism in old versions of PHP
• Backend I / O Performance: Node vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Go
• Another logging system, now on ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana and Prometheus
• How to write logs correctly
• Building a modular application architecture on Forwarding decorators (author translation)
• SQL vs ORM
• Learning a neural network of geometry
• Threads and PHP
• About generics in PHP and why we need them

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