PHP Digest No. 103 - interesting news, materials and tools (February 12 - 26, 2017)

We bring to your attention the next selection with links to news and materials.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PSR-11 Container Interface officially adopted
• PHP - the first language with modern cryptography in the standard package - About the recently accepted proposal to include the Libsodium library in the kernel since PHP 7.2.
• PHP 7.0.16 , PHP 7.1.2
• Updated ZCE - PHP Certification by Zend - Submitted by im_special_one .
• atoum 3.0.0 - Major update of the unit testing framework.
• ThirtyBees 1.0.0 - First release of the PrestaShop 1.6 fork .
• HHVM 3.18 - Fresh LTS release of an alternative PHP virtual machine from Facebook.

Php

• RFC: list () Reference Assignment - A minor improvement for list()allowing links to be used is accepted at voting :
  
  

     $array = [1, 2];
     list($a, &$b) = $array;
  // Эквивалентно:
      $array = [1, 2];
      $a = $array[0];
      $b =& $array[1];
  

Instruments

• wapmorgan / MediaFile - A library for reading metadata from audio / video files of various formats.
• Fistlab PHP Components - An initiative to develop commonly used components in various programming languages. The work started with PHP and the container , repository , database are ready .
• JWHennessey / phpInsight - A slightly abandoned, but interesting library for analyzing the tonality of the text. Alternative solution: mizterp / caroline .
• paragonie / PHP-Cookie - PHP 7 library for working with cookies safely. The topic is a post about using SameSite cookies to protect against CSRF.
• www.php-middleworld.com - Resource with a selection of PSR-7 compatible middleware components.
• php-ai / php-ml - Implementation of machine learning algorithms in PHP.
• miniflux / miniflux - Minimalistic RSS reader.
• phanan / kupo - Automated checklist for checking the site before launching.
• webonyx / graphql-php - Implementation of the GraphQL specification. Port of reference implementation in JavaScript graphql / graphql-js .
• sebastianfeldmann / phpbu - A tool for creating backup copies of files and databases. Able to encrypt backups and send to storage (Amazon s3, Dropbox, rsync, SFTP, FTP).
• web-push-libs / web-push-php - Implement the WebPush protocol for sending notifications to the browser.
• thephpleague / fractal - A library for transforming and outputting data in the API, a smart replacement json_encode(). Fresh tutorial on how to use.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • symfony-bundles / json-request-bundle - A bundle for working with json requests as with regular requests.
  • New in Symfony 3.3: Implementing a getter - An interesting experimental feature.
  • Symfony Week # 529 (February 13-19, 2017)
  • Symfony Week # 530 (February 20-26, 2017)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Modules and extensions for Yii 2 from Zfort Group - Presented components: yii2-cart , yii2-comments , yii2-rbac and others.
  • Yii 2.0: Debug 2.0.8 Extension Release
  • YiiPowered.com - Project Gallery on Yii. The code is available on GitHub .
  • Why not forget to explicitly complete nested transactions in Yii2 - Sent by haruatari .
  • Building and testing a REST API in Yii2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • imanghafoori1 / laravel-widgetize - Widgets for Laravel.
  • Laravel Dusk Tutorial
  • Laravel Group Authorization by Group
  • Laravel 5. Hierarchical RBAC for the smallest
  
  
• Implementing a Clean Architecture with PHP Examples - Application Code Available .
• About using RabbitMQ, PHP and Node.js
• We write asynchronous libraries in PHP - Tutorial on the example of the implementation of asyncphp / paper - asynchronous HTML to PDF converter.
• TDD Tutorial Using Sylius as Example - #Sylius , #Behat , #phpspec
• Awesome Doctrine - A selection of useful resources on Doctrine. Sent im_special_one .
• Testing Convention
• Debugging JavaScript and PHP at the same time in PhpStorm
• Using Zend-InputFilter
• About duck typing in PHP
• Design Patterns for People - Ultra simple explanation of patterns with examples in PHP.
• Performance PHP 5 vs PHP 7 vs PHP 7.1 vs PHP + JIT - Overview of performance improvements and synthetic tests.
• “Hello, (real) world!” In php in 2017
• PrestaShop. About glitch in layered navigation
• The answer to an introduction to the design of entities, the problems of creating objects
• Where do your ads live? / Avito Blog
• Architecture of a growing project on the example of VKontakte
• MySQL and MongoDB - when and what is better to use
• Five-Minute PHP Issue No. 26 - Rust - We broaden our horizons and discuss the Rust programming language.

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