PHP Digest No. 91 - interesting news, materials and tools (August 15 - 28, 2016) / Zfort Group company blog

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

News and Releases

• PHP 7.1.0 Beta 3 - Last beta from the loop. The release candidate is expected on September 1.
• PHP 7.0.10 , 5.6.25
• Laravel 5.3 released
• Apigility 1.4 - Updated Rendful API Designer from Zend.
• WordPress 4.6 “Pepper”
• PSR-13: Link definition interfaces - The standard governing the hypermedia link interface has entered the review phase.
  
  
• 
  PHP Frameworks Day 2016 Workshops - A series of master classes will be held in Kiev on September 4 in the framework of the conference :
  
  • Marco “Ocramius” Pivetta, the core developer of Doctrine and Zend Framework, will give a workshop: Event-Sourcing ;
  • Andres Gutierrez, creator of Phalcon, will teach you how to work with the framework: Phalcon 3 for beginners ;
  • Alexey Petrov: Docker for web developers .
  
  Especially for readers of the PHP Digest, the PHPDIGEST promotional code is available with a 15% discount for buying tickets for PHP Frameworks Day 2016 .

Instruments

• ngfw / Recipe - An interesting selection of useful features.
• asmblah / uniter - PHP interpreter for JavaScript. It can be used both in the browser and on the server.
• lavary / crunz - A cron task manager inspired by the Laravel Schedule component.
• mvdbos / php-spider - Web crawler.
• spatie / regex - OO interface for regular expression functions preg_*.
• 2 amigos/mailer - library - An add-on for swiftmailer with a built-in message queue and support for various backends (beanstalkd, redis, amqp).
• mgdigital / BusQue - A simple message queue for PHP 7 and Redis.
• hoaproject / Compiler - A compiler compiler implemented in PHP. Post in support.
• Kilix / php-abac - Implementing Attributes Based Access Control.
• timoh6 / GenPhrase - A library for generating secure passwords.
• mpyw / php-hyper-builtin-server - Reverse proxy for the embedded PHP web server with support for TLS / SSL encryption.
• EasyCorp / easy-log-handler - Logolog for Monolog, which saves log entries in human-readable form.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony Security Roles vs. Voters
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Autocomplete implementation example using the PostgreSQL tsearch2 FTS engine
  • HumHub 1.1 - Social network engine on Yii 2.
  • Interview with Alexander Makarov, Yii Framework core developer
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • The Laravel Certification Program - A framework certification program has been announced.
  • Testing events in Laravel
  • Notification channels for Laravel 5.3 - A selection of extensions for sending notifications to various services Gitter.im, HipChat, Telegram, Trello, Pushover and others. Sent jhaoda .
  • akalongman / laravel-multilang - A package for creating multilingual applications on Laravel. Sent akalongman .
  • asvae / laravel-api-tester - Application for visualizing and testing routes in Laravel. Demo .
  • laravel / passport - OAuth2 server implementation for Laravel. Under the hood of thephpleague / oauth2-server .
  
  

• Security

  
  
  • Breaking garbage collection and deserialization in PHP - About the vulnerabilities that led to PornHub hacking.
  • About the (in) security of popular CMS in PHP: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla
  • PHP Bypass Protection Bypass
  • An example of an SQL injection against which prepared expressions do not help - Popular, but incorrect protection options are analyzed, and the correct solution is also given.
  • Encryption with Zend Framework 3 - About using the updated zend-crypt package .
  
  
• PHP - Wrong Way - The authors of the page advocate a pragmatic approach in PHP, as opposed to community activists who advocate trending solutions.
• PHP client API implementation - The author uses HTTPlug as a client and jolicode / jane-openapi to generate code according to the Swagger specification.
• Testing your project in PHP 7.1
• PHP for beginners. Output buffer
• Do not use Illuminate Support
• Validated, validated ... and validated! Compare data validators in PHP
• Working with a database in the CleverStyle Framework
• Refactoring - power hidden in quality code
• PHP function speed analysis tool
• Arrays in PHP 7: Hash Tables

Audio and video

• RFC Closure from Callable - Overview of PHP 7.1.
• PHP Roundtable: 051: What happened to PHP 6?
• Google Cloud Platform Podcast: PHP on Google Platform

Entertaining

• Statistics of server-side languages ​​of the web - PHP confidently takes first place with a share of 82.1%.

Thanks for attention!

If you notice a mistake or inaccuracy - please inform me in PM .
Questions and suggestions write to mail or twitter .

Send links to interesting articles or useful tools that were not in the PHP Digests , and your name will be next to the link in the release.

Send link
Quick search for all digests
← Previous release: PHP Digest No. 90