PHP Digest No. 89 - interesting news, materials and tools (July 17 - 31, 2016) / Zfort Group blog

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

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

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  PHP Frameworks Day 2016 - September 3 in Kiev will host a large-scale annual conference dedicated to PHP.
  The list of speakers is being formed, but Marco “Ocramius” Pivetta , creator of the Phalcon Andres Gutierrez framework , Dmitry Naumenko from the core team Yii, and others have already been announced . A rich program has been planned: reports in 2 streams, communication with speakers, lunch, prizes from partners, and, of course, afterparty.
  Especially for readers of the PHP Digest, the PHPDIGEST promotional code is available with a 15% discount.
  
  
• PHP 5.6.24 , 7.0.9 - Updates of current branches, in which 34 changes have been made, including several vulnerabilities have been fixed. In particular, the HTTPoxy vulnerability was fixed , which allows organizing a MITM attack through manipulations with the “Proxy” http header.
• Latest release of branch 5.5 - PHP 5.5.38
• PHP 7.1.0 Beta 1 - With the first beta release, the active development phase is ending, which means that there will be no more new features in the 7.1 branch. The next release is expected on August 8th.
• Phalcon 3.0.0 - Major LTS release of the popular PECL framework (supplied as a PHP extension). Under the hood, support for PHP 7 and many improvements.

Instruments

• mikey179 / vfsStream - A virtual file system implemented as a stream wrapper. Allows to replace work with real files in tests. Tutorial for use.
• kosinix / grafika - Library for working with images. Among the features out of the box: smart crop, perceptual hash, image comparison.
• ksubileau / color-thief-php - A library for obtaining a palette of dominant colors from an image.
• Sulu CMS - CMS built on the framework of Symfony 2 and Symfony CMF. Sent by quber .
• pilot / eventator - An engine for creating an event site. Sent pilouanic .
• JBZoo / CrossCMS - The library allows you to write once an extension for CMS, which will work in both Joomla and Wordpress. Sent smetdenis .
• solariumphp / solarium - PHP client for working with Solr full-text search engine . Tutorial on using c Laravel.
• padraic / humbug - Mutation testing framework. Usage Tutorial: Testing Tests .
• icicleio / http - PHP server implementation in PHP.
• ColinWaddell / CurrantPi - Library for receiving data from Raspberry Pi.
• clue / phar-composer - A simple tool for creating phar archives.
• bitExpert / adrenaline - A microframework based on PSR-7 middleware.
• Gert-dev / php-integrator-base - Package for Atom, which allows you to turn the editor into almost a full-fledged IDE.
• eloquent / phony - An interesting implementation of test doubles for PHP.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • July 28 marks 5 years of Symfony 2
  • Symfony Updated Documentation
  • Queue of events. How to reduce the load on the site - Posted by khaperets .
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • bizley / yii2-podium - Forum engine on Yii 2.
  • yiister / yii2-mappable-ar - Implementation of the Compliance Map pattern for ActiveRecord in Yii 2.
  • How to use Elasticsearch with Yii 2
  • When is Active Record appropriate in Yii 2
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel 5.3 innovations
  • Google Drive API Application Tutorial
  • We create a bot for Slack based on Laravel
  
  

• Zend expressive

  
  
  • Content Based Error Handler for Zend Expressive
  • Project scalability on Zend Expressive
  • Can I create applications on Zend Expressive as easily as on Laravel?
  
  
• How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub and earned $ 20,000 - Three researchers conducted a multi-stage attack on PornHub, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code. Vulnerabilities have been found in garbage collection and deserialization systems in PHP . At the moment, bugs are fixed, and researchers have received a reward. The recommendation from them is never to de-realize user data.
• Hide “Hamlet” in the image - The author is experimenting with steganography in PHP.
• About the new feature in PHP 7.1 Closure :: fromCallable ()
• Microsoft API Development Guidelines
• Installing the Caddy Web Server for PHP 7 on Debian Jessie
• Keep data in check
• Ruby ecosystem (on Rails) with a bitter aftertaste, or “How do we like to kill PHP”
• About how we launched real MS Excel in PHP and what came of it
• PHP increment

Audio and video

• SOLID Video Tutorials
• Static Analysis for PHP
• Video reports from DevConf 2016

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