PHP Digest No. 80 - interesting news, materials and tools (February 14 - 28, 2016) / Zfort Group blog

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

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• Andy Gutmans leaves Zend - One of the founders of Zend and until 2015 its CEO, Andy Gutmans, said he was leaving the company.
• Slim 3.2.0
• Prophecy 1.6 - Update of the popular tool for creating test doubles.

Php

• RFC: Generic arrays - Supplement to the RFC on generics . It is proposed to implement typed arrays:

  $counts = array(); // array
  $counts["kittens"] = 12;
  

• RFC: Deprecations for PHP 7.1 - The document contains a list of features that are proposed to be deprecated in PHP 7.1 and removed completely no later than PHP 8. The list will be updated.
• RFC: Callable Constructors - It is proposed to make it possible to call the constructor in callable structures. For instance:
  

  $fn = "Foo::__construct";
  $object = $fn();

  will be tantamount to
  

  $object = new Foo();

Instruments

• bouiboui / tissue - The library allows you to create Issues on Github directly from exceptions in the code.
• PHPDocker.io - An analogue of puphpet.com , allows you to generate a config to raise the environment based on Docker.
• unicodeveloper / laravel-hackathon-starter - Template Laravel-based PHP applications for rapid prototyping.
• JBZoo / Utils - Helpers for every day.
• JBZoo / Data - ArrayObject as a replacement for a regular array. Convenient for working with configs.
• phpthinktank / blast-orm - A simple ORM based on Doctrine 2 DBAL.
• wayneashleyberry / phplint - JS wrapper over a standard php linter for parallel execution.
• WellCommerce / WellCommerce - E-Commerce solution based on Symfony 3.
• phpqatools.org - A selection of tools for testing in PHP.
• mpyw / co - Simple asynchronous cURL based on generators.
• thephpleague / skeleton - Repository template for PHP package.
• Teh Playground! - Sandbox for rapid prototyping and testing pieces of PHP code in a browser.

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony Guide - Routing
  • Symfony Guide - Dependency Injection
  • Asynchronous Controllers in Symfony
  • Isomorphic React Applications on Symfony and Webpack
  • Symfony and ElasticSearch
  • Symfony microframework
  • Initializable controllers in Symfony and working with annotations
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • vesnateam / sandstorm - Web interface for working with migrations.
  • Command Bus Component for Yii 2
  • SEO service on Yii2: Organization of backend and portable modules
  • Install and configure Yii2 on shared hosting
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • EloquentJs - The tool consists of client and server parts and allows you to essentially use ORM Laravel in the browser.
  • Using the Laravel API with AngularJS
  • Create an Laravel API using JWT
  • What are facades in Laravel 5.0
  • We create a social network on Laravel from scratch
  
  
• Improving PHP 7 Performance with NGINX, Part I
• ActiveRecord - Details about the pattern for working with the database.
• Composer vs. Linux distributions - Larry Garfield writes about a problem recently raised in the Gentoo project : the differences between Composer packages and shared system libraries.
• How to keep your password safe in 2016
• Secure Cross-Domain Authentication
• Application with 100 lines of code for determining the breed of a dog from a photo - Used by the Diffbot API .
• Tutorial on creating a pull request on a real example
• Regular Expression Cheat Sheet
• So, you want to write a package manager - About how package managers, including Composer, are arranged.
• Install XHProf and XHGui for profiling PHP applications on Ubuntu 14.04
• 10 Years Of Zend Framework - Slides about the Zend Framework 3 architecture report.
• Hacking cryptosystems in CodeIgniter <2.2
• PHP String Management - How strings are arranged in PHP, as well as differences between implementations in PHP 5 and PHP 7. Sent by z17 .
• Programming Principles - Part 4: Messages - Submitted by haruatari .
• Exceptional Code - Part 2
• How to create your own Dependency Injection Container
• DI, PHPUnit and setUp
• Unexpected behavior of openssl_random_pseudo_bytes () resulting in a fatal loss of cryptographic strength
• Go from the point of view of the PHP programmer
• Pure code architecture and development through testing in PHP

Audio and video

• Microservice Event Architecture
• PHP Roundtable # 038: RFC Show & Tell - A video podcast with RFC authors about offers for PHP 7.1.
• PHP Roundtable # 040: Graph Databases

Entertaining

• PSR + -04 - An alternative coding standard PSR (PHP Sadism Requirement).
• gabrielrcouto / php-terminal-gameboy-emulator - Gameboy emulator in PHP.
  

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