PHP Digest No. 78 - interesting news, materials and tools (January 18 - 31, 2016)

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

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• Expressive 1.0.0 - The first stable release of the tool from Zend, which allows you to build web applications based on PSR-7 middleware.
• CakePHP 3.2.0
• CodeIgniter 4 - About the future of the popular framework.
• Magento Critical XSS Vulnerability Revealed

Php

• RFC: Generalize support of negative string offsets - Some string functions support a negative position value. It is proposed to implement this feature in all relevant functions, as well as when accessing a string as an array:
  $str = 'text'; echo $str[-1];
• RFC: Add HTTP / 2 Support to the CLI Server - It is proposed to implement HTTP / 2 support in the embedded PHP web server.

Instruments

• hirak / prestissimo - Composer plugin for installing packages in parallel. Significantly speeds up the installation of dependencies.
• marcioAlmada / yay - Preprocessor for PHP. Allows you to expand PHP describing new features in the form of macros. Just take a look at the examples.
• filp / whoops 2.0.0 - Beautiful and informative error pages and unhandled exceptions.
• tarantool-php / queue - PHP binders for Tarantool Queue. Sent rybakit .
• thephpleague / commonmark - Parser Markdown. Video review of use .
• soy-php / soy - A tool for launching tasks.
• mvdbos / php-spider - PHP web spider.
• kohkimakimoto / altax - Deployment tool.
• icicleio / filesystem - Asynchronous access to the file system.
• ReactiveX / RxPHP - Reactive tools for PHP.
• niutech / node.php - The tool allows you to run node.js application from PHP, even on a shared hosting.
• movim / movim - A decentralized social network in PHP and based on the XMPP protocol.
• lastguest / pixeler - Render images in the console with Unicode characters.
• jgrossi / corcel - Wrappers for using WordPress with various PHP frameworks.
• thephpleague / tactician - A simple extensible command bus. A post with an example of use.
• matthiasmullie / scrapbook - Cache system, supports PSR-6 and has adapters for Memcached, Redis, Couchbase, APC, SQL.
• nazar-pc / CleverStyle-CMS - Simple CMF. Screencasts for use. Sent nazarpc .

Learning Materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • drgomesp / symfony-docker - Symfony Docker Edition
  • DunglasActionBundle: Redesigned Symfony Controllers
  • Export Symfony route to PDF without additional code in the controller
  • Symfony2 catching exceptions using services or how to avoid using Event Listener
  • Fast and Furious under load on Symfony + HHVM + MongoDB + CouchDB + Varnish
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Deployer Yii Deployer
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • Laravel Release Plan
  • Feature flags in laravel
  • AltThree / Bus - Command bus for Laravel.
  • A few tricks for working with Laravel Homestead
  • How to use Eloquent ORM migrations outside of Laravel
  • WordPress and Laravel - Several tools for integrating the framework and CMS.
  • A selection of links to materials on the Laravel framework in Russian - Submitted by atehnix .
  
  
• (The only proper) PDO tutorial - A detailed tutorial on PDO.
• Upgrading PHP to EdgeRouter Lite - Rasmus Lerdorf writes about updating PHP to 7 on his router.
• Introduction to PHP internals
• Examples of using generators in PHP
• We work with generators in PHP
• Dependency injection without a container - An example of using a trait instead of a container.
• Fix spaghetti: how to work with legacy code
• About working with UTF-8 in PHP and MySQL
• Metatesting - Report on the status and testing tools in PHP.
• Good Practices and Tricks Doctrine ORM by Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta
• Automate PHP application performance testing using Blackfire.io
• Programming Principles - Part 1: Reducing Complexity
• Programming Principles - Part 2: Getting Rid of Null
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 17
• Objects in PHP 7

Entertaining

• ramsaylanier / WordPressExpress - WordPress JavaScript.
• tannernelson / vapor - Swift web framework inspired by Laravel / Lumen.

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