PHP Digest No. 66 - interesting news, materials and tools (June 28 - July 12, 2015)

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

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7 beta 1 released - This release is completing the active development phase, and therefore, no significant changes will be added. The next version is expected on July 23.
• Codeception 2.1 - The long-awaited release of a great testing tool. Added the ability to write tests to slide shows, Guzzle 6, PSR-4, automatic dependency injection into tests, and other improvements.
• PHP 5.5.27 - The latest full release of the 5.5 branch. According to the release calendar , only security bug fixes will be released during the year.
• Updates of current branches: PHP 5.4.43 , PHP 5.6.11
• New PhpStorm 9: Continuous Forward. Postfix code completion for PHP, Inline Debugger and more
• Yii 2.0.5 (security patch)
• Phalcon 2.0.4 Release
• PsySH v0.5.0 - Updated excellent REPL for PHP. Added support for PHP 7.
• Symfony Moscow Meetup - Symfoniacs - July 16 - A meeting between Moscow PHP / Symfony2 developers will take place at Badoo's office next Thursday.

Php

• RFC: Additional soft reservations for PHP 7 - It is proposed to add a couple more to the list of words reserved for the future in PHP 7 : void, enum.
• RFC: Enumerated Types - It is proposed to implement the Enum type in the PHP core.

Instruments

• rlerdorf / phan - Static code analyzer for PHP 7 by Rasmus Lerdorf.
• ircmaxell / Tuli - Another static analyzer for PHP. This time from Anthony Ferrara.
• PHP Telegram Bot Api - A wrapper over the Telegram Bot API. Sent igusev .
• QR code decoder / reader for PHP - The first QR code reader in PHP, without third-party extensions. Sent khanamiryan .
• swoole / swoole-src - Asynchronous IO, timers, events, http / websocket servers, workers and other features in the form of a PHP extension.
• Mike724 / Frameworkless - An example of creating an application on components without using frameworks.
• afilina / nestedsql - A small function for converting nested structures from the results of a database query. When there is no need to pull large ORMs.
• fruux / sabre-vobject - Library for working with iCalendar and vCard formats.
• paragonie / random_compat - Implementing safe random sequence generation methods for PHP 5: random_bytes(), random_int().
• PUGX / badge-poser - A library for generating badges with information about the Composer package.
• jdorn / sql-formatter - A tool for formatting SQL queries.
• ajbdev / php-struct - Simple structures for PHP 7.
• samdark / sitemap - Sitemap generator.
• SimpleTypes - The library is designed to simplify as much as possible any arithmetic operations when working with data that requires mandatory conversion. For example, temperature, weight, currencies, etc. Sent smetdenis .
• fzaninotto / Streamer - OO wrapper over data streams in PHP.

Learning Materials

• PHP 7

  
  
  • The internal representation of values ​​in PHP 7 (part 2)
  • Throwable exception and errors in php7
  • Benchmarks PHP 7
  • PHP7 tutorial - Tutorial in the form of exercises for all the new features and changes in PHP 7.
  
  

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony 2.3 reaches 100% compatibility with HHVM
  • We create our own framework on the Symfony components - The series of posts from Fabien has been updated and included in the official documentation of the framework.
  • Introduction to SymfonyBundlePlugins - The plugin system for Symfony bundles.
  • Localization in Symfony2
  • Where to start learning symfony
  • Symfony2 Architecture
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Using Behaviors Behaviors in Yii2
  
  

• Magento

  
  
  • Creating custom APIs in Magento
  • Magento 2 Object Manager
  
  
• Closures in PHP - A great post on how closures are structured in PHP and the history of their implementation.
• Microservice Container Using Guzzle
• How to generate safe random strings and numbers in PHP
• PHP vs Node.js , 2 - Superficial comparison of technologies.
• The factory should only create, and not save - On the proper use of generative patterns.
• PHPExcel Performance Optimization
• PHP Caching: Zend Opcache, Etags, and MySQL Query Caching
• Analyzing the PHP code - About the results of scanning the interpreter code with the PVS-Studio static analyzer
• Class constants, how do they work? - About the non-standard way of working with constants.
• Strangeness array_filter - About using extra flags in array_filter.
• API Testing: Installing and Using Codeception
• We sign data: HMAC in practice in API and Web forms
• Polymorphic connections for the smallest
• How to replace a uniform background with transparent using Imagemagick
• Action-Domain-Responder - finalizing MVC for web tasks
• The digest of interesting materials from the world of Drupal # 10
• Top developer of PHP 7: “Criticize further, and we will work” - Interview with Dmitry Stogov.

Audio and video

• Five Minute PHP Issue No. 9 - Alexander Makarov (core Yii)
• Five Minute PHP Issue # 10 - Codeception
• Video from the next meeting of PUG: Phalcon and Zephir
• Designing a Model Architecture - Shawn McCool talks about designing layered architectures.
• PHP Hampshire May 2015: Voodoo PHP - Report by Marco Pivetta (@ocramius) on the "magic" in PHP.

Entertaining

• Code Galaxies Visualization - An original visualization of the variety of Composer packages in the form of a star galaxy.
• Illustrations on Open Source and PHP
• 3D ElePHPant

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