PHP Digest number 141 (October 1 - 15, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.3.0RC3, CodeIgniter 4.0.0 alpha1 and other releases, 62% of the sites work on PHP 5, video reports from conferences and meetings, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
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News and Releases

• PHP 7.3.0RC3 - Another release candidate delivered on schedule . You can read reviews of innovations here , here , here , here , and listen here .
• PHP 7.2.11
• PHP 7.1.23
• PHPUnit 7.4 - Translation of documentation into Russian from lex111 is also available .
• CodeIgniter 4.0.0 alpha1
• 62% of websites on the Internet use PHP <= 5.6 - At the end of 2015, a proposal was made to extend the period of support for PHP 5 to the end of 2018. Nevertheless, more than half of all sites still work on PHP 5.

Php internals

• RFC: Spread Operator in Array - The draft discusses the ability to add an operator ...for arrays.
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  $parts = ['apple', 'pear'];
  $fruits = ['banana', 'orange', ...$parts, 'watermelon'];
  // ['banana', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'watermelon'];

Instruments

• ricardofiorani / php-legofy - Turns your image into a picture of LEGO cubes.
• mougrim / php-xdebug-proxy - Dbgp Xdebug proxy. More information about using a proxy can be found here . Sent by mougrim .
• alhimik1986 / php-excel-templator - Tool will help to generate Excel-files based on templates and placeholders. Habrapost in support.
• localheinz / composer-normalize - Plugin for Composer, which will put in order composer.json.
• Symplify / ChangelogLinker - The tool will make beautiful and convenient CHANGELOG.md. Post in support.
• phpecc / phpecc - A library with implementations of elliptic cryptography algorithms in pure PHP.
• offdev / csv - Working with CSV files using streams.
• matthiasnoback / TalisORM - Simple ORM for domain models DDD.
• twirphp / twirp - The port of the Twitch Twirp RPC framework for PHP is still under development.
• slashtrace / slashtrace - Beautiful and informative error pages with support for Sentry, Raygun, Bugsnag aggregators. Alternative to filp / whoops .

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony Week # 615 (October 8-14, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 614 (October 1-7, 2018)
  • Symfony 4: HTTP / 2 push and preload
  • Detailed parsing of the symfony of the DependencyInjection component
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • beyondcode / laravel-tag-helper - HTML tag helpers.
  • akaunting / akaunting - Laravel based accounting service.
  • Many Laravel sites are running with DEBUG enabled.
  • Docker + Laravel = ❤
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • mmasiukevich / service-bus - Amphp- based framework for building applications using Saga, CQRS, EventSourcing, Message Bus patterns.
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • Drupal release dates - 8.7 - May 1, 2019, 8.8 - December 4, 2019
  • WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg shared a plan on WordPress 5.0
  
  
• Interesting analysis of the use of eval () in PHP applications
• About testing repositories
• 5 types of test doubles and how to create them in PHPUnit
• How to create fixtures and avoid common problems
• TDD in PhpStorm and autostart tests
• How to add code to PhpStorm for PSR-11 containers
• Concatenation vs. sprintf vs. Interpolation - What do you use to combine strings and variables?
• Stateless Services - An old, but still relevant article on why services should not store state.
• PHP Excel Templator (PHP template for Excel) or as we wrote hardcode for Excel before
• Machine Vision: Install, configure and use Google Cloud Vision for PHP
• Android applications on JPHP

Audio and video

• Video recordings of reports PHPConf.Asia 2018
• prooph / micro and FPP - less is more - The main developer of the project Prooph Components talks about creating microservices based on prooph / micro and how functional programming and code generation can help with this. Sent by @dmitrybalabka .
• Maximum PhpStorm
• Podcast Three Devs & A Maybe: Symfony Apps on AWS Lambda
• Tutu PHP Meetup # 2: Video Speeches
• Five minutes of PHP Release # 40 - Continue targeting switch - In PHP 7.3, if you write continue without the number 2 inside the switch inside the loop, you will receive Warning: "continue" targeting switch is equivalent to "break". Did you mean to use “continue 2”? We understand the situation.

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