PHP Digest number 132 (May 27 - June 10, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1, Yii 3.0 alpha 1 and other releases, a fresh book on asynchronous PHP, video recording of reports, a portion of useful tools, and much more. Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.3.0 alpha 1 - The first alpha version of the new PHP branch is available for testing. The semi-annual testing cycle started, the final release is expected in late November.
  
  • Among the changes:
    • Heredoc and Nowdoc RFC syntax enhancements
    • The json_encode () and json_decode () functions will throw an exception if there is an error and the corresponding RFC flag is present .
    • Ability to use a comma after the last argument of the RFC function
    • New function hrtime (), which returns high precision time and does not depend on system time PR
    • Added is_countable () function to check for enumeration RFC
    • Using links in list () RFC
    • Significant improvement in PR garbage collection
    and other improvements. Full list of changes .
    
• Phalcon 3.4.0
• Fresh news PHP-FIG: April and May - PSR-5 (PHPDoc) is divided into two: about formatting and catalog of tags, PSR-9 and PSR-10 (security) came to life with a new leader, PSR-14 (Event Dispatcher) in the process , PSR-17 (http factories) and PSR-18 (http clients) are almost ready to go to the review.
• The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018 - JetBrains report based on a survey of 6,000 developers.

Instruments

• z7zmey / php-parser v0.5.0 - The PHP parser implemented on Go continues to evolve.
• nesk / rialto - A tool for managing Node.js resources from PHP. It can be used to implement interaction with the Node.js libraries.
• nesk / puphpeteer - Nesk / rialto usage example, PHP wrapper for working with Google Chrome / puppeteer (Headless Chrome).
• mlambley / swagception - Generates acceptance tests for Codeception based on your Swagger 2.0 (Open API 2.0) specification.
• RobThree / TwoFactorAuth - Two-factor authentication based on one-time TOTP passwords or QR codes.
• OwenMelbz / forget-db - A simple tool to anonymize (for example, for GDPR) data in the database.
• gordalina / cachetool - CLI tool for managing apc and opcache.
• digitaldonkey / ethereum-php - A typed interface for Ethereum JSON-RPC API.
• SocialConnect / auth - Library for authentication through social. services (OAuth1 / 2, OpenID, OpenIDConnect). 25+ providers out of the box.
• xobotyi / rsync - Handy wrapper over rsync for PHP 7.1+. Sent by xobotyi .
• krakjoe / idbg - A debugger for PHP implemented in PHP, for the time being, however, requires the krakjoe / idbg extension . Post with a description.

Study materials

• Symfony

  
  
  • Symfony 4.1.0 - Complete list of all changes and improvements.
  • Symfony Console application with Dependency Injection
  • Symfony component overview: Config
  • Symfony Week # 597 (June 4-10, 2018)
  • Symfony Week # 596 (May 28 - June 3, 2018)
  
  

• Yii

  
  
  • Yii 3.0.0 alpha 1 - The Yii framework command should be semver, so instead of release 2.1, 3.0 is expected in the near future. Tag of the first alpha is already set, waiting for the official announcement.
  
  

• Laravel

  
  
  • avto-dev / app-version-laravel - By default, Laravel does not have a built-in mechanism for working with the application version value, and this package is intended to compensate for this flaw. Sent by cmepthuk .
  • avto-dev / db-config-laravel - The package allows you to redefine values ​​in the application config with values ​​from the database, while maintaining backward compatibility. Sent by cmepthuk .
  • laravolt / avatar - Generator avatars by username.
  • gpressutto5 / laravel-slack - Slack Notifications for Laravel.
  • beyondcode / laravel-visual-diff — The package provides the ability to compare page snapshots between two test runs. Post in support.
  • laravelevents.com - Aggregator of meetings, conferences, and other events related to Laravel.
  • All posts for the Laravel contest in descending order of rating
  
  

• Async php

  
  
  • ReactPHP for beginners - Fresh book from Sergey Zhuk for beginners in the world of asynchronous PHP applications. Available in Russian and English .
  • [RFC] Fiber - Started a vote on the proposal to add Fiber (stakful-quorutin) to the core.
  • Simple HTTP Server with ReactPHP
  • FLOSS Weekly # 486: ReactPHP - Interview with @wyrihaximus .
  
  

• CMS

  
  
  • WordPress Month: May 2018
  • Magento Tech Digest # 18: May 28 - June 4, 2018
  • Magento 2 REST API on the example of a simple module
  
  
• Top 100 most frequently used PHP functions - Analysis of 1900 popular open source projects.
• Scopi in PHPStorm - IDE allows you to group files and then paint them in a tree, and then search in groups.
• Where and when to determine the entity ID - An interesting post about the use of auto-increment ID database and the generation of identifiers in the application.
• 30 seconds of php code - Short useful PHP snippets that can be understood in 30 seconds
• About the Page Object Model Pattern
• Memory profiling in PHP using XHProf
• Strange operators in PHP
• A simple explanation of the principles of SOLID
• Non-full text search: Elasticsearch specific capabilities for complex tasks

Audio and video

• PHP application in Kubernetes (experience 2GIS)
• Pyatiminutka PHP: Issue №33 - JWT with Artem Pulyavin

Entertaining

• oraoto / pib - PHP in Browser - PHP compiled to WebAssembly using Emscripten .

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