PHP Digest No. 133 (June 10 - 24, 2018)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In release: PHP 7.3.0 Alpha 2, plans for PHP 8.0, Typed Properties and other RFCs from PHP Internals, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

PHP 7.3.0 Alpha 2 - Second planned alpha release with bug fixes. A complete list of changes to the branch can be found here , and the main innovations in the last release of the digest . Another alpha is expected and then feature-freeze on July 17th.
There is a possibility that 7.3 will become the last branch of 7. * and the next major release will be PHP 8.0, in which JIT , FFI will be added, and, probably, opportunities for implementing asynchronous and long-lived applications.
Update: Zeeva Suraski's Comments on PHP 8.0 Plans
PHP 7.2.7
Sylius v1.2.0
Zend Server 2018

Php internals

[RFC]: Typed Properties 2.0 - A large and very detailed proposal from Nikita Popov and Bob Weinand for implementing typed properties. Earlier there was an attempt to realize this opportunity, but the proposal did not pass the threshold of 2/3 votes. The current document addresses 2 key problems of the past implementation: types for static properties are supported, and references to typed properties. Therefore, this time there is every chance of voting. The corresponding pull request is ready.
The question of the version remains open: PHP 7.3 is currently being considered, but if difficulties arise, it may be postponed until 7.4 (8).
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class Example { // All types with the exception of "void" and "callable" are supported public int $scalarType; protected Type $type; private ?Type $nullableType; // Types are also legal on static properties public static iterable $staticProp; // Types can also be used with the "var" notation var bool $flag; // Typed properties may have default values (more below) public string $str = "foo"; public ?string $nullableStr = null; // The type applies to all properties in one declaration public float $x, $y; // equivalent to: public float $x; public float $y; } 
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[RFC] Deprecate and Remove Case-Insensitive Constants - Using define() you can define a case-insensitive constant. It is proposed to remove this feature.
[RFC] Deprecate and remove continue targeting switch - continue inside switch behaves like break , although this is not the case in other languages. It is proposed to correct the behavior.

strict switch - Sara Golemon suggested implementing a strict switch as an idea:

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 switch ($a) { case FOO: // Works exactly as current behavior. break; case == FOO: // Nearly identical, though we don't use the ZEND_CASE optimization. // Can probably make this equivalent to `case FOO`, but it felt like an interesting direction. break; case === FOO: // Only triggers if `$a === FOO`, no type juggling break; }

Instruments

spiral / roadrunner - High-performance production application server, load balancer and process manager for PHP implemented on Go.
slince / spike - Reverse PHP proxy (ReactPHP) for disclosing local projects to the public Internet. Analogue of ngrok.io .
spatie / async - Wrap PCNTL for easy execution of parallel tasks.
RSS-Bridge / rss-bridge - RSS-feed for sites that do not have it, out of the box 150+ adapters.
DragonBe / hibp - Checks with haveibeenpwned.com whether the password has been compromised.
nunomaduro / collision - Cool bug reports for console applications. Out of the box works with Laravel, there is an adapter for symfony .
API-Skeletons / zf-doctrine-graphql - GraphQL for Doctrine using hydrators.