PHP Digest 134 (June 24 - July 8, 2018)

In the release: PHP 7.3.0 alpha 3, PHPStan 0.10, Yii 1.1.20 and other releases, a fresh offer from PHP Internals comparing objects, a portion of useful tools, and much more.
Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

PHP 7.3.0 alpha 3 - The latest alpha release before “freezing features”. Beta 1 is scheduled for July 19th. However, dates can move if it is decided to include typed properties in 7.3.
PHP 7.1.19
PHP ODESSA CONF 2018 - On August 11, a large-scale PHP conference will be held in Odessa. A promo code with a 10% discount is available for readers of the PHP Digest: PHPDIGEST

Php internals

PHP 8: what to expect. Letter of Zeev Suraski
PHP 7.0 vs JIT PoC performance demo for generating fractals
[RFC] Friendship Class - Started voting to add friend classes. A friendly class has access to the private and protected fields of the class in which it is declared friendly.

[RFC] User-defined object comparison - This document discusses the problem of comparing objects in PHP. It is proposed to add two new magic methods: __compareTo and __equals .

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 class Example { /** * Returns: < 0 if $this is less than $other, * > 0 if $this is greater than $other, * == 0 if $this is equal to $other. */ public function __compareTo($other): int { ... } /** * @returns bool TRUE if $this is equal to $other, FALSE otherwise. */ public function __equals($other): bool { ... } }

dstogov / php-tensorflow - Thanks to the FFI implementation, it will be possible to make lightweight bindings for third-party libraries. As an example, Dmitry Stogov demonstrates a wrapper over TensorFlow .

Instruments

Infection 0.9.0 - Update framework for AST-based mutational testing.
PHPStan 0.10 - Powerful static analyzer for PHP. Online sandbox to check the code.
sebastianfeldmann / phpbu - A tool for creating backup copies of files and databases. Able to encrypt backups and send to storage.
leviy / release-tool - CLI-tool for the release of new versions of products.
mediact / dependency-guard - The tool will show unused composer dependencies. As well as those used in the code, but set as dev dependencies.
ackintosh / snidel - Allows you to easily execute code in parallel in the fork of a process. Alternative to spatie / async
php-lock / lock - Implementation of mutex for PHP with support for various adapters (flock, memcache, mysql, redis, ...). Alternative to symfony / lock .
Imangazaliev / DiDOM - A simple and fast library for parsing HTML. Fresh tutorial in support.

Study materials

Symfony
- Symfony Week # 601 (July 2-8, 2018)
- Symfony Week # 600 (June 25 - July 1, 2018)
Yii
- Yii 1.1.20
- Yii development notes # 23 - The framework team is looking for contributors:
  • A release manager who would help plan releases, as well as write announcements of releases and plans for the future;
  • Maintainers for review and merge pull requests;
  • Maintainers of official extensions;
  • Core-developers to work on new versions of the framework.
- Yii 2.0 Part 19 - REST APIs
Laravel
- beyondcode / laravel-self-diagnosis - A diagnostic package for a Laravel application with a dozen checks out of the box.
- beyondcode / laravel-er-diagram-generator - Generates a diagram of the relationships of your models using GraphViz.
- mpociot / laravel-testtools - An extension for Chrome that will generate integration tests for a Laravel web application while you are viewing it in a browser.
- Creating your own API {JSON: API} by means of Laravel - Sent by bad4iz .
Zend
- DotKernel3 1.0 - The first stable version of the PSR-7 suite of middleware components for Zend Expressive.
- Zend Framework ACL for multiple role users
- Interview with Zend Framework / Zend Expressive leader Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Async php
- reactphp / dns v0.4.15 - Added support for IPv6.
- Introduction to ReactPHP
- Fast web scraping with ReactPHP. Part 3: Using a proxy
- Rendering HTML files: a chapter from the book "ReactPHP for Beginners" from the developer Skyeng
CMS
- Critical vulnerability in WordPress - Hole allowed you to delete any file in a WP installation. All versions <4.9.6 are vulnerable. Bug fixed in 4.9.7
- WordPress Security Guide
- WordPress Month: June 2018
- Magento Tech Digest # 22: June 27 - July 2, 2018
Do not use associative arrays, generally speaking, never
Anonymous Classes as Private Package Classes
Phpdbg is much faster Xdebug to calculate coverage
PHP environment using Docker-ompose from scratch
Simple IOT device with PHP and Raspberry Pi Zero W
How to compile and touch unreleased RFC - You can quickly try out the potential features from RFC at 3v4l.org .
Secure storage of credentials in PHP
Lions in the desert and introspection
Low-level implementation of the trie prefix tree in PHP
PHP-DataGen - PHP class generator with strictly typed properties
PHP Aspect Oriented Programming
Friday's PHP quiz: some Brad programmer's adventures, one weird sequence and prizes
PHP extension and Kotlin Native. Part one, naive
Code Basics: Free Practical Lessons for Beginners

Audio and video

PHP Rountable Podcast # 74: About storing passwords and other secret information in PHP applications
Zeev Suraski - To PHP 7 and beyond - On the evolution of PHP performance and future plans.

Entertaining

PHPlashy - The Official PHP Vegas ElePHPant - The PHP Vegas community has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce brilliant PHP elephants.
Funny thread on Reddit about strange tasks that users solved with the help of PHP - What is the strangest program you wrote in PHP?