PHP Digest No. 162 (August 1 - 12, 2019)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the issue: About the future of PHP: P ++ or PHP2020, adopted PSR-12, PHP 7.4 beta 2, Slim 4, and other releases, a portion of useful tools, and much more.

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News and Releases

• PSR-12 Extended Coding Style Guide - Adopted an advanced coding style standard. Changes compared to PSR-2 .
• PHP 7.4.0 beta 2 - The last beta is expected on August 22. See the UPGRADING document for a complete list of changes to branch 7.4. For developers of extensions, a list of changes in the internal API is also available.
• PHP 7.3.8 , 7.2.21 , 7.1.31
• Slim 4.0.0
• Composer 1.9.0
• The final summer season mitap PHPofBy # 29 - August 24, Minsk.

PHP internals

• P ++ - Disputes and accusations of PHP Internals regarding the removal of short tags <? , explicit transfer of parameters by reference and other discussions in the end resulted in an unexpected proposal from Zeev Surasky - to make a new dialect of PHP. The working title of P ++ is no accident here - Zeev proposes to make a "sister" language, like C ++ for C. It is also assumed that both PHP and P ++ will develop simultaneously within the same runtime.
  
  In the new P ++, it will be possible to implement a lot of revolutionary improvements, clear Legacy, and restore order without thinking about backward compatibility. Also, since the language will have a new name, it will be possible to get rid of the trail of bad reputation. A classic PHP will receive all the goodies like JIT, preload, etc., but retain backward compatibility.
  
  The proposal was expected to meet a lot of counterarguments, and Zeev even tried to answer them by creating the P ++ idea: FAQ . Nevertheless, there are many questions: limited resources (~ 2 people full time working on PHP), community fragmentation, Hack experience, how PHP and P ++ code will really coexist and interact, and many others .
• [RFC] Namespace-scoped declares, again - As part of the RFC, Nikita Popov offers a more evolutionary approach to the further development of the language. Namely, the use of optional directives of type strict_types .
  And there are two possible ways of implementation: fine-grained - according to the directive for each feature; and coarse-grained - when a whole bundle of features is combined into one directive denoting a revision or standard of a language, for example, "PHP2020". Similar to Editions from Rust.
• Call for participation: Annotating internal function argument and return types - Want to become a contributor to the PHP core? You can’t imagine a better time to start!
  Insufficient information about internal functions in Reflection is a pretty old problem. Fortunately, in PHP 8 everything is already ready to make type support for arguments and return values ​​of built-in functions. Actually, it remains only to add the relevant annotations and for this there is no need to be an expert in S. Nikita made a PR with an example to show the process: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4499 Well, then - help is welcome !

Instruments

• nunomaduro / pest - Syntactic sugar for PHPUnit to write facebook / jest style tests.
• php-vcr / phpunit-testlistener-vcr - Records HTTP responses in your tests and then “plays” them during subsequent test runs, thereby speeding up the runs and determining the result. Usage example .
• mpratt / Embera - A library for conveniently obtaining meta-information about pages by URL (oembed, opengraph, twitter-cards, images, code for shredding, etc.).
• NxtLvLSoftware / php-static-constructors - Static constructors a la C # - are executed at most once. Implemented through a special autoloader.
• DaveLiddament / sarb - Implements Baseline for static analysis tools, allowing you to implement use in legacy applications.

Symfony

• Symfony minor non-LTS releases will be supported for 8 months instead of 14.
• Symfony Week # 658 (August 5-11, 2019)
• Domain Events in Symfony Application
• Deploy Symfony + React applications on AWS through CI

Laravel

• ylsideas / feature-flags - Implementation of feature flags for Laravel.
• gjrdiesel / laravel-cloud - The code for the SaaS project that Taylor developed before Vapor. Learn more in the podcast. Five Minute PHP # 58 .
• Some Laravel Chips You May Not Know About
• Service locator - antipattern
• A bunch of tips for working with Laravel (Laracon 2019)
• Service container: 4 ways to manage dependencies
• Event Generation, CQRS and Laravel
• Docker + Laravel + RoadRunner = <3

Yii

• Organization Detail View in Yii2
• Minification and Asset Modification in Yii2

Async php

• Writing a RESTful API with ReactPHP: Request Validation , Product Management
• phpinnacle / buffer - A library for parsing stream buffers.

Learning Materials

• How we added thousands of @var annotations per day
• PHP ternary operator
• Three years of autotests: how to increase speed and not only
• Hybrid PHP / Go Application Development Using RoadRunner
• Mutation testing in PHP: a qualitative measurement for code coverage
• Preloading in PHP 7.4
• Getting access to private properties without Reflection is an interesting variation of the old trick :

Audio Video

• PHP Internals News # 22 - C Matteo Beccati on [RFC] "Escape PDO"? "Parameter placeholder".
• That Podcast Episode 63 - C Benjamin Eberlei about Tideways company and profiler.
• Five Minute PHP # 59: DDD # 1 - Domain Model - - The first issue in a series of brief notes on DDD from Evans' book.
• Five-minute PHP No. 60: Testing in Vimbox (SkyEng) - On the importance of self-tests and plans to develop a testing culture in a team. Inverted Testing Pyramid. TDD or not? Tests first or tests later? Why do we need tests and how to convince colleagues of this?

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