PHP Digest No. 163 (August 12 - 26, 2019)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.4.0 beta 4, about the fate of P ++, videos, podcasts, announcements of meetings and conferences, a portion of useful tools, and much more.

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.4.0 beta 4 - Last beta in the loop. Somehow missed there was no Beta 3 ? The next release will be RC 1, which is expected on September 5.
• September 21st Badoo PHP Meetup # 3: Performance
• CODEiD - PHP Odessa Conf # 6 - September 14 and 15, Odessa. Among the speakers are Marco Pivetta , Sebastian Feldmann and others. For readers of the PHP Digest, a 10% discount code: PHPDIGEST_R .

PHP internals

• Straw poll for P ++ feasibility - More than two weeks ago, Zeev Surasky introduced the provocative idea to create a new language based on PHP, code-named P ++. In response, there was a lot of controversy at Internals and not only, an excellent overview of PHP history and nuances, but also a post about why P ++ is a bad idea from a non-technical point of view.
  Someone even suggested making P-- - simplified PHP since PHP 5.0, or P === - just leave it as it is.
  Fortunately, before everything went too far, Derick Rethans (author of Xdebug) launched a poll with one simple question: Is the idea of ​​P ++ feasible in principle? The entire PHP Internals community voted unanimously against, unexpectedly including Zeev himself . On this idea you can forget P ++.
• [RFC] Deprecate short open tags, again - Many contributors opted to remove short tags from PHP in the foreseeable future, and re-voting did not overcome the required threshold. Total short tags will remain for another 5+ years.
• [PoC] throw_legacy_failure declare statement - An interesting PR in PHP with the concept of redoing all built-in functions so that they throw exceptions instead of returning false / null . This feature is enabled by specifying the declare(throw_legacy_failure=1) directive declare(throw_legacy_failure=1) .

Instruments

• drupol / collection - A lightweight collection package, inspired by illuminate / support and lazy.js.
• quasilyte / phpgrep - A tool for searching in PHP code - like grep, only with an "understanding" of PHP syntax. Implemented in Golang and inspired by mvdan / gogrep . Analogue SSR in PhpStorm.
• voku / portable-utf8 - Library for working with UTF-8 strings without dependencies on extensions like mbstring or iconv.
• jasny / switch-route - PHP developers never wrote / s routers and here is one implemented on the basis of switch-constructions. Benchmarks .
• franzose / gimme-url - Link generator for thephpleague / route . Sent by franzose .
• brick / varexporter - An alternative to the standard var_export() with the ability to export closures and objects without output __set_state() .
• ivopetkov / html5-dom-document-php - Improved HTML5 parser. Extends and complements the original DOMDocument .

Symfony

• symfony-bundles / kafka-bundle - Symfony Bundle for convenient work with Kafka and quick creation of consumers. Submitted by khaperets .
• Symfony Week # 660 (August 19-25, 2019)

Laravel

• glhd / aire - Form builder for Laravel.
• inertiajs / inertia-laravel - The package allows you to write SPA applications with React and Vue.js, using conventional controllers. The principle of work .
• Laravel vs Lumen - What to use?
• Admin Panel Errors or Laravel Orchid Development Experience
• Laravel caching: the basics plus tips & tricks
• Videos of all Laracon US 2019 reports

Yii

• Launch Yii 2 under RoadRunner
• Yii 2 Beginner Tutorial

Async php

• Writing a RESTful API with ReactPHP: Improving HTTP Responses
• apisearch-io / symfony-async-kernel - Asynchronous kernel for Symfony based on ReactPHP promises. Demo application: apisearch-io / symfony-react-demo .

Learning Materials

• From LAMP to serverless : the externals.io migration experience.
• Quick review Slim 4
• Parsing SQLi and PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities in SuiteCRM
• Stop using datetime
• An alternative approach to subscribing to events, or is EventObject really necessary?

Audio Video

• We profile PHP applications using Blackfire.io
• PHP Panda Meetup in Skyeng
• PHP Internals News # 23 - With George Banyard once again about short tags.
• PHP Internals News # 24 - With Stanislov Malyshev on the use of fuzzing for testing PHP.
• SDCast and Five Minute PHP : Interviews with PhpStorm Developers.
• Five Minute PHP: DDD # 2 - Documentation and Communication
• Five Minute PHP: DDD # 3 - Layered Architecture - The third issue of the Five Minute DDD about isolating the subject area and layered architecture.

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