PHP Digest No. 165 (September 23 - October 7, 2019)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.4.0 RC3, support for Composer dependencies on GitHub, updating PSR standards, RFC offers from PHP Internals and about coordinating the PHP project, a portion of useful tools, podcasts, mitaps, and much more.

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• GitHub added support for the PHP dependency graph - Composer.json files will be automatically analyzed for insecure dependencies. and repositories to receive the corresponding pool requests with updates.
• PHP-FIG needs your help updating PSR standards! - The PHP-FIG group offers the phased addition of type declarations for return values ​​and parameters in already accepted PSR standards. So that in modern applications you can take advantage of the types, but at the same time leave the standards available for older applications.
• PHP 7.4.0 RC3 - Another release candidate delivered on schedule . Only 3 RC left before PHP 7.4. In the meantime, a guide for migration from PHP 7.3.x to PHP 7.4.x - thanks lex111 for the translation.
• PHP 7.3.10 , PHP 7.2.23 - Security bugs fixed, all users are encouraged to upgrade.
• Upcoming events:
  
  • October 19, Ulyanovsk: Panda Meetup # 28 Back-end (PHP)
    
  • October 20, Kharkov: ThinkPHP # 19
    
  • October 24, Minsk: PHP Meetup # 30
    
  • October 24, St. Petersburg: Symfony St. Petersburg Meetup # 7
    
  • October 26, Rostov-on-Don: PHP mitap # 1
    
  • October 26, Kiev: Symfony Camp UA 2019
  
  

PHP internals

• [RFC] Object Initializer - It is proposed to implement the syntax for quick initialization of objects:
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  class Car { public int $yearOfProduction; public string $vin; } $car = new Car { yearOfProduction = 2019, vin = "1FTFW1CVXAFD54385", }; $car = new Car { yearOfProduction = 2019, }; // throws RuntimeException: Initialization of Car class object failed due to missing required properties 

  Briefly about the proposal in the post of the author and more in the podcast PHP Internals News # 30 is with it.
  
• [RFC] Reclassifying engine warnings - Thrown notices and vorings in the PHP engine were revised and according to the results of voting in PHP 8.0 we have:
  • The variable is not defined: Warning will be thrown;
  • Access to a nonexistent index in the array: Warning;
  • Division by zero: An exception, and the fdiv() function will be added , allowing division by zero;
  • Invalid argument in foreach (): Warning;
  • And all other changes passed the vote and accepted.
  Learn more in the podcast. PHP Internals News # 29 c Nikita Popov.
• PHP Project Coordination - As long as we were at Internals, something was good too. Dan Ackroyd created a document that describes the current tasks and discussions of the project. If you would like to help PHP, but don't know how, this document is a good starting point.

Instruments

• cycle / orm - A powerful ORM that can be used both as a DataMapper and in the style of ActiveRecord . Detailed documentation available .
• ssx / skrub - A package for removing unnecessary files in dependencies can be useful for reducing Docker images.
• squizlabs / PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5.0 - Update with full support for the PSR-12 standard.
• infection / infection 0.14.0 - A framework for mutational testing. In the new version 3 new mutators, improved performance, reduced memory consumption, and other improvements .
• solodkiy / mysql-error-parser - A library for parsing MySQL errors. Submitted by doctorx .
• alecrabbit / php-console-spinner - Beautiful console spinners.

Symfony

• Symfony adds a new String component for working with object-style strings.
• Symfony's best practices are now all in one place.
• Getters / setters and encapsulation issue in symfony projects

Laravel

• spatie / laravel-model-states - The package adds state support in models. Combines the state pattern and state machines.
• Hunternnm / laravel-roadrunner - A simple bridge for Laravel and Roadrunner to work. Submitted by hunternnm .
• CI for Laravel 6 on GitHub Actions
• DDD - a new helper for debugging in Laravel 6
• Comparison of Inertia.js and Livewire
• Laravel Testing Video Series
• Laracasts: Laravel 6 from scratch

Yii

• YIMP - Control Panel for Yii 2 on Bootstrap 4
• Yii 2.0.27, Debug 2.1.9 and progress on Yii 3 , including an interesting experiment on using cycle / orm as a database layer.

Async php

• seregazhuk / php-watcher - A package for automatically restarting PHP applications when changing files. It can be useful when developing demonized PHP applications.
• clue / reactphp-docker - Asynchronous client for the Docker Engine API. Post in support.
• We write a RESTful API using ReactPHP: Download images , Give static

Learning Materials

• Matthias Noback: Using phploc to Quickly Evaluate Application Quality , Part 2
• doganoo / PHPAlgorithms - A selection of popular algorithms from the book "Cracking the Coding Interview" with implementation in PHP.
• The most popular magic methods in PHP projects
• Details on what abstractions are in development
• gabrielrcouto / awesome-php-ffi - Examples of using FFI from PHP 7.4.
• Psalm immunity test
• More than RCE or several ways to exploit unserialize() vulnerabilities.
• The Four Pillars of PSR
• PHP libraries for e-commerce: working with ATOL and Payture, parsing GS1 codes and other tasks.
• They are strange static variables in PHP
• PHP Xdebug proxy: when the standard features of Xdebug are not enough.
• Code style as a development standard
• PHP, how much abstraction for the people?

Audio Video

• Competent OOP - Video report from PHP Russia 2019
• PHP backend performance. Video from Badoo PHP Meetup # 3
• Stream from Derick Rethans , in which he fixes a bug in Xdebug.
• PHP Internals News # 28 - With Andreas Heigl on porting PHP documentation from SVN to Git.
• PHP Internals News # 27 - With Nikita Popov on the necessary help in adding types to internal functions.
• Five Minute PHP:
  • # 68 Drupal - On the current situation in the popular CMS Drupal system.
  • DDD # 5 - Value-Objects
  • DDD # 6 - Services & Modules
  • DDD # 7 - Modeling paradigms and layered architecture
  

Entertaining

• ElePHPant.me - A site for the exchange of elephants.

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