PHP Digest No. 166 (October 7-21, 2019)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.4 RC4 and other releases, news from PHP Internals, a portion of useful tools, streams, video from conferences, podcasts and much more.

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.4 RC4 - 2 more release candidates are planned and the final release of PHP 7.4 is already November 28th. In the meantime, you can take a look what's new is expected .
• skyeng / php-communities - An open list of PHP events, speakers and organizers on GitHub . From the nearest events:
  • 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
  • November 2, Nizhny Novgorod: The first mitap of the PHP NN community
  

PHP internals

• [RFC] Deprecate Backtick Operator (V2) - In PHP, you can use quotation marks ` ` as an alias for shell_exec() . That is, the line that is written in them will be perceived as a command and launched in the shell. The proposal to declare this opportunity obsolete caused a storm of controversy , as did other proposals for deprecations.
• [RFC] Implement new DOM Living Standard APIs in ext / dom - It is proposed to implement support for the new DOM standard in kernel extension. Learn more about the offer in the podcast. PHP Internals News # 31 with RFC author Benjamin Eberlei .
• A poll from Sarah Goleman on Twitter about the idea of ​​try-blocks at the function level, inspired by a similar feature from C ++:
  

  Function level try blocks in PHP:
  
  function f () try {
  // code
  } catch (Throwable $ t ) {
  // code
  } finally {
  // code
  }

  - SaraMG (@SaraMG) October 9, 2019

Tools

• mougrim / php-xdebug-proxy - PHP Xdebug proxy: when the standard features of Xdebug are not enough .
• php-defer / php-defer - An analogue of the defer function from Go . The callback passed as a parameter of this function will work when the execution thread leaves the scope of the current (external) function / method. Under the hood , a destructor is simply used . The idea is old and was already implemented several years ago as part of phplang / scope-exit .
• sensiolabs-de / deptra 0.6 - Static code analysis tool for determining dependencies between application layers.
• graze / parallel-process - Allows you to easily run multiple symfony / process in parallel.

Symfony

• Symfony Week # 668 (October 14-20, 2019)

Laravel

• Laravel - More Than Just CRUD - The first three chapters of a book on how to write large Laravel applications.
• Generic Response Objects
• Laravel: explain the basic concepts. Part One: Theory ; Part Two: Practice .
• 40 best Laravel tools and resources
• Taylor tweeted that over the past 5 years he has sold software for $ 10 million while living in a small town in Arkansas. In his podcast, he promises to tell how to make successful products:
  • Laravel Snippet # 15: Choosing Product Ideas
  • Laravel Snippet # 16: Audience Set
  
• Laravel Lunch Break - New podcast from Marcel Pociot and Dries Vints .
• Astrocasts: Event Sourcing with Laravel and EventSauce
• A series of videos about creating a RESTful Laravel API application using TDD
• Stream about creating laravel-shift / blueprint

Yii

• Yii 2.0.28, extensions and progress on Yii 3 - The team is approaching a state where it is possible to release an alpha version of Yii 3.

Async php

• Writing a RESTful API using ReactPHP: Add user registration .
• seregazhuk / php-watcher - A package for automatically restarting PHP applications when changing files. Support blog post .

Learning Materials

• About using the @mixin tag in DocBlock to improve auto-completion.
• About the value of the void typepoint in PHP - Translation
• Marcel Pociot on what simple code is and how to write it .
• Budget VPS test by Rasmus Lerdorf.
• PHP at the front end - A fun experiment in compiling PHP in WASM and running Laravel in a browser.
• High precision time: how to work with fractions of a second in MySQL and PHP - Sent by bikutoru .
• What does the zip archive look like and what can we do about it
• Run php scripts via php-fpm without a web server. Or your FastCgi client (under the hood).
• Unsafe PHP Functions
• Two weak points of horizontal scaling of PHP applications are the database and file storage:
  

Audio Video

• PHP Yorkshire 2019 - Videos of all reports.
• PHP Serbia 2019 - Videos of all reports.
• Beachcasts: Swoole module for PHP using Docker Compose .
• The Undercover ElePHPant - A new podcast on the performance and scalability of PHP applications. Leading podcasts: Matthew Setter and Benjamin Eberlei .
• PHP Internals News # 32 - C James Titcumb on commercial development of PHP extensions.

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