PHP DIGEST #18: NEWS & TOOLS (MAY 13 - MAY 27, 2018)

News & Releases

• PhpStorm 2018.2 EAP — Early Access Program (EAP) allows you to try pre-release versions of our software to evaluate features that will be added in the next release. It is important to distinguish EAP from traditional pre-release software.
• PHP 7.2.6
• PHP 7.1.18
• PHP Versions Stats - 2018.1 Edition — Traditional compilation of statistics for the 6 months based on the info Composer sends when connecting to packagist.org. The total share of PHP 7 is already 78.22%. A closer to reality statistics of downloads of PHP packages from the Remi repository.

PHP Internals

• [RFC] Weak References — Draft proposals for the implementation of the weak links in the PHP core. At the moment, this option is available only through colder/php-weakref or krakjoe/uref extensions.

Tools

• Roave/BetterReflection 3.0 — Reflexion without loading classes.
• fe3dback/str — A fast string manipulation library with multibyte support. Based on "Stringy" lib, with focus on speed.
• psecio/secure_dotenv — A secure .env handler with encrypted key/value storage.
• php-opencv/php-opencv-examples — Computer vision and machine learning in PHP by opencv (installation + examples + docs).
• atlasphp/Atlas.Query — Query builders for Atlas.Pdo connections.
• getopt-php/getopt-php — A PHP library for command-line argument processing.
• mindplay-dk/middleman — Dead simple PSR-7 middleware dispatcher.
• spatie/typed — Improvements to PHP's type system in userland: generics, typed lists, tuples and structs.

Learning Materials

Symfony

• How to Test Private Services in Symfony
• twigfiddle.com — Fiddle for Twig.
• A week of Symfony #594 (14-20 May 2018)
• A week of Symfony #595 (21-27 May 2018)

Laravel

• spatie/laravel-event-projector — Event sourcing for Artisans. Mini tutorial here.
• ponich/eloquent-traits — Traits for Laravel eloquent models.
• beyondcode/laravel-credentials — Add encrypted credentials to your Laravel production environment.
• How I Built The LaravelQuiz Chatbot With BotMan and Laravel — LaravelQuizBot.
• Laravel Blog Contest — May Mayhem Edition. Over 50 blog posts written.

Zend

• Zend Framework Community News for the week of 2018-05-17
• Zend Framework Community News for the week of 2018-05-24

Async PHP

• clue/reactphp-ndjson — Streaming newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON) parser and encoder for ReactPHP.
• clue/reactphp-flux — Flux, the lightweight stream processor to concurrently do many (but not too many) things at once, built on top of ReactPHP. A detailed post about motivation and the use of tools.
• Build A Simple Chat With ReactPHP Sockets: Server, Client, Making it user-friendly
• About using ReactPHP in production + some benchmarks.

CMS

• Magento Tech Digest #17: May 21 — 28, 2018
• Magento Tech Digest #16: May 14 — 21, 2018
• The Long Road to Drupal 9
• Drupal JavaScript Initiative: The Road to a Modern Administration UI

Serverless

• Serverless и PHP — An excellent introduction to serverless in PHP, as well as the introduction of the mnapoli / bref framework.
• mnapoli / bref framework — A framework for creating and deploying serverless-applications in PHP.
• Example of running Symfony on Bref - Demo of a Symfony application deployed on AWS lambda using Bref.
• Serverless Laravel — Expand the Laravel application to AWS lambda using Bref.
• Serverless and PHP: Performances.

• Weird operators in PHP
• When empty is not empty -  strange results when using the empty function.
• Picking the right API Paradigm
• Great slideshow: Learning Design Patterns with Symfony
• Is Your Code Readable By Humans? Cognitive Complexity Tells You

Audio & Video Materials

• PHP in 2018 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the Creator of PHP
• ScotlandPHP 2017 — Talk videos from the ScotlandPHP 2017 conference held in Edinburgh on the 4th of November 2017.
• PHP Roundtable #070: All about WordPress
• PHP Roundtable #071: Discussing PHP 7.2

Interesting

• PHP allows for the design of X - When you should or should not use PHP.