PHP Digest No. 169 (November 26 - December 9, 2019)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.4, PhpStorm 2019.3, InfectionPHP and other releases, PHP version statistics, on the use of FFI, videos from past conferences and meetings, a portion of useful tools, and much more.

Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

• PHP 7.4.0 - The long-awaited interpreter release is delivered on schedule. Thanks to all contributors and release managers Derick Rethans and Peter Kokot for the work done! From the new:
  • Typed properties
  • Arrow functions
  • Limited return type covariance and argument type contravariance
  • Assigning union operator with null (??)
  • Unpacking inside arrays
  • Separator in numeric literals
  • Handling exceptions to the __toString () method
  • Preload OPcache
  • FFI - Everything You Wanted to Know About PHP 7.4 FFI
  • A bunch of features are transferred to the category of obsolete , and there are also changes that break backward compatibility .
  • Complete list of changes to php-src / UPGRADING
  
  How Badoo is migrating to PHP 7.4 .
  Judging by benchmarks , productivity without taking into account preload increased by an average of ~ 11%.
  

  With the release of 7.4 , the support period for PHP 7.1 ended , and PHP 7.2 switched to only security fixes mode. It's time to upgrade: How to install PHP 7.4 on various operating systems.

• PHP Internals News # 37 - PHP 7.4 Celebrations! - Developers talk about their favorite features from PHP 7.4.
• PhpStorm 2019.3 - Support for PHP 7.4, PSR-12, WSL, MongoDB and more. Video review of the main changes .
• Drupal 8.8.0 - Among other things, the release adds native support for Composer.
• PHP Version Statistics - 2019.2 - A traditional collection of statistics on the use of PHP versions based on the data sent by Composer when connected to packagist.org. New versions are accepted by the community quickly, PHP 7.3 has a share of 35.24%, and PHP 5 slowly dies and takes 9%.
• skyeng / php-communities - An open list of PHP events, speakers and organizers. Upcoming events:
  • December 10, Odessa: PHP OpenSource world. Stable multi-threaded application.
  • December 12, Moscow: Open microphone: backend. Badoo invites speakers
  • December 14, Kazan: Big meeting of PHP developers
  • December 18, St. Petersburg: Symode St. Petersburg Meetup # 8 @ JetBrains
  • December 21, Nizhny Novgorod: The second mitap of the PHP NN community
  

Instruments

• Infection 0.15.0 - Updating the mutation testing tool in PHP. In the new version: Support for Codeception, PHP 7.4, Symfony 4.4 and 5.0, a couple of new mutators and more.
• clue / phar-composer - A tool for creating a phar archive from any project based on Composer. Post in support.
• phplrt / phplrt - A tool for creating parsers in PHP for a given grammar. Example: json5 parser .
• shivammathur / setup-php - GitHub action to add to your workflow, which will prepare the PHP environment for the next steps.
• vlucas / phpdotenv V4.0 - Automatically download environment variables from a .env file.
• totten / pogo - The tool allows you to write single-file scripts, specifying Composer dependencies directly in the PHP file. The idea has already been implemented in sensiolabs / melody .
• PHPStan 0.12 - Static analyzer for PHP in the new version with support for generics via PHPDoc annotations.

Symfony

• Symfony Week # 675 (December 2 - 8, 2019)
• PHP 7.4 preload in symfony 4.4
• Logging entity changes in Symfony 4
• How to create a RESTful API on Symfony 5 + API Platform for a MODX project
• Five Minute PHP # 72 - With Valentin Udaltsov about SymfonyCon 2019, domain event processing, Messenger, Mailer components and Symfony 5 development plans. And continued in issue 73 on SymfonyCloud, reliable message delivery, static analysis PHP code.

Laravel

• About using the View model - A new chapter from the Laravel beyond CRUD series.
• Case study and recommendations for porting an application to Laravel Vapor
• Streamlining Laravel - A few ideas for improving Laravel.
• Form Requests - More Than Validation - Translation
• Astrocasts - Making a Team Bus on Laravel and Tactician 2.x

Yii

• hunwalk / yii2-basic-firestarter - A modified version of the basic template with pre-configured functions for quick start of the project.
• The minimum version of the interpreter for Yii 3 will be PHP 7.4

Zend

• Laminas News - Apigility project will be renamed to Laminas API Tools (namespace Laminas\ApiTools ), and Expressive will be called Mezzio. The official release of Laminas is scheduled for January 2020.

Async php

• Speeding up Tarantool PHP Connectors with Async, Swoole, and Parallel

Learning Materials

• Benchmark 4 ways to generate UUIDs in PHP - Comparison of PECL extension uuid , fresh polyfile extension symfony / polyfill-uuid , popular ramsey / uuid package and binding libuuid via FFI jolicode / ffi-uuid .
• 4 key points when running PHP applications on multiple servers - and a podcast The Undercover ElePHPant # 3 with Larry Garfield and Robert Douglass .
• Lessons learned from testing and refactoring legacy projects
• How to find out if two floats are equal in PHP
• PHP Anonymous Functions: Exposing Black Magic Session
• School of Magic PHP
• Stop using Else in your programs
• About serverLess PHP

Audio Video

• Laravel EU 2019
• PHP.Barcelona 2019
• SymfonyCasts Blackfire Free Course
• November php mitap at Skyeng office
• Ufa PHP Developers Meeting

Entertaining

• How to develop a developer in a small and not very IT city
• How to start a pet project and not get benefits
• Support the developers of the packages you use with symfony / thanks :
  

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