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News and Releases:

• PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 3 — The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 3.
• PHP 7.1.7, PHP 7.0.21, PHP 5.6.31
• PHP TestFest 2017 — PHP TestFest aims to improve the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP programming language and encourage PHP programmers to make core contributions.

PHP:

• RFC: Allow loading extensions by name — This RFC proposes a unified way to configure the list of PHP extensions to load.

Tools:

• paragonie/chronicle — Public append-only ledger microservice built with Slim Framework. Details here. Also, review an example of the possible use of Chronicle here.
• tideways/php_garbage_stats — Extension to access statistics about garbage collection runs. Details here.
• tacnoman/dephpugger — PHP Debugger to run in terminal to debug your code easily. Details here.
• serializededitor.com — A Visual editor for PHP serialized data. One more post here.
• edsonmedina/php_testability — Analyses and reports testability issues of a php codebase.
• spatie/browsershot — A library for creating screenshots of web pages based on Headless Chrome.
• ambionics/phpggc — PHP generic gadget chains. More here.
• cweiske/jsonmapper — Map nested JSON structures onto PHP classes.
• kreta/Kreta — Modern project management solution.
• phpsocialnetwork/phpfastcache — Simple Yet Powerful PHP Caching Class.
• queue-interop/queue-interop – Promoting the interoperability of MQs objects. Based on Java JMS.
• moeinrahimi/monolog-telegram — Telegram Handler which allows you log messages to telegram channels using bots.
• analogueorm/analogue — Analogue ORM : Data Mapper ORM for Laravel/PHP.
• daveearley/Email-Validation-Tool — An easy to use, accurate-ish & extensible email validation library for PHP 7+.
• fightbulc/moment.php — Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in PHP w/ i18n support. Inspired by moment.js.

Learning Materials:

Symfony

• Tanibox/tania — A PHP based, free, and open source farming management system.
• A week of Symfony #548 (26 June – 2 July 2017)
• A week of Symfony #549 (3-9 July 2017)
• A week of Symfony #550 (10-16 July 2017)

Yii

• dmirogin/yii2-js-urlmanager — That extension provide a way to create urls from your frontend part.
• 2amigos/yii2-usuario — Highly customizable and extensible user management, authentication, and authorization Yii2 extension.
• WhatACart 2.0.0 — E-Commerce Platform on Yii2.
• Yii development notes #10
• Yii development notes #11

Laravel

• apiato/apiato — A flawless framework for building scalable and testable API-Centric Apps with PHP and Laravel.  Based on Porto.
• timegridio/timegrid — Free, open-source, online appointments platform based on Laravel PHP Framework.
• What’s New in Laravel 5.5
• Re-Introducing Eloquent’s Polymorphic Relationships
• Laravel API Tutorial: How to Build and Test a RESTful API

Zend

• Zend Framework Week 2017-07-13

Async PHP

• A Simple Chat With ReactPHP Socket: Server, reactphp/socket 
• UDP/Datagram Sockets with ReactPHP
• Extending ReactPHP’s Child Processes

And more:

• Analyzing Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning
• How to Defend Your Website with Zip Bombs
• Poka Yoke – Saving Projects with Hyper-Defensive Programming
• Tweetsnippet.com — Useful PHP snippets.
• Exploring PHP mail() function. New Exploitation Techniques And Vectors
• Immutability of Data

Something Interesting:

• Kornel/babel-preset-php — Babel preset for converting PHP syntax to JavaScript. It can run subset of PHP in the browser or in Node.js. Expanding Atwood’s Law.
• coderabbi/phpumoji — PHPUnit Emoji Result Printer.
• PHP Roundtable #064: PHP 7 Source Code – Podcast with Sara Golemon, release manager PHP 7.2