Templating engine based on the idea of a virtual DOM. A simple CI based on Laravel. A parser-generator for YACC-grammar.  A framework for mutation testing based on AST. All these materials are inside our eighth PHP digest!

News & Releases

• PHP 7.2.0 RC5 — The fifth release candidate for 7.2.0. The final release of PHP 7.2 is expected on November 30. Review the innovations here and here.
• PHP 5.6.32
• PHP 7.0.25
• PHP 7.1.11

PHP Internals

• RFC: JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR — This RFC proposes adding a new option flag value for json_decode() and json_encode(), JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR. When passed this flag, the error behavior of these functions is changed.
• [RFC] Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntaxes — Improvements of multi-line text blocks. Supporting indentation, as well as canceling the need to move a line after the closing marker.


$values = [
             a
            b
           c
           EOT, 'd e f'];

Tools

• nunomaduro/collision — Whoops for console applications – displays beautiful and informative error reports.
• itsgoingd/clockwork — An extension for Chrome that adds a tab to dev tools for debugging PHP applications.
• Teein/Html — Templating engine based on the idea of a virtual DOM.
• mark-gerarts/automapper-plus — Clone of .NET AutoMapper,  simplifies the transfer of data from the object to the object.
• sebastianbergmann/object-graph — Allows you to display a graph of PHP objects.
• apioo/fusio — API Management platform with open source.
• antonioribeiro/ci — A simple CI based on Laravel.
• php-censor/php-censor — Another popular CI server in PHP.
• enygma/expose — A library for detecting attempts to attack an application.
• ircmaxell/PHP-Yacc — 
• paragonie/certainty — Automatic control of cacert.pem for PHP projects. More detailed about the problem here.
• infection/infection — A framework for mutation testing based on AST. One more post here.

Learning Materials

Symfony

• Symfony Flex: The Future of Symfony
• PHP 7.1 vs 7.2 Benchmarks (with Docker and Symfony Flex)
• Symfony 4: HTTP/2 Push and Preloading
• A week of Symfony #563 (9-15 October 2017)
• A week of symfony #564 (16-22 October 2017)
• A week of symfony #565 (23-29 October 2017)

Yii

• Yii development notes #15
• Yii development notes #16

Laravel

• Laracon Online 2018 announced.
• renatomarinho/laravel-page-speed — Minify HTML.
• laravel-shield — Middleware to protect the endpoints intended for use by third-party web-hooks.
• stefanzweifel/laravel-stats — Artisan-command that displays a variety of code statistics.
• ajthinking/tinx — Improvements for Tinker.

Async PHP

• recoilphp/recoil 1.0 — A set of tools for working with Korutin in PHP.
• seregazhuk/php-react-memcached — Asynchronous client for Memcached. Also, a couple of posts from the author about creating a client: requests and response processing, connection and errors.

CMS

• Git and WordPress: How to Auto-Update Posts with Pull Requests
• Drupal looking to adopt React

and also:

• Properly passing data from outer layers of a PHP application to the use case layer
• Sending logs from Monolog to ELK
• Injectables vs.Newables
• Fast and safe array iteration —  

foreach ($definition ?? [] as $id => $val) { }

• Continuous Performance Monitoring for PHP – About using a great profiler Blackfire.io
• Queue tasks in PHP using bernardphp / bernard.

Interesting

• PHP Roundtable #067: Imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect
• PHP Roundtable #068: PHP’s Dirty Little Segfault Secret
• josephernest/Yopp — An ingenious solution for transferring a file from phone to computer and back.