The recent digest includes an information about CircuitBreaker pattern, Imagick wrapper, PHP_CodeSniffer rules, PHP job scheduler, XHProf profiler, Mutation Testing, and more. Keep on reading!

News & Releases

• PHP-PM 1.0 — The first stable release of the PHP process manager. Allows you to demonize applications and increase productivity up to 15 times. Contains the long-awaited support for multipart and file downloads, Symfony 3+ support, PSR middleware, Docker images, and other improvements.
• Composer 1.6.0
• PHP 5.6.33
• PHP 7.0.27
• PHP 7.1.13
• PHP 7.2.1

PHP

• High resolution monotonic timer — A new hrtime () function will be added in  PHP 7.3. It returns a high-precision time and is independent of the system time.

Tools

• paragonie/past — A secure stateless token is like JWT, but without its flaws.
• Codeception/Stub — A flexible wrapper over the moke builder from PHPUnit with a simple syntax.
• tideways/php-profiler-extension — The popular XHProf profiler is not supported and works poorly with PHP 7. However, an updated fork from Tideways is available.
• alek13/slack — A simple PHP package for sending messages to Slack, with a focus on ease of use and elegant syntax.
• ackintosh/ganesha — Implementing the CircuitBreaker pattern in PHP.
• unreal4u/telegram-api — Complete async capable Telegram bot API implementation for PHP7.
• ankitpokhrel/tus-php — A pure PHP server and client for the tus.io resumable upload protocol v1.0.0.
• NikitchenkoSergey/idg — A wrapper over Imagick for generating simple images of documents (blocks, text columns, pictures).
• doctrine/coding-standard — Rules for PHP_CodeSniffer based on PSR-1/2 with additions.
• hutnikau/job-scheduler — An easy PHP job scheduler.

Learning Materials

Symfony

• The end of the Symfony Standard Edition  —  It’s suggested to use symfony/website-skeleton.
• The end of Silex  — Symfony 4 is quite lightweight. It’s suggested to use it instead of Silex.
• composer.json for Symfony Flex
• A week of Symfony #574 (25-31 December 2017)
• A week of Symfony #575 (1-7 January 2018)
• A week of Symfony #576 (8-14 January 2018)

Yii

• Yii development notes #19

Laravel

• Deploy Your Laravel Forge Sites With Your Voice
• Sentry Logging in Laravel
• Laravel Model Caching

Zend

• Zend Framework Community News for the week of 2018-01-11

Async PHP

• reactphp/http 0.8.1 — Minor update, which improves performance up to 50%.
• spatie/async — Wrapper around PCNTL extension for simple parallel tasks. One more post here.
• Improving Glide image server response by 6x with PHP-PM and zero code changes.

• Mutation Testing with Infection
• Optimizing colinodell/json5 with Blackfire
• Composer Local Packages for Dummies
• Create and deploy secure PHARs. Using phar.io
• About DRY principle and why it’s not what you think
• sergeyklay/php-orm-benchmark — The benchmark to compare the performance of PHP ORM solutions: CakePHP ORM, Doctrine ORM, Eloquent, PHP ActiveRecord, Phalcon, Propel ORM, Yii ActiveRecord, DMS.
• How to store 11kk items in memory? – Comparing methods: array vs object vs SplFixedArray vs pack vs swoole_table vs swoole_pack vs redis vs node.js arrays in php7.

Interesting

• PHP TownHall Episode 56: GraphQL is better than REST