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[fit] The Latest in PHP

[fit] November 2017 Edition

Presented by

Chris Gmyr

@cmgmyr

PHP Releases

5.6.32

Bug Fixes: Date, mcrypt, PCRE

7.0.25

Bug Fixes: Apache2Handler, litespeed, SPL

7.1.11

Bug Fixes: Hash, MySQLi, Opcache, PDO_mysql

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php

PHP Releases

PHP 7.2.0 RC6 - Final Release Candidate! (~Nov 30th)

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.2.0RC6/UPGRADING

PHP RFCs

Implemented
- 7.3: Allow a trailing comma in function calls
- https://wiki.php.net/rfc/trailing-comma-function-calls
- 7.3: PCRE2 Migration
- https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pcre2-migration
Pending Implementation
- Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntaxes
- https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes

https://wiki.php.net/rfc

Framework: Laravel

5.5.[19-21]

Added Router::apiResources()
Support custom URLs for S3
Added handful of testing assertions (assertJsonMissingExact, assertJsonCount, etc)
Added MakesHttpRequests::followingRedirects() & MakesHttpRequests::from()

https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases https://laracon.net/ Feb 7th ($12 early bird)

Framework: Symfony

4.0.0-BETA4, 3.4.0-BETA4

End of the month!

https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases

CMS: Drupal

8.4.[1-2]

Bug Fixes

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases

CMS: Wordpress

4.9 (Tipton)

Syntax Highlighting and Error Checking
Developer Sandbox (themes/plugins)
New Gallery Widget

https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/

Be a Gutenberg early tester https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/

IDE: PHPStorm

2017.3 Public Preview

New REST client interface
Performance improvements
Improved code templates
Create new Codeception and PHPSpec tests
Improved Twig formatting & template injections
Improved Database view, SQL generator

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2017/11/phpstorm-2017-3-public-preview/

IDE: VSCode

1.18

Multi-root workspaces
Vertical panels
Git indicators in the Explorer
Inline pending change review
Better extension recommendations
Performance improvements

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_18

PHP Conferences - November

php[world] November 15–16, Washington, D.C. world.phparch.com

LaravelDay Nov. 30–December 1, Verona, Italy http://2017.laravelday.it

PHP Conferences - December

ConFoo Vancouver 2017 December 4–6, Vancouver, Canada confoo.ca/en/yvr2017/

Nomad PHP

US Refactoring Done Right By Brandon Savage

Europe PHP 7 Goodie Bag By Cal Evans

https://nomadphp.com/

Open Call for Papers

Midwest PHP March 9-10, Minnesota CFP Ends: 11/20/17 https://2018.midwestphp.org/

PHP[TEK] May 31-Aug 1, Atlanta, GA CFP Ends: 12/29/17 https://tek.phparch.com/

Notable News & Articles

https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/uploading-files-to-amazon-s3-from-the-browser-part-one
https://www.goetas.com/blog/modular-application-architecture-intro/
https://www.sitepoint.com/optimize-mysql-indexes-slow-queries-configuration/
http://tech.trivago.com/2017/10/27/continuous-performance-monitoring-for-php---the-tale-of-blackfire-at-trivago/
https://jolicode.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-environment-variables-with-php
https://medium.com/@peter.lafferty/tdd-on-a-silex-controller-13b47ed4319b
https://symfony.fi/entry/php-7-1-vs-7-2-benchmarks-with-docker-and-symfony-flex

Next Month @ TrianglePHP

Year End Social

More details TBD!

Consider "Chipping In" https://secure.meetup.com/trianglephp/contribute/