PHP Digest # 185 (July 20 - August 3, 2020)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 8 Alpha 3, PhpStorm 2020.2, a new operator ?->, another discussion of attribute syntax and other PHP Internals news, an overview of the type system in PHP, a portion of useful tools, videos, streams and much more.



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News and releases

• PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 3 - The latest planned alpha release. The first beta is expected on August 6th.
• PhpStorm 2020.2 — PHP 8, , - GitHub, OpenAPI. .

PHP Internals

• [RFC] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change — PHP 8 . .
  
  
  
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  , PHP 8.1, - 8.0 4 . PHP 8.0, << >>, #[], @@, PHP 8.1 .
  
  
  
  : @[Attribute], PHPDoc /** @@MyAttribute */, — @ @@, @ .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  , @@, - , T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM , - — PHP 8 Alpha 3 .
• [RFC] Treat namespaced names as single token — PHP 8 . , , namespace app\function { class Foo {} } .
  
  
  
  , , :

  use /** Try comments */ \FullyQualified \ /* in this ugly way */ SometTotallyDifferentTrait /** also after */;

• [RFC] Saner string to number comparisons — .
  
  
  
  PHP 8, == , .
  
  
  
  0 == 'foobar' false.
  
  
  
  
  
  <=>, ==, !=, >, >=, < <=, switch, in_array(), sort() .
• [RFC] Nullsafe operator — PHP 8 nullsafe: ?->.
  
  C null.
  
  
  
  , :

  
  private function getUserCountry(): ?string
  {
      $session = $this->sessionStorage->getSession();
  
      if (null === $session) {
          return null;
      }
  
      $user = $session->getUser();
  
      if (null === $user) {
          return null;
      }
  
      if (null === $user->address) {
          return null;
      }
  
      return $user->address->country;
  }
  

  :

  $country = $this->sessionStorage->getSession()?->getUser()?->address?->country;

  
  
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• [RFC] Allow trailing comma in closure use lists — use PHP 8 , .

  
  $f = function (
      $longArgument,
      $longerArgument,
      $muchLongerArgument,
  ) use (
      $longVar1,
      $longerVar2,
      $muchLongerVar3, //      
  ) {
     ...
  };
  

• [RFC] Named Arguments — PHP 8 !
  
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  htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401 , ini_get("default_charset"), false);

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  htmlspecialchars($string, double_encode: false);

  
  
  stitcher.io/blog/php-8-named-arguments.
• [RFC] Renamed Parameters — . RFC.
  
  
  
  :

  
  function callBar(Foo $internalName:externalName) {
      $internalName->bar();
  }
  
  $x = new Foo();
  callBar(externalName: $x);
  

  
  
  - Swift. , @@NameAlias.
• [RFC] Make constructors and destructors return void — .

• ramsey/conventional-commits — Conventional Commits. , .
• jubianchi/ppc — . phplrt/phplrt.
• thephpleague/mime-type-detection — - mime- .
• zakirullin/typed-accessor — .
• nette/php-generator — PHP- fluent-.

Symfony

• Symfony #709 (27 — 2 2020)
• Using Symfony's service iterators for secondary flows
• Symfony 4.3 5.0 :

Laravel

• Laravel 6 7 — Laravel 6 7. Laravel 5.5 'cookie'.
• butschster/LaravelCycleORM — cycle/orm Laravel.
• - Laravel.
• «».
• Laravel- (27 – 2 2020)
• Nuno Maduro Freek Murze PHPUnit Pest.
• Laracon EU Online 2020

• PHP — PHP .
• PHP 8: .
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• PHP: Preloading — Manual — - , PHP 7.4.
• PhpStorm, But Better! #2 — .
• LearnXdebug.com — Xdebug.
• ( , , ) .
• MySQL Postgres.
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• PHP Internals News #38: WeakMaps.
• PHP.
• PHP-.
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• PHP Internals News #63 — André Rømcke .
• PHP Internals News #64 — Benjamin Eberlei .
• Xdebug — Laravel Valet PhpStorm, , , .
• — 3 17.00, .
• MoreView #12 | — elisdn.ru deworker.pro. PHP, , .
• MoreView #13 | — «» Happy Job.
• PHP — .
• Five Minute PHP # 81 with rectorphp / rector review - Now short episodes of Five Minute are also on Instagram and TikTok .

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