PHP Digest # 197 (January 11 - 25, 2021)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: objects as array keys and other RFC proposals for PHP 8.1, running WebAssembly in PHP, about collisions in arrays, a portion of useful tools, articles, videos, PHP Live Digest .



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News and releases

• PHP Russia is postponed to June 28, 2021.
• Results of the Year in the PHP World - Skyeng Community Survey and PHP Digest. Last week to participate.

PHP Internals

• [RFC] Object keys in arrays
  
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  $obj1 = new stdClass;
  $obj2 = new stdClass;
  
  $array = [];
  $array[$obj1] = 1;
  $array[$obj2] = 2;
  
  var_dump($array[$obj1]); // int(1)
  var_dump($array[$obj2]); // int(2)
  
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
          
          
          
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
      

  
  
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• [RFC] Object scoped RNG Implementations
  
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  $seed = 1234;
  $rng = new RNG\MT19937($seed);
  $array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
  
  shuffle($array, $rng); //   
  
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
          
          
          
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
      

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• [RFC] var_representation(): readable alternative to var_export()
  
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  var_representation($value, int $flags=0) :string
  
  
  
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  brick/varexporter.
• [RFC] Change Default mysqli Error Mode
  
  mysqli ( PHPLive#3 ) : . : mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  mysqli CodeIgniter WordPress.
• [RFC] Dump results of expressions in `php -a` — php -a
  
  
  
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• PHP 8.1: What's New and Changed — php.watch , PHP 8.1. RFC - .

• fabpot/local-php-security-checker — composer.json . FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories.
  
  
  
  GitHub action Docker- oxcom.
  
  
• funivan/PhpClean — PhpStorm, , , , , . .
• wasmerio/wasmer-php — WebAssembly PHP. wasm- PHP. Rust, wasm PHP. . .
• temporalio/sdk-php — PHP-SDK temporal.io – , , , , -.
  
  
  
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  #[Workflow\WorkflowInterface]
  class LoopWorkflow
  {
      private array $values = [];
      private array $result = [];
      private $simple;
  
      public function __construct()
      {
          $this->simple = Workflow::newActivityStub(
              SimpleActivity::class,
              ActivityOptions::new()->withStartToCloseTimeout(5)
          );
      }
  
      #[SignalMethod]
      public function addValue(
          string $value
      ) {
          $this->values[] = $value;
      }
  
      #[WorkflowMethod(name: 'LoopWorkflow')]
      public function run(
          int $count
      ) {
          while (true) {
              yield Workflow::await(fn() => $this->values !== []);
              $value = array_shift($this->values);
  
              $this->result[] = yield $this->simple->echo($value);
  
              if (count($this->result) === $count) {
                  break;
              }
          }
  
          return $this->result;
      }
  }
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
          
          
          
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
      

  
  
  RoadRunner, reactphp/promise, PHP 8. , .

Symfony

• chaos-php/chaos-monkey-symfony-bundle — Chaos Monkey Symfony-. , .
• Symfony: UX — JavaScript Symfony
• Symfony 5.2: PHP 8
• Symfony #734 (18-24 2021)

Laravel

• umbrellio/laravel-pg-extensions — Laravel Postgres.
• fico7489/laravel-eloquent-join — Eloquent.
• artisan.page — Laravel artisan.
• / multitenant Laravel Jetstream — .
• Laravel Github Actions
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• Laravel– (18–24 2021)

Yii

• : yiisoft/i18n 1.0, yiisoft/auth 3.0.

Async PHP

• walkor/Workerman — API, HTTP, WebSocket, SSL. libevent.
  
  
  
  PHP the-benchmarker/web-frameworks, , .
  
  
  
  socket.io walkor/phpsocket.io, PSR-7,15,17 chubbyphp/chubbyphp-workerman-request-handler, gotzmann/comet.

• PHP — , , PHP – -, DoS-.
  
  
  
  2011 , 2^16 = 65536 PHP 30 0.01 .
• php.watch: PHP Curl Security Hardening — cURL PHP .
• Telegram- PHP — beyondcode/expose.
• GitHub GitHub Actions PHP.
• PHP.
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• PHP GitHub Scrutinizer.
• GitHub Actions.

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• Xdebug 3: Diagnostics — , Xdebug - .
• PhpStorm — , Christoph Rumpel PhpStorm: Mastering PhpStorm.
• Live-coding a Bref Queue — PHP -. Matthieu Napoli, Bref.
• PHP Release Radar #2: PHP 8 — Sara Golemon Gabriel Caruso 8.0, PHP .

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• PHP 8 — @jrf_nl, , PHP 8 .
  
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  3v4l.org/pU0LD
  
  
  
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  $sub = substr('abcdef', 4, -4);
  if ($sub === false) {
      echo 'fail';
  } else {
      echo 'do something with $sub';
  }
  
  // PHP 5-7 > 'fail'
  // PHP 8   > 'do something with $sub'
  
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
          
          
          
        
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      
      

  3v4l.org/Ln9g3
  
  
  
  : understandlegacycode.com.
• What PHP would look like if it depended on me - A selection of desirable features from Brent Roose: final and void by default, no mixed, parameters and properties must be typed, generics, where can we go without them, enams, objects for scalars.

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