PHP Annotated – October 2019

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It’s time for our October edition of PHP Annotated! Get the latest on PHP 7.4.0 RC 3, GitHub dependency graph support for PHP, upgrading PSR standards, RFCs from PHP Internals, and the Coordinating PHP project. We’ll share links for Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and a whole lot more!



⚡️ News & Releases

🐘 PHP Internals

🛠 Tools

cycle/orm – This great PHP DataMapper ORM and Data Modelling Engine can be used in classic and long-running PHP applications, and in ActiveRecord manner too. Excellent documentation is available.

ssx/skrub – A package to remove junk from Composer installations and trim build sizes.

squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer 3.5.0 – Now with complete PSR-12 standard support.

voku/portable-ascii – Performance-optimized (ASCII) string functions for PHP.

infection/infection 0.14.0 – A framework for mutation testing in PHP. The new version adds 3 mutators, and has better performance, decreased memory consumption, and other improvements.

solodkiy/mysql-error-parser – A package for parsing MySQL errors.

alecrabbit/php-console-spinner – Nice CLI spinners.

Symfony

API Platform 2.5 – Revamped Admin, new API testing tool, Next.js, and Quasar app generators, PATCH and JSON Schema support, and improved support for OpenAPI and GraphQL.

shopsys/http-smoke-testing – Simple HTTP smoke-testing for your Symfony application.

The Symfony Framework Best Practices are now all in one place.

Symfony adds a String component, an OO way of dealing with strings.

Laravel

🌀 Async PHP

seregazhuk/php-watcher – A package to automatically restart a PHP application once the source code changes. Can be very useful for developing long-running PHP applications.

🎥 Creating a RESTful API with ReactPHP: Uploading Images, and Serving Static Files.

clue/reactphp-docker – Async client for the Docker Engine API. Introductory post.

💡 Misc

🔈 Podcasts

💬 Community

ElePHPant.me – A website to help trade ElePHPants.

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