The Latest in PHP: September 2018 Edition

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1. The Latest in PHP
   September 2018 Edition
   

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2. Presented by
   Chris Gmyr
   @cmgmyr
   

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3. PHP Releases
   VERSIONS
   4 5.6.38
   4 7.0.32, 7.1.[21-22], 7.2.[9-10]
   4 7.3.0RC1 Released
   PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 will lose both active support and security fixes by this December.
   Links:
   4 http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
   4 http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
   

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4. PHP RFCs
   4 In Voting
   4 Typed Properties 2.0 (private $id; vs public int $id;)
   Postponed until next release
   4 Always available hash extension
   (make the hash extension (ext/hash) always available, similar to the
   date, spl & pcre extensions.)
   4 Under Discussion
   4 Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx (infavor of JSON)
   https://wiki
   .php.net/rfc
   

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5. Framework: Laravel
   5.7 Released!
   4 New Resources Directory
   4 New pagination customizations
   4 Imrpoved Error Messages
   4 Better ways of testing Artisan Commands
   4 New Dump Server
   4 Callable Action URL’s
   https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-7-is-now-released
   Nova 1.1.0 Released
   

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6. Framework: Symfony
   VERSIONS
   4 4.1.4
   4 3.4.15
   4 2.8.45
   (bug fixes)
   https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases
   

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7. CMS: Drupal
   4 8.6.1
   4 8.5.7 (bug fixes impacting upgrade paths)
   https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases
   

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8. IDE: PHPStorm
   4 2018.2.3
   4 7.3 support
   4 Trailing comma in function calls
   4 2018.3 EAP
   4 Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax Support
   4 PHPDoc PSR-5 collection type hints
   4 Multiline Todos
   https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
   

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9. IDE: VSCode
   1.27.2
   4 GitHub Pull Requests extension
   4 Settings editor
   4 New terminal window
   4 CSS @import path completion
   https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_27
   

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10. Sublime!
    

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11. Sublime Merge
    A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax
    highlighting, and more.
    4 Powerful Search
    4 Blame
    4 File & Hunk history
    4 Command Line Integration
    4 Free evaluation license, $99 for dark theme
    https://www.sublimemerge.com/
    

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12. PHP Conferences - October
    ZendCon 2018
    October 15–17, Las Vegas, CA
    http://zendcon.com
    

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13. PHP Conferences - November
    MadisonPHP
    November 2–3, Madison, WI
    www.madisonphpconference.com
    php[world] 2018
    November 14–15, Washington D.C.
    https://world.phparch.com
    

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14. Nomad PHP
    US
    Build of a Modern ORM enabled Apigility API
    By Tom Anderson
    Europe
    The Faster Web Meets Lean and Mean PHP!
    By Andrew Caya
    https://nomadphp.com/
    

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15. Open Call for Papers
    SunshinePHP 2019
    CfP Deadline: September 15, 2018
    February 7–9, Miami, FL
    http://sunshinephp.com
    PHP UK Conference 2019
    CfP Deadline: September 18, 2018
    February 20–22, London, England
    https://www.phpconference.co.uk
    ConFoo Montreal 2019
    CfP Deadline: September 24, 2018
    March 13–15, hotel bonaventure
    http://confoo.ca
    

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16. Upcoming regional events
    Oct 7-8 - NCDevCon - http://ncdevcon.com
    Oct 23-24 - All Things Open - http://allthingsopen.org
    

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17. Notable News & Articles
    4 PSR-17: HTTP Factories
    4 Composer 1.7
    4 About MySQL views and using them with Laravel Eloquent
    4 Building a Password Less Authentication System with Laravel Signed Routes
    4 Remote Code Execution on packagist.org
    4 Best practices on commenting code
    4 When to add an interface to a class
    4 SymfonyLive San Francisco 2017
    4 Laracon US 2018 Videos
    

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18. Next Month @ TrianglePHP
    TDB
    Presented By YOU?!?!
    Thursday, October 18
    6pm
    Atlantic BT
    https://www.meetup.com/trianglephp/events/zgpswmyxnbxb/
    Consider "Chipping In"
    https://secure.meetup.com/trianglephp/contribute/
    

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19. Have a Job/Need a Job
    Who's hiring?
    Who's looking?
    What are you looking for?
    

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20. Tonight @ TrianglePHP
    Discussing pattern misuse and unit
    testing gotchas
    Presented By - Chris Saylor
    Thank you to Atlantic BT for hosting and refreshments!
    

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