Last Month in PHP, October 2012

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1. Last Month in PHP
   October 20, 2012
   Kansas City PHP User Group
   Slides: http://kcpug.org Dan Holmes
   @dan_holmes
   

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2. Releases
   

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3. New PHP Versions
   ● PHP 5.4.8
   ● PHP 5.3.18
   ● Fix: Exceptions thrown in
   _autoload can now be caught
   ● Curl Wrapper: Less CPU
   ● FPM stability improvements
   ● Error Handler now catches
   more fatals like:
   $some_null_or_str->foo()
   Changelog available at: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
   

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4. New PHP RFC - Pádraic Brady: Escaper
   ● Dedicated to the secure escaping of untrusted values
   against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and related
   vulnerabilities
   ● htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities() aren't really enough
   ● Similar to the HTMLPurifier, ZF2's Escaper and
   Symfony/Twig's escaper extension, but hopefully in
   SPL!
   https://wiki.php.net/rfc/escaper
   

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5. Frameworks
   

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6. The October Calm
   Symfony
   ● 2.2 in development - added Twig namespace support
   (faster, easier to use)
   ● 1.4.19 Maintence version Released
   Zend Framework:
   ● 2.0.2 - Fixed issue in the "Router" service affecting url creation
   ● 2.0.3 - 100+ bug fixes.
   Other frameworks I thought to spotcheck, seemed pretty quiet
   ● Silex
   ● CakePHP
   ● Laravel
   

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7. Notable Library Updates
   ● PHPunit 3.7 released
   ○ http://t.co/8tTolatd
   ○ Can now be installed via Composer!
   ○ Still working out some install bugs it seems, though...
   ● Doctrine 2.3.0 released
   ○ http://t.co/t8bcy2MR
   ● SensioLabs Desktop
   ○ http://desktop.sensiolabs.org
   ○ Announced by Fabien Potencier at SymfonyLive 2012 - SF
   ○ GUI for managing your PHP projects / Composer
   Thanks John!
   

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8. Skill Building
   

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9. Symfony Talks online!
   From Fabian's Keynote to Silex, Composer,
   Solr, Forms, REST...even Drupal 8!
   Talks from Symfony Live SF and Paris
   http://symfony.com/talks
   

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10. Free Webinar of the month!
    Want to get started in an OSS project,
    but don't know where to start?
    Watch Jeremy Mikola's (from 10gen)
    Being a Good OSS Contributor
    http://www.zend.com/en/resources/webinars/
    

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11. ● Voices of the ElePHPant
    ● PHP Town Hall Episode 1
    ● /Dev/Hell episode 20
    PHP & Web - Issue #7 - Free as PDF
    PHP Architect - ZF2, WP as a dev platform
    Of course, right as my subscription ran out
    even NetTuts+ had a ton of Good stuff on TDD, Selenium, Vagrant, DI
    Podcasts and Magazines
    

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12. Notable Links
    

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13. Chris Hartjes: In the News
    7php.com's
    community interview
    http://7php.com/php-interview-chris-hartjes/
    grumpy-phpunit.com
    Working on "The
    Grumpy Programmer's
    PHPUnit Cookbook" to
    be released in early
    2013
    

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14. Still noteworthy
    http://phpmentoring.org
    http://www.phptherightway.com/
    

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15. Happy
    PHPing!
    @dan_holmes
    

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