Latest in PHP - October 2018 Edition

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1. The Latest in PHP October 2018 Edition
2. Presented by Chris Deaton @flashadvocate
4. PHP • nikic/FastRoute is looking for a new maintainer. Read more... • Attempt at implementing "preloading" ability by Dmitry Stogov, a main author of the PHPNG project • PHP 7.2.10, PHP 7.1.22, PHP 7.0.32, PHP 5.6.38 • HHVM is ending support for PHP - HHVM team recommends that projects either migrate entirely to the Hack language or to PHP 7
6. ReactPHP • friends-of-reactphp/mysql 0.4 - Major update of the async MySQL client (promise-based APIs, streaming large result sets) • recoilphp/react — Converts ReactPHP promises into coroutines.
8. Framework: Laravel • Laravel Zero - Laravel microframework maintained by Nuno Maduro • LaRecipe - Code-driven package for creating Markdown documentation for Laravel apps • Building LaraShoppe - Screencast on building an online shop with Laravel, Nova, Vue.js, Tailwind
10. Framework: Symfony • symfony/panther - Component for E2E testing based on ChromeDriver. (Dusk, AcceptanceTests) • A Week of Symfony • KnpUniversity is now SymfonyCasts
11. CMS: Drupal On Drupal 7, 8 and 9 — Drupal 7 and 8 will be supported until November 2021, while Symfony 3 is supported. Drupal 9 will be released in 2020. https:/ /www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases
12. IDE: PHPStorm • 2018.3 Early Access Program (Sept 6) - blog.jetbrains.com • support for PHP CS Fixer • ctrl+dot for auto-completion up to arrow (method chaining) • wbars/PHPFoldings - A PhpStorm plugin for folding some of the language constructions and making codebase cleaner
13. • Omit $this for methods, properties
14. • Replace getters, setters with field names
15. • Function-based expressions • strpos, array_merge, array_slice, in_array
16. • Code folding settings
17. 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
18. Nomad PHP US Websockets in PHP By John Fansier Europe Pipelined By Mike Willbanks https:/ /nomadphp.com/
19. Upcoming regional events Oct 23-24 - All Things Open - http:/ /allthingsopen.org
20. Notable News & Articles • Use cases when domain model can be reused • Final classes by default, why? • Assertions and assertion libraries • Don't use Mocking libraries • 7 Tips to Write Exceptions Everyone Will Love • Creating a simple PHP application on Google App Engine • Community-driven PHP 8 Wishlist
21. 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/
22. Have a Job/Need a Job Who's hiring? Who's looking? What are you looking for?
23. Tonight @ TrianglePHP Refactoring Workshop Presented By - Chris Saylor, Chris Gmyr Thank you to Atlantic BT for hosting and refreshments!