Last Month in PHP - July 2012

Brief overview of important news stories and happenings in the PHP community in the previous month before this presentation was delivered.

Delivered at Kansas City PHP User Group on July 21, 2012

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1. Last Month in PHP
   July 21, 2012
   Kansas City PHP User Group
   John Kary
   @johnkary
   Slides: http://johnkary.net/talks
   

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2. Releases
   

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3. New PHP versions
   • PHP 5.4.5
   • PHP 5.3.15
   

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4. Symfony 2.1
   Beta3
   • Last Beta
   • Form & Validator component improvements
   

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5. Zend Framework 2
   Beta5
   • Last Beta
   • Encoder - OWASP-compliant for context-specific escaping
   • i18n - uses intl extension for localization & translation
   • Form - annotation support via Doctrine\Common
   

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6. jQuery 1.8
   Beta 1 & 2
   • Modules - custom builds
   • ajax, css, dimensions, effects, offset
   • Rewrite Sizzle - CSS selector engine
   • CSS prefixing
   

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7. New Developments
   

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8. jQuery 1.9
   • Last to support < IE9
   • Release: Early 2013
   • Remove deprecated 1.8
   jQuery 2.0
   • Drop support < IE9
   • Release: Shortly after 1.9
   • Same API as 1.9
   http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-and-beyond/
   Interchangeable API
   If you need IE 6/7/8 support: use 1.9
   If you only want IE 9+: use 2.0
   

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9. Composer - Installers
   Install modules/libraries/plugins in older applications
   • Lithium
   • Magento
   • phpBB
   • PPI
   • Symfony 1
   • WordPress
   • Zend
   • CakePHP 2+
   • CodeIgniter
   • Drupal
   • FuelPHP
   • Joomla
   • Laravel
   

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10. Composer - Installers
    You found my Drupal module `johnkary/acl` on Packagist.org
    # ./acl/composer.json
    {
    "name": "johnkary/acl",
    "type": "drupal-module",
    "require": {
    "composer/installers": "*"
    }
    }
    You search Packagist for an Access Control List module
    

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11. Composer - Installers
    # ./yourproject/composer.json
    {
    "require": {
    "johnkary/acl": "*"
    }
    }
    Add `johnkary/acl` to your project’s composer.json
    (master) ~/Sites/drupal $ composer.phar install
    Downloads and installs the acl module:
    ~/Sites/drupal/modules/acl
    

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12. Composer Webcast
    Composer: Putting Dependencies on the Score
    Presenter : Rafael Dohms
    August 8, 2012
    http://www.phparch.com/phparchitect-presents-webcasts-for-busy-php-developers/
    FREE!
    

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13. Notable Links
    

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14. What PHP 5.5 might look like
    • Windows XP and 2003 support dropped
    • /e modifier deprecated
    • boolval() - works exactly like (bool) casting
    • hash_pbkdf2() - native implementation of PBKDF2
    • NATIVE - no need for mcrypt extension
    • empty() works with function calls (and other expressions)
    • if (empty($db->getPassword()))
    What’s in for sure?
    http://nikic.github.com/2012/07/10/What-PHP-5-5-might-look-like.html
    

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16. PHPMentoring.org
    • Championed by Elizabeth Marie Smith
    • Better known as @auroraeosrose
    • Ideas spawned by her talk at Lone Star PHP
    “Padawan and Master - Mentoring Developers”
    • Guide mentors and apprentices
    

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18. PHP: The Right Way
    • Community-crafted - 35 contributors
    • Created by Josh Lockhart - @codeguy
    • Inspired by many of the negative articles surrounding PHP lately
    An easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP
    best practices, accepted coding standards, and
    links to authoritative tutorials around the Web.
    phptherightway.com
    

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19. fin
    http://johnkary.net/talks
    

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