Last Month in PHP - July 2018

The latest releases and news in the PHP community.
Kansas City PHP User Group
July 11, 2018

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1. Last Month in PHP
   July 11, 2018

   Kansas City PHP User Group
   John Kary
   @johnkary
   

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2. Releases
   

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3. 7.0.30
   7.1.19
   7.2.7
   

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4. 7.3.0 Alpha 3
   7.3.0 Final — December 2018
   • Trailing comma allowed in function calls
   • json_encode() and json_decode() can throw exceptions
   • Add monotonic timer: hrtime([bool get_as_num])
   • Add function: is_countable()
   

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5. 8.0 ?!
   June 25, 2018 — Zeev Suraski emails PHP Internals
   • Redoing JIT (Just In Time) compilation
   • Better support long-running, async I/O architectures
   • Improve connecting with C/C++ libraries
   • TensorFlow, machine learning, AI libraries
   • Write PHP extensions using PHP
   • September 2020???? (2+ years away)
   https://externals.io/message/102415
   

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6. Swoole
   Event-driven asynchronous, concurrent, coroutine
   networking engine with high performance for PHP.
   • Written in C and compiles to a PHP extension
   • HTTP, TCP and Socket servers
   • Concurrency based on Go (coroutines, channels)
   • Loaded code stays in memory after Request completes
   • Popular in China with companies like…
   • Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, YY
   $ pecl install swoole
   

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7. Swoole
   

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8. Swoole
   

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9. Swoole
   

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10. Wordpress
    4.9.7
    Security and Maintenance Release
    Fixes issue where privileged user could attempt to
    delete files outside the upload directory.
    

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11. Wordpress
    5.0
    August 2018
    Gutenberg Editor
    Demo: testgutenberg.com
    More: wordpress.org/gutenberg/
    

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12. .com
    

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13. .com
    

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15. Conferences / Events
    

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16. Online
    July 19, 2018
    TDD-ing a Ride-Hailing Application
    w/ PHPUnit, Symfony and Doctrine
    8pm CDT
    PHP Developer Stack for Building Chatbots
    1pm CDT
    $20
    nomadphp.com
    

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17. Regional
    Cascadia PHP (Portland) Sept 14-15
    Northeast PHP (Boston) Sept 19-21
    Wave PHP (San Diego) Sept 19-21
    ZendCon (Las Vegas) Oct 15-17
    php[World] (Washington DC) Nov 14-15
    2018 Conferences
    

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18. International
    

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

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