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
2. Releases
3. 7.0.30 7.1.19 7.2.7
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()
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
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
7. Swoole
8. Swoole
9. Swoole
10. Wordpress 4.9.7 Security and Maintenance Release Fixes issue where privileged user could attempt to delete files outside the upload directory.
11. Wordpress 5.0 August 2018 Gutenberg Editor Demo: testgutenberg.com More: wordpress.org/gutenberg/
12. .com
13. .com
15. Conferences / Events
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
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
18. International
19. fin http://johnkary.net/talks @johnkary