Last Month in PHP - March 2019

The latest releases and news in the PHP community.

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1. Last Month in PHP
   March 6, 2019

   Kansas City PHP User Group
   John Kary
   @johnkary
   

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2. Releases
   

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3. 7.1.26
   7.2.15
   7.3.2
   master is 8.0-dev
   

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4. RFC: Saner string to number comparisons
   https://wiki.php.net/rfc/string_to_number_comparison
   

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5. RFC: Saner string to number comparisons
   https://wiki.php.net/rfc/string_to_number_comparison
   Operators:
   <=>
   ==
   !=
   >
   >=
   <
   <=
   When $sort_flags set to SORT_REGULAR (already default):
   sort()
   rsort()
   asort()
   arsort()
   array_multisort()

   When $strict set to false (already default):
   in_array()
   array_search()
   array_keys()
   

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6. PHPUnit 8.0
   Some API changes were tricky
   https://thephp.cc/news/2019/02/help-my-tests-stopped-working
   Changelog
   https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/8.0.0/ChangeLog-8.0.md
   

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7. Wordpress
   5.1
   Minor Release
   Site Health feature
   Outdated PHP warnings
   Plugin PHP version compatibility
   Fatal error protection (disabled)
   Metadata for Multisite
   JavaScript build pipeline
   npm install && grunt build
   

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8. Drupal
   8.6.10
   February 20, 2019
   Remote Code Execution when…
   Drupal 8 core RESTful Web Services (rest) module enabled and
   allows GET, PATCH or POST requests;
   or
   has a web services module enabled, like JSON:API in Drupal 8,
   or Services or RESTful Web Services in Drupal 7.
   https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2019-003
   

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9. Symfony
   4.3 will have two new Components:
   HttpClient
   Nicer API for curl, file_get_contents()
   MIME
   Nicer API for creating emails
   https://speakerdeck.com/fabpot/2-new-symfony-
   components-httpclient-and-mime
   

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10. Laravel – 5.8 Released
    https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-8
    • PHP dotenv
    • Carbon v2
    • Cache TTL Changes
    • Deprecated String and Array Helpers
    • Nexmo and Slack Notification Channels
    

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11. fin
    johnkary.net/talks
    @johnkary
    

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