Last Month in PHP - September 2013

Kansas City PHP User Group
September 21, 2013

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1. Last Month in PHP September 21, 2013 Kansas City PHP User Group Slides: http://johnkary.net/talks John Kary @johnkary
2. Releases
3. 5.5.(3|4) 5.4.(19|20) Upgrade NOW!
4. 3.6.1 Maintenance & Security fixes Upgrade NOW! • Block unsafe PHP unserialization that could lead to remote code execution. • Prevent a user with an Author role, using a specially crafted request, from being able to create a post “written by” another user. • Fix insufficient input validation that could result in redirecting or leading a user to another website.
5. PHP Object Injection http://vagosec.org/2013/09/wordpress-php-object-injection/
6. 2.2.3 2.2.4 Bug fixes Upgrade Whenever
7. 2.3.4 2.2.6 2.4 due November 2013 Upgrade Whenever
8. No new release some radical community members have forked Drupal into Backdrop CMS
9. BackdropCMS.org
10. Looking Towards PHP 5.6
11. Importing namespaced functions ACCEPTED https://wiki.php.net/rfc/use_function
12. namespace John\Say { function hello() { return 'Hello World!'; } } Define it namespace { use John\Say; echo Say\hello(); // Hello World! } Use it Using namespaced functions as of PHP <= 5.5
13. namespace John\Say { function hello() { return 'Hello World!'; } } Define it namespace { use function John\Say\hello; echo hello(); // Hello World! } Use it Using namespaced functions as of PHP >= 5.6
14. Syntax for Variadic Functions https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics ACCEPTED
15. Variadic Functions 5.5 function sum() { return array_sum(func_get_args()); } echo sum(2, 4, 6, 8); // 20 5.6 function sum(...$args) { return array_sum($args); } echo sum(2, 4, 6, 8); // 20
16. Variadic Functions - Type Hinting 5.6 function weekends(\DateTime ...$weekends) { foreach ($weekends as $date) { echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . ", "; } } $sat1 = new \DateTime('September 21, 2013'); $sun1 = new \DateTime('September 22, 2013'); $sat2 = new \DateTime('September 28, 2013'); $sun2 = new \DateTime('September 29, 2013'); echo weekends($sat1, $sun1, $sat2, $sun2); // 2013-09-21, 2013-09-22, 2013-09-28, 2013-09-29,
17. Conferences / Events
22. ZendCon.com 1-day Workshops 2.5 Days of Sessions • Migrating ZF1 to ZF2 • Testing Legacy PHP Applications • JS Communication APIs (for mobile) • User Acceptance Testing with Selenium • Intro to using Composer • RESTful APIs with ZF2 • DOs and DONTs of MongoDB • MANY MORE!
23. skiphp.com
24. In February!
27. Minneapolis, MN March 15-16, 2014 midwestphp.org Announced!
28. Introduction to PHP workshop by php[architect] $250 9am - 4pm March 14, 2014 Minneapolis, MN March 15-16, 2014 midwestphp.org
29. Chicago May 19-20, 2014 tek.phparch.com Announced!
30. Chicago May 19-20, 2014 tek.phparch.com
31. fin http://johnkary.net/talks @johnkary