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
   

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2. Releases
   

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3. 5.5.(3|4)
   5.4.(19|20)
   Upgrade NOW!
   

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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.
   

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5. PHP Object Injection
   http://vagosec.org/2013/09/wordpress-php-object-injection/
   

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6. 2.2.3
   2.2.4
   Bug fixes
   Upgrade Whenever
   

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7. 2.3.4
   2.2.6
   2.4 due November 2013
   Upgrade Whenever
   

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8. No new release
   some radical community members
   have forked Drupal into
   Backdrop CMS
   

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9. BackdropCMS.org
   

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10. Looking Towards
    PHP 5.6
    

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11. Importing
    namespaced functions
    ACCEPTED
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/use_function
    

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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
    

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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
    

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14. Syntax for
    Variadic Functions
    https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics
    ACCEPTED
    

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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
    

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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,
    

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17. Conferences / Events
    

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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!
    

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23. skiphp.com
    

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24. In February!
    

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27. Minneapolis, MN
    March 15-16, 2014
    midwestphp.org
    Announced!
    

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28. Introduction to PHP workshop
    by php[architect]
    $250
    9am - 4pm
    March 14, 2014
    Minneapolis, MN
    March 15-16, 2014
    midwestphp.org
    

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29. Chicago
    May 19-20, 2014
    tek.phparch.com
    Announced!
    

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30. Chicago
    May 19-20, 2014
    tek.phparch.com
    

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

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