The Latest in PHP September 2018 Edition

Presented by Chris Gmyr @cmgmyr

PHP Releases VERSIONS 4 5.6.38 4 7.0.32, 7.1.[21-22], 7.2.[9-10] 4 7.3.0RC1 Released PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 will lose both active support and security fixes by this December. Links: 4 http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php 4 http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

PHP RFCs 4 In Voting 4 Typed Properties 2.0 (private $id; vs public int $id;) Postponed until next release 4 Always available hash extension (make the hash extension (ext/hash) always available, similar to the date, spl & pcre extensions.) 4 Under Discussion 4 Deprecate and Remove ext/wddx (infavor of JSON) https://wiki .php.net/rfc

Framework: Laravel 5.7 Released! 4 New Resources Directory 4 New pagination customizations 4 Imrpoved Error Messages 4 Better ways of testing Artisan Commands 4 New Dump Server 4 Callable Action URL’s https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-7-is-now-released Nova 1.1.0 Released

Framework: Symfony VERSIONS 4 4.1.4 4 3.4.15 4 2.8.45 (bug fixes) https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases

CMS: Drupal 4 8.6.1 4 8.5.7 (bug fixes impacting upgrade paths) https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases

IDE: PHPStorm 4 2018.2.3 4 7.3 support 4 Trailing comma in function calls 4 2018.3 EAP 4 Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax Support 4 PHPDoc PSR-5 collection type hints 4 Multiline Todos https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

IDE: VSCode 1.27.2 4 GitHub Pull Requests extension 4 Settings editor 4 New terminal window 4 CSS @import path completion https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_27

Sublime!

Sublime Merge A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. 4 Powerful Search 4 Blame 4 File & Hunk history 4 Command Line Integration 4 Free evaluation license, $99 for dark theme https://www.sublimemerge.com/

PHP Conferences - October ZendCon 2018 October 15–17, Las Vegas, CA http://zendcon.com

PHP Conferences - November MadisonPHP November 2–3, Madison, WI www.madisonphpconference.com php[world] 2018 November 14–15, Washington D.C. https://world.phparch.com

Nomad PHP US Build of a Modern ORM enabled Apigility API By Tom Anderson Europe The Faster Web Meets Lean and Mean PHP! By Andrew Caya https://nomadphp.com/

Open Call for Papers SunshinePHP 2019 CfP Deadline: September 15, 2018 February 7–9, Miami, FL http://sunshinephp.com PHP UK Conference 2019 CfP Deadline: September 18, 2018 February 20–22, London, England https://www.phpconference.co.uk ConFoo Montreal 2019 CfP Deadline: September 24, 2018 March 13–15, hotel bonaventure http://confoo.ca

Upcoming regional events Oct 7-8 - NCDevCon - http://ncdevcon.com Oct 23-24 - All Things Open - http://allthingsopen.org

Notable News & Articles 4 PSR-17: HTTP Factories 4 Composer 1.7 4 About MySQL views and using them with Laravel Eloquent 4 Building a Password Less Authentication System with Laravel Signed Routes 4 Remote Code Execution on packagist.org 4 Best practices on commenting code 4 When to add an interface to a class 4 SymfonyLive San Francisco 2017 4 Laracon US 2018 Videos

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