The Latest in PHP: September 2018 Edition

09/21/2018

The September version of the "Latest in PHP" is out! Shared at our monthly TrianglePHP meeting, here are the things you need to know. If you'd like the raw slides or use this as a starting point for your own meetup, please visit our GitHub Repository.

The Latest in PHP

September 2018 Edition

Presented by

Chris Gmyr

@cmgmyr

PHP Releases

VERSIONS

5.6.38
7.0.32, 7.1.[21-22], 7.2.[9-10]
7.3.0RC1 Released

PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 will lose both active support and security fixes by this December.

Links:

PHP RFCs

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

https://wiki.php.net/rfc

Framework: Laravel

5.7 Released!

New Resources Directory
New pagination customizations
Imrpoved Error Messages
Better ways of testing Artisan Commands
New Dump Server
Callable Action URL’s

https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-7-is-now-released

Nova 1.1.0 Released

Framework: Symfony

VERSIONS

4.1.4
3.4.15
2.8.45

(bug fixes)

https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases

CMS: Drupal

8.6.1
8.5.7 (bug fixes impacting upgrade paths)

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases

IDE: PHPStorm

2018.2.3
- 7.3 support
- Trailing comma in function calls
2018.3 EAP
- Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax Support
- PHPDoc PSR-5 collection type hints
- Multiline Todos

https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

IDE: VSCode

1.27.2

GitHub Pull Requests extension
Settings editor
New terminal window
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.

Powerful Search
Blame
File & Hunk history
Command Line Integration
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

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