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NEWS

November Happenings

PHP Releases

PHP 7.3.0RC6:

http://php.net/archive/2018.php#id2018-11-22-1

PHP 7.2.12:

http://php.net/archive/2018.php#id2018-11-08-2

PHP 7.1.24:

http://php.net/archive/2018.php#id2018-11-08-3

News

PHP Security Advent Calendar 2018

Announcement

The folks over at RIPSTech have posted the announcement
about the latest edition of their PHP Security Advent Calen-
dar. This is the third year they’ve done this and it’s always
interesting and fun to find out about some of the vulnerabili-
ties that can lie hidden in everyday PHP code.
http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26704

Improvements to the Handling of .env Files for

all Symfony Versions

On the Symfony blog they’ve posted about a change in all

Symfony versions around how .env files are handled and what

prompted the change. The post outlines what changed exactly

including the removal of the .env.dist, allowing a .env.local

to override the settings and that the .env file is now pulled in

for testing.

http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26694

The Ultimate BotMan Chatbot Debugging Guide

Christoph Rumpel, the lead developer on the BotMan PHP

chatbot project, has a new post to his site sharing an “ultimate

debugging guide” for those having issues with their use of the

package.

http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26687

PHP is dead...Viva le PHP!
Sergii Shanin shares his take on the “PHP is dead” conver-
sations and posts out there with the expected “Viva le PHP!”
(long live PHP!) following it. He shares two of the most
wide-spread myths about PHP—that it’s slow and that it can’t
scale—and dispels them.
http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26670

Adding MySQL 8 Support to Laravel Homestead

In a new post to his site Joe Ferguson has included a screencast

showing how to add MySQL 8 support to Laravel Homestead

for your local development. In the video Joe walks through

the whole process including how Homestead is set up (via

Vagrant) and all of the configuration changes you’ll need to

make to get MySQL 8 support up and running.

http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26663

Modern Cryptography in PHP 7.2 with Sodium

On the Zend blog there’s a new tutorial posted by Enrico

Zimuel covering the use of libsodium in PHP 7.2 to provide

stronger encryption for your data. The tutorial begins with an

outline of the Sodium encryption including the algorithms it

can use and how it helps to prevent side-channel attacks.

http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26683

How to Get PHP 7.4 Typed Properties to Your

Code in Few Seconds

Tomas Votruba has a new post to his site showing you how

you can get typed properties in your code “in a few seconds”,

a feature coming in the next major version of the language,

PHP 7.4.

http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26685

Global Application Settings

In a recent post to the Laravel News site, there’s a post showing

how to make use of a PHP package for storing and retrieving

global settings that are then store them locally on the filesys-

tem as a JSON-formatted document.

http://phpdeveloper.org/news/26705