Last Month in PHP: 2016 January

From a KCPUG lightning talk given on 03 Feb 2016

January was a relatively light month in PHP. Yet, we saw an exciting new microframework get its first non-beta release.

PHP Updates

Security and bugfix updates to PHP were released in January. Upgrade if you have a version less than:

• 7.0.2
• 5.6.17
• 5.5.31

CMSes

Drupal and WordPress both released point-releases.

• Drupal 8.0.2
  • bug fixes
• WordPress 4.4.1 (Upgrade!)
  • 1 Security fix for XSS vulnerability
  • 52 bug fixes

μFrameworks

Zend Expressive 1.0

Zend Expressive is a PSR-7 Middleware. It looks pretty interesting and bears further investigation.

Example: sitepoint: How to Build a NASA Photo Gallery with Zend Expressive

See: Zend Expressive

Lumen 5.2.4

5.2 introduces:

• stateless APIs
• No Sessions
  • This changes authentication

See: Lumen 5.2 release notes

Silex 1.3.5

• Fixed typo

See: Silex 1.3.5 changelog

Slim 3.1.0

• Adds getParsedBodyParam() and getQueryParam() to Slim\Http\Request
• Adds App::process() to allow Slim to run when a Request object and Response object already exist
• HTTP status code 451

See: Slim 3.1.0 release notes

Frameworks

Various frameworks had point releases. I'm not sure what changed, so I assume that these are bugfixes.

• Laravel 5.2.12
• Symfony [2.8.2, 2.7.9, 2.6.13, 2.3.37]
• Zend Framework 2.5.3

Upcoming Conferences

Sunshine PHP Feb 4-6: Miami, FL

Midwest PHP Mar 4-5: Minneapolis, MN

Lone Star PHP Apr 7-9: Dallas, TX

php[tek] May 23-27: St Louis, MO

Kansas City Developer Conference June 22-24 - Kansas City, MO Call for papers deadline: Feb 12

NomadPHP

NomadPHP is an online supplement to your in-real-life user group.

Feb 18: 01:00 PM CST

• The Life of an If Statement
• Anthony Ferrara - @ircmaxell

Feb 18: 08:00 PM CST

• From Idea to Prototype in 50 Minutes with Laravel
• Matt Stauffer - @stauffermatt

Next Month's KCPUG

We will have a busy session next month!

• John Kary will present "Rethinking Loops" — dealing with functional programming in PHP. This is the same talk that he will give at:

  • Lone Star PHP
  • Midwest PHP

• Joseph Maxwell will present a preview of his OAuth2 talks that he will give at:

  • Lone Star PHP
  • php[tek]