• kamisama/resque-status (0.0.1) A API for saving a php-resque worker settings and status
  
  
• bear/ace (0.2.0) Ace online editor utility
  
  
• bcen/silex-dispatcher (0.4.1) A Silex plugin
  
  
• klein/klein (v2.0.1, v2.0.0) A lightning fast router for PHP
  
  
• liip/rmt (0.9.6) Release Managment Tool
  
  
• danielmewes/php-rql (1.5.1) A PHP client driver for the RethinkDB query language (ReQL)
  
  
• n98/magerun (1.67.0, 1.66.0) Tools for managing Magento projects and installations
  
  
• smirik/bootstrap-bundle (v2.3.2) Simple bundle which add bootstrap css and js files to project and standard template to the form.
  
  
• adamstipak/nette-rest-route (1.1.0) Rest route for Nette Framework
  
  
• nunzion/composer-devlinks (0.1.0) Enables developers to autoload classes from projects outside the vendor directory. These links can replace projects inside the vendor directory and need not to be committed.
  
  
• entomb/slim-json-api (0.1) Slim extension to implement fast JSON API's
  
  
• pscheit/psc-cms (1.1.3) a content management system ontop of webforge.
  
  
• pihi/industrial (0.4.4) Dependency Injection for PHP 5.3
  
  
• wrep/daemonizable-command (1.0.0) Daemonizable (endless running) commands for Symfony2.
  
  
• yvann/urlify (1.0.0) PHP port of URLify.js from the Django project. Transliterates non-ascii characters for use in URLs.
  
  
• rampage-php/framework (1.0.0-alpha8) Rampage PHP Framework based on Zend Framework 2
  
  
• nunzion/php-common (0.1.0) Commonly used php functions.
  
  
• fritz-payment/jsonrpc (0.1.0) A general JSON RPC client.
  
  
• liip/imagine-bundle (v0.10.0) This Bundle assists in imagine manipulation using the imagine library
  
  
• propel/propel-bundle (1.2.3) Integration of Propel in Symfony2
  
  
• bit3/contao-nested-menu (1.0.3) Nested menus for Contao OpenSource CMS
  
  
• jasonlewis/basset (v4.0.0-BETA1) A better asset management package for Laravel.
  
  

In this recent post over on DZone.com Giorgio Sironi takes a look at the "clone" feature of PHP - what it is, how it can be used and things to watch out for in its use.

Cloning is an operation consisting in the duplication of a data structure, usually to avoid the aliasing problem of having different code modify the same instance in inconsistent ways. In PHP, cloning can be accomplished in multiple ways - and in some cases it can be avoided altogether.

He talks some about how objects are passed around internally during the PHP execution and how you can tell if a function works with data by reference (from the manual). He then looks at the "clone" keyword and what kinds of things are duplicated from an object when it is used. He briefly touches on the "__clone" magic method for solving the "shallow clone" problem and how, possibly, serializing the object might be a better alternative for reproducing the entire object.

On PHPMaster.com today they've posted the first part of a series spotlighting Openbiz Cubi, a PHP "framework" with a business focus.

Openbiz Cubi is a robust PHP application framework giving developers the ability to create business applications with minimal effort. In this two-part series I'll explain the concepts and steps necessary to create your own business web applications with Cubi. We'll look first at the challenges web developers face and how Openbiz Cubi can help, and then how to install Cubi. In part 2 we'll see how to create our own modules.

They start off by describing the tool and some of the features that come with it (including user management and the XML data object structure). Complete installation instructions are included and a screenshot is included of the end result. They include a "quick tour" of Cubi's features and some of the modules that come with it like the System, Menu and User modules. In part two of the series, they'll show you how to create a custom module.

Chris Jones has a new post today showing you how to use Oracle and PHP together to process data offline via the Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing feature.

Offloading slow batch tasks to an external process is a common method of improving website responsiveness. One great way to initiate such background tasks in PHP is to use Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing in a producer-consumer message passing fashion. [...] The following example simulates an application user registration system where the PHP application queues each new user's street address. An external system monitoring the queue can then fetch and process that address. In real life the external system might initiate a snail-mail welcome letter, or do further, slower automated validation on the address.

He includes the SQL needed to create the database and configure the queue system as well as start it up and get it ready for requests. He shows how to push an address into the queue for processing and how to get the results once it has completed in both the SQL and from the oci_* functions in PHP.

• piwik/piwik (1.12-b15) Open Source Real Time Web Analytics Platform
  
  
• donatj/simplecalendar (v0.4.0) A very simple calendar library
  
  
• icecave/chassis (0.3.0) A template engine for filesystem structures.
  
  
• herrera-io/go (2.0.1, 2.0.0) A simple PHP build tool.
  
  
• herrera-io/cli-app (1.0.2) A simplified CLI application template built on Symfony Console.
  
  
• aporat/application_rest_controller_route (1.0.0) RESTful Zend_Controller_Router_Route with custom defined routes
  
  
• sensio/framework-extra-bundle (v2.3.0-RC1) This bundle provides a way to configure your controllers with annotations
  
  
• symfony/symfony (v2.3.0-RC1) The Symfony PHP framework
  
  
• aporat/application_controller_plugin_forcessl (1.0.0) Zend Framework 1 controller plugin that force all http requests to be under SSL
  
  
• doctrine/doctrine-module (0.7.2) Zend Framework 2 Module that provides Doctrine basic functionality required for ORM and ODM modules
  
  
• phundament/p3pages (0.11.6) Page Manager
  
  
• jiriknesl/mockista (1.2) Mockista is library for mocking, which I've written, because I find mocking in PHPUnit slow.
  
  
• georgeh/php-beerxml (1.0.0) BeerXML parser and generator
  
  
• tecnick.com/tcpdf (6.0.017) TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents.
  
  
• havvg/lock (v1.0.0) A component for simple resource locking.
  
  
• payum/payum-bundle (0.4.1) The payment bundle integrates payum libs into symfony2 framework
  
  
• phundament/p3widgets (0.11.4) Widget Manager
  
  
• zweifisch/zf (v0.2.6) a micro php web/cli framework/router
  
  
• rah/danpu (2.4.0, 1.4.0) MySQL database dump and restoration tool implemented in PHP
  
  
• rampage-php/framework (1.0.0-alpha7) Rampage PHP Framework based on Zend Framework 2
  
  
• symfony/intl (v2.3.0-RC1) A PHP replacement layer for the C intl extension that includes additional data from the ICU library.
  
  
• webignition/css-validator-output-parser (1.6.3) Parser for output from the W3C CSS validator
  
  
• symfony/icu (v1.2.0-RC1, v1.1.0-RC1, v1.0.0-RC1) Contains an excerpt of the ICU data and classes to load it.
  
  
• dudapiotr/zftable (0.0.2) Flexible tool to generate table
  
  
• willdurand/email-reply-parser (1.0.0) Port of the cool GitHub's EmailReplyParser library in PHP 5.3
  
  
• jbboehr/facebook-php-cli (1.0.0) Facebook PHP SDK Wrapper for CLI
  
  
• kriswallsmith/assetic (v1.1.0) Asset Management for PHP
  
  

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NetTuts.com has a new tutorial posted suggesting a few ways you can make testable and maintainable code in PHP applications.

Frameworks provide a tool for rapid application development, but often accrue technical debt as rapidly as they allow you to create functionality. Technical debt is created when maintainability isn't a purposeful focus of the developer. Future changes and debugging become costly, due to a lack of unit testing and structure. Here's how to begin structuring your code to achieve testability and maintainability - and save you time.

There's a few concepts they cover in the tutorial including DRY (don't repeat yourself), working with dependency injection and actually writing the tests with PHPUnit. They start with a bit of code that needs some work and use the tests to help refactor it into something that can be easily mocked (using Mockery).

In a new post to his site Bob Majdak looks at using SQL in PHP and some of the challenges he's come across (some of them with his own tools). He talks about things line inline SQL, loading SQL by unique key or creating a "build object".

There is no right or wrong way, but no matter what there is no *pretty* way to do SQL inside of a PHP application. I have been having a personal debate with myself all week about how to make SQL statements nicer in an application without going to a huge DBAL package like Doctrine.

He looks at each idea and provides some of the pros and cons about each of them, noting that he hasn't quite decided on which is the best method. Some sample code is included to help clarify the points, showing the "find by unique key" version and how a more complex query might be created with the "builder object."

On the Google Developers Blog (and lots of places across the web) there's a major update that Google has done for their AppEngine service - the introduction of a PHP runtime to their offerings.

App Engine 1.8.0 is now available and includes a Limited Preview of the PHP runtime - your top requested feature. We're bringing one of the most popular web programming languages to App Engine so that you can run open source apps like Wordpress. It also offers deep integration with other parts of Cloud Platform including Google Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage.

You can get more information about how to use this new feature on Google App Engine site.

Pádraic Brady has a new post today proposing that what the PHP ecosystem needs is a way to better publish security disclosures in a format that's easy to parse and deal with.

This is a branch off from a separate discussion on the PHP-FIG mailing list about other ways the Framework Interoperability Group can encourage and foster wider interoperability among its member projects (and by extension, the whole PHP community). I'll start by noting two interesting developments in recent months and one long standing best practice.

The two "interesting developments" he mentions are the relatively recently released SensioLabs Security Checker that uses you Composer file to find security issues and the new entry in the latest version of the OWASP Top 10 list for "Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities". The best practice he talks about is more around the timely/responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities and how some kind of decentralized tracking of these issues that puts the responsibility back on the developers of the tool and not on one tracking resource.