The SitePoint PHP blog has posted their latest edition of their "Sourcehunt" series, highlighting interesting and useful projects around the PHP community. In this latest edition they mention a wide range of projects including:

• blackscorp/astar: a PHP implementation of the A* pathfinding algorithm
• Blast-turbine: A microframework built on top of packages from The League of Extraordinary Packages
• Tagua VM: a virtual machine for Rust that allows the execution of PHP code
• nofw

There's one other library mentioned in the list for the Eve Online players out there showing details for its public market API. Each item on the list includes a brief description and the number of stars the repository currently has.

php[architect] has officially released the latest edition of their magazine for March 2016 - Hunting Mutants. This new issue includes articles about compilers/interpreters, Laravel's Eloquent ORM and Zend Expressive.

Unless you’ve been cryogenically frozen for the past few years, you’ve no doubt heard about how important automated testing is as well as TDD, BDD, Continuous Deployment, and other acronyms. Either you’ve read an article in a past issue of this magazine or you’ve heard it from numerous advocates at conferences, on blogs, and on twitter. This month’s issue features two articles on Mutation Testing with Humbug.

This month's article also includes a free sample, the article covering Eloquent, the ORM for the Laravel framework. All of the usual columns are back in this edition as well including the Education Station, Leveling Up and the Security Corner. You can pick up an issue of your own directly from the php[architect] site for just $6 USD or a full year's subscription for $49 USD.