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Mehmet
Mehmet

Reputation: 3347

How to configure PHPUnit in MAMP with PHAR

I wanna test my php codes and I have decided to user PHPUnit for my test.

I have followed steps with official documentation

 $ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
 $ chmod +x phpunit.phar
 $ sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit
 $ phpunit --version
 PHPUnit x.y.z by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

But I am using MAMP with my MacOS X.

So I am not sure how to implement PHAR files in MAMP.

Normally, the documentation tells to use this comment in terminal:

sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit

And my PHP location is:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/bin/

I've tried to run this comment:

sudo mv phpunit.phar /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/bin/

I don't know what should I do at this step. Please take a look because it does not work.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3476

Answers (3)

Mark Priddy
Mark Priddy

Reputation: 716

Here are the steps I used to successfully get PHPUnit working in MAMP. These instructions are pieced together from various places. I hope that having it all in one place helps someone else. Happy testing!

Use MAMP's PHP in the Terminal

Adapted from How to override the path of PHP to use the MAMP path?

Edit or create ~/.bash_profile with the lines below

# Use MAMP's latest version of PHP
MAMP_LATEST_PHP=`ls /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/ | sort -n | tail -1`
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/${MAMP_LATEST_PHP}/bin:$PATH

Place these lines after any other lines exporting $PATH - this assures that your MAMP PHP is found first in the path. Note that these lines try to find the highest numbered version of PHP in your MAMP installation. Feel free to adjust this to a specific one that you have, if desired.

You can tell you did it right when you get a MAMP path from which php in your terminal. You should get something like this:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.0/bin/php

Install PHPUnit

Mostly, this is downloading the PHP archive (PHAR) from the PHPUnit website. There are ways to do this from the command line that I couldn't get to work. So, I used a web browser.

  1. Download the most recent PHPUnit PHAR from https://phar.phpunit.de
  2. Move it to /usr/local/bin
  3. cd /usr/local/bin
  4. Make it executable with chmod +x phpunit-5.3.2.phar (adjust according to actual name)
  5. Make a symbolic link with ln -s phpunit-5.3.2.phar ./phpunit (adjust according to actual name)
  6. Check the version with phpunit -—version

You should get something like this:

PHPUnit 5.3.2 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Building a symbolic link in step 5 permits you to use phpunit instead of having to type phpunit-5.3.2.phar instead. It also allows you to update PHPUnit without having to change what you type, assuming of course that you create a new symbolic link when you update.

Write a Test

This isn't an exhaustive section. There are far better tutorials on writing tests. Instead, this is merely some notes from my experience on rules that tripped me up, though I'm sure everyone else knows them:

  1. Your test class name must end with Test: class SomeTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
  2. Your test class file name must end with Test.php and match the contained class: SomeTest.php
  3. Method names in your test class that are to be run as tests must start with test: public function testSomething()

Run a Test

By this time, it should be as easy as:

phpunit SomeTest

If everything goes well, PHPUnit will run your test and give you the results.

Add a Handy Alias

Assuming that it all works (Yay!) try this alias in your ~/.bash_profile

# Use colors when running phpunit
alias phpunit='phpunit --colors'

Upvotes: 6

Duc Chi
Duc Chi

Reputation: 421

I tried. You can use this command. It worked for me.

sudo mv phpunit.phar /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/bin/phpunit

Upvotes: 0

Fabian Schmengler
Fabian Schmengler

Reputation: 24551

/usr/local/bin/ is just recommended as a convention, because it's always in the $PATH on Unix systems, you can use any other location that's in your path, or leave it anywhere else and specify the absolute path when using it.

With what you have, you should be able to run:

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/bin/phpunit.phar --version

Note the .phar suffix, because you did not rename the file while moving, as you'd have with sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit

Upvotes: 1

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