How to install phpunit under OSX 10.8.4 with MAMP 2.1.4 for Yii and Netbeans?

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I want use phpunit tests on my local maschine running OSX 10.8.4 and MAMP Pro with PHP 5.4.1. Further I want use it for Yii and my IDE Netbeans.

I read a few tutorials like this approach via pear or this one via composer. I even tried to look like ppl do it on windows - without success.

My approaches always resulted in errors like

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'PHP_Invoker.php'

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase.php'

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'PHPUnit_Extensions_Story_TestCase.php'

Failed opening required 'PHPUnit/Extensions/SeleniumTestCase.php'

PHP Fatal error: Class 'CTestCase' not found

or phpunit wasn't found at all.

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1 Answers

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But finally I found a tutorial that gave me a good start. And with a little bit more research, I found solutions for the problems I posted above too.

Here I just want share my steps and all the links you can go thru to get it run :)

First step is to follow Zank's tutorial.

But after I did his steps, I got several errors. Because the list of modules you have to install is not complete. This ended up in following errors when I tried to run a test:

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'PHP_Invoker.php'

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_TestCase.php'

PHP Warning: include(): Failed opening 'PHPUnit_Extensions_Story_TestCase.php'

Second step

So I googled and figured out that I have to do following lines too:

pear install phpunit/PHPUnit_Story

pear install phpunit/DbUnit

But the 'invoker' problem was not that easy. Because when you try

pear install phpunit/PHP_Invoker

it will result in an error like

phpunit/PHP_Invoker requires PHP extension "pcntl"

and to install this extension to MAMP is a pain in the ass. But I found here this solution:

  • went to pear.phpunit.de
  • manually downloaded PHP_Invoker utility class
  • unzipped the file on my daughter's mac (I'm running Windows)
  • put the "Invoker" directory under C:\xampp\php\pear\PHP
  • put the "Invoker.php" file under C:\xampp\php\pear\PHP

For your MAMP installation the path should be something like "/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib" - further I had to rename 'Invoker.php' to 'PHP_Invoker.php'.

Step Three

On command line everything should work now - write a test and try it out like in Zank's tutorial linked in step one. But what about Netbeans? Like in Zank's tutorial I entered the phpunit path and just right clicked one of my tests and selected "Run test" - error!

PHP Fatal error: Class 'CTestCase' not found

Solution can be found here. This happens when you do not right click the folder where the 'phpunit.xml' is in. But to avoid this you could do the following:

  • Only right click the folder with the 'phpunit.xml' in it for 'Run test'.
  • Or go under your test properties -> PHPUnit and check the checkbox 'Use XML Configuration' + select the 'phpunit.xml' file

That's it!

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