PHPUnit working in IDE, but server says class not found

Question

I am using the Symfony3 plugin in PhpStorm. My PHP Interpreter is 7.0.18. I have PHPUnit 6.3.0 configured in PhpStorm by having the .phar file in the root directory of my project.

Unit test work like a charm inside the IDE however performing any operation on the server (like bin/console server:start) triggers the following messages:

PHP Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase' not found in /1tb/programming/PhpstormProjects/binary_search/src/AppBundle/Search/BinarySearchTest.php on line 13
PHP Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase' not found in /1tb/programming/PhpstormProjects/binary_search/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Tests/TestCase.php on line 17

BinarySearchTest.php:

 <?php

namespace AppBundle\Search;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class BinarySearchTest extends TestCase
{

}

TestCase.php:

<?php

namespace Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Tests;

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase as PHPUnitTestCase;

class TestCase extends PHPUnitTestCase
{

}

I have read many posts with problems similar but none of them describe the problem the way I do. Then I tried running PHPUnit with phpunit . in the root directory of the folder with this error:

PHP Fatal error: Class 'Doctrine\Tests\Common\Cache\CacheTest' not found in /1tb/programming/PhpstormProjects/binary_search/vendor/doctrine/cache/tests/Doctrine/Tests/Common/Cache/ApcCacheTest.php on line 10

It seems whatever I do I just run into more errors. I only just got started with Symfony and read a bit of the documentation but I can't get a grip on this thing, I have been at it for two days. Any suggestions for me?

Try using composer installed PHPUnit instead of PHAR version... So far it could be that 1) on a server (or when run phpunit .) it's not using PHAR (very likely) or 2) you do not have dev dependencies installed (PHPUnit is usually a dev-time only dependency as it's not really needed on production server). — LazyOne
Seemed to have worked. I did the installation steps from the website and placed the composer in my /usr/local/bin directory with "mv /usr/local/bin/composer" Note that I cut off the .phar. Now it's an executable. I started a new project and did "init composer" and this time with the executable then immediately I did "Manage dependency" and installed phpunit/phpunit. It worked. Finally I got an error saying the class CacheTest was not found, I circumvented this by editing the test configuration to only run the directory with test and not the entire project directory. Server works now too. — BFMC2

DrDamnit DrDamnit · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-09T11:22:35

I have PHPUnit 6.3.0 configured ... by having the .phar file in the root directory of my project

Such a bad idea. PHPUnit should not be installed on your (production?) server.

If this is a local staging server that you're trying to test on, then you need to install the phar in the path.

To globally install the PHAR:

$ wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit-6.2.phar
$ chmod +x phpunit-6.2.phar
$ sudo mv phpunit-6.2.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit
$ phpunit --version

Also, consider upgrading PHP to the newest version. There are several vulnerabilities in the one you're using. (See: change log for versions between yours and current).

EDIT:

Why are you running bin/console server:start on your server? Also not meant to be on a production server.

My guess here is that it is seeing the phar in your document root and trying to execute it, which is what is causing all the errors.

PHPUnit working in IDE, but server says class not found

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