Install and use PHPUnit to test your PHP pages for errors.
By: Emiley J
Warning: require_once(PHPUnit/Framework.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory If you are getting this error, the most obvious reason is you do not have the PHPUnit installed in your web server. To install the PHPUnit in your server follow the steps below.
If you are wondering what is PHPUnit and why you need this then here is a brief introduction on PHPUnit.
PHPUnit is a set of tools to test your PHP pages for errors. Testing with PHPUnit is not a totally different activity from what you should already be doing. It is just a different way of doing it. The difference is between testing, that is, checking that your program behaves as expected, and performing a battery of tests, runnable code-fragments that automatically test the correctness of parts (units) of the software. These runnable code-fragments are called unit tests
PHPUnit should be installed using the PEAR Installer. This installer is the backbone of PEAR, which provides a distribution system for PHP packages, and is shipped with every release of PHP since version 4.3.0.
The PEAR channel (pear.phpunit.de
) that is
used to distribute PHPUnit needs to be registered with the local PEAR
environment:
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
This has to be done only once. Now the PEAR Installer can be used to install packages from the PHPUnit channel:
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
After the installation you can find the PHPUnit source files inside your
local PEAR directory; the path is usually /usr/lib/php/PHPUnit
.
Although using the PEAR Installer is the only supported way to install PHPUnit, you can install PHPUnit manually. For manual installation, do the following:
-
Download a release archive from
http://pear.phpunit.de/get/
and extract it to a directory that is listed in theinclude_path
of yourphp.ini
configuration file. -
Prepare the
phpunit
script:-
Rename the
pear-phpunit
script tophpunit
. -
Replace the
@[email protected]
string in it with the path to your PHP command-line interpreter (usually/usr/bin/php
). -
Copy it to a directory that is in your
PATH
and make it executable (chmod +x phpunit
).
-
-
Prepare the
PHPUnit/Util/Fileloader.php
script:-
Replace the
@[email protected]
string in it with the path to your PHP command-line interpreter (usually/usr/bin/php
).
-
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