Talk given on 19th May 2012 at PHPDay 2012 conference in Verona, Italy.
An insight into the Phing build system for PHP, why and how you might use it along with where it sits with related tools such as PHPUnit, PHP Code Sniffer, PHP Mess Detector etc. We will also take a brief look at how Phing can integrate with Continuous Integration, taking Jenkins as our example. We will also be including some simple practical demos of Phing in action!
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An introduction to Phing the PHP build system (PHPDay, May 2012)
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2. Who?
Jeremy Coates, MD Magma
Digital Ltd
jeremy@phpnw.org.uk
@phpcodemonkey
#phpnw
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3. PHPNW Manchester
UK
5th year of event
Tutorial Day - 5th
October
Conference - 6th
& 7th October
400 attendees, 3
tracks, Unconf,
Hackathon
4. Content
Phing Build System (basics)
What is it / Why use it
What can it do
Example build files (+ live demo!)
Phing & CI (Jenkins)
Questions
5. What's this Phing
about?
The TPhing
Build system
- Based on Ant
(Apache)
- PHP(5) based
- No extra
dependencies
- Cross platform
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6. I don't need no
stinking 'Build System'
Do you write PHP Apps or just web pages?
- Configuration
- Deployment
- Committing
- Testing
- Documenting
7. I don't need no
stinking 'Build System'
Do you write PHP Apps or just web pages?
- Configuration
- Preparation
- Deployment
- Predictability
- Committing
- Confidence
- Testing
- Documenting
- Familiarity
8. What can this Phing
do?
Pretty well everything bar make tea!
Anything a shell script can do (FTP, SCP,
Chown, Touch, SSH etc.) for deployment
Integrate with version control (CVS, SVN,
Git)
Code quality checks (phpcs, pdepend,
phpmd etc.)
10. Oh is that all?
Unit tests (phpunit, simpletest)
Database deployment (dbdeploy/liquibase)
Lint (PHP, JS, XML)
Reporting (code coverage, PHPDoc,
DocBLox)
Not enough? Write your own Tasks or Exec
20. Continuous
Integration
Remove reliance
on Human nature
Regular automated
builds (phing/ant)
Report on build
status
21. CI Reports
For many of the
tools we're already
familiar with
Phing targets:
- phpcs, pdepend,
phpcpd, phpmd,
phpunit, phpcb etc.
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23. Phing - context
Phing vs. Ant: Ant is inspiration for
Phing. Phing doesn't need JVM & is
LGPL (Ant: Apache v2)
Phing 1: PHP4
Phing 2: PHP5.2+ phing version 2.4.12
Michiel Rook: Project Lead @michieltcs
Phing = PHing Is Not Gnu make\n\nDeveloper build toolkit - tool for every job (almost)!\nLGPL Licensed\n\nMy knowledge of Phing about 20%, however there's great documentation!\n
Web applications require deployment, packaging, testing, setting permissions, configuration, creating log files\nDoing so by hand every time is scary!\n
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Project: root XML node\nTargets: collection of tasks, together for a reason\nTasks: call to specific action e.g. copy, symlink etc.\n
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Fileset selectors - powerful matching, as well as **\ndate based, size, file/dir, related files present\nMapper - also a good tool, convert filenames during build\nFilters (filterchains) - transform data during build, e.g. strip comments, replace values in config files (via regex)\n<php> task - evaluate PHP expression/Fn call result stored in property\nEmbed PHP direct in build file using <adhoc> task (Needs to be <adhoc><![CDATA[...]]></adhoc>\n
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CI Tools watch for commits, then kick start the build process, in this case Phing\nAlternatives to Jenkins: CruiseControl (Phing builder), Xinc - PHP CI tool, uses Phing\n