Putting Phing to Work for You

Putting Phing to Work for YouHans LellelidInternational PHP Conference2007-11-05Introduction• My name is Hans Lellelid• Developer & Manager at Applied Security, Inc. (near Washington DC).• PHP developer and OO evangelist.• I ported Phing to PHP5 in 2004.• I now manage the Phing project with Michiel Rook.Hans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You2What is it?• PHing Is Not Gnumake• It is a project build tool.• Original PHP4 version by Andreas Aderhold• Written for PHP5• Based on Apache Ant• Cross-platform (i.e. Windows too)• http://phing.info/Hans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You3Workshop Topics: Fundamentals• Phing basics• Creating a first build file• Transforming directories and files• Performing PDO tasks• Gathering user input• Building phpdoc• Running unit tests• Integrating with CI toolsHans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You4Workshop Topics: Extension• Using PHP code in a build file• Building a simple Task• Writing more complex Task• Creating a shared Type• Custom filters• Custom selectors• Custom logger/listener• Custom input handlersHans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You5Getting StartedHans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You6Install Phing• Install via PEAR– pear channel-discover pear.phing.info– pear install phing/phing• Install “traditional” package– Available on Download page• Install from SVN– svn co http://svn.phing.info/trunk phingHans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You7Following Along• Install via PEAR– pear install phing/phing– Install “traditional” package• Available on Download page– Install from SVN• svn co http://svn.phing.info/trunk phingHans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You8The phing script• A wrapper shell script for phing.php script.• Sets default logger to use (dependent on system)• Typical usage: phing [target]• Other useful options:– Help (-h)– Specify properties (-Dpropname=value)– List targets (-l)– Get more output (-verbose or -debug)Hans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You9Buildfiles• Build files are XML• Build files are composed of:– Tasks: a “build-in” piece of code that a specific function. E.g. <mkdir>– Types: data structures that are used commonly by tasks. E.g. <path>– Targets: grouping of Tasks that perform a more general function. E.g. Copy files to a new directory.– A Project: the root node for the build file.Hans Lel elid: Putting Phing to Work for You10