Mindtonic » PHP http://blog.mindtonic.net Thoughts on Music and Application Development Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:08:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Unit Testing Object Oriented PHP5 Code http://blog.mindtonic.net/unit-testing-object-oriented-php5-code/ http://blog.mindtonic.net/unit-testing-object-oriented-php5-code/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:35:53 +0000 mindtonic http://blog.mindtonic.net/?p=13 I have been doing a lot for work with testing and development in Ruby. This has lead me to want to find an option to write Unit Tests for my own PHP based Content Management System, Shabda. It would be a very wise move to make sure that the core system files function exactly as expected. I will update this blog post as I go along.

My research has yielded two possible testing options:

SimpleTest

Other blogs with more information: http://vailo.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/php-unit-test-test-driven-development/

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To install some of the packages that I was trying to install PEAR for, I had to upgrade the PEAR installation. Fortunately, I am finding a lot of correlations between PEAR and Ruby GEMS. To update the PEAR installation itself, simply enter the following in a windows command prompt:

pear upgrade pear

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