It appears PHP has standardized on unit testing methods. It appears many people use the package PHPUnit. However for some reason it doesn't come preinstalled or in the standard PEAR channels. Here are the instructions:
Installation
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
Previous installations of the PHPUnit and PHPUnit2 packages from the pear.php.net channel have to be uninstalled since PHPUnit is no longer hosted on PEAR.
Unfortunately that doesn't work. I get the error
Aug 12, 2007(10:13:15) [root@~]> pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
Channel "pear.phpunit.de" is already initialized
Aug 12, 2007(10:14:49) [root@~]> pear install phpunit/PHPUnit
phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use PHP extension "pdo_mysql"
phpunit/PHPUnit requires PHP extension "xdebug" (version >= 2.0.0), installed version is 2.0.0RC4
No valid packages found
install failed
Aug 12, 2007(10:14:58) [root@~]>
Now if you'll notice the author's website appears to take feedback. The keyword is appear. It's currently busted and only lets you preview your posts. I think this package and his website are perfect examples of how bad the PHP support is. The ideas are great. The implementation is way behind...
Here's a tip for the smuck, err, Sebastian Bergmann. He should start testing his work with automated test tools. Similar to the ones he develops!
