Slides from my Phing talk given at PHPNW June 2011.

2. Content
Phing Build System (basics)
What is it / Why use it
What can it do
Example build files
Phing & CI (Jenkins)
Questions

3. What's this Phing
about?
The TPhing
Build system
- Based on Ant
(Apache)
- PHP(5) based
- No extra
dependencies
- Cross platform
flickr.com/photos/

4. I don't need no
stinking 'Build System'
Do you write PHP Apps or just web pages?
- Configuration
- Deployment
- Committing
- Testing
- Documenting

5. I don't need no
stinking 'Build System'
Do you write PHP Apps or just web pages?
- Configuration - Preparation
- Deployment - Predictability
- Committing - Confidence
- Testing - Familiarity
- Documenting - Loggable

6. 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.)

7. Oh is that all?

8. Oh is that all?
Unit tests (phpunit, simpletest)
Database deployment (dbdeploy)
Lint (PHP, JS, XML)
Reporting (code coverage, PHPDoc,
DocBLox)
Not enough? Write your own Tasks or Exec

9. How's it work?
Phing shell script,
launches Phing PHP
App + your XML build
file
Build file contains:
- Properties
- Targets
- Tasks flickr.com/photos/jm3/4814208649

10. Hello World!

11. Example build script

13. phing clean

14. prepare

15. deploy staging

16. deploy live

17. Continuous Integration
Remove reliance on
Human nature
Regular automated
builds (phing/ant)
Report on build status

18. CI Reports
For many of the tools
in the Back to Basics
series
Phing targets:
- phpcs, pdepend,
phpcpd, phpmd,
phpunit, phpcb etc.

20. Resources
http://www.phing.info
http://www.phing.info/docs/guide/stable/
http://jenkins-ci.org
http://dbdeploy.com
http://ant.apache.org

21. Questions?

22. Contact?
Jeremy Coates, MD Magma
Digital Ltd
jeremy@phpnw.org.uk
@phpcodemonkey
#phpnw
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