Testing and test automation should be easy and the complex approach is overkill for most of our applications. Fortunately, PHPUnit offers some other methods that make doing so relatively simple. The easiest method is to use an XML configuration file.

He includes a basic XML config file for a "My Test Suite" setup defining the application's directory and where to log the end report to. This simple PHPUnit configuration can be used with the "phpunit" command line binary to auto-configure all you'll need for the testing. Matthew also includes the code for a sample TestHelper you can drop right into the app to help set up your environment correctly when testing is needed.

Mayflower announces that Version 5.2 of its free popular open source groupware suite "PHProjekt" is available immediately and ready for download.

Updates in the new version include a refactored user interface, Dojo integration, porting it over to the IBM DB2 database system, an update to the Helpdesk, and automatic email functionality.

Get full information on the PHPProjekt from www.phpprojekt.com.

I can't say the results of the benchmarks are surprising, but it does give a good idea of where, speed-wise, they really improved things in this new release. There are some stats, though, that didn't make that much of a jump. Those seem to be ones dealing with objects and their handling, though - so there's not that much of a jump there anyway.

He tested all sorts of operations, including working with binary data, string and array functionality, looping (for, foreach, etc), and operators. For each statistic, he provides what the test is doing and what the results are. Testing was done with the PHPLens benchmark suite.

I am putting together a list of projects that use PHPUnit. The purpose of this list is not only to show who uses PHPUnit but also to provide a list of example test suites that are built using PHPUnit.

More specifically, he's looking for projects that use PHPUnit that isn't listed on this page. If you have a project or know of one that's using this popular unit testing suite, post a comment here to let him know.

Zend almost convinced me that their Safeguard Suite really secured your PHP scripts. Ofcourse I know that scripts need to be interpreted and executed and are therefore never 100% safe; but I expected some form of obfuscation and rewriting to prevent this. This doesn't seem to be the case though. I have had a look at PHP Obfuscator/Obscurer, but a good illustration of the quality of that script can be illustrated with a simple, readable example.

Also, obfuscating React took me almost an hour; which isn't that strange when you have had a look at the sourcecode.

As far as I've heard/seen so far, there's not really a good solution to this dilema. Sure, some are better than others, but there's still a hole there that is just waiting to be filled with an application anyone can use...]]> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:15:19 -0600