Install PHPUNIT with Composer

Question

I have project on Symfony 2 and i would like use PHPUNIT on Windows 7.

On githut phpunit is:

Composer

Simply add a dependency on phpunit/phpunit to your project's composer.json file if you use Composer to manage the dependencies of your project. Here is a minimal example of a composer.json file that just defines a development-time dependency on PHPUnit 3.7:

{
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
    }
}
For a system-wide installation via Composer, you can run:

composer global require 'phpunit/phpunit=3.7.*'
Make sure you have ~/.composer/vendor/bin/ in your path.

First i use system-wide installation but i dont know when this installed. Next i add to my composer.json require-dev. This installed phpunit in C:/wamp/www/myproject/vendor/symfony. Next i try commands:

 composer install --dev

And i can't use phpunit. In cmd.exe i enter "phpunit" and i have error:

'phpunit' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file

How can i use phpunit? I have Windows 7, Wamp server and php 5.4.12.

Answer 1

When you install PHP-Unit in windows via composer, the global installation will create files in

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer

To execute phpunit easily via command line you need to add path of phpunit.bat file in windows Environment Variables. For this:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Go to Properties -> Advance system settings and
3. Click Environment variables from the Advance tab.

Now add C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin to the windows PATH.

You can now run the phpunit from command. Note that you may need to restart your command prompt for the changes to take effect.

Answer 2

The bin file of packages are put in the configured bin directory. By default, this is vendor/bin and when you use the symfony standard edition, this is the bin folder.

To execute this bin file, run ./bin/phpunit (or ./vendor/bin/phpunit when not using the Symfony Standard Edition)

Windows users have to put this in double quotes: "bin/phpunit" (or "vendor/bin/phpunit")

Answer 3

I remember futzing around with the composer dependency stuff for phpunit and never could get it to work.

Instead, from your git bash shell:

mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
curl https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar > phpunit
chmod +x phpunit

exit out of bash and then start a new bash session.

And you should be good to go. You can echo $PATH to verify you have a path to ~/bin but one seems to added by default.

https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar

Answer 4

composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit ^7

The above example assumes, composer is already on your $PATH variable.

You composer.json should look similar to;

{
  "name": "vendor_name/package_name",
  "description": "This project is for practicing writing php unit tests",
  "minimum-stability": "stable",
  "license": "proprietary",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Umair Anwar",
      "email": "umair.anwar@gmail.com"
    }
  ],
  "autoload": {
    "classmap": [
      "src/"
    ]
  },
  "require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "^7",
    "phpunit/dbunit": "^4.0"
  }
}

Answer 5

I also came across the same issue and find out the solution by following steps

To run PHPUnit in Windows 7 under WAMP installation

1. Composer Install

   { "require-dev": { "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*" } }

2. Simply Set Environment Variable The php unit will be install in a vendor dir in vendor/bin

   Path : C:\wamp\www\myproject\vendor\bin;

3. Open a new Command Prompt C:\Users\guny >phpunit --version PHPUnit 3.7.30 by Sebastain Bergmann

Answer 6

Too simple operation on Windows with composer and works for me following way:

Install composer https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows Go to your symphony folder e.g C:\wamp64\www\symfony\UserManagement where is composer.json and run this command. Should be register with global to not have issue $phpunit bash: phpunit: command not found

//old version is 5.7 new 6.4 or put newest version.
composer global require --dev phpunit/phpunit ^5.7

Answer 7

Easiest way to install phpunit via composer is to run from project root.

$ composer require phpunit/phpunit

What this would do is, it will create a phpunit folder inside vendor/bin and you can run unit tests like this..

$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit