Can I “Mock” time in PHPUnit?

Question

... not knowing if \'mock\' is the right word.

Anyway, I have an inherited code-base that I\'m trying to write some tests for that are time-based. Trying not to be <

Answer 1

Here's an addition to fab's post. I did the namespace based override using an eval. This way, I can just run it for tests and not the rest of my code. I run a function similar to:

function timeOverrides($namespaces = array()) {
  $returnTime = time();
  foreach ($namespaces as $namespace) {
    eval("namespace $namespace; function time() { return $returnTime; }");
  }
}

then pass in timeOverrides(array(...)) in the test setup so that my tests only have to keep track of what namespaces time() is called in.