How to auto-deploy web-app

Question

I\'m trying to make sense on the best way to do automatize a series of things in a row in order to deploy a web-app and haven\'t yet came up with a suitable solution. I woul

Answer 1

I generally run Python projects so this may or may not be an option for you: but apart from writing your own scripts you could look into the following:

• Fabric
• Buildout
• maven

Answer 2

You can run php from the command line to do all sorts of fun things.

$ php script_name.php arg1 arg2

See: command line, argv, argc, exec

Running PHP from the command line is very fast. I've been doing this a lot lately for various automation tasks.

Answer 3

you may want to check out phing http://phing.info/ (they are in the process of moving servers so may be down this weekend), but it can do all of what you are wanting and is written in php. A quick google search should bring up plenty of tutorials to get you started.