PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on Apache Ant. These are slides from my talk during the Unconference at the Dutch PHP 2011 Conference (Amsterdam). During this talk I gave an overview of the features and how to use, adapt and extend Phing.

1. Phing – A PHP Build Tool An Introduction Michiel Rook DPC 2011 - Uncon

3. Phing project lead

4. http://nl.linkedin.com/in/michieltcs

5. @michieltcs

7. Originally developed by Binarycloud

8. Ported to PHP5 by Hans Lellelid

9. I joined in 2005

11. Mostly cross platform

12. Interface to various popular (PHP) tools

13. Features

15. Optionally install the documentation $ pear install phing/phingdocs

16. Why A Build Tool?

18. (Unit) Testing

19. Configuring

20. Packaging

21. Uploading

22. DB changes

23. ...

26. Improves quality

27. Reduces errors

28. Saves time

30. Integration with PHP specific tools

31. Allows you to stay in the PHP infrastructure

32. Easy to extend

33. Embed PHP code directly in the build file

35. Integration with PHP specific tools

36. Allows you to stay in the PHP infrastructure

37. Easy to extend

38. Embed PHP code directly in the build file

39. … in the end, the choice is yours

42. Target : groups of tasks, can optionally depend on other targets

43. Project : root node, contains multiple targets

44. Example Build File < project name = &quot;Example&quot; default = &quot;world&quot; > < target name = &quot;hello&quot; > < echo > Hello </ echo > </ target > < target name = &quot;world&quot; depends = &quot;hello&quot; > < echo > World! </ echo > </ target > </ project >

45. Properties < project name = &quot;Example&quot; default = &quot;default&quot; > < property file = &quot;build.properties&quot; / > < target name = &quot;default&quot; > < echo > ${version} </ echo > </ target > </ project > ## build.properties version=1.0

47. Supported by most tasks < fileset dir = &quot;./application&quot; > <include name = &quot;**/*.php&quot; / > <exclude name = &quot;**/*.php&quot; / > </ fileset > < fileset dir = &quot;./application&quot; includes = &quot;**&quot; / > < fileset dir = &quot;./application&quot; id = &quot;files&quot; > <include name = &quot;**/*.php&quot; / > <exclude name = &quot;**/*Test.php&quot; / > </ fileset > < fileset refid = &quot;files&quot; / >

51. Replace values

52. Perform XSLT transformation

53. Translation (i18n)

54. Mappers & Filters < copy todir = &quot;${build}&quot; > <fileset refid = &quot;files&quot; / > <mapper type = &quot;glob&quot; from = &quot;*.txt&quot; type = &quot;*.new.txt&quot; / > <filterchain> <replaceregexp> <regexp pattern = &quot;&quot; replace = &quot;&quot; /> </replaceregexp> </filterchain> </ copy >

56. Various output formats

57. Testing < target name = &quot;test&quot; > < coverage-setup database = &quot;reports/coverage.db&quot; > < fileset dir = &quot;src&quot; > < include name = &quot;**/*.php&quot; /> < exclude name = &quot;**/*Test.php&quot; /> </ fileset > </ coverage-setup > < phpunit codecoverage = &quot;true&quot; > < formatter type = &quot;xml&quot; todir = &quot;reports&quot; /> < formatter type = &quot;clover&quot; todir = &quot;.&quot; /> < batchtest > < fileset dir = &quot;src&quot; > < include name = &quot;**/*Test.php&quot; /> </ fileset > </ batchtest > </ phpunit >

58. Testing < phpunitreport infile = &quot;reports/testsuites.xml&quot; format = &quot;frames&quot; todir = &quot;reports/tests&quot; styledir = &quot;../../etc&quot; /> < coverage-report outfile = &quot;reports/coverage.xml&quot; > < report todir = &quot;reports/coverage&quot; styledir = &quot;../../etc&quot; title = &quot;Demo&quot; /> </ coverage-report > </ target >

60. Types

61. Selectors

62. Filters

63. Mappers

64. Loggers

65. ...

66. Sample Task class SampleTask extends Task { private $var ; public function setVar($v) { $this-> var = $v; } public function main() { $this->log( &quot;value: &quot; . $this-> var ); } }

67. Sample Task < project name = &quot;Example&quot; default = &quot;default&quot; > < taskdef name = &quot;sample&quot; classname = &quot;phing.tasks.my.SampleTask&quot; /> < target name = &quot;default&quot; > < sample var = &quot;Hello World&quot; /> </ target > </ project >

68. Ad Hoc Extension < target name = &quot;main&quot; > <adhoc-task name = &quot;foo&quot; > <![CDATA[ class FooTest extends Task { private $bar; function setBar($bar) { $this->bar = $bar; } function main() { $this->log(&quot;In FooTest: &quot; . $this->bar); } } ]]> </ adhoc-task > <foo bar = &quot;TEST&quot; / > </ target >

70. Bootstrap dev. environments

71. DB migrations

72. Analyze code

73. Run (unit) tests

74. Upgrade server

76. Test coverage

77. Cross-platform compatibility

78. Pain-free installation of dependencies

80. Questions? http://www.phing.info http://joind.in/3475 #phing (freenode) @phingofficial