Phing Cookbook
Phing Cookbook
The PHP Build Tool
About the Book
A new chapter is going to be published every month until the book is finished.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Recipes. 1
- 1. First steps . . 3
- 1.1. Introduction3
- What is Phing? . . . 3
- Advantages . . 4
- Disadvantages . . . 4
- 1.2. Installing Phing. 4
- Install Phing as phar file . . 4
- Installing Phing with Composer . . . 5
- Installing Phing with Phive5
- Getting auto-complete 6
- Resources . . . 6
- 1.3. Creating a buildfile . 6
- Create an empty buildfile . 6
- Buildfile structure 7
- Init option . . . 7
- Resources . . . 7
- 1.4. Displaying text messages 8
- EchoTask 8
- Displaying long messages . 8
- Escaping special characters . . . 9
- Sending desktop notifications 10
- Resources . . 11
- 1.5. List available targets . . . 11
- List targets in terminal . . 11
- Visualize targets 12
- Resources . . 13
- 1.6. Imposing a minimum Phing version . 13
- Use phingVersion attribute. . . 13
- Alternative solutions 14
- Using pre-releases. . . 14
- Resources . . 15
- 2. Working with properties . . . 17
- 2.1. Loading properties from a file . . 17
- Using -propertyfile option17
- Loading property files with PropertyTask . 18
- Loading properties from yaml file 19
- Loading properties from xml file . 19Resources . . 20
- 2.2. Persisting properties . . . 20
- Using EchoPropertiesTask . . . 20
- Advanced filtering rules . 21
- Export all properties 21
- Resources . . 22
- 3. Basic usage . . . 23
- 3.1. Checking if a string is empty 23
- isfalse condition 23
- Resources . . 25
- 3.2. Get current date and time . . 25
- Built-in phing.startTime property. 25
- Use a specific date. . . 27
- Use custom format and locale 27
- Resources . . 29
- 4. Filesystem 31
- 4.1. Create a file . . . 31
- Creating an empty file . . . 31
- Empty an existing file . . . 31
- Creating big files 32
- Resources . . 32
- 4.2. Copy files and directories. . . 32
- Copy a file . . 32
- Copy a directory 34
- Copy multiple files . . 34
- Resources . . 35
- 5. Networking . . . 37
- 5.1. Using HttpGetTask, HttpRequestTask , and VisualizerTask behind a proxy server 37
- phing.http.proxy property . . . 37
- Configure proxy server settings for a single task . . . 37
- Resources . . 37
- 6. Building your project . . 39
- 6.1. Generate a checksum for a file . . 39
- File checksum with FileHashTask. 39
- Generate a manifest file . 40
- Resources . . 40
- 6.2. Install Composer dependencies . 40
- Using ComposerTask 41
- Using other Composer commands 41
- Resources . . 42
- 6.3. Replace text using placeholders . 42Using ReplaceTokenFilter 42
- Customize delimiters 43
- Resources . . 43
- 7. Quality assurance . 45
- 7.1. Validate Composer . 45
- Validation using ComposerTask . . 45
- Check outdated packages 45
- Resources . . 45
- 7.2. Check PHP syntax. . 46
- Syntax checking with PhpLintTask46
- Errors report . . . 47
- Test syntax with specific PHP version . 47
- Check deprecated syntax 48
- Resources . . 49
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