How to use an authenticated user in a Symfony2 functional test?

Question

I use the FacebookBundle to authenticate users in my Symfony2 application. However, I would like to create functional tests with phpunit which uses an authenticated user.

Moreover, I don't want to use a facebook user for this, but harcoded one.

Does anybody know how to implement this?

Answer 1

It's actually quite simple.

1. Setup security.yml for test environment (it's a snippet from Symfony 2.0-RC3)

   security:
       encoders:
           Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User: plaintext
   
       providers:
           in_memory:
               users:
                   user:  { password: userpass, roles: [ 'ROLE_USER' ] }
                   admin: { password: adminpass, roles: [ 'ROLE_ADMIN' ] }
   
       firewalls:
            secured-area:
                pattern:    ^/demo/secured/
                http_basic:
                    realm: "Secured Demo Area"
   

2. As you can see there is HTTP Authentication defined. So now, all you have to do is to setup a client in functional test:

   $client = static::createClient(array(), array(
       'PHP_AUTH_USER' => 'user',
       'PHP_AUTH_PW'   => 'userpass',
   ));
   

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This link might be useful: http://symfony.com/doc/current/testing.html