Install phpunit on windows

Question

How to install phpunit?

I read documentation https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit, but have an error:

>pear upgrade PEAR
Nothing to upgrade

>pear config-set auto_discover 1
config-set succeeded

>pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit
No releases available for package "pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit"
install failed

How can I fix this error?

Answer 1

Try the following instructions:

1. In the command prompt, switch to the directory that you installed PHP to by running cd C:\php\
2. Then install PEAR by running php go-pear.phar
3. Press Enter to accept the default when it asks you “Are you installing a system-wide PEAR or a local copy?”
4. Press Enter again to accept the file layout.
5. Press Enter to finish.
6. Run the following commands (they may take a while to update, be patient):
   • pear channel-update pear.php.net
   • pear upgrade-all
   • pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
   • pear channel-discover components.ez.no
   • pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
   • pear update-channels
7. Clear your pear cache pear clear-cache
8. To install PHPUnit, run pear install --alldeps --force phpunit/PHPUnit
9. To test that PHPUnit was successfully installed, run phpunit -v

Answer 2

Old answer (2014): It's said that phpunit will not be available via PEAR since December 2014.
So it's easy to install it using composer:

composer global require "phpunit/phpunit=4.1.*"

Update 2019: it should be installed as a local (for your project) development package:

 composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit ^8

Update 2020: it should be installed as a local (for your project) development package: composer require --dev phpunit/phpunit ^9.3

Answer 3

As said by @Wilt Installation via pear doesn't works any longer. Follow below steps instead

Step I: Create a directory named bin in C drive.

Step II: Now add the path C:\bin to your environment.

• To do this click on Windows icon and right click on Computer and then select Properties.
• Then click on Advanced system settings -> Advanced -> Environment Variables.
• In the System variables section scroll down and select the line where the Variable column value is Path. Click on Edit.
• Now add (append at the end) ;C:\bin at the end.

Step III: Download phpunit phar file to C:\bin folder.

• If you are PHP 7 then download the phar file from https:// phar.phpunit.de/phpunit-6.2.phar. Else if you are using PHP 5.6 then download the phar file from https:// phar.phpunit.de/phpunit-5.7.phar.
• Once downloaded rename the file to phpunit.phar and move it to C:\bin folder.

Step IV: Create a batch script phpunit.cmd

• Open command prompt. Type cd C:\bin and hit enter.

• Then type echo @php "%~dp0phpunit.phar" %* > phpunit.cmd and hit enter.

To verify PHPUnit has been installed type phpunit --version in command prompt. You should get something like PHPUnit x.y.z by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

Reference: https://perials.com/installing-phpunit-windows/