Install PHPUNIT with Composer

Question

I have project on Symfony 2 and i would like use PHPUNIT on Windows 7.

On githut phpunit is:

Composer

Simply add a dependency on phpunit/phpunit to your project's composer.json file if you use Composer to manage the dependencies of your project. Here is a minimal example of a composer.json file that just defines a development-time dependency on PHPUnit 3.7:

{
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
    }
}
For a system-wide installation via Composer, you can run:

composer global require 'phpunit/phpunit=3.7.*'
Make sure you have ~/.composer/vendor/bin/ in your path.

First i use system-wide installation but i dont know when this installed. Next i add to my composer.json require-dev. This installed phpunit in C:/wamp/www/myproject/vendor/symfony. Next i try commands:

 composer install --dev

And i can't use phpunit. In cmd.exe i enter "phpunit" and i have error:

'phpunit' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file

How can i use phpunit? I have Windows 7, Wamp server and php 5.4.12.

Answer 1

When you install PHP-Unit in windows via composer, the global installation will create files in

C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer

To execute phpunit easily via command line you need to add path of phpunit.bat file in windows Environment Variables. For this:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Go to Properties -> Advance system settings and
3. Click Environment variables from the Advance tab.

Now add C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin to the windows PATH.

You can now run the phpunit from command. Note that you may need to restart your command prompt for the changes to take effect.

Answer 2

The bin file of packages are put in the configured bin directory. By default, this is vendor/bin and when you use the symfony standard edition, this is the bin folder.

To execute this bin file, run ./bin/phpunit (or ./vendor/bin/phpunit when not using the Symfony Standard Edition)

Windows users have to put this in double quotes: "bin/phpunit" (or "vendor/bin/phpunit")