Setting up PHPUnit on OSX

Question

Though I'm sure others have eventually managed to figure this out, I've been following the various documentation out there and have been having a heck of a rough time of it.

http://www.phpunit.de/manual/current/en/installation.html

Makes it sound pretty easy. However depending on your setup, you might be going down a rabbit hole.

PEAR for example must be of a version higher than 1.8.1. I had 1.8.0 at the time, so I went to find out how to update PEAR

PEAR upgrade-all

Gives an error. No access.

sudo PEAR upgrade-all

Works, but upgrades the PEAR install owned by the user 'sudo' (and not your primary account... or something like that, short version is 5that it plain don't work)

cd ~
pico .bash_profile

add

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

give you the correct PEAR when you type PEAR, you're finally ready for step 1 of the install PHPUnit instructions.

pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de

Error. You don't have access to /usr/local/temp

sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/temp

Error. You don't have access to /usr/local/temp/channel.xml

sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/temp/channel.xml
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de

Error.

Registry directory is not writeable by the current user

BUT I'M ON A MAC!

/sigh
/facepalm
/tears

I've actually got a "working copy" of phpunit on my machine. (YAY!) the odd problem is that it only works when I type phpunit from one specific folder

cd /usr/local/PEAR
phpunit

^^ WORKS

cd ~
phpunit

^^ Returns

Warning: require_once(PHPUnit/Util/Filter.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/bin/phpunit on line 46

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'PHPUnit/Util/Filter.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /usr/local/bin/phpunit on line 46

So close yet so far... I'm wondering if anyone has some input on getting this guy working right?

Answer 1

To install via terminal:

curl https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar -L -o phpunit.phar

chmod +x phpunit.phar

mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit

Answer 2

We can install it using Homebrew

$ brew install phpunit

Answer 3

Via homebrew (only if you've installed php via homebrew as well):

brew tap josegonzalez/php
brew install phpunit