PHPUnit and CodeIgniter 3.0

Quick tutorial how to setup proper unit testing with PHPUnit and CodeIgniter 3.0.
We need couple elements

1. CodeIgniter – we are working with version 3.0rc3
2. PHPUnit  – latest one

If you don’t have phpunit installed globally, you can go with composer, just add section to your composer.json

{
  "require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "4.1.*"
  }
}

and then
composer.phar install
and after while we have
./vendor/bin/phpunit
working phpunit.

let’s create phpunit.xml.dist

next step will require create separate bootstrap file for PHPUnit. Just copy cp index.php tests/Bootstrap.php
We have to make 2 small amends.

• update $system_path = '../system'; and $application_folder = '../application';
• change environment to testing define('ENVIRONMENT', isset($_SERVER['CI_ENV']) ? $_SERVER['CI_ENV'] : 'testing');

CI is pretty bad with PHPUnit by default – so we need to modify one more element – output library.

Let’s enable hooks – $config['enable_hooks'] = TRUE; in application/config/config.php create a hook in application/config/hooks.php

$hook['display_override'] = array(
    'class' => 'DisplayHook',
    'function' => 'captureOutput',
    'filename' => 'DisplayHook.php',
    'filepath' => 'hooks'
  );

Actual hook code – application/hooks/DisplayHook.php

class DisplayHook
{
	public function captureOutput()
	{
		$this->CI =& get_instance();
		$output = $this->CI->output->get_output();

		if (ENVIRONMENT != 'testing') {
			echo $output;
		}
	}
}

And finally we can create out first test:

And we can see if it works:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

PHPUnit 4.1.6 by Sebastian Bergmann.

Configuration read from /Library/WebServer/Documents/coreadvisory/scraper/phpunit.xml.dist

.

Time: 117 ms, Memory: 5.00Mb

OK (1 test, 1 assertion)

Sources:

[taiar.github.io/php/2013/11/08/testing-codeigniter-applications-with-phpunit.html]( http://taiar.github.io/php/2013/11/08/testing-codeigniter-applications-with-phpunit.html