I just started playing around with Phing build scripts (built with PHP). From what I have read is that Phing is based on Apache Ant (built with Java).
Both use XML build files and have similar syntax, so I am asking someone with experience, if I find an Ant build file on Github or elsewhere, can it be used in a Phing script without changing the syntax of it any? Like a drop-in XML file that would work with Ant or Phing? Or are there differences?
There are some slight differences. I would recommend taking the ant build file, and for each target, look up the target name in the phing documentation to make sure it's the same or not. I can't remember off the top of my head, but you can't just drop it in. There are also some phing only things you can do that are php related, like a phpdoc target, etc.
I were recently facing the same issue and I found some diff :
antcall would be phingcall
<if> tag only appear to be working on PHING (or with Ant-contribs library added)
<fixcrlf> tag only appear to be working on ANT
Maybe there are some others.
SOLUTION
The best solution for me was to rewrite missing tasks using adhocTask. And if it is possible, based on an existing PhingTask.
For example to make <antcall> to work, I simply extends PhingCallTask like this :
<adhoc-task name="antcall"><![CDATA[
class AntCall extends PhingCallTask {}
]]></adhoc-task>
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I have a php project I'm working on using PhpStorm. I have a python script which manipulates my css file in a certain way before uploading it to the server (it's irrelevant to the question, but if you're curious, mostly related to language support).
I'd love to be able to run it directly from phpstorm, but I'm unsure how to do it (I'm guessing it's possible but I couldn't find any reference to something of the sort, and I'm kinda new to this IDE). I know I can rewrite the script with php but I'd rather not (I'm still a pythonist at heart).
Anyone had to tackle something of the sort?
Thanks in advance!
p.s. I'm running Ubuntu if that matters.
Use File Watcher plugin for that (should be bundled since v7 by default) -- this way such script will be run on each of desired modified files on save automatically.
http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/File+Watchers+in+PhpStorm
Alternatively you can use External Tools functionality and invoke it manually when desired.
http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/external-tools.html
According to the help page you can run scripts in the "Before launch". IMHO you can configure an external tool to be your python script (change +x to make it executable...).
Alternatively, I think you could install the python plugin (I've never tried it).
I'm trying to make sense on the best way to do automatize a series of things in a row in order to deploy a web-app and haven't yet came up with a suitable solution. I would like to:
use google's compiler.jar to minify my JS
use yahoo's yui-compressor.jar to minify my CSS
access a file and change a string so that header files like "global.css?v=21" get served the correct version
deploy the app (sftp, mercurial or rsync?) omitting certain directories like "/userfiles"
Can you guys put me on the right track to solve this?
Thank you!
you may want to check out phing http://phing.info/ (they are in the process of moving servers so may be down this weekend), but it can do all of what you are wanting and is written in php.
A quick google search should bring up plenty of tutorials to get you started.
You can run php from the command line to do all sorts of fun things.
$ php script_name.php arg1 arg2
See: command line, argv, argc, exec
Running PHP from the command line is very fast. I've been doing this a lot lately for various automation tasks.
I generally run Python projects so this may or may not be an option for you: but apart from writing your own scripts you could look into the following:
Fabric
Buildout
maven
I'm trying to make sense on the best way to do automatize a series of things in a row in order to deploy a web-app and haven't yet came up with a suitable solution. I would like to:
use google's compiler.jar to minify my JS
use yahoo's yui-compressor.jar to minify my CSS
access a file and change a string so that header files like "global.css?v=21" get served the correct version
deploy the app (sftp, mercurial or rsync?) omitting certain directories like "/userfiles"
Can you guys put me on the right track to solve this?
Thank you!
you may want to check out phing http://phing.info/ (they are in the process of moving servers so may be down this weekend), but it can do all of what you are wanting and is written in php.
A quick google search should bring up plenty of tutorials to get you started.
You can run php from the command line to do all sorts of fun things.
$ php script_name.php arg1 arg2
See: command line, argv, argc, exec
Running PHP from the command line is very fast. I've been doing this a lot lately for various automation tasks.
I generally run Python projects so this may or may not be an option for you: but apart from writing your own scripts you could look into the following:
Fabric
Buildout
maven
I was just wondering how I use Ant to build my web applications that I have written in PHP? I've googled around a bit and I have seen that it is possible but there are not any examples of the basic idea or any advanced use for them. Can any of you help me out?
Thanks!
This is definitely possible. If you are looking for a pure php solution phing might be what you want. Also note that there's usually no reasons to build PHP scripts. They should 'just work'.
While Ant itself is written in java, you can use it to build any kind of applications you want. Here's a basic tutorial and a full manual. Beyond that, you need to clarify what is it you want to do to get a more precise answer here.
Update (based on question clarifications):
Copying / moving files / folders is easy via Ant. Look through the "Hello World" tutorial I've linked above and Familiarize yourself with FileSet concept and Copy, Mkdir and Move tasks to get started. Here's another tutorial that shows how to set up a basic build (ignore java-specific stuff like javac/war).
Making changes to the database is an entirely different subject. If you have 'alter' scripts ready, you can use Ant's Exec task to invoke your DB's command-line client to run those scripts (though I probably wouldn't do it in production). If you want to use Ant to track those changes, then you're looking at the wrong tool. Liquibase can be used to do that and it seems to be getting a lot of traction lately. It's quite like Ant in the sense that it's written in Java but can be used in any environment. I'm no PHP expert so I wouldn't know if there's something more PHP-geared available.
We use ant to 'build' php apps. At it's most basic, the ant script just copies the file into the folder on the testing webserver (localhost in my case).
Why do this? well there's not a great deal of point to it, but it is a handy way to avoid putting .svn files into the webserver. If you want to change the location of the webserver you can just build to the new location. You can also do different things according to whether you're on Linux or Windows for example, but I've never used that side of it.
Having tried Phing, Ant and Gradle, I would strongly recommend gradle. Here is a bit of description Choosing tools for PHP application automation
I would like to use Ant with some of my PHP projects but I'm not sure how. I tried creating a build script with a few targets but couldn't execute any of them from within Netbeans - there's simply no option to. Is this feature supported in this context or not? If yes, then how do I use it (I must obviously be missing something in this case). I'm using NetBeans 6.7.1 (Ant plugin is installed).
Yes you can. It's described on sun blog and according to date of the post, the posibility is here for long time
There's also this patch I created that adds ant support to PHP, enabling the build/clean functionality.
Sure there is an option or solution in netbeans (at least as external tool as in eclipse), but you could set up an continous integration system like cruiser control for build your project by version control system. There is an easy to use wrapper for cc created for PHP, named PHPunderControl. PHPUC uses Ant, PHPUnit, PHPCS as well.
Take a look at it: PHPUC