Laravel phpUnit Test Error with more than one function int he Test class

Question

My test class is very simple

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * A basic functional test example.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testBasicExample()
    {
        $this->visit('/');

    }

    // when I add this, I get an error
    public function testAnotherExample()
    {
        $this->visit('profile');

    }
}

When I only have the "testBasicExample" method, the test runs fine. However, as soon as I add "testAnotherExample", the test fails with following error message.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare formatBytes() (previously declared in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\helpers\functions.php:3) in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\helpers\functions.php on line 7

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException' with message 'Target [Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler] is not instantiable.' in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:749
Stack trace:
#0 C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php(631): Illuminate\Container\Container->build('Illuminate\\Cont...', Array)
#1 C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php(674): Illuminate\Container\Container->make('Illuminate\\Cont...', Array)
#2 C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions.php(154): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->make('Illuminate\\Cont...')
#3 C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions.php(79): Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions->getExceptionHandler()
#4 C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php on line 749

The same test if I comment out the "testBasicExample", then the other test works just fine.

Thank you for your help.

`helpers\functions.php` looks like your own file. How are you loading it, and what does it contain? — ceejayoz, Feb 10 '16 at 22:20
bingo! thanks for the scrutiny. it had some common functions. changing its include function from include to include_once resolved the problem. — elixir, Feb 10 '16 at 22:29

Sagar Koshti · Answer 1 · 2016-10-19T12:48:37.547

1

PHPUnit 5.3.2 above works just fine with Laravel 5.

You need to Uninstall old phpunit first.

sudo apt-get purge phpunit
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove phpunit

Then install PHPUnit 5.6.1 as below

wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar
chmod +x phpunit.phar
sudo mv phpunit.phar /usr/local/bin/phpunit
phpunit --version

Now you can run phpunit !!!

edited Oct 19 '16 at 12:48

answered Oct 19 '16 at 12:11

Sagar Koshti

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '16 at 12:19

answer from @ceejayoz was that :

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare formatBytes() (previously declared in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\helpers\functions.php:3) in C:\xampp\htdocs\laravellab\helpers\functions.php on line 7

was the culprit.

However your solution elixir to go from include to include_once just checks that the include is only declare once which is the classic way to include files in procedural PHP.

I would recommend to autoload the file rather by changing your composer.json file. Just include the logic file path (from where composer.json file is) inside the autoload section

"autoload": {
    "files": ["helpers\functions.php"]

},

https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#files

Laravel phpUnit Test Error with more than one function int he Test class

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