Questions tagged [phing]

Phing is a project build system based on Apache ant. You can do anything with Phing that you could do with a traditional build system like Gnu make, and Phing's use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Phing comes packaged with numerous out-of-the-box operation modules (tasks), and an easy-to-use OO model for adding your own custom tasks. ^{_{(copied from the Phing documentation)}}

Phing provides the following features:

• Simple XML buildfiles
• Rich set of provided tasks
• Easily extendable via PHP classes
• Platform-independent: works on UNIX, Windows, MacOSX
• No required external dependencies
• Built & optimized for ZendEngine2/PHP5

Useful resources:

• Phing documentation
• Phing API

Hello World Example

Contents of build.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="HelloWorld" default="world" basedir=".">
    <target name="world" depends="message">
        <echo message="World!" />
    </target>
    <target name="message">
        <echo message="Hello, " />
    </target>
</project>

Executed by running phing or phing world

$ phing world
Buildfile: /tmp/phingtest/build.xml

HelloWorld > message:

     [echo] Hello, 

HelloWorld > world:

     [echo] World!

BUILD FINISHED

Total time: 0.0940 seconds

Installing via Composer

{
    "require": {
        "phing/phing": "2.5.0"
    },
}