PHPUnit installation in Windows

Windows 7

Install PHP

Do not try to install PHP 5.4 as there is no installer and it doesn't include the PEAR installation batch file. Instead, you have to use PHP 5.3.

• http://windows.php.net/download/#php-5.3

You probably want the thread-safe version.

While going through the installation, you probably should use all default options, except:

1. There is a question about which web server to use. Since you do not have PHP installed on your system already, you probably don't want to run a web server, so choose 'Do not setup a web server'.
2. There is a list of features. Expand 'Extras' and turn on 'PEAR install'.

After install completes, open a new terminal and run 'php -version' to verify that it is installed.

Install PEAR

• Click Start button. Type 'cmd' and, instead of pressing Return, press Ctrl + Shift + Return. This should give you a popup prompt to confirm permissions, then run the command prompt as administrator.

cd "\Program Files (x86)"\php
go-pear

• Hit Return repeatedly to accept all defaults.

start PEAR_ENV.reg 

• Accept adding junk to your registry.

• Note that when I tried this, each time you run 'pear' it will come with a messagebox popup error, but this does not seem to stop it working.

• If you use an HTTP proxy:

pear config-set http_proxy my.proxy.is:80

Install PHPUnit

• Install PHPUnit and DbUnit:

pear config-set auto_discover 1
pear upgrade-all
pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit
pear install pear.phpunit.de/DbUnit

• Using a text editor, edit the 'phpunit' shell script in c:\Program Files (x86)\PHP. Change the first line to:

#!php.exe