phpunit with Netbeans on Ubuntu

As a newbie to PHP I got lots of headache on setting up phpunit. It is a little tricky to setup phpunit on Ubuntu since the documentation about this is not accurate. Make some notes here for the future references.

To install phpunit, the only way is to use PEAR. However I got annoying errors during the process.

1. apt-get does not install latest Pear, it only install the PEAR up to verision 1.9.2 which will be complained then when you are installing phpunit. Use this,

$ wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ php go-pear.phar

2. Then install phpunit

pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit

3. Setup netbeans for phpunit

The right path of phpunit is /home/xxx/pear/bin/phpunit not /usr/lib/php/PHPUnit as documented on neatbeans official website.

HOWTO: Install xdebug for PHP5

Here is a mini-howto in how to install the xdebug extension with PHP5 in Ubuntu 7.04

This will install xdebug 2.0 (or whatever is latest version in PEAR repository when you try this).

It is assumed you have Apache2 + PHP5 working already.

sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear

Now install xdebug thru PECL.

sudo pecl install xdebug

Now we need to find where xdebug.so went (the compiled module)

martin@martin-dev:/$ find / -name 'xdebug.so' /dev/null /usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so

Then edit php.ini:

sudo gedit /etc/php/apache2/php.ini

Add the following line:

zend_extension="/usr/lib/php5/20060613/xdebug.so"

Then restart apache for changes to take effect

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Check phpinfo() to make sure the extension is loaded correctly. The following line should have been appended to the copyright lines:

with Xdebug v2.0.0, Copyright (c) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, by Derick Rethans

For more information about xdebug configuration and usage, please read the official documentation, found here: http://xdebug.org/docs/

check http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=525257