PHPUnit Globals

Allows to use annotations to define global variables in PHPUnit test cases.

Supported annotations:

• @env for $_ENV
• @server for $_SERVER
• @putenv for putenv()

Global variables are set before each test case is executed, and brought to the original state after each test case has finished. The same applies to putenv()/getenv() calls.

Installation

Composer

composer require --dev zalas/phpunit-globals

Phar

The extension is also distributed as a PHAR, which can be downloaded from the most recent Github Release.

Put the extension in your PHPUnit extensions directory. Remember to instruct PHPUnit to load extensions in your phpunit.xml:

<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://schema.phpunit.de/9.0/phpunit.xsd"
         extensionsDirectory="tools/phpunit.d"
>
</phpunit>

Usage

Enable the globals annotation extension in your PHPUnit configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://schema.phpunit.de/9.0/phpunit.xsd"
         bootstrap="vendor/autoload.php"
         verbose="true"
         colors="true">

    <!-- ... -->

    <extensions>
        <extension class="Zalas\PHPUnit\Globals\AnnotationExtension" />
    </extensions>

</phpunit>

Make sure the AnnotationExtension is registered before any other extensions that might depend on global variables.

Global variables can now be defined in annotations:

use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

/**
 * @env FOO=bar
 */
class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @env APP_ENV=foo
     * @env APP_DEBUG=0
     * @server APP_ENV=bar
     * @server APP_DEBUG=1
     * @putenv APP_HOST=localhost
     */
    public function test_global_variables()
    {
        $this->assertSame('bar', $_ENV['FOO']);
        $this->assertSame('foo', $_ENV['APP_ENV']);
        $this->assertSame('0', $_ENV['APP_DEBUG']);
        $this->assertSame('bar', $_SERVER['APP_ENV']);
        $this->assertSame('1', $_SERVER['APP_DEBUG']);
        $this->assertSame('localhost', \getenv('APP_HOST'));
    }
}

Updating to PHPUnit 8

When updating from a previous version of this extension that used to work with PHPUnit older than v8, replace the listener registration in phpunit.xml:

    <listeners>
        <listener class="Zalas\PHPUnit\Globals\AnnotationListener" />
    </listeners>

with the extension registration:

    <extensions>
        <extension class="Zalas\PHPUnit\Globals\AnnotationExtension" />
    </extensions>

Contributing

Please read the Contributing guide to learn about contributing to this project. Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.