NYCPHP Meetup

[Hans C. Kaspersetz]

Chris,

I am about to post your presentation to NYPHP, how do you prefer I do 
it?  Should I link to Geoff's site or copy the files to NYPHP's server 
and serve them up?  Is he planning to leave those resources online 
indefinitely?

Hans K

Chris Shiflett wrote:

>Geoff has posted our slides from last night's talk as well as a tarball
>that you can play with:
>
>http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/slides/nyphp/
>
>I hope everyone enjoyed the talk. There was a lot to talk about, so I know
>it was hard to follow everything, especially since this is all very new
>(even if you do a lot of testing already). Hopefully reviewing these
>slides will help, and I plan to generate some better documentation once
>we're further along.
>
>If you want to play with the tarball, just follow the steps in the INSTALL
>file (it even gives you an example set of steps for installing Apache with
>PHP, which you can probably skip). The sample application lives in
>t/htdocs, and the tests are all *.t files within t. Examples of tests
>written in PHP exist within t/response/TestFunctions.
>
>Lastly, as I've looked more into Simple Test and PHPUnit, these seem to
>only be simplistic functions that can help you write unit tests (similar
>to Test::More in Perl), but they provide no automated way to run these
>tests nor an easy way to create a good test environment that resembles
>production (testing from the command line? Yuck!). I'm not suggesting that
>they've ever claimed to be more - I just wasn't sure. Until now, they've
>been our best options for testing PHP applications, but no longer. :-)
>
>Because PHPUnit and Simple Test seem like good approaches to unit testing,
>and because there are likely many developers who have a lot of tests
>already written in these, I will probably write a compatability layer that
>implements the same tests but with Test::More compatible output, so that
>people can easily port tests to the Apache-Test framework.
>
>Chris
>
>=====
>Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/
>
>PHP Security - O'Reilly     HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams
>Coming December 2004        http://httphandbook.org/
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>
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