PHPUnit - 15+ hrs wasted and still doesn't work

"No releases available for package "pear.phpunit.de/File_Iterator

This can have several reasons:

1. You need to update the channel information

   $ pear channel-update pear.phpunit.de

2. Your network connection has problems, i.e. firewall doesn't allow it or you need to setup the proxy.

To debug it, try a

# pear remote-info pear.phpunit.de/File_IteratorPackage details:================Latest      1.2.6Installed   1.2.6

If that works, you can install it.Otherwise, try to force it:

$ pear install -f pear.phpunit.de/File_Iterator

if that still does not work, visit http://pear.phpunit.de and download the package manually.install it with

$ pear install File_iterator-1.2.6.tgz

Download and install XAMPP Windows 1.7.3 Installer.

Filename: xampp-win32-1.7.3.exe

I would NOT recommend to use any newer version, it MAY break this procedure.

1. Install XAMPP to C:\

• Version 1.7.3 will create xampp directory automatically, here's what I answered...
  • Should I add shortcuts to the startmenu/desktop? No
  • Should I locate the XAMPP paths correctly? Yes
  • Portable? Yes
  • Enter enter exit etc.

2. Open C:\xampp\php\php.ini and enable curl

• uncomment line 952
• extension=php_curl.dll

3. Install new PEAR Version needed for PHPUnit 3.X

• Download: http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
• Save it under: C:\xampp\php
• Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges
  • Right-click on Command Prompt -icon and choose Run as administrator
• Change directory to C:\xampp\php
  • cd xampp
  • cd php
• Type php go-pear.phar (Installs new PEAR)
• Choose system -wide installation
• Install All components
• Would you like alter php.ini
  • Answer Yes
  • This will add PEAR to the path include_path = ".;\xampp\php\PEAR" line 796
• After installing run C:\xampp\php\PEAR_ENV.reg

4. Install PHPUnit

• Be sure you're still in C:\xampp\php
• Type pear channel-discover components.ez.no (this is needed for PHPUnit)
• Type pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com (also needed by PHPUnit)
• Type pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de (This IS phpunit)
• Type pear update-channels (updates channel definitions)
• Type pear upgrade --alldeps (upgrades all existing packages and pear)
• Type pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit (installs PHPUnit and all dependencies)

You're welcome! This took multiple hours to solve :)

If there's anything to add/remove, please leave a comment.

I had the same problem before and I didn't find any tutorial about this issue.

I finally solved it after a while.

You can try following thoses steps.

1. Download PHPUnit and his dependencies at : https://github.com/sebastianbergmann

   • PHP Unit
   • PHP Token Stream
   • PHP Timer
   • PHP TextTemplate
   • PHP File Itérator
   • PHP CodeCoverage

2. Extract PHPUnit and each of his dependancies in the folder of your choice.

3. Open the file

   FolderWhereYouExtractedEverything/PHPUnit-3.5.13OrAnotherVersion/phpunit.php

4. Add the following code while replacing text by the paths :

   $originalpath = 'PathToTheFolderWhereYouExtractedEverything';$path = $originalpath .'PathToThePHPUnitFolderContainedInTheFolderExtracted';set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);$path = $originalpath .'PathToThePHPCodeCoverageFolder';set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);$path = $originalpath .'PathToThePHPFileIteratorFolder';set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);$path = $originalpath .'PathToThePHPTextTemplateFolder';set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);$path = $originalpath .'PathToThePHPTokenStreamFolder';set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);$path = $originalpath .'PathToThePHPTimerFolder';set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . $path);

5. Open the file "phpunit.bat" in the phpunit folder that you extracted. (Something like PHPUnit-3.5.13)

6. Replace all the bottom lines by the following code :

   set PHPBIN="PathToThephp.exeFile"php -d safe_mode=Off "PathToThephpunit.phpFile" %*

7. Edit your evironnement variables by adding the path to the

   PathToThePHPUnitFolderContainedInThePHPUnitFolderExtracted 

8. Edit your evironnement variables by adding the path to the php.exe file.

You may have some deprecated function warnings, just replace the functions by a not deprecated one.

I hope all this helps.