Docs Setup Phing

Installation of Phing

Phing is a port of Apache Ant. It is a build system based on extensible PHP tasks and XML build files. In Stubbles, it is used for various tasks, like packaging new releases or setting up your project.

The installation is quite easy:

At first, make sure, that you have PEAR installed. If this is not the case, refer to the PEAR manual for more information on how to install PEAR.

Once, PEAR is installed, run these commands:

$ pear channel-discover pear.phing.info
...
$ pear install phing/phing-beta

After you installed Phing make sure, that the installation worked by invoking it via the command line:

$ phing
exception 'BuildException' with message 'Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!' in path/to/Phing.php:385
Stack trace:
#0 path/to/Phing.php(147): Phing->execute(Array)
#1 path/to/Phing.php(262): Phing::start(Array, NULL)
#2 path/to/phing.php(41): Phing::fire(Array)
#3 {main}

If you see this message, you are ready to work with Stubbles and Phing.

If you have troubles installing Phing ar prefer a non-PEAR installation, refer to the Phing documentation.