Testing Cron Jobs in Linux can be a pain – especially if you’re using a tool like CPanel which abstracts away some of the processing. However, with a couple of quick commands, it’s possible to track down where your cron jobs may be failing and get them running smooth as silk.
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The Terminal is simply a way to execute commands and to view the files on your computer. It is very similar to the Graphical User Interface that allows you to click around and shows you icons of files. The Terminal, however, is a text only environment.
The text only environment is a common source of frustration as it can often times be hard to see why a command didn’t work (eg; a typo), or know exactly which directory you’re in, or any number of other new concepts for first time users of the Terminal. Continue reading
The Zend Framework Quickstart guide is a great place to start with the Framework, however it bases the example program on SQLite. As MySQL is the choice of the rest of the world (and even Zend’s own Stack installation), here is the Zend Framework Quickstart done with MySQL.
The PHPUnit Bootstrap is perfect when there is code to be run before tests are executed. The limitation however is there can only be one bootstrap per PHPUnit configuration file.
This is an issue if there are a set of classes that need to be included – we don’t want to manually include every class every test could possibly need.
PHP’s Autoloading feature comes to the rescue, allowing us to seamlessly include classes as they’re required for tests.
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Getting started with a new project shouldn’t be hard.
But, it is.
We have so many different packages to consider and integrate into our development process that it can take quite some time to get setup before we can even start developing.
Here’s one combination of packages I find particularly useful, and will cover setting up here;