Phing Launcher

Provides a launcher to run Phing without Phing.

Because we want:

• to get and run composer.phar with a Phing command,
• to install Phing dependency with Composer.

I explain the magic trick:

• if the Composer shortcut does not exist, the launcher download the latest Phing phar binary,
• and when the Composer shortcut is created, the launcher will remove the phar binary.

The Composer shortcut can be specified by your configuration or it defaults vendor/bin/phing.

Getting started

1. Modify your composer.json file, to require Phing by Composer:

• add phing/phing dependency to the require section,

"require": {
    "phing/phing": "2.*"
}

• set the bin-dir directory to the config section, if you have to.

"config": {
    "bin-dir": "path/to/bin/directory"
}

2. Download the Phing Launcher script into your project (near composer.json).

curl -sS -O https://bitbucket.org/maxime-pasquier/phing-launcher/raw/master/phing.sh

3. Run the Phing Launcher script instead of Phing.

./phing.sh

Get the classics

You can try the several configurations available into the phing/ directory, like:

• phing/composer.xml provides the complete usage of Composer (including the download),
• phing/phpunit.xml provides a usage of PHPunit,
• phing/symfony.xml provides a usage of Symfony console.

Run the following command to download the classics configurations and the build.xml example file on your project:

./phing.sh get-the-classics