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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Writing PHPT tests
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

You simply ignored my email or never got it? The correct place for such scripts 
is not in the "root" but in scripts/dev/

--Jani


zoe kirjoitti:
> Hi - for any of you that are writing PHPT tests for existing extensions 
> - I put a PHP script called generate_phpt.php into PHP 5.3 yesterday 
> which might help a little.
> 
> It's quite a simple command line script (Raghu and I wrote it last 
> year), it works by looking at the {{{proto line for a function in PHP 
> source code and construct a test case frame from it. It can be used to 
> construct very simple tests cases - or to turn an existing PHP file into 
> PHPT format. It doesn't try and guess what the results of a test should 
> be :-). I will document it properly on qa.php.net later. In the meantime:
> 
> php generate_phpt.php --help
> 
> tells you what it's supposed to do.
> 
> Zoe
> 
> PS - It doesn't work for PHP6 right now because the {{{proto line is 
> different.
>