Federico Cargnelutti

Phing is a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.

If you find yourself writing custom scripts to handle the packaging, deploying, or testing of your applications, then we suggest looking at the Phing framework. Phing can comes with numerous out-of-the-box operation modules (“tasks”), and an easy-to-use OO model for adding your own custom tasks.

Visit the Phing Homepage for downloads and documentation.

Tutorials

• Phing: User Guide
• Using Phing to automate the generation of class skeletons for the Zend Framework
• Using Phing to create and seed databases
• Simple database migrations with Phing and DbDeploy
• Phing: Building in PHP
• Continuous integration with PHP