@phpdublin Who am I? Ken Guest https://about.me/kenguest Twitter @kenguest Web Developer at the Irish Times PEAR guy Services_OpenStreetMap 15 years of developing projects in PHP. 

And what is Phing? PHing Is Not Gnu make https://www.phing.info/ A cross platform build tool written in PHP. Automation. Gear yourself for efficiency. DRY v WET. @phpdublin 

And what can Phing do? Lint your code (php, javascript, xml) Run unit tests: phpunit, simpletest, behat Codesniffer Copy and Mess detectors Optimise images Minify javascript/css Transfer files (rsync, ftp, scp) Database migrations (dbdeploy, pdosqlexec) Modify ini files natively Git, SVN tasks Etc And it's in PHP? Yes. You can create custom tasks. @phpdublin 

What projects use it? joind.in OpenDAM (Digital Asset Management - https://github.com/martin-wikipixel/openDAM) Semantic Scuttle (social bookmarking) And many others https://github.com/reload/phing-drupal-template How to use it? From phpStorm, TextMate or NetBeans 8.1 From command line From Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Travis etc @phpdublin 

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Obligatory Hello World example: Hello @phpdublin 

@phpdublin Example with Dependencies: Banner Hello $ phing banner $ phing hello $ phing 

@phpdublin Native Tasks Hello..? Hello 

@phpdublin Something more meaty: 

@phpdublin Native Tasks v 'Exec' Compared to Tonnes others: https://www.phing.info/docs/guide/trunk/ 

@phpdublin Adhoc Tasks filename = $filename; } function main() { $this->log("Createusers: " . $this->filename); $serialised = file_get_contents($this->filename); $users = unserialize($serialised); foreach($users as $userRow) { // Do something useful... $this->log(implode($output)); } } } ]]> 

@phpdublin Custom Tasks Different to AdHoc in that they reside outside of XML file. tasks/inifile/IniFileSet.php tasks/inifile/IniFileTask.php tasks/inifile/IniFileConfig.php tasks/inifile/IniFileRemove.php tasks/NotifySendTask.php 

@phpdublin Questions? https://joind.in/14690