A GitHub Workflow to Check the Compatibility of Your PHP Package with a Range of Dependency Versions

• php-compatibility-demo

  1 0 0.0 PHP

  Example PHP library using a GitHub Actions workflow to check whether the code is compatible with a range of PHP and dependency versions

Here's the file structure you should get at the end of this section (remember that you can also refer to this article's repository at any time for comparison):

• Money

  18 4,520 7.8 PHP

  PHP implementation of Fowler's Money pattern.

  

With that in place, let's talk about our test project for a minute. We are going to build a small library on top of Money, a popular PHP package facilitating the manipulation of monetary values and currencies.

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• checkout

  62 5,203 7.0 TypeScript

  Action for checking out a repo

  

Checkout (GitHub Action)

• setup-php

  31 2,782 8.8 TypeScript

  GitHub action to set up PHP with extensions, php.ini configuration, coverage drivers, and various tools.

Setup PHP (GitHub Action)

• PHPUnit

  47 19,538 9.9 PHP

  The PHP Unit Testing framework.

Let's also instal PHPUnit as a development dependency:

• composer-install

  2 219 5.9 Shell

  :gift: A GitHub Action to streamline installation of PHP dependencies with Composer.

Composer Install (GitHub Action)

• openapi-httpfoundation-testing

  2 81 6.0 PHP

  Validate your HttpFoundation requests and responses against OpenAPI (3+) definitions

But then again, most PHP developers don't have to think about this too much. I personally started to look into compatibility testing more seriously when I created my first open-source library and, later on, when I started exploring building for the console with PHP.

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• Composer

  191 28,225 9.5 PHP

  Dependency Manager for PHP

  

A common aspect of a PHP developer's job is to deal with Composer dependencies. We use the work of others as Lego bricks to build our own projects, making the most of the beautiful thing that is the open-source movement.

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