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Building on the Introduction to Doctrine 1.2 video, this video will show how you can easily test the persistence of Doctrine models within the Zend_Test environment.

I also touch briefly on how to setup the latest version of MAMP with phpunit.

Edit: I spoke to Guilherme Blanco (one of the core developers behind Doctrine) and he kindly brought up some things I should bear in mind for my Doctrine / Zend set.
Doctrine’s autoloader configuration can be scaled back by doing PEAR style Model Loading (new to 1.2). Also, you can use Doctrine_Core instead of Doctrine since everything has been moved to Doctrine_Core in order to follow Zend-style namespacing.

lastly, you can register your own CLI tasks as part of Doctrine’s CLI script or just write them in the scripts/doctrine.php file. With this, you could have your newly-generated models placed in the necessary folders. I’ll be experimenting with this in the coming week.

Enjoy!
 

This video tutorial is going to look at how we can build a simple authentication mechanism with Zend_Acl with complete unit test coverage. I wouldn’t say that this is entirely the Zend way of doing things since we’re not using Zend_Auth, however it would be relatively trivial to create a Zend_Auth Adapter for each of the lookup objects that we’re going to write. Lately I’ve been trying to stay disciplined about how I’m writing unit tests and so I figure this should translate into what I’m teaching. I inadvertently covered using reflection in a refactoring job. When you browse the source code, you’ll see that there’s even more potential for refactoring outside the video with the application of an interface.
 

I have to preface this video by saying that I’m still a bit of a novice when it comes to unit testing (especially in Zend). Also, I feel that I wouldn’t be able to take credit for the whole implementation.

Here are some great resources on unit testing in the Zend Framework to beef up your knowledge.

• Set up a Zend Framework application using Zend_Application (including PHPUnit setup)
• Testing Zend Framework MVC Applications – phly, boy, phly
• Matthew’s pastebin

The trouble with these is that they’re mostly pre-1.8. I’ve taken the approach of using a command line instead of the IDE since this way it doesn’t matter if you’re using Zend Studio for Eclipse.

What’s covered:

• Using phpunit with MAMP
• Unit Testing Models
• Generating Code Coverage Reports
• Unit Testing Controllers

Don’t forget to grab the source code or browse it on google code.