Installing Subversion on OpenSuse and Plesk 9

Subversion (SVN) is an open source version control system. It allows users to keep track of changes made over time to any type of electronic data. Typical uses are versioning source code, web pages or design documents.

I now host my own private subversion at http://svn.waltercedric.com

A required step to be able to build some small project and finish the prototype of Continuous build for Joomla!

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My 2 first Joomla! component in continuous build

Status/Done

• Build with Maven For PHP in TeamCity
• SVN repository at http://joomlacode.org/svn/com_securityi1/trunk/ and http://joomlacode.org/svn/com_akobookplus/trunk/
• Totally independent of continuous build server (Thanks to MAVEN), so Hudson, Bamboo and Cruise Control are SUPPORTED.

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When Joomla! meet Maven for PHP

  I will quickly describe in this post how you can code your component/plugins/modules against a specific version of Joomla! with no effort using Maven for PHP.

The trick I made is to package the whole Joomla distribution in a jar file, and add a Maven dependency to the project. As Joomla, PHPUnit, or any other 3rd party is not a set of class packaged in a jar, the brilliant idea of Maven for PHP is to unpack all these dependencies in the target/phpinc directory automatically AND concatenating this directory to the php setting include_path during compile and test phase. You can do the same using the command line by running:

php -d include_path=

That’s also why, It is very important to not put anything from this directory under version control (add a cvs.ignore or svn properties svn:ignore) as it contains dependencies that have no reason to be put under version control in Maven paradigm (they have to reside in a Maven repository)

So I create a new zip file joomla-1.5.10.jar with a directory inside named ‘Joomla’ that contains a standard binary distribution…this jar is published in artifactory with a groupid org.joomla (arbitrary chosen by me)

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Configuring TeamCity, Maven for PHP for Joomla continuous build

Maven for PHP uses the power of Maven for building, reporting on and creating documentations of PHP projects. It adapts the Maven build lifecycle to the PHP world while fully supporting PHP 4 and PHP 5. PHP for Maven uses PHPUnit for unit testing and doxygen for creating the api documentation.
Use a PHP library project to create a library that can be used by other PHP libraries or PHP web projects. Use a PHP web project to create a standalone web project.

So I quickly describe what I did install on my root server (OpenSuse 11.X)

• Maven 2 
• php not an issue on a linux box, zypper in php5 or apt-get  to install php
• doxygen
• phpdocumentor

My Objectives: being able to build all my Joomla! component using best agile development practices

“Specific tools and techniques such as continuous integration, automated or xUnit test, pair programming, test driven development, design patterns, domain-driven design, code refactoring and other techniques are often used to improve quality and enhance project agility.”

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