Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
46 lines (32 loc) · 2.4 KB

FAQ.md

File metadata and controls

46 lines (32 loc) · 2.4 KB
Raw

Frequently Asked questions

How to write "atoum"? "ATOUM"? "Atoum"?

The official name is "atoum".

How to contribute to atoum?

Just send an email to team@atoum.org to say that you want to contribute to atoum. Moreover, you should read the CONTRIBUTING.md file about coding convention.

Why some classes has name *\phpClass instead of *\class?

The word class is reserved by PHP, so it's not possible to use this name for a class. In this case, the atoum convention is to prefix name with word php.

Where is the documentation?

There is an english and a french documentation available. As a documentation is a continual work in progress, you're welcome to help us to improve it. Moreover, atoum's unit test is the documentation. You find them in the tests/ directory.

Why php atoum.phar does not works?

Here are some known issues :

  • Try a php -n atoum.phar in a terminal.
    • If it works, the problem is in your PHP configuration.
  • Try to remove ioncube extension, which seems not compatible with atoum.
  • If you use suhosin, you can also add suhosin.executor.include.whitelist="phar" to your php.ini.
  • Try to add detect_unicode=0 in your php.ini.

What can i do to avoid error about __COMPILER_HALT_OFFSET__?

Use only require_once to include atoum.phar in your scripts.

Why I get a fail message when testing a class that uses APC?

APC is "a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code" distributed under the form of a PHP extension. When testing classes that use APC, you may get some failure messages showing that apc_fetch is unable to retrieve a value. As all PHP extension, APC has some configuration options to enable it:

  • apc.enabled, whether to enable or disable APC,
  • apc.enable_cli, whether to enable or disable APC for PHP CLI.

Setting apc.enabled to 1 in your CLI configuration does not do the trick: to avoid these failure messages, you have to set the apc.enable_cli option to 1, otherwise, the extension won't be enabled for the PHP CLI version, which is used by atoum.

Why ABOUT does not use markdown syntax?

This file is used by PHAR to display useful information to the user in CLI, so using markdown in it is a bad idea.