Integrate WordPhing

[mrdavidlaing]

Not sure about the technology, but some of the targets look good - https://github.com/wycks/WordPhing

Minify Documents Coe standards

[daithi-coombes]

... also install, setup db and import the test data #9 def worth an investigation

[daithi-coombes]

... assigning the investigation to myself if nobody objects

[mrdavidlaing]

The investigation is all yours.

Comparing Phing to Grunt to Rake -> Phing, IMHO Phing definately has the worst syntax by a long shot. With that in mind I recon we should be pulling the targets from WordPhing that work for us, but NOT moving to use Phing.

[sopel]

I strongly agree with @mrdavidlaing's advise to not move to Phing - similarly to the Grunt vs. Rake or else topic just discussed elsewhere, Phing is basically the PHP community rewrite of Ant:

• The project had been in questionable shape for a while when I looked at it first years ago (no wonder, as expected you'll have many problems long solved in the back then mature Ant all over again, and will need to solve them with lesser libraries/tooling at your disposal).
  • This has probably changed with the PHP tooling maturing as well over time, so it could be the right thing for a PHP only project to lower the barriers of entry (see below), but it has no place elsewhere I think.
• Accordingly I had seen absolutely no reason to replace Ant with Phing back then, where the only applicable arguments would have been removing the requirement of a JVM (obviously valid for shared hosting scenarios, which used to come without Java support) and writing new tasks in PHP instead of Java, neither of which applied to my use cases.

[sopel]

To be fair, and as an example for the scenario where using Phing might be appropriate:

By chance I just realized that the build.xml file in use within the excellently engineered AWS SDK for PHP 2, which I considered to be Ant based at first glance a couple of days ago, is in fact Phing based - this nicely shows that I could use my Ant knowledge right away, yet gain easy access to Phing specifics, e.g. for installing dev tools, driving testing, and producing .phar files, so for a strictly PHP only project there are notable gains eventually these days.

[daithi-coombes]

@mrdavidlaing @sopel wont' be able to do a pull request here because i'll be working inside the vm, but just for interest one of the things I'll be phing'ing is the test database, sql dump of which is here: https://github.com/mrdavidlaing/pressupbox-development-boilerplate/blob/test-database/wordpress.sample.sql from issue #4

For this reason I'll be using the test-database branch for commits on using phing, wordphing: https://github.com/mrdavidlaing/pressupbox-development-boilerplate/tree/test-database

[daithi-coombes]

@mrdavidlaing @sopel

cleaning up my old issues. There is one item in word-phing that we may be able to use "phing wp-doc" Runs PHP Documentor 2 - this might help #22 (Integrate automated testing). If all agree think this issue should be closed. Outside of that think wordphing might be dead as a discussion so moving the mention over to issue #22

[mrdavidlaing]

Agreed.