How can I provide credentials to PHPUnit tests

Question

I have an API classes library, but testing it requires API key. Of course the key is not public and there is my question. How can I provide credentials to PHPUnit configuration, so everyone could run the tests? Does PHPUnit allow to pass options via command line?

Answer 1

You could set an environment variable before running the tests, then retrieve it in your tests using getenv . For example:

#!/bin/bash
API_KEY=secretapikey
phpunit <parameters>

Then in your PHP files:

$apiKey = getenv('API_KEY');

Answer 2

Might have a look at the '-d' option to PhpUnit it's meant to set php.ini option but you can read that with a simple $setting = ini_get('my_setting'); in setup(). Here's the link for the page in the manual for PhpUnit and for PHP .