Install PHPUnit 3.5.x without pear

Question

Since the phpunit channel was shut down in 2014, I am looking for a way to install phpunit version 3.5.x without pear. The only answers that I have found explain how to use it with composer, but version 3.5.x does not exist as a composer package.

I do have the 3.5.10 source code for PHPUnit, but I am struggling on how to install it so that I can use it as a command line tool.

Answer 1

PHPUnit 3.7 was the first version to support Composer and PHAR. With PHPUnit 3.5 you are out of luck.

Answer 2

I use phpunit 4.8.* it supports composer and is very easy to install it. Using netbeans makes it even more easy because netbeans creates tests for you.

Put the following lines in the composer.json

"require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit-skeleton-generator": "*",
    "phpunit/phpunit": "4.8.*"
},

Now update the composer via command and it will install. Using git it will be something like this.

composer update
composer install

To get the composer.phar

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Now configure phpunit and you're good to go.