Question

I am trying to use Behat for BDD testing. When running a build on Jenkins, I would like Behat to open PHP’s build in web server and then close it after running the tests. How to do that?

Basically I need to run:

php -S localhost:8000

In my BDD tests I tried:

/**
 * @Given /^I call "([^"]*)" with email and password$/
 */
public function iCallWithPostData($uri)
{
    echo exec('php -S localhost:8000');
    $client = new Guzzle\Service\Client();
    $request = $client->post('http://localhost:8000' . $uri, array(), '{"email":"a","password":"a"}')->send();
    $this->response = $request->getBody(true);
}

But then when running Behat it gets stuck without any message.

Answer 1

Solved this myself. I have create two methods. I call the first one before running my BDD tests and the second one after I ran the tests:

private function _startDevelopmentServer($pidfile)
{
    $cmd = 'cd ../../public && php -S 127.0.0.1:8027 index.php';
    $outputfile = '/dev/null';
    shell_exec(sprintf("%s > %s 2>&1 & echo $! >> %s", $cmd, $outputfile, $pidfile));
    sleep(1);
}

private function _killDevelopmentServer($pidfile)
{
    if (file_exists($pidfile)) {
        $pids = file($pidfile);
        foreach ($pids as $pid) {
            shell_exec('kill -9 ' . $pid);
        }
        unlink($pidfile);
    }
}