Question

I have to build an application using Maven for PHP that has multiple modules. The scenario in which the maven seems to not work is this: I have a common module and a client module depending on the first one.
When doing “mvn test” on the client module which depends on the common module, the test fails to see the paths to the common module. Is there a flow in my build or this is just not possible?

I attached my pom.xml files.

pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.sample</groupId>
    <artifactId>my-app_package</artifactId>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <name>Sample PHP Maven multi module project</name>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <modules>
        <module>common-module</module>
        <module>client1-module</module>
    </modules>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.phpmaven</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-php-plugin</artifactId>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <version>1.0</version>              
                <configuration>
                    <ignoreValidate>true</ignoreValidate>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.phpunit</groupId>
            <artifactId>phpunit5</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.9</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
<reporting>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.phpmaven</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-php-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
            <reportSets>
                <reportSet>
                    <reports>
                        <report>report-only</report>
                    </reports>
                </reportSet>
            </reportSets>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</reporting>
</project>

common-module/pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.sample</groupId>
    <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
    <packaging>php</packaging>
    <name>Client1 module</name>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.phpmaven</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-php-plugin</artifactId>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <version>1.0</version>              
                <configuration>
                    <ignoreValidate>true</ignoreValidate>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.sample</groupId>
            <artifactId>common-module</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.phpunit</groupId>
            <artifactId>phpunit5</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.9</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

common-module/pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.sample</groupId>
    <artifactId>common-module</artifactId>
    <packaging>php</packaging>
    <name>Common module</name>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.phpmaven</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-php-plugin</artifactId>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <version>1.0</version>              
                <configuration>
                    <ignoreValidate>true</ignoreValidate>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.phpunit</groupId>
            <artifactId>phpunit5</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.9</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

Answer 1

It works, you just need to install your dependency module BEFORE trying to build a module that depends on that module. Or else it won’t find it.