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Asked: 2026-05-20T17:49:25+00:00

I’m brand new to phpunit testing. Can anyone help me on how to test

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I’m brand new to phpunit testing. Can anyone help me on how to test the lines below in the image.

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So far my test is:

public function testCanSendEmail()
{
    $formData = array(
        'subject'   => 'test subject',
        'email'     => 'test@mail.com',
        'message'   => 'test message',
        'name'      => 'test name');

    $this->request
        ->setMethod('POST')
        ->setPost($formData);
    $this->dispatch('/contact');
    $this->assertAction('win');

I was under the impression that if the validation succeeded it would follow through the whole action? Can anyone please explain what is happening here, and also what a correct test would be for such an action.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The obvious explanation is that $form->isValid returns FALSE.

    The coverage report shows that the if block for a valid form never got executed. Instead, the else block was executed. The thing you need to find out is why and eliminate the cause. Use a Debugger and step through the execution flow to see what happens at runtime.

    As an alternative, you can stub the contact form to return TRUE. Because the form is hardcoded into the controller action, have a look at http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/885-Stubbing-Hard-Coded-Dependencies.html on how to do that.

    Yet another alternative: make the code to send the contact form into a Service Layer to allow testing this without having to make an actual request.

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