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Asked: 2026-05-14T03:39:49+00:00

I’m doing PHP development and I’m thinking of using one of these. I have

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I’m doing PHP development and I’m thinking of using one of these. I have both PHP and Java installed on my machine. In theory I could use any of the two.

What are the compelling arguments to pick Phing over Ant?

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    The greatest argument I have in favor of Phing is that it’s fully developed in PHP ; which means, at least :

    • You can debug it / submit patches if you want
    • You can develop tasks in PHP
      • including tasks which are specific to your project
      • that can use stuff from your project (I’ve written a couple of tasks that use functions of Drupal, in a drupal-based project)
      • And, if you are working on a PHP project, your team probably knows PHP well — while they might not know Java
    • No need to install Java on your servers
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