I've run into a bit of trouble between the Zend Framework autoloader
(Zend::loadClass) when trying to work with PHPUnit 3.0
The problem that I was trying to solve was to load PHPUnit after I'd enabled
the Zend Framework class autoloader
function __autoload($classname) {
Zend::loadClass($classname);
}
In an attempt to use PHPUnit with the autoloader, I've simply added
/usr/share/php to my include path where the PEAR-managed package has been
installed. Upon extending a PHPUnit class (PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase) to
create a unit test, the framework attempts to autoload all the requisites.
In the process it ends up trying to load PHPUnit_Framework_SelfDescribing
which is an interface. The framework ends up throwing an exception in
loadClass because it included the file PHPUnit/Framework/SelfDiscovery.php
but cannot detect the class after loading it.
So, in an attempt to
However, what actually happens is that PHPUnit/Framework/SelfDiscovery.php
does the following:
if (!interface_exists('PHPUnit_Framework_SelfDescribing')) {
interface PHPUnit_Framework_SelfDescribing {
...
}
}
The problem might be immediately apparent, the interface_exists function
isn't passed the optional second parameter to disable autoloading. It
should have a second parameter 'false' to make sure the autoloader isn't
instantiated again.
The question that I have is whether there are alternate suggestions for
avoiding this other than changing the PHPUnit source (which I'll also be
proposing).
Thanks,
David
