phpunit command doesn't work for laravel 4 on windows 7

Question

I've recently installed laravel and have written some tests in /tests directory but when I use phpunit at cmd in the same folder that phpunit.xml exists, it says 'phpunit' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.. I'm using windows 7. what should I do?

Solution 1

The solution for me:

php vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

This, of course, assumes you've set up a php environment variable in Windows

Solution 2

As Unnawut said, it doesn't work because vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit is not a native Windows executable. You need a .bat or .cmd file that will basically call 'php phpunit'. There should be one in vendor/bin, but to make life easy, try this - create a file phpunit.bat (or .cmd) at the root of your site, containing this:

@ECHO OFF
SET BIN_TARGET=%~dp0/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit
php "%BIN_TARGET%" %*

Now you can call phpunit from the command line at the root of the site.

Solution 3

If you are a window user and you are having this issue, do this:

You need to tell Window where to find PHPUnit command, you can first of all verify that this file exists in your Laravel project under /vendor/bin

Finally you need to append the full path to /vendor/bin in your window PATH variable,

To do this: 1. Right-click on 'Computer' then click properties

2. On the second window click Advanced system settings

3. On the next window under Advanced click Environmental Variables

4. On the next window double-click PATH then set PATH variable by appending

the full path to your laravel-project/vendor/bin; Notice the ; at the end.

NB: Other variables might already exists in the PATH, so ensure you don't overwrite them by appending your own at the very end

5. Finally click Ok on all the dialog boxes

Solution 4

alias phpunit="vendor/bin/phpunit"

Solution 5

I added this command in command line instead of just "phpunit"

vendor\bin\phpunit

That worked for me.

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Comments

[Ramin Omrani]

Yes I mean installed it

[Rahil Wazir]

Did you set the environmental variable?

[Ramin Omrani]

Environment variables for what?

[Rahil Wazir]

To be able to run commands with phpunit. It was working before?

[Ramin Omrani]

no it wasn't , so you mean I should add the phpunit executable to PATH yeah?

[Rahil Wazir]

Big yes! If it isn't already. Try echo %PATH% in cmd and see the output contain phpunit

[Unnawut]

composer update and after that do vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit from the folder you have phpunit.xml

[Unnawut]

Oh well I guess that's as far as I could help. Good luck!

[Blue]

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[Sajidur Rahman]

Thanks for detailed explanation. Solves my problem.

[Mark Walet]

It wasn't saying that. The error message was something else

[vimuth]

I explained a bit more :)

[Arno van Oordt]

Or you can add ./vendor/bin to the PATH environment variable. This way you can just call phpunit from any Laravel root folder.

[Crazy World]

@ArnovanOordtPlease submit your comment as an answer to this question. It easy to implement, is permanent and has global scope. It is the best answer here and deserves it's own post.