This repository is not maintained anymore and will not be updated to Elementary OS 6.0. You have my blessing to create a fork and update the application to post publish it in Elementary 6.0 under your own name.

Test your PHP code easily

A Vala application to test PHP snippets without having to start a server.

First you will need to install elementary SDK

sudo apt install elementary-sdk

These dependencies must be present before building

• valac
• gtk+-3.0
• granite
• gtksourceview-3.0

You can install these on a Ubuntu-based system by executing this command:

sudo apt install valac libgtk-3-dev libgranite-dev gtksourceview-3.0

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

sudo ninja install

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Call the following command from the build folder:

ninja com.github.bartzaalberg.php-tester-pot

Unfortunately XAMPP puts PHP in a location that PHP Tester cannot reach. As a workaround you can create a symlink to the default location. Set the PHP path back to /usr/bin from the applicatoin and run the following command.

sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/bin/php /usr/bin/php