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$Id: README,v 1.1 1998/08/23 12:20:38 rocky Exp $
PHP Regression Tests -- Revised programs and format
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These regression tests assume that the phtml files found in the 
subdirectories below are available to the php3-aware HTTP server
that is to be tested. It helps also to preserve the directory
structure of the test files as is given in this directory too.

Someday you may be able to simply type something like "testmenu" or
"testall" to run the tests. For now, you'd have to copy and modify
these programs from the "test" directory to suit your needs.

The testphp.pl program runs individual tests. For a list of options
run "testphp.pl --help"

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How to write your own regression tests and to test your scripts.

First create your phtml file that does the operation and testing
you want to do. The phtml can even have syntax errors or have runtime
errors. But you need to verify that the output it gives is the correct
output as this will be checked against a test-control file.
  
The format of a test-control (.php3t) file is fairly simple.  There
are a number of sections.  TITLE, POST, URL, HEAD and EXPECT.
Each section indicated between by putting --'s around the section name, 
e.g. --HEAD--.

  The TITLE section can contain a number of lines and merely describes the 
  name of the test. It is not used in validation, but is manditory.
  It is printed before the test is run. It can be
  several lines long.

  The URL section gives the name of the test to run, and is manditory
  unless the command-line option --url is specified. If there are any
  GET parameters to pass along, it would be done here. 

  The servername, port and an optional prefix are all prepended 
  to the URL. Only the first line after --URL-- is used. Subsequent
  lines are tacitly ignored. 

  The POST section is optional, but if given, a POST method will be used.
  It is followed by a number of lines, possibly empty which contain
  the POST data to send along to the HTTP server.

  If there is no POST section, only a GET method will be used.

  Note that both the POST section and the parameter part of the URL section
  need to have their data in url-encoded format.  

  The HEAD section is optional, but if given the header from the
  HTTP server will be checked againt the perl pattern that is in 
  this section.

  The EXPECT section contains the desired output to check against. The
  section is manditory, although there my be no lines (no output).

A simple example which takes one argument through the POST method
and one through the GET and displays these would be:

Here is a complete test file which uses the GET method but sends 
no data.

  --TITLE--
  Trivial 'Hello World' test                                    ...
  --URL--
  basic/001.phtml
  --EXPECT--
  Hello World

Many more examples can be found in the directories below this.