How should I store database connection information for my unit tests?

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I have a series of PHPUnit tests that will need to connect to a database. I would like to avoid hardcoding a specific database/username/password into each unit test. How can they share this information?

Right now I am setting these as key/value pairs in the $GLOBALS array in my PHPUnit bootstrap file. Should they be somewhere else?

Gidon Wise · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-23 17:54:00Z

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you can put them in the %ENV

export DB_PASS=foo
export DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
export DB_USER=bar

or you can have a config file outside of your repository.

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Leif · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-23 17:54:18Z

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$GLOBALS is quite dirty. You could use constants or derive the unit tests from a class that has the connection data as properties.

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