karmabunny / visor
A supervisor for PHP-CLI servers
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Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^9.5
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Last update: 2025-10-13 07:29:10 UTC
README
This is a small utility to wrap the built-in PHP cli-server feature.
There are two three parts to this library:
- 
An abstract 'server' instance that will manage the lifecycle of any cli-server compatible script. 
- 
An 'echo server' implementation that, uh, echos. What you say at it, it says back. 
- 
A 'mock server' implementation that will reply with defined responses. 
Install
Using Composer:
composer require karmabunny/visor
Usage
This is ideal for creating small integration tests with a local application or creating mock servers and testing HTTP libraries.
Server Instance
use karmabunny\visor\Server; use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase; /** * The application bootstrap is found at: 'index.php'. This must be capable * of accepting cli-server requests. */ class MyServer extends Server { protected function getTargetScript(): string { return __DIR__ . '/index.php'; } } class MyServerTest extends TestCase { public function testThings() { // This create a server at localhost:8080 $server = MyServer::create(); // One can then perform tests against the application. $res = file_get_contents($server->getHostUrl() . '/health'); $this->assertEquals('ok', $res); } }
Echo Server
use karmabunny\visor\EchoServer; use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase; class ClientTest extends TestCase { public function testThings() { // This creates an echo server at localhost:8080 $server = EchoServer::create(); // Imagine this to be some kind of client that hits a remote // server of sorts. $res = file_get_contents($server->getHostUrl() . '/hello?test=123'); // Not only is 'res' a JSON body of the payload, the payload is // also accessible from the the server instance. $payload = $server->getLatestPayload(); $this->assertEquals('/hello', $payload['path']); $this->assertEquals(['test' => '123'], $payload['query']); } }
Mock Server
use karmabunny\visor\MockServer; use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase; class FakeTest extends TestCase { public function testThings() { // This creates a mock server at localhost:8080 $server = MockServer::create(); $server->setMock('/mock-this', [], 'a fake response'); $res = file_get_contents($server->getHostUrl() . '/mock-this'); $payload = $server->getLatestPayload(); $this->assertEquals('/mock-this', $payload['path']); $this->assertEquals('a fake response', $res); } }
Config
| name | - | default | 
|---|---|---|
| host | a binding address | localhost | 
| port | HTTP port number | 8080 | 
| wait | pause until the server is ready (milliseconds) | 100 | 
| path | working directory of the server | - | 
By default the log file path is randomised in a temporary system directory.
Log files
The server emit a log file to aid testing and debugging.
This includes logs from the server process, the application, and visor itself.
Server that extend the base class can use Server::log(). Applications can use the native error_log().
Mock + Echo Server
The included implementations will log additional data also.
- latest.jsonis the request payload stored for introspection. Used by- getLastPayload().
- mocks.jsonis a store of response objects for the mock server.
Echo (+ Mock) payloads
Both Mock and Echo servers store the request object in a specific format.
Note that the body is unchanged, if you've sent a JSON or URL payload this will be 'as is' in it's encoded string form.
- path- the request path, without the query string
- query- an key-value array, from- parse_str()
- method- always uppercase
- headers- key-value pairs, keys are lowercase
- body- string body, from- php://input
The JSON-encoded log file looks like this:
{
    "path": "/hello-world.json",
    "query": {
        "rando1": "7bb1166f0cf451cc3eb4cbb977ad932f674aac6c"
    },
    "method": "POST",
    "headers": {
        "host": "localhost:8080",
        "connection": "close",
        "content-length": "53",
        "content-type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": "{\"rando2\":\"267f3bf70d8939c2c7e77d1f8ea164e1df071bba\"}"
}