Apache ANT – Phing Project Website

PHing Is Not GNU make; it’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template … Continue reading Apache ANT – Phing Project Website

Improve Your Build Process with Ant

Web applications today are much more complex beasts than they were even just a few years ago. The largest sites may constitute thousands of files with complex directory structures, and migrating those between development, staging, and production environments can be difficult to say the least. My own experience with web applications dates back to 1996. While I’ve seen a lot of changes over the years, … Continue reading Improve Your Build Process with Ant