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PHP Getting Started with PHP Unit Testing Testing Existing Projects Getting to 100%

Cristina Rosales
Cristina Rosales
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Posted by Cristina Rosales
Cristina Rosales
10,929 Points

I feel like you just pulled this out of thin air...

How does this:

function canCallRecipeDirectly() { $recipe = new Recipe(); $this->assertStringContainsString( 'The following methods are available', $recipe );

}

actually work? I feel like I'm in a magic show. :/

1 Answer

dianeloux
dianeloux
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dianeloux
dianeloux
8,203 Points

Yes, Magic! As in Magic Function See: this article .

The assertStringContainsString function is looking for a string in the haystack argument and by passing it an object instead the magic function will automatically get called to convert it to a string (see the Recipe class implementation of __toString)

Note that this will not work if the following is set: declare(strict_types=1); I had this set at the top of the file and got an error.