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adriansuter/php-autoload-override
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Override global scoped fully qualified function calls inside your class methods in order to be able to mock them during testing.

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PHP-Autoload-Override
=====================

[](#php-autoload-override)

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This library allows overriding fully qualified function calls inside your class methods in order to be able to mock them during testing.

**NOTE: The library can be used for other scenarios as well. But we recommend using it for testing purposes only.**

[PHP-Autoload-Override Website](https://adriansuter.github.io/php-autoload-override/)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.2 or later
- Composer with PSR-4 (PSR-0 is not supported)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer require --dev adriansuter/php-autoload-override 2.0
```

Usage with [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de/)
-----------------------------------------

[](#usage-with-phpunit)

Say we want to unit test the following class `Probability`.

```
namespace My\App;

class Probability
{
    public function pick(int $probability, string $color1, string $color2): string
    {
        if (\rand(1, 100)  [
        'rand' => function ($min, $max): int {
            if (isset($GLOBALS['rand_return'])) {
                return $GLOBALS['rand_return'];
            }

            return \rand($min, $max);
        }
    ]
]);
```

Now the class `Probability` would be loaded into the PHPUnit runtime such that all function calls to the global scoped `rand()` function in the class `Probability` get overridden by the closure given above.

Our test class can now be written as follows.

```
namespace My\App\Tests;

use My\App\Probability;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

final class ProbabilityTest extends TestCase
{
    protected function tearDown()
    {
        if (isset($GLOBALS['rand_return'])) {
            unset($GLOBALS['rand_return']);
        }
    }

    public function testPick()
    {
        $p = new Probability();

        $GLOBALS['rand_return'] = 35;

        $this->assertEquals('blue', $p->pick(34, 'red', 'blue'));
        $this->assertEquals('red', $p->pick(35, 'red', 'blue'));
    }
}
```

The test case `testPick` would call the `pick` method two times. As we have overridden the `\rand` function, we can control its returned value to be always 35. So the first call checks, if the `else`-block gets executed. The second one checks, if the `if`-block gets executed. Hooray, 100% code coverage.

Note that this override would only be applied during the unit tests.

Learn More
----------

[](#learn-more)

- [PHP-Autoload-Override Website](https://adriansuter.github.io/php-autoload-override/)

License
-------

[](#license)

The PHP-Autoload-Override library is licensed under the MIT license. See [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

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Maintenance69

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity40

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity77

Established project with proven stability

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Total

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Last Release

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Major Versions

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1.5 → 2.02025-01-24

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