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silinternational/yii2-codeception
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Patches to implement nice features of yii2-codeception since it was abandoned

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yii2-codeception
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[](#yii2-codeception)

Patches to implement nice features of yii2-codeception since it was abandoned

What / Why
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[](#what--why)

We've been developing with Yii2 for a couple years now and have several projects using the [yiisoft/yii2-codeception](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-codeception) library for unit tests.
This library has been deprecated in favor of using a [Codeception module](https://github.com/Codeception/Codeception/blob/2.2/docs/modules/Yii2.md).

Unfortunately this module requires quite a bit of refactoring to run tests in a simlar way as `yii2-codeception` allowed.

After a few hours of tracing and debugging we figured out that two main things had changed that we depended on and so we decided to create a standalone repo to bring in the needed features.

Loading fixtures into database
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[](#loading-fixtures-into-database)

The first thing we found was that after reconfiguring Codeception to use the Yii2 module, to look like:

```
# Codeception Test Suite Configuration

# suite for unit (internal) tests.
class_name: UnitTester
modules:
    enabled:
      - Asserts
      - UnitHelper
      - Yii2:
          configFile: 'tests/codeception/config/unit.php'
          cleanup: true
```

Running tests it was unable to load the fixtures due to foreign key constraints. We created a new base class for our active record classes that `beforeLoad` and `afterLoad` it will disable and enable foreign key constraints respectively.

This new base class is `Sil\yii\test\ActiveFixture`. To use, simply update your fixture files to extend from it instead of the previous `yii\test\ActiveFixture` class.

### Example fixtures class

[](#example-fixtures-class)

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