GitHub badges! (PHP repository) - Tutorial with Travis and GitHub

Published Jun 28, 2015

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Disclaimer : If you don’t know what are badges I’d suggest a quick view to https://poser.pugx.org which is a open source project with badges for PHP projects. Also for this post I’m assume you have a experience with GitHub already and know how to commit, push, pull or use GitHub from web interface.

Repository used for this post you can find here. Badges that we’re going to use:

Build Status
Coverage Status
Total Downloads
Latest Stable Version
Latest Unstable Version
License

Final result

Travis CI

First step is go to https://travis-ci.org and click in Sign in with GitHub and Travis will ask you to sign with your GitHub account. Fill the fields Username/Email and Password and click in sign in (Don’t forget to allow Travis in your GitHub account). Now we have to go to our profile in Travis and enable which repository we’re going to build.

If you have any issue doing this follow the step in travis CI website!

.travis.yml

We have to tell Travis which configuration we’re going to use and to do that we use a file called .travis.yml and push it to the root of the repository.

php:
  - 5.3
  - 5.4
  - 5.5
  - 5.6
  - hhvm

before_script:
  - composer install

README.md

The last step to use the Build Badge is update the file README.md in your GitHub repository.

1. click on Build Passing in the left side of your repository name and a modal will appear.

Select which branch you’re going to use
Select Markdown in the select box
Copy the text in the text area
Create a file in your repository called README.md (or just update it if exists) with the copied text in the step 4.

Coveralls

To use coverage badge we’re going to use https://coveralls.io and as we did with Travis we have to allow coveralls in our GitHub account. Go to https://coveralls.io and click in Free GitHub Sign-in. After a successful login click in add repos.

Just like Travis select which one you’re going yo use.

.travis.yml

To use coveralls.io you must have a test suite. Here we’re going to use phpunit to execute our tests. We must update our .travis.yml file to execute our tests and generate coverage in a XML format for coveralls.io.

language: php

php:
  - 5.3
  - 5.4
  - 5.5
  - 5.6
  - hhvm

before_script:
  - composer install

script:
  - mkdir -p build/logs 
  - phpunit --coverage-clover build/logs/clover.xml

after_script:
  - php vendor/bin/coveralls -v

As you can see we add some extra tasks to Travis, just update yours .travis.yml and push it to the repository.

.coveralls.yml

To get coveralls working correctly we should create a file called .coveralls.yml with the following content:

src_dir: .

After that push it to your repository. Otherwise you’ll get an InvalidArgumentException from Travis build:

README.md

Now we have Travis working together with coveralls.io. We need just to update our README.me with the badge.

Go to https://coveralls.io/repos
Select your repository in the list
In the rightmost look at the bottom and find Readme Badge and click on it.
Wen the pop-up shows select the Markdown text
Update your README.md on GitHub with this text

IMPORTANT

To follow the next section, your repository must be hosted at https://packagist.org otherwise it wont work.

Total Downloads, Latest Stable Version, Latest Unstable Version, License

Now we have our two badges(Build with Travis and Code Coverage with Coveralls) in our repository, but we have 4 badges to be done yet. The reason I left those for last is simple: you can find them at https://poser.pugx.org.

Type your repository name in the text box
Select which you want to and select the Markdown text or click in Copy to clipboard
Update your README.md in your repository