If you find yourself writing custom scripts to handle the packaging, deploying, or testing of your applications, then we suggest looking at the Phing framework. Phing can comes with numerous out-of-the-box operation modules (tasks), and an easy-to-use OO model for adding your own custom tasks.
Phing provides the following features:
- Simple XML buildfiles
- Rich set of provided tasks
- Easily extendable via PHP classes
- Platform-independent: works on UNIX, Windows, MacOSX
- No required external dependencies
- Built & optimized for ZendEngine2/PHP5
