Building PHP Projects with Jenkins

It can become quite difficult to keep PHP code structured and clean. There’s a couple of good tools out there (PHP Code Sniffer, PHP Mess Detector, etc) to help you manage it, but it adds a lot of overhead that can bring your productivity down. One way to keep the advantage of checking your code without taking a productivity hit, is using a build system like Jenkins.

Look at this blog post to setup Jenkins and the various tools. There’s also a Jenkins PHP Template that will help a great deal in getting things started.

I’m planning to play around with it, and post updates here about how it goes.