RequestsToCodeIgniter.md

Requests to CodeIgniter

Writing tests for CodeIgniter 3.0 application has troublesome. Because CodeIgniter has some code which is untestable or difficult to test.

This is request list for CodeIgniter 3.x.

Bootstrap file for PHPUnit

core/CodeIgniter.php calls a controller. We need bootstrap file which does not call controllers for testing.

Functions which don't call exit()

• redirect()
• show_error()
• show_404()

exit() stops phpunit. We hope they throw exceptions.

Output class has status code

If so, we can test the status code.

Output class has cookie data

If so, we can test the cookie data.

Input class has no static variables in methods

We can't reset the static variable below. It makes difficult to run another test using headers.

    public function get_request_header($index, $xss_clean = FALSE)
    {
        static $headers;
        ...

Way to reset CodeIgniter object

To test singleton, we need a method to reset it.