rimote/updater

Update utility that can be called by a deployment script, able to perform installation specific configuration, database updates and/or rollbacks.

Updater

PHP command line utility that can be called by a deployment script, able to perform installation specific configuration, database updates and/or rollbacks., _(*1)

It performs the following tasks:, _(*2)

• Perform database operations using PDO, required to update and/or rollback the database of a project's installation to a newer version

In the future the following tasks will be supported:, _(*3)

• Process custom PHP update scripts
• Rollback/update multiple versions in a chain
• Surgical rollback by keeping track of the individual steps in an update that failed

Config

Update packages

Updater expects you to provide a version number as well as a path to a local directory with update packages. Each update package is a subdirectory containing a credentials file, as well as SQL schemas for updating and/or rollbacking the database., _(*4)

For example:, _(*5)

updates
 |
 \--- 1.2.0 
 |      |
 |      \--- db_credentials.php
 |      \--- db_changes.sql
 |      \--- db_rollback.sql
 \--- 1.2.1
 |     |
 |     \--- db_credentials.php
 |     \--- db_changes.sql
 |     \--- db_rollback.sql
etc...

The SQL files must contain fully formed SQL commands that PHP's PDO::query() method can execute independently, one at a time., _(*6)

The db_credentials.php needs to return an array like so:, _(*7)

return array(
    'dsn' => 'mysql:dbname=database_name;host=hostname',
    'username' => 'username',
    'password' => 'password'
);

Install PHP composer

You can download Composer using:, _(*8)

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

This will install a composer.phar script in the current directory. This file can be added to .gitignore, so you can keep it locally., _(*9)

Usage

Run the app from the command line using app/console. Use the following to see a list of commands:, _(*10)

$ app/console list

Run update

$ app/console update <version_number> <path/to/updates/directory>

Perform rollback

$ app/console rollback <version_number> <path/to/updates/directory>

Developer Guide

Dependencies

This project requires PHP 5.3+. All external libraries can be installed using Composer:, _(*11)

$ php composer.phar install # Install all dependencies to your machine

Remember to periodically run the following command to update vendor software:, _(*12)

$ php composer.phar update

Tests

Run the tests using PHPUnit:, _(*13)

$ phpunit

Generate code coverage HTML:, _(*14)

$ phpunit --coverage-html ./phpunit-reports

Troubleshooting

Updated whenever problems and solutions arise., _(*15)