A visualization of a year worth of commits to the open source project Lithium: the most rad framework for PHP 5.3
visualization made possible by gource
[lithium](http://lithify.me)
[gource](http://code.google.com/p/gource/)
A brief introduction to the unit testing suite included with Lithium, and how to quickly get started with some test-driven development.
## Transcript
What's happening? This is Jon, also known as pointlessjon, with the Union of Rad.
There were a few people asking how to get started with Unit Testing in Lithium and it's pretty easy to do right out of the box. I'm going to give a brief (relatively brief) walkthrough in how to get started.
I have the contents of the Lithium core dumped into this `lithium_testing` folder and I'm going to get rolling with the default app. I'll open it up in a text editor. And, I'm also going to go into my browser just to make sure I can get to the app. Things are good to go and this default app has the routing setup for tests. I can just go to `test` and it's going to dump me into the Lithium Unit Test Dashboard.
All the included core tests are here on the left. There aren't any app specific tests yet; let's make some.
I'm going to go in the `app` folder.…
A screencast demonstrating how to quickly get up and running with PHP 5.3.1 and MongoDB on Windows 7 and IIS 7 and getting started with Lithium, the most RAD framework for PHP 5.3+.
## Chapters
* 00:00 Intro
* 00:20 IIS
* 02:03 Basic IIS Configuration
* 03:50 PHP
* 08:29 MongoDB
* 12:00 Lithium
[Windows](http://windows.microsoft.com)
[IIS](http://www.microsoft.com/iis)
[Microsoft Web Platform](http://www.microsoft.com/web/Downloads/platform.aspx)
[PHP](http://php.net)
[MongoDB](http://mongodb.org)
[Lithium](http://rad-dev.org/lithium)
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