php-vcr/php-vcr

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PHP-VCR is a PHP port of Ruby's VCR library that records a test suite's HTTP interactions to cassette files and replays them in future test runs. It intercepts requests from common PHP HTTP clients (curl, streams, SoapClient, Guzzle) to make tests fast, deterministic, and offline-capable.

Use cases

• record and replay http interactions in php tests
• make phpunit tests deterministic without live api calls
• mock soap api responses in tests
• test rest clients offline
• speed up test suite by avoiding real http requests
• configure request matching for recorded http responses

When to choose

• your PHP tests hit external HTTP APIs and you want fast, repeatable runs
• you need recorded fixtures for Guzzle, curl, or SoapClient interactions
• you want configurable request matching and record modes like Ruby's VCR

When to avoid

• you need monkey-patch-free mocking in a language other than PHP
• you only test code that never makes HTTP requests
• you prefer modern contract-testing or mock-server approaches over recorded cassettes

Facets

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testing mocking http-client testing developer-tools apis php cli http-mocking vcr cassettes phpunit record-and-replay guzzle soap deterministic-tests

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