tldr/pages/common/phing.md

# phing

> A PHP build tool based on Apache Ant.

- Perform the default task in the "build.xml" file:

`phing`

- Initialise a new build file:

`phing -i {{path/to/build.xml}}`

- Perform a specific task:

`phing {{task_name}}`

- Specify a custom build file path:

`phing -f {{path/to/build.xml}} {{task_name}}`

- Specify a log file to output to:

`phing -b {{path/to/log_file}} {{task_name}}`

- Specify custom properties to use in the build:

`phing -D{{property}}={{value}} {{task_name}}`

- Specify a custom listener class:

`phing -listener {{class_name}} {{task_name}}`

- Build using verbose output:

`phing -verbose {{task_name}}`