O Guia Definitivo do Yii 1.1

estored to some fixed state. The PHPUnit documentation has described well about
generic fixture setup. In this section, we mainly describe how to set up database fixtures,
as we just described in the example.
Setting up database fixtures is perhaps one of the most time-consuming parts in testing
database-backed Web applications. Yii introduces the CDbFixtureManager application
component to alleviate this problem. It basically does the following things when running a
set of tests:
• Before all tests run, it resets all tables relevant to the tests to some known state.
• Before a single test method runs, it resets the specified tables to some known state.
• During the execution of a test method, it provides access to the rows of the data that
contribute to the fixture.
To use CDbFixtureManager, we configure it in the application configuration as follows,
return array(
'components'=>array(
'fixture'=>array(
'class'=>'system.test.CDbFixtureManager',
),
),
);
We then provide the fixture data under the directory protected/tests/fixtures. This directory
may be customized to be a different one by configuring the CDbFixtureManager::basePath
property in the application configuration. The fixture data is organized as a collection of
PHP files called fixture files. Each fixture file returns an array representing the initial rows
of data for a particular table. The file name is the same as the table name. The following is
an example of the fixture data for the Post table stored in a file named Post.php: