Build Systems for PHP Web Apps [closed]

Answer 1

All you ask for can be done with Phing

Phing is a deployment framework written in PHP and modeled after Apache Ant. It comes with a large set of ready-to-use deployment tasks, including database deployment, remote file transfers and VCS connectivity. If you are missing functionality, you can extend Phing with standard PHP.

Phing provides the following features:

• Simple XML buildfiles
• Rich set of provided tasks
• Easily extendable via PHP classes
• Platform-independent: works on UNIX, Windows, MacOSX
• No required external dependencies
• Built & optimized for ZendEngine2/PHP5

Answer 2

You might also want to have a look to Hudson, an extensible continuous integration server. The supported features are available here.

Among the other languages, it supported PHP. This article presents some nice plugins for PHP. The article is also suggesting Phing for the build. See Gordon's answer for details.