spatie/test-time – A PHP package to control the flow of time

Freek has created spatie/test-time, a package to easily freeze/rewind/advance time in PHP. Imagine you’re building that your app can notify your user, but you don’t want to send more than one notification in a timeframe of five seconds. How are you going to test the time aspect? Do you have to create a test that …

php-timecop – A PHP extension providing “time travel” capabilities

Now this looks handy, especially when you’re writing/testing code that’s dependent on the system’s time: php-timecop is a PHP extension providing “time travel” and “time freezing” capabilities Freeze time to a specific point. Travel back to a specific point in time, but allow time to continue moving forward from there. Scale time by a given …