# 4.3 More Complex Buildfile
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<project name="testsite" basedir="." default="main">
<property file="./build.properties" />
<property name="package" value="${phing.project.name}" override="true" />
<property name="builddir" value="./build/testsite" override="true" />
<property name="srcdir" value="${project.basedir}" override="true" />
<!-- Fileset for all files -->
<fileset dir="." id="allfiles">
<include name="**" />
</fileset>
<!-- ============================================ -->
<!-- (DEFAULT) Target: main -->
<!-- ============================================ -->
<target name="main" description="main target">
<copy todir="${builddir}">
<fileset refid="allfiles" />
</copy>
</target>
<!-- ============================================ -->
<!-- Target: Rebuild -->
<!-- ============================================ -->
<target name="rebuild" description="rebuilds this package">
<delete dir="${builddir}" />
<phingcall target="main" />
</target>
</project>
```
This build file first defines some properties with the `<property>` task call to `PropertyTask`. Then, it defines a [fileset](apds04.html "D.4 FileSet") and two [targets](aphs02.html "H.2 Targets"). Let us have a quick rundown of this build file.
The first four tags within the `project` tag define properties. They appear in two possible variants:
- The first `property` tag contains only the `file` attribute. The value has to be a relative or absolute path to a property file (for the format, see [Appendix聽J](apj.html "Appendix J. File Formats")).
- The other times, the tag has a `name` and a `value` attribute. After the call, the value defined in the attribute `value` is available through the key enclosed in "${" and "}".
The next noticeable thing in the build file is the `<fileset>` tag. It defines a `fileset`, i.e. a set of multiple files. You can include and exclude files with the `include` and `exclude` tags within the `fileset` tag. For more information concerning Filesets (i.e. Patterns) see [Appendix聽D](apd.html "Appendix D. Core Types"). The `fileset` is given an `id` attribute, so it can be referenced later on.
One thing is worth noting here though and that is the use of double star expression, i.e. `"**"`. This special regexp refers to all files in all subdirectories as well. Compare this with a single `"*"` which would only refer to all files in the `current` subdirectory. So for example the expression `"**/*.phps"` would refer to all files with suffix `"'.phps"` in all subdirectories below the current directory.
The first task only contains a call to `CopyTask` via `<copy>`. The interesting thing is within the `copy` tag. Here, a fileset task is not written out with nested `include` or `exclude` elements, but via the `refid`, the Fileset created earlier is referenced. This way, you can use a once defined fileset multiple times in your build files.
The only noticeable thing in the second target is the call to `PhingTask` with the `<phingcall>` tag (see [Appendix聽B](apb.html "Appendix B. Core tasks") for more information). The task executes a specified target within the same build file. So, the second target removes the build directory and calls `main` again, thus rebuilding the project.
A variant is to override properties defined in the build file with properties specified on the command line using the `-D` switch. For example to override the `builddir` in the build file above one could call Phing as
`$ phing -Dbuilddir=/tmp/system-test `## @#@#@#@#@idp22 4.3.1 Handling source dependencies
A common task required in many build files is to keep some target which has a number of dependencies up to date. In traditional make files this could for example be an executable that needs to be recompiled if any of the source files have been updated. In Phing such a condition is handled by the `UpToDateTask` , see [Section聽B.50](apbs50.html "B.50 UpToDateTask") for examples on how this task us used.
- Phing User Guide
- Preface
- 1. About this book
- 1.1. Authors
- 1.2. Copyright
- 1.3. License
- 1.4. DocBook
- 1.4.1. Building the documentation
- 1.4.2. Template for new tasks
- 1.4.3. Customization of the look & feel of the rendered outputs
- 1.4.4. DocBook v5 elements used in the manual and their meaning
- 2. Introduction
- 2.1. What Phing Is
- 2.2. Phing & Binarycloud: History
- 2.3. How Phing Works
- 2.4. Cool, so how can I help?
- 2.4.1. Participating in the development
- 3. Setting-up Phing
- 3.1. System Requirements
- 3.1.1. Operating Systems
- 3.1.2. Software Dependencies
- 3.2. Obtaining Phing
- 3.2.1. Distribution Files
- 3.2.2. Getting the latest source from Phing Git repository
- 3.3. Composer Install
- 3.4. Phar package
- 3.5. Running Phing
- 3.5.1. Command Line
- 3.5.2. Supported command line arguments
- 4. Getting started
- 4.1. XML And Phing
- 4.2. Writing A Simple Buildfile
- 4.2.1. Project Element
- 4.2.2. Target Element
- 4.2.2.1. Target attributes
- 4.2.3. Task Elements
- 4.2.4. Property Element
- 4.2.4.1. Built-in Properties
- 4.3. More Complex Buildfile
- 4.3.1. Handling source dependencies
- 4.4. Relax NG Grammar
- 5. Project components
- 5.1. Projects
- 5.2. Version
- 5.3. Project Components in General
- 5.4. Targets
- 5.5. Tasks
- 5.6. Types
- 5.6.1. Basics
- 5.6.2. Referencing Types
- 5.7. Basic Types
- 5.7.1. FileSet
- 5.7.2. FileList
- 5.7.3. FilterChains and Filters
- 5.7.4. File Mappers
- 5.8. Conditions
- 5.8.1. not
- 5.8.2. and
- 5.8.3. or
- 5.8.4. xor
- 5.8.5. os
- 5.8.6. equals
- 5.8.7. versioncompare
- 5.8.8. http
- 5.8.9. socket
- 5.8.10. hasfreespace
- 5.8.11. isset
- 5.8.12. contains
- 5.8.13. istrue
- 5.8.14. isfalse
- 5.8.15. ispropertytrue
- 5.8.16. ispropertyfalse
- 5.8.17. referenceexists
- 5.8.18. available
- 5.8.19. filesmatch
- 5.8.20. isfileselected
- 5.8.21. isfailure
- 5.8.22. matches
- 6. Extending Phing
- 6.1. Extension Possibilities
- 6.1.1. Tasks
- 6.1.2. Types
- 6.1.3. Mappers
- 6.2. Source Layout
- 6.2.1. Files And Directories
- 6.2.2. File Naming Conventions
- 6.2.3. Coding Standards
- 6.3. System Initialization
- 6.3.1. Wrapper Scripts
- 6.3.2. The Main Application (phing.php)
- 6.3.3. The Phing Class
- 6.4. System Services
- 6.4.1. The Exception system
- 6.5. Build Lifecycle
- 6.5.1. How Phing Parses Buildfiles
- 6.6. Writing Tasks
- 6.6.1. Creating A Task
- 6.6.2. Using the Task
- 6.6.3. Source Discussion
- 6.6.4. Task Structure
- 6.6.5. Includes
- 6.6.6. Class Declaration
- 6.6.7. Class Properties
- 6.6.8. The Constructor
- 6.6.9. Setter Methods
- 6.6.10. Creator Methods
- 6.6.11. init() Method
- 6.6.12. main() Method
- 6.6.13. Arbitrary Methods
- 6.7. Writing Types
- 6.7.1. Creating a DataType
- 6.7.2. Using the DataType
- 6.7.3. Source Discussion
- 6.7.3.1. Getters & Setters
- 6.7.3.2. The getRef() Method
- 6.8. Writing Mappers
- 6.8.1. Creating a Mapper
- 6.8.2. Using the Mapper
- A. Fact Sheet
- A.1. Built-In Properties
- A.2. Command Line Arguments
- A.3. Distribution File Layout
- A.4. Program Exit Codes
- A.5. The LGPL License
- A.6. The GFDL License
- B. Core tasks
- B.1. AdhocTaskdefTask
- B.1.1. Examples
- B.2. AdhocTypedefTask
- B.2.1. Example
- B.3. AppendTask
- B.3.1. Examples
- B.3.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.4. ApplyTask
- B.4.1. Examples
- B.4.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.5. AttribTask
- B.5.1. Example
- B.5.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.6. AvailableTask
- B.6.1. Examples
- B.7. Basename
- B.7.1. Examples
- B.8. ChmodTask
- B.8.1. Examples
- B.8.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.9. ChownTask
- B.9.1. Examples
- B.9.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.10. ConditionTask
- B.10.1. Examples
- B.10.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.11. CopyTask
- B.11.1. Examples
- B.11.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.12. DefaultExcludes
- B.12.1. Examples
- B.13. DeleteTask
- B.13.1. Examples
- B.13.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.14. DependSet
- B.14.1. Examples
- B.14.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.15. Diagnostics
- B.15.1. Example
- B.16. Dirname
- B.16.1. Example
- B.17. EchoTask
- B.17.1. Examples
- B.17.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.18. EchoPropertiesTask
- B.18.1. Example
- B.19. ExecTask
- B.19.1. Examples
- B.19.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.20. FailTask
- B.20.1. Examples
- B.20.2. Parameters specified as nested elements.
- B.21. ForeachTask
- B.21.1. Examples
- B.21.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.22. IfTask
- B.22.1. Examples
- B.23. ImportTask
- B.23.1. Target Overriding
- B.23.2. Special Properties
- B.23.3. Resolving Files Against the Imported File
- B.23.4. Examples
- B.24. IncludePathTask
- B.24.1. Examples
- B.25. InputTask
- B.25.1. Examples
- B.26. LoadFileTask
- B.26.1. Examples
- B.26.2. Supported Nested Tags:
- B.27. MkdirTask
- B.27.1. Examples
- B.28. MoveTask
- B.28.1. Examples
- B.28.2. Attributes and Nested Elements
- B.29. PathConvert
- B.30. PhingTask
- B.30.1. Examples
- B.30.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.30.3. Base directory of the new project
- B.31. PhingCallTask
- B.31.1. Examples
- B.31.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.32. Phingversion
- B.32.1. Example
- B.33. PhpEvalTask
- B.33.1. Examples
- B.33.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.34. PropertyTask
- B.34.1. Examples
- B.34.2. Supported Nested Tags:
- B.35. PropertyPromptTask
- B.35.1. Examples
- B.36. Record
- B.36.1. Example
- B.37. ReflexiveTask
- B.37.1. Examples
- B.37.2. Supported Nested Tags:
- B.38. ResolvePathTask
- B.38.1. Examples
- B.39. Retry
- B.39.1. Example
- B.40. RunTargetTask
- B.40.1. Example
- B.41. SleepTask
- B.41.1. Example
- B.42. SwitchTask
- B.42.1. Supported Nested Tags
- B.42.2. Examples
- B.43. TaskdefTask
- B.43.1. Examples
- B.43.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.44. Tempfile Task
- B.44.1. Example
- B.45. TouchTask
- B.45.1. Examples
- B.45.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.46. TruncateTask
- B.46.1. Examples
- B.47. TryCatchTask
- B.47.1. Examples
- B.48. TstampTask
- B.48.1. Examples
- B.48.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.49. TypedefTask
- B.49.1. Examples
- B.49.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.50. UpToDateTask
- B.50.1. Examples
- B.50.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.51. WaitForTask
- B.51.1. Examples
- B.51.2. Supported Nested Tags
- B.52. XsltTask
- B.52.1. Examples
- B.52.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C. Optional tasks
- C.1. ApiGenTask
- C.1.1. Example
- C.2. AutoloaderTask
- C.2.1. Example
- C.3. ComposerTask
- C.3.1. Supported Nested Tags
- C.4. CoverageMergerTask
- C.4.1. Example
- C.4.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.5. CoverageReportTask
- C.5.1. Example
- C.5.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.6. CoverageSetupTask
- C.6.1. Example
- C.6.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.7. CoverageThresholdTask
- C.7.1. Example
- C.7.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.8. DbDeployTask
- C.8.1. Example
- C.9. ExportPropertiesTask
- C.9.1. Example
- C.10. FileHashTask
- C.10.1. Example
- C.11. FileSizeTask
- C.11.1. Example
- C.12. FileSyncTask
- C.12.1. Examples
- C.13. FtpDeployTask
- C.13.1. Example
- C.13.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.14. GitArchiveTask
- C.14.1. Example
- C.15. GitBranchTask
- C.15.1. Example
- C.16. GitCheckoutTask
- C.16.1. Example
- C.17. GitCloneTask
- C.17.1. Example
- C.18. GitCommitTask
- C.18.1. Example
- C.18.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.19. GitFetchTask
- C.19.1. Example
- C.20. GitGcTask
- C.20.1. Example
- C.21. GitInitTask
- C.21.1. Example
- C.22. GitLogTask
- C.22.1. Example
- C.23. GitMergeTask
- C.23.1. Example
- C.24. GitPullTask
- C.24.1. Example
- C.25. GitPushTask
- C.25.1. Example
- C.26. GitTagTask
- C.26.1. Example
- C.27. GitDescribeTask
- C.27.1. Example
- C.28. GrowlNotifyTask
- C.28.1. Examples
- C.29. HgAddTask
- C.29.1. Example
- C.29.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.30. HgArchiveTask
- C.30.1. Example
- C.31. HgCloneTask
- C.31.1. Example
- C.32. HgCommitTask
- C.32.1. Example
- C.33. HgInitTask
- C.33.1. Example
- C.34. HgLogTask
- C.34.1. Example
- C.35. HgPullTask
- C.35.1. Example
- C.36. HgPushTask
- C.36.1. Example
- C.37. HgRevertTask
- C.37.1. Example
- C.38. HgTagTask
- C.38.1. Example
- C.39. HgUpdateTask
- C.39.1. Example
- C.40. HipchatTask
- C.40.1. Example
- C.41. HttpGetTask
- C.41.1. Example
- C.41.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.41.3. Global configuration
- C.42. HttpRequestTask
- C.42.1. Example
- C.42.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.42.3. Global configuration
- C.43. IniFileTask
- C.43.1. Supported Nested Tags
- C.43.2. Example
- C.44. IoncubeEncoderTask
- C.44.1. Example
- C.44.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.45. IoncubeLicenseTask
- C.45.1. Example
- C.45.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.46. JsHintTask
- C.46.1. Example
- C.46.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.47. JslLintTask
- C.47.1. Example
- C.47.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.48. JsMinTask
- C.48.1. Example
- C.48.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.49. JsonValidateTask
- C.49.1. Example
- C.50. LiquibaseTask
- C.50.1. Example
- C.50.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.51. LiquibaseChangeLogTask
- C.51.1. Example
- C.51.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.52. LiquibaseDbDocTask
- C.52.1. Example
- C.52.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.53. LiquibaseDiffTask
- C.53.1. Example
- C.53.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.54. LiquibaseRollbackTask
- C.54.1. Example
- C.54.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.55. LiquibaseTagTask
- C.55.1. Example
- C.55.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.56. LiquibaseUpdateTask
- C.56.1. Example
- C.56.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.57. MailTask
- C.57.1. Example
- C.57.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.58. ManifestTask
- C.58.1. Supported Nested Tags
- C.59. NotifySendTask
- C.60. PackageAsPathTask
- C.60.1. Example
- C.61. ParallelTask
- C.61.1. Example
- C.62. PatchTask
- C.62.1. Example
- C.63. PathToFileSetTask
- C.63.1. Examples
- C.64. PDOSQLExecTask
- C.64.1. Example
- C.64.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.65. PearPackageTask
- C.65.1. Example
- C.65.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.66. PearPackage2Task
- C.66.1. Example
- C.66.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.67. PharDataTask
- C.67.1. Example
- C.67.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.68. PharPackageTask
- C.68.1. Example
- C.68.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.69. PhkPackageTask
- C.69.1. Example
- C.69.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.70. PhpCodeSnifferTask
- C.70.1. Examples
- C.70.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.71. PHPCPDTask
- C.71.1. Examples
- C.71.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.72. PHPLocTask
- C.72.1. Examples
- C.72.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.73. PHPMDTask
- C.73.1. Example
- C.73.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.74. PhpDependTask
- C.74.1. Example
- C.74.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.75. PhpDocumentor2Task
- C.75.1. Example
- C.75.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.76. PhpLintTask
- C.76.1. Example
- C.76.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.77. PHPUnitTask
- C.77.1. Supported Nested Tags
- C.77.2. Example
- C.77.3. Supported Nested Tags
- C.78. PHPUnitReport
- C.78.1. Example
- C.79. PropertyCopy
- C.79.1. Example
- C.80. PropertyRegexTask
- C.80.1. Match expressions
- C.80.2. Replace
- C.80.3. Example
- C.81. ReplaceRegexpTask
- C.81.1. Supported Nested Tags
- 1. PropertySelector
- 1.1. Select expressions
- 1.2. Example
- C.82. rSTTask
- C.82.1. Features
- C.82.2. Examples
- C.82.3. Supported Nested Tags
- C.83. S3PutTask
- C.83.1. Example
- C.83.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.84. S3GetTask
- C.84.1. Example
- C.85. SassTask
- C.85.1. Example
- C.85.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.86. ScpTask
- C.86.1. Example
- C.86.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.87. SmartyTask
- C.88. SonarTask
- C.88.1. Examples
- C.88.1.1. Minimal Example
- C.88.1.2. Full Example
- C.88.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.89. SortList
- C.89.1. Example
- C.90. SshTask
- C.90.1. Example
- C.90.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.91. SvnCheckoutTask
- C.91.1. Example
- C.92. SvnCommitTask
- C.92.1. Example
- C.93. SvnCopyTask
- C.93.1. Example
- C.94. SvnExportTask
- C.94.1. Example
- C.95. SvnInfoTask
- C.95.1. Example
- C.96. SvnLastRevisionTask
- C.96.1. Example
- C.97. SvnListTask
- C.97.1. Example
- C.98. SvnLogTask
- C.98.1. Example
- C.99. SvnUpdateTask
- C.99.1. Example
- C.100. SvnSwitchTask
- C.100.1. Example
- C.101. SvnProplistTask
- C.101.1. Example
- C.102. SvnPropgetTask
- C.102.1. Example
- C.103. SvnPropsetTask
- C.103.1. Example
- C.104. StopwatchTask
- C.104.1. Example
- C.105. SymfonyConsoleTask
- C.105.1. Examples
- C.105.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.106. SymlinkTask
- C.106.1. Example
- C.106.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.107. TarTask
- C.107.1. Example
- C.107.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.108. ThrowTask
- C.108.1. Example
- C.109. UntarTask
- C.109.1. Example
- C.109.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.110. UnzipTask
- C.110.1. Example
- C.110.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.111. Variable
- C.111.1. Example
- C.112. VersionTask
- C.112.1. Example
- C.113. WikiPublishTask
- C.113.1. Example
- C.114. XmlLintTask
- C.114.1. Examples
- C.114.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.115. XmlPropertyTask
- C.115.1. Example
- C.116. ZendCodeAnalyzerTask
- C.116.1. Example
- C.116.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.117. ZendGuardEncodeTask
- C.117.1. Example
- C.117.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.118. ZendGuardLicenseTask
- C.118.1. Examples
- C.119. ZipTask
- C.119.1. Example
- C.119.2. Supported Nested Tags
- C.120. ZSDTPackTask
- C.120.1. Example
- C.121. ZSDTValidateTask
- C.121.1. Example
- D. Core Types
- D.1. Description
- D.1.1. Usage Examples
- D.2. Excludes
- D.2.1. Nested tags
- D.2.2. Usage Examples
- D.3. FileList
- D.3.1. Usage Examples
- D.4. FileSet
- D.4.1. Using wildcards
- D.4.2. Usage Examples
- D.4.3. Nested tags
- D.4.4. Related types
- D.5. DirSet
- D.5.1. Using wildcards
- D.5.2. Usage Examples
- D.5.3. Nested tags
- D.5.4. Related types
- D.6. PatternSet
- D.6.1. Usage Example
- D.6.2. Nested tags
- D.7. Path / Classpath
- D.7.1. Nested tags
- D.8. PearPackageFileSet
- D.8.1. Usage Examples
- D.8.2. Nested tags
- E. Core filters
- E.1. PhingFilterReader
- E.1.1. Nested tags
- E.1.2. Advanced
- E.2. ExpandProperties
- E.3. ConcatFilter
- E.4. HeadFilter
- E.5. IconvFilter
- E.6. Line Contains
- E.6.1. Nested tags
- E.7. LineContainsRegexp
- E.7.1. Nested tags
- E.8. PrefixLines
- E.9. ReplaceTokens
- E.9.1. Nested tags
- E.10. ReplaceTokensWithFile
- E.10.1. Nested tags
- E.11. ReplaceRegexp
- E.11.1. Nested tags
- E.12. SortFilter
- E.13. StripLineBreaks
- E.14. StripLineComments
- E.14.1. Nested tags
- E.15. StripPhpComments
- E.16. StripWhitespace
- E.17. TabToSpaces
- E.18. TailFilter
- E.19. TidyFilter
- E.19.1. Nested tags
- E.20. XincludeFilter
- E.21. XsltFilter
- E.21.1. Nested tags
- F. Core mappers
- F.1. Common Attributes
- F.2. ChainedMapper
- F.2.1. Examples
- F.3. CompositeMapper
- F.3.1. Examples
- F.4. FirstMatchMapper
- F.4.1. Examples
- F.5. CutDirsMapper
- F.5.1. Examples
- F.6. FlattenMapper
- F.6.1. Examples
- F.7. GlobMapper
- F.7.1. Examples
- F.8. IdentityMapper
- F.9. MergeMapper
- F.9.1. Examples
- F.10. RegexpMapper
- F.10.1. Examples
- G. Core selectors
- G.1. Contains
- G.2. Date
- G.3. Depend
- G.4. Depth
- G.5. Different
- G.6. Filename
- G.7. Present
- G.8. Containsregexp
- G.9. Size
- G.10. Type
- G.11. And
- G.12. Majority
- G.13. None
- G.14. Not
- G.15. Or
- G.16. Readable
- G.17. Writable
- G.18. Executable
- G.19. Selector
- G.20. Symlink Selector
- H. Project Components
- H.1. Phing Projects
- H.1.1. Example
- H.1.2.
- H.1.3. Attributes
- H.2. Targets
- H.2.1. Example
- H.2.2. Attributes
- I. Loggers and Listeners
- I.1. Listeners
- I.2. Loggers
- I.3. DefaultLogger
- I.4. MailLogger
- I.5. NoBannerLogger
- I.6. ProfileLogger
- I.7. StatisticsListener
- I.8. TimestampedLogger
- J. File Formats
- J.1. Build File Format
- J.2. Property File Format
- Bibliography
- International Standards
- Licenses
- Open Source Projects
- Manuals
- Other Resources