How to set environment variables in Mac OS X Lion (For PHPunit purpose)

In my recent web application development, I need PHPUnit to run in my Macbook Pro Mac OS Lion X Lion. In my previous post I installed PHPUnit using PHP pear on XAMPP. 

Now I need to run it without evoking all the the path to the XAMPP bin files located at /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin

So I need to set the environment variabel setting location in my Mac OS X Lion. We can do this with two easy steps.  

First: Open /etc/path files with terminal:

$ sudo vim /etc/path 

Second: Add /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin to the bottom of the file. In my Mac, it look like this: 

/usr/bin

/bin

/usr/sbin

/sbin

/usr/local/bin

/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin

~                                  

That's All

Installing PHPUnit on XAMPP Mac OS Lion

How to Install PHPUnit on XAMPP installed on Mac OS X Lion: 

First you need to add the phpunit channel: 

$ sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
Adding Channel "pear.phpunit.de" succeeded
Discovery of channel "pear.phpunit.de" succeeded

$ sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
Adding Channel "pear.symfony-project.com" succeeded
Discovery of channel "pear.symfony-project.com" succeeded


Then Install Pear PHPUnit with the following command:
$ sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/pear install phpunit/PHPUnitDid not download optional dependencies: phpunit/PHP_Invoker, use --alldeps to download automatically
phpunit/PHPUnit can optionally use package "phpunit/PHP_Invoker" (version >= 1.1.0)
downloading PHPUnit-3.6.10.tgz ...
Starting to download PHPUnit-3.6.10.tgz (118,595 bytes)
..........................done: 118,595 bytes
downloading YAML-1.0.6.tgz ...
Starting to download YAML-1.0.6.tgz (10,010 bytes)
...done: 10,010 bytes
install ok: channel://pear.symfony-project.com/YAML-1.0.6
install ok: channel://pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit-3.6.10


References:
http://jeffreybarke.net/2010/08/how-to-install-phpunit-with-mamp/