I was entasked recently with getting a continuous integration environment set up. phpUnderControl seems to be the tool of choice for this these days, so I started off in that direction. According to its web site, "phpUnderControl is an addon application for the continuous integration tool CruiseControl, which integrates some of the best PHP development tools."

Obviously I needed to install PHP itself. CruiseControl is a daemon written in Java, so that needed to be installed as well. Our Linux distro of choice is Debian. With these requirements, I set out.