Rewrite it in PHP

[homersimpsons]

Currently the test runner is mostly written in node. We could write it in full PHP, this would have the following benefits:

• lighter docker image: only php has to be embeded
• easier contribution from PHP's track participant
• in depth usage of phpunit, should ease the upgrade to the spec version 3 Upgrade to version 3 spec #9
• improved testing

Current behavior

The current test runner does the following;

1. runs PHPUnit (from cli)
2. use jo to output error for a generic error
3. uses a node program to convert the report to exercism's interface

Target behavior

The idea would be to use PHPUnit as a library instead of with the CLI:

1. declare a symfony/console application
2. (Customize the test runner to fit our use case, see below)
3. generate the report in php directly

Test runner customization to do

• Properly load tests (using .meta/config.json)
• Listen to PHPUnit\Event\Test\Errored, PHPUnit\Event\Test\Failed and PHPUnit\Event\Test\Passed to register the status
• Allow the addition of annotation on top of test to specify the task id

During this work we could also upgrade to PHP 8.2, in fact I did mentor 2 solutions where PHP 8.2 would have changed the outcome:

• One was using dynamic properties which are now deprecated: https://www.php.net/manual/fr/functions.arguments.php
• Another one was relying on a behavior change of the str_split function: https://www.php.net/manual/fr/function.str-split

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