Deployment Strategy for CodeIgniter PHP + GitHub + Site5 (or any webhost)

Hello I am not super experienced with PHP and large projects using it, most of my tinkering around has been in Rails with EngineYard (life seemed simpler back then). But in PHP, I haven't found anything that comes really well integrated with GitHub right out of the box. So I am looking for an easy solution to deployment for now and hopefully setting the stage for continuous integration in the future when I get around to writing the tests and such.

Here's what I have so far:

• GitHub repo with my codebase
• Alpha version of the app in CodeIgniter in PHP
• Run of the mill webhost account with Site5 for staging/development

Currently, I deploy by uploading the latest batch of code via FTP onto my site.

For one, I would li开发者_如何转开发ke to get to a one-step deployment process. Just a simple git push would do the trick. Is Phing overkill for now?

What are the steps you might recommend as best practices?

Thank you.

I recommend creating deploy script(s), especially at the beginning. It's a lot easier to start working on them since there are not that many things to do. Not to mention running a single deploy command is easier than doing all the steps manually. Even for small projects. Projects tend to complicate the deployment with time.

If it helps, we are currently using ANT (well, switching), we have dropped Phing due to not being developed/maintained anymore.

I use Beanstalk, and they have great deployment methods available. Once you commit, you can set up auto deployment settings, with a simple click.