PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations, etc.), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, and much more.

Phing provides the following features: * Simple XML buildfiles * Rich set of provided tasks * Easily extendable via PHP classes