Fix unit tests (#1015)

Co-authored-by: Mark Williams <[email protected]>

Author: ndg63276

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ defaults:
     shell: bash
     working-directory: ./api
 
-# Note, jobs do not share the same working environment, whereas steps do.  Also, jobs will run in parallel unless the 'needs' tag is used to flag a dependency    
 jobs:
   php-build:
     name: Checkout, build, test and lint PHP code
@@ -33,6 +32,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           php-version: 7.3
           tools: psalm:4
+          # Added extensions and coverage here so they are ready for the native run
+          extensions: mysqli, zip, xdebug
+          coverage: xdebug
 
       - name: Validate composer.json and composer.lock
         run: composer validate
@@ -49,17 +51,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: composer install --prefer-dist --no-progress
 
+      # CHANGED: Replaced php-actions/phpunit with native execution
+      # This runs the PHPUnit located in your vendor folder, avoiding the PHAR crash
       - name: PHPUnit Tests
-        uses: php-actions/phpunit@v3
+        run: vendor/bin/phpunit --configuration tests/phpunit.xml --coverage-text
         env:
           XDEBUG_MODE: coverage
-        with:
-          bootstrap: api/vendor/autoload.php
-          configuration: api/tests/phpunit.xml
-          php_extensions: xdebug mysqli zip
-          args: --coverage-text
-          php_version: 7.3
-          version: 9
 
       - name: Run Psalm
         run: psalm --output-format=github
@@ -77,8 +74,7 @@ jobs:
           node-version: 18.x
       - name: JavaScript build, lint and test
         working-directory: ./client
-        # hack the output from the linting steps to avoid these stopping the builds - we are not going to get 
-        # to a clean output without considerable effort, but it's useful to see the output
+        # hack the output from the linting steps to avoid these stopping the builds
         run: |
               cp src/js/config_sample.json src/js/config.json
               node --version