title: Functional tests using PHPUnit
body: <p>I see WebTestCase and Symfony come up a lot...I have some unit tests in PHPUnit already but really need higher level tests...I do not need anything fancy like Selenium (the UI is done in ExtJS but this could change entirely to Polymer in the future) I just need to post data and check the JSON results.</p>
  
  <p>Can this be done via PHPUnit or do I need to bring in Symfony and it's WebTestCase?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5683392/testing-restful-web-services-using-phpunit">Testing RESTful web services using PHPUnit</a></p>
  
  <p>Note: I am actually looking to test the services -- no mocked objects desired -- I need to login when the test suite is first run -- store the SESSION ID and go through each test...</p>