Use a callback. e.g. (straight from PHPUnit documentation):
<?php
class StubTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
public function testReturnCallbackStub()
{
$stub = $this->getMock(
'SomeClass', array('doSomething')
);
$stub->expects($this->any())
->method('doSomething')
->will($this->returnCallback('callback'));
// $stub->doSomething() returns callback(...)
}
}
function callback() {
$args = func_get_args();
// ...
}
?>
Do whatever processing you want in the callback() and return the result based on your $args as appropriate.