diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
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+name: Tests
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [ opened, synchronize ]
+
+jobs:
+  phpunit:
+    name: PHPUnit
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    services:
+      mysql:
+        image: mysql:5.7
+        ports:
+          - 3306/tcp
+        env:
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
+        # Set health checks to wait until mysql has started
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd "mysqladmin ping"
+          --health-interval 10s
+          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-retries 3
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out Git repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup PHP
+        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
+        with:
+          php-version: '8.3'
+          coverage: 'none'
+          tools: composer
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        uses: ramsey/composer-install@v2
+        with:
+          composer-options: "--no-progress --no-ansi --no-interaction"
+
+      - name: Install WordPress test setup
+        run: bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root password 127.0.0.1:${{ job.services.mysql.ports[3306] }} latest
+
+      - name: Setup problem matchers for PHPUnit
+        run: echo "::add-matcher::${{ runner.tool_cache }}/phpunit.json"
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: vendor/bin/phpunit
diff --git a/bin/install-wp-tests.sh b/bin/install-wp-tests.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
+	echo "usage: $0 <db-name> <db-user> <db-pass> [db-host] [wp-version] [skip-database-creation]"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+DB_NAME=$1
+DB_USER=$2
+DB_PASS=$3
+DB_HOST=${4-localhost}
+WP_VERSION=${5-latest}
+SKIP_DB_CREATE=${6-false}
+
+TMPDIR=${TMPDIR-/tmp}
+TMPDIR=$(echo $TMPDIR | sed -e "s/\/$//")
+WP_TESTS_DIR=${WP_TESTS_DIR-$TMPDIR/wordpress-tests-lib}
+WP_CORE_DIR=${WP_CORE_DIR-$TMPDIR/wordpress}
+
+download() {
+    if [ `which curl` ]; then
+        curl -s "$1" > "$2";
+    elif [ `which wget` ]; then
+        wget -nv -O "$2" "$1"
+    fi
+}
+
+if [[ $WP_VERSION =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\-(beta|RC)[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+	WP_BRANCH=${WP_VERSION%\-*}
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="branches/$WP_BRANCH"
+
+elif [[ $WP_VERSION =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="branches/$WP_VERSION"
+elif [[ $WP_VERSION =~ [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ ]]; then
+	if [[ $WP_VERSION =~ [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0] ]]; then
+		# version x.x.0 means the first release of the major version, so strip off the .0 and download version x.x
+		WP_TESTS_TAG="tags/${WP_VERSION%??}"
+	else
+		WP_TESTS_TAG="tags/$WP_VERSION"
+	fi
+elif [[ $WP_VERSION == 'nightly' || $WP_VERSION == 'trunk' ]]; then
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="trunk"
+else
+	# http serves a single offer, whereas https serves multiple. we only want one
+	download http://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/ /tmp/wp-latest.json
+	grep '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?' /tmp/wp-latest.json
+	LATEST_VERSION=$(grep -o '"version":"[^"]*' /tmp/wp-latest.json | sed 's/"version":"//')
+	if [[ -z "$LATEST_VERSION" ]]; then
+		echo "Latest WordPress version could not be found"
+		exit 1
+	fi
+	WP_TESTS_TAG="tags/$LATEST_VERSION"
+fi
+set -ex
+
+install_wp() {
+
+	if [ -d $WP_CORE_DIR ]; then
+		return;
+	fi
+
+	mkdir -p $WP_CORE_DIR
+
+	if [[ $WP_VERSION == 'nightly' || $WP_VERSION == 'trunk' ]]; then
+		mkdir -p $TMPDIR/wordpress-trunk
+		rm -rf $TMPDIR/wordpress-trunk/*
+		svn export --quiet https://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk $TMPDIR/wordpress-trunk/wordpress
+		mv $TMPDIR/wordpress-trunk/wordpress/* $WP_CORE_DIR
+	else
+		if [ $WP_VERSION == 'latest' ]; then
+			local ARCHIVE_NAME='latest'
+		elif [[ $WP_VERSION =~ [0-9]+\.[0-9]+ ]]; then
+			# https serves multiple offers, whereas http serves single.
+			download https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/ $TMPDIR/wp-latest.json
+			if [[ $WP_VERSION =~ [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0] ]]; then
+				# version x.x.0 means the first release of the major version, so strip off the .0 and download version x.x
+				LATEST_VERSION=${WP_VERSION%??}
+			else
+				# otherwise, scan the releases and get the most up to date minor version of the major release
+				local VERSION_ESCAPED=`echo $WP_VERSION | sed 's/\./\\\\./g'`
+				LATEST_VERSION=$(grep -o '"version":"'$VERSION_ESCAPED'[^"]*' $TMPDIR/wp-latest.json | sed 's/"version":"//' | head -1)
+			fi
+			if [[ -z "$LATEST_VERSION" ]]; then
+				local ARCHIVE_NAME="wordpress-$WP_VERSION"
+			else
+				local ARCHIVE_NAME="wordpress-$LATEST_VERSION"
+			fi
+		else
+			local ARCHIVE_NAME="wordpress-$WP_VERSION"
+		fi
+		download https://wordpress.org/${ARCHIVE_NAME}.tar.gz  $TMPDIR/wordpress.tar.gz
+		tar --strip-components=1 -zxmf $TMPDIR/wordpress.tar.gz -C $WP_CORE_DIR
+	fi
+
+	download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/markoheijnen/wp-mysqli/master/db.php $WP_CORE_DIR/wp-content/db.php
+}
+
+install_test_suite() {
+	# portable in-place argument for both GNU sed and Mac OSX sed
+	if [[ $(uname -s) == 'Darwin' ]]; then
+		local ioption='-i.bak'
+	else
+		local ioption='-i'
+	fi
+
+	# set up testing suite if it doesn't yet exist
+	if [ ! -d $WP_TESTS_DIR ]; then
+		# set up testing suite
+		mkdir -p $WP_TESTS_DIR
+		rm -rf $WP_TESTS_DIR/{includes,data}
+		svn export --quiet --ignore-externals https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/${WP_TESTS_TAG}/tests/phpunit/includes/ $WP_TESTS_DIR/includes
+		svn export --quiet --ignore-externals https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/${WP_TESTS_TAG}/tests/phpunit/data/ $WP_TESTS_DIR/data
+	fi
+
+	if [ ! -f wp-tests-config.php ]; then
+		download https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/${WP_TESTS_TAG}/wp-tests-config-sample.php "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		# remove all forward slashes in the end
+		WP_CORE_DIR=$(echo $WP_CORE_DIR | sed "s:/\+$::")
+		sed $ioption "s:dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/src/':'$WP_CORE_DIR/':" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s:__DIR__ . '/src/':'$WP_CORE_DIR/':" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s/youremptytestdbnamehere/$DB_NAME/" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s/yourusernamehere/$DB_USER/" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s/yourpasswordhere/$DB_PASS/" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+		sed $ioption "s|localhost|${DB_HOST}|" "$WP_TESTS_DIR"/wp-tests-config.php
+	fi
+
+}
+
+recreate_db() {
+	shopt -s nocasematch
+	if [[ $1 =~ ^(y|yes)$ ]]
+	then
+		mysqladmin drop $DB_NAME -f --user="$DB_USER" --password="$DB_PASS"$EXTRA
+		create_db
+		echo "Recreated the database ($DB_NAME)."
+	else
+		echo "Leaving the existing database ($DB_NAME) in place."
+	fi
+	shopt -u nocasematch
+}
+
+create_db() {
+	mysqladmin create $DB_NAME --user="$DB_USER" --password="$DB_PASS"$EXTRA
+}
+
+install_db() {
+
+	if [ ${SKIP_DB_CREATE} = "true" ]; then
+		return 0
+	fi
+
+	# parse DB_HOST for port or socket references
+	local PARTS=(${DB_HOST//\:/ })
+	local DB_HOSTNAME=${PARTS[0]};
+	local DB_SOCK_OR_PORT=${PARTS[1]};
+	local EXTRA=""
+
+	if ! [ -z $DB_HOSTNAME ] ; then
+		if [ $(echo $DB_SOCK_OR_PORT | grep -e '^[0-9]\{1,\}$') ]; then
+			EXTRA=" --host=$DB_HOSTNAME --port=$DB_SOCK_OR_PORT --protocol=tcp"
+		elif ! [ -z $DB_SOCK_OR_PORT ] ; then
+			EXTRA=" --socket=$DB_SOCK_OR_PORT"
+		elif ! [ -z $DB_HOSTNAME ] ; then
+			EXTRA=" --host=$DB_HOSTNAME --protocol=tcp"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	# create database
+	if [ $(mysql --user="$DB_USER" --password="$DB_PASS"$EXTRA --execute='show databases;' | grep ^$DB_NAME$) ]
+	then
+		echo "Reinstalling will delete the existing test database ($DB_NAME)"
+		read -p 'Are you sure you want to proceed? [y/N]: ' DELETE_EXISTING_DB
+		recreate_db $DELETE_EXISTING_DB
+	else
+		create_db
+	fi
+}
+
+install_wp
+install_test_suite
+install_db