PHP-SeleniumClient

PHP interaction with Selenium Webdriver API

##  Description

This library allows creating Selenium Server V2 tests in PHP. It communicates with the WebDriver API through the official JsonWireProtocol.

One of the goals is to provide a client usage as close as possible to the Selenium Official libraries (such as Java's, c#'s). Most methods are named as the same as of these libraries'. In this way, whenever a developer runs into ideas or documentation in Java Client , the same techniques can be implemented by using this library.

##  Required environment

• PHP 5.3.8 or newer.

• Download and run the distributed Selenium Server Jar file version 2.18.0 or newer. By this, a web server will be enabled in your local computer, to which the API interactions will take place.

• For unit testing building it is recommended to implement a unit testing framework such as PHPUnit.

##  How to use it

Working demo available in this repository, within SeleniumClientTest/Demo. Simply navigate to this directory and run > phpunit Demo1.php and > phpunit Demo2.php to see them in action.

Also, you can get more information on how to use the library by looking at the unit tests.

• Start a session by creating an instance of WebDriver. By default, the test will run in firefox

  $driver = new WebDriver();
  

• As an alternative you can define desired capabilities for the session

  $desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities("chrome");
  $driver = new WebDriver($desiredCapabilities);
  

• Navigate by using the get() method from the WebDriver Class

  $driver->get("www.nearsoft.com");
  

• Get elements from the DOM in current location

  $textbox1 = $driver->findElement(By::id("someTextBoxId"));
  
  $button1 = $driver->findElement(By::cssSelector("html body div#content input#someButtonId"));
  

• Manipulate located elements

  $textbox1->sendKeys("Some text to send");
  
  $textbox1->getAttribute("value");
  
  $button1->click();
  

• Find element within elements

  $modal1->findElement(By::id("someModalId"));
  $listItems = $modal1->findElements(By::tagName("li"));
  

• Switch between windows

  $driver->switchTo()->getWindow("windowName");
  

• Manage alerts

  $driver->getAlertText();
  $driver->acceptAlert();
  $driver->dismissAlert();
  

• Wait for elements to be present

  $webElement = $driver->waitForElementUntilIsPresent(By::id("someElementId"));
  
  //or
  
  $wait = new WebDriverWait(8);
  $webElement = $wait->until($driver,"findElement",array(By::id("someElementId"),true));