This is a fork of the facebook php-webdriver to allow asynchronous selenium operations from a single threaded PHP test system.
The asynchronous functionality is provided by using coroutines. I use the excellent reactphp and icicle.io in this fork.
Using this system you can make multiple execution tasks simultaneously occur. For example you can create multiple user browsers that access your system under test, and make them undertake actions asynchronously. So one user could be uploading a file, another could be logging in, another could be an admin creating users, or another could be a ZMQ listener waiting for a signal to kick off other phases of your test.
To make things simple I have provided an example of how to use the system along with a Docker setup to get the required selenium instance up and running quickly.
To get started clone the repo then follow the steps below.
If you already have a selenium instance running locally on port 4444 you can skip this step.
Open a command prompt and run the following
cd examples/docker/
./runSelenium.sh
cd examples/src/
php LoadBrowsersExample.php
The selenium docker instance provided has a VNC server embedded into it. You can connect to it on port 5901
vncviewer 127.0.0.1:5901
The password is "secret".
You should see a set of 10 browsers loading the www.google.co.uk homepage.
If you rerun the example you should see all the browsers getting closed then being recreated.
Please raise a bug report in github and I will look into it.
Alternatively write to me at darren.sharman (at) nemtek.co.uk
I have tested this with PHP7.0 and php7.2 If you don't have a compatible php version you can try the additional docker instance I provided that should give you a php7.0 test shell.
cd examples/docker/
./runDocker.sh
Then start a test shell
cd examples/docker/
./testShell.sh
You should be able to run the test script from there by following the instructions above.
Php-webdriver library is PHP language binding for Selenium WebDriver, which allows you to control web browsers from PHP.
This library is compatible with Selenium server version 2.x and 3.x. It implements the JsonWireProtocol, which is currently supported by the Selenium server and will also implement the W3C WebDriver specification in the future.
The concepts of this library are very similar to the "official" Java, .NET, Python and Ruby bindings from the Selenium project.
This is new version of PHP client, rewritten from scratch starting 2013. Using the old version? Check out Adam Goucher's fork of it.
Looking for API documentation of php-webdriver? See https://facebook.github.io/php-webdriver/
Any complaint, question, idea? You can post it on the user group https://www.facebook.com/groups/phpwebdriver/.
Installation is possible using Composer.
If you don't already use Composer, you can download the composer.phar binary:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Then install the library:
php composer.phar require facebook/webdriver
All you need as the server for this client is the selenium-server-standalone-#.jar file provided here: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
Download and run that file, replacing # with the current server version. Keep in mind you must have Java 8+ installed to start this command.
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-#.jar
(Please see note below when using Firefox.)
Then when you create a session, be sure to pass the url to where your server is running.
// This would be the url of the host running the server-standalone.jar
$host = 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub'; // this is the defaultMake sure to have latest Chrome and Chromedriver installed.
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, DesiredCapabilities::chrome());Make sure to have latest Firefox and Geckodriver installed.
Because Firefox (and Geckodriver) only supports new W3C WebDriver protocol (which is yet to be implemented by php-wedbriver - see issue #469), the protocols must be translated by Selenium server - this feature is partially available in Selenium server version 3.5.0-3.8.1 and you can enable it like this:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.8.1.jar -enablePassThrough false
Now you can start Firefox from your code:
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, DesiredCapabilities::firefox());$desired_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::firefox();
$desired_capabilities->setCapability('acceptSslCerts', false);
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host, $desired_capabilities);-
See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/DesiredCapabilities for more details.
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Above snippets are not intended to be a working example by simply copy pasting. See example.php for working example.
For latest changes see CHANGELOG.md file.
Some how-tos are provided right here in our GitHub wiki.
You may also want to check out the Selenium docs and wiki.
To take advantage of automatized testing you will most probably want to integrate php-webdriver to your testing framework. There are some project already providing this:
- Steward integrates php-webdriver directly to PHPUnit, also providers parallelization.
- Codeception testing framework provides BDD-layer on top of php-webdriver in its WebDriver module.
- You can also check out this blogpost + demo project, describing simple PHPUnit integration.
We have a great community willing to try and help you!
- Via our Facebook Group - If you have questions or are an active contributor consider joining our facebook group and contributing to the communal discussion and support.
- Via StackOverflow - You can also ask a question or find many already answered question on StackOverflow.
- Via GitHub - Another option if you have a question (or bug report) is to submit it here as an new issue.
We love to have your help to make php-webdriver better. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information about contributing and developing php-webdriver.