Hello community,

I created a PHP Library for Selenium :
http://alexandre-salome.fr/blog/PHP-Selenium-Library

The main class (Browser.php<https://github.com/alexandresalome/PHP-Selenium/blob/master/src/Selen...>)
is generated from the iedoc.xml provided with the Selenium package.

The main advantage I think in this approach is that you can take benefit of
IDE completion, and "magic" methods (assert, verify) are not generated,
because they depend of "how" you want to use it.

Well, the reason of this message is first to share it with you, but more
specifically for asking you how could I enhance this library ?

I'm not satisfied of file upload, for example: you need to specify a
location on the server, or an URL. Isn't it possible to upload directly the
file ?

Well, I want to improve this library because there is a big lack in PHP
concerning Selenium, and the Selenium solution is, as far as I see, the
more robust on the market.

Waiting for your advice on it,

Best regards,

Alexandre

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for sharing. I'm not a PHP guy, but I've used the PHPUnit_Selenium
library a couple of times and would love to try out yours in the future.
Regards looking forward, I think the main thing you should be thinking
about is Se2 and webdriver's API. Se2/Webdriver is where everything is
currently being done and the PHP landscape there is still a little bit
unclear.
Here's a blog post from
Adam<http://element34.ca/blog/a-survey-of-the-php-and-selenium-landscape>that
from what I've seen best describes the situation. I think a great
contribution would be to help making the current state of things better and
clearer for new PHP users, either contributing to the best library out
there or making a definitive one :)

Best,
Santi

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Alexandre Salomé <alexandre.sal...@gmail.com

Thanks for the feedback, it's was I expected: the library is already
obsolete :)

I looked at the code from Adam, but his approach is not the approach I have
on it (mainly coupled with PHPUnit).

I just want to have an independant library, usable anywhere. I started
developing with the WebDriver approach;
https://github.com/alexandresalome/PHP-Selenium/tree/webdriver.

For the moment, the only sample I can give is :

$client  = new Selenium\Client('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub');
$session = $client->createSession(new Selenium\Capabilities('firefox'));

$session->close();

It's a work in progress, I'll give you news.

Best regards,

Alexandre

* Also sprach Alexandre Salomé <alexandre.sal...@gmail.com>:

You might want to have a look at how the Ruby bindings (and possibly the
Python bindings) are doing this.  The Ruby bindings are currently
structured this way:

  ├── selenium
  │   ├── client
  │   ├── server.rb
  │   ├── webdriver
  │   │   ├── android
  │   │   ├── chrome
  │   │   ├── common
  │   │   │   ├── action_builder.rb
  │   │   │   ├── alert.rb
  │   │   │   ├── driver.rb
  │   │   │   ├── element.rb
  │   │   │   ├── error.rb
  │   │   │   ├── keyboard.rb
  │   │   │   ├── keys.rb
  │   │   │   ├── mouse.rb
  │   │   │   ├── navigation.rb
  │   │   ├── firefox
  │   │   ├── ie
  │   │   ├── iphone
  │   │   ├── opera
  │   │   ├── remote
  │   └── webdriver.rb
  ├── selenium-client.rb
  └── selenium-webdriver.rb

It implements the Selenium RC-related stuff in /selenium/client, and the
WebDriver/RemoteWebDriver implementations in /selenium/webdriver.  IMO
it's a very well organized and structured set of bindings.

Thanks for the feedback.

The current tree is looking like this :

src
└── Selenium
    ├── Capabilities.php
    ├── Client.php
    ├── Message
    │   ├── Client
    │   │   ├── SessionCloseRequest.php
    │   │   ├── SessionCreateRequest.php
    │   │   └── SessionCreateResponse.php
    │   ├── ErrorResponse.php
    │   ├── Navigation
    │   │   ├── UrlGetRequest.php
    │   │   ├── UrlGetResponse.php
    │   │   └── UrlSetRequest.php
    │   └── Session
    │       ├── ScreenshotRequest.php
    │       ├── ScreenshotResponse.php
    │       ├── SourceRequest.php
    │       ├── SourceResponse.php
    │       ├── TitleRequest.php
    │       └── TitleResponse.php
    ├── Navigation.php
    └── Session.php

I'm working regularly on it, probably finished in the beginning of next
year.

To follow it: https://github.com/alexandresalome/PHP-Selenium/tree/webdriver
The README on this page gives you details about the current API.