php-webdriver – Selenium WebDriver bindings for PHP

Description

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, 3.x and 4.x.

The library supports modern W3C WebDriver protocol, as well as legacy JsonWireProtocol.

The concepts of this library are very similar to the "official" Java, JavaScript, .NET, Python and Ruby libraries which are developed as part of the Selenium project.

Installation

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 php-webdriver/webdriver

Upgrade from version <1.8.0

Starting from version 1.8.0, the project has been renamed from facebook/php-webdriver to php-webdriver/webdriver.

In order to receive the new version and future updates, you need to rename it in your composer.json:

"require": { - "facebook/webdriver": "(version you use)", + "php-webdriver/webdriver": "(version you use)", }

and run composer update.

Getting started

1. Start server (aka. remote end)

To control a browser, you need to start a remote end (server), which will listen to the commands sent from this library and will execute them in the respective browser.

This could be Selenium standalone server, but for local development, you can send them directly to so-called "browser driver" like Chromedriver or Geckodriver.

a) Chromedriver