php-casperjs

php-casperjs is a simple PHP wrapper for the fine library CasperJS designed to automate user testing against web pages.

It is easy to integrate into PHPUnit test case.

Making webcrawler has never been so easy !

Installation

Before using php-casperjs, you need to install both library:

1 - PhantomJS http://phantomjs.org/download.html

2 - CasperJS http://casperjs.org/installation.html

Usage

<?php

use Browser\Casper;

$casper = new Casper();

// forward options to phantomJS
// for exemple to ignore ssl errors
$casper->setOptions(array(
    'ignore-ssl-errors' => 'yes'
));

// navigate to google web page
$casper->start('http://www.google.com');

// fill the search form and submit it
$casper->fillForm(
        'form[action="/search"]',
        array(
                'q' => 'search'
        ),
        true);

// wait for 5 seconds (have a cofee)
$casper->wait(5000);

// wait for text if needed for 3 seconds
$casper->waitForText('Yahoo', 3000);

// or wait for selector
$casper->waitForSelector('.gbqfb', 3000);

// make a screenshot of the google logo
$casper->captureSelector('#hplogo', '/tmp/logo.png');

// or take a screenshot of a custom area
$casper->capture(
    array(
        'top' => 0,
        'left' => 0,
        'width' => 800,
        'height' => 600
    ),
    '/tmp/custom-capture.png'
);
        
// click the first result
$casper->click('h3.r a');

// switch to the first iframe
$casper->switchToChildFrame(0);

// make some stuff inside the iframe
$casper->fillForm('#myForm', array(
    'search' => 'my search',
));

// get back to parent
$casper->switchToParentFrame();
        
       
// run the casper script
$casper->run();

// check the urls casper get throught
var_dump($casper->getRequestedUrls());

// need to debug? just check the casper output
var_dump($casper->getOutput());