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Selenium Handler

Download, Start & Stop Selenium Server with PHP >= 5.4 as a kind of a client or by command line.

This package was written to avoid downloading selenium by hand and to avoid those complex commands to make selenium to start. It also allows you to use it with-in your own package.

Installation

With Composer:

Usage

In your application

You can create a downloader, a starter, a stopper and a watcher. E.g. to create a starter:

Then you can call:

And it will just work.

Of course, you can also change de default settings. This is done by calling options classes that each one if this has. E.g. to change a setting for the starter:

You can also create a "handler" that will allow you to start, stop, download, etc. through one single class.

see the tests and the built-in commands for more examples, or open an issue

Built-in commands

get selenium

(it will download to current directory by default)

You can set the destination directory with

You can set the selenium version with

start selenium

You can give the selenium location with

Optionally, you may choose whether or not you want to use xvfb

You can throw selenium options too. For example: You can set the firefox profile to use:

You can also set how much you are willing to wait for selenium to start (in seconds)

stop selenium

Tips & Tricks

You can also tail the selenium log after start with follow option:

You can even track a specific log level

This can be specially useful if you start selenium in the background before running tests.

Then if some error happens you will see it in your test log / output.