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phpquery - WebBrowser.wiki

WebBrowser is a phpQuery plugin that mimics behaviors of web browser. Thanks to that developer can simulate user's behavior inside a PHP script.

Supported

  • Link navigation (click event)
  • Form navigation (submit event)
  • Cookies (thought Zend_Http_CookieJar)
  • Relative links
  • document.location (not an object, yet)

Use cases

  • Fill forms and submit them easly
  • Login to secure pages and collect content
  • Write test cases reproducing browsing proccess

Example 1

Adding web browser functionality to existing phpQuery object and submiting the form. ->WebBrowser('callback')->find('form')->submit()->...

Example 2

Querying Google against "search phrase": require_once('phpQuery/phpQuery.php'); phpQuery::browserGet('http://www.google.com/', 'success1'); function success1($browser) { $browser ->WebBrowser('success2') ->find('input[name=q]') ->val('search phrase') ->parents('form') ->submit(); } function success2($browser) { print $browser; }