php-webdriver/php-webdriver

Features

• WebDriver Implementations - Provides a full implementation of the W3C WebDriver protocol for controlling browsers via PHP.
• Browser Automation Frameworks - Provides a programmatic framework for controlling web browsers to automate user interactions and verify UI states.
• Browser Instance Management - Programmatically starts, configures, and terminates web browser sessions locally or remotely.
• JSON-RPC Implementations - Implements the JSON-RPC protocol over HTTP to communicate with the WebDriver wire protocol server.
• Session State Management - Maintains unique session identifiers to track and control specific browser instances across requests.
• Browser Automation - Simulates user interactions such as clicking and typing to verify frontend behavior.
• Element Interaction - Simulates user inputs on web elements, including clicking, typing, and triggering mouse events.
• WebDriver Protocol Implementations - Implements the W3C WebDriver standard to enable communication between PHP applications and browser drivers like ChromeDriver.
• WebDriver Client Libraries - Provides a PHP client library for automating web browser interactions via the WebDriver protocol.
• Element State Verifications - Verifies if elements are displayed or if selectable options like checkboxes are currently selected.
• Page Condition Synchronization - Pauses script execution until specific DOM conditions are met, ensuring automation stability.
• Headless Browser Controllers - Acts as a controller for managing the lifecycle and execution of browser sessions in both headless and headed modes.
• UI Element Interactions - Performs direct actions on interface objects such as checking boxes and selecting radio buttons.
• Element Locators - Identifies and selects specific page elements using various selectors such as CSS and ID.
• Browser Automation - Provides programmatic control of web browsers for tasks like end-to-end testing and data extraction.
• JavaScript Execution Bridges - Enables the execution of arbitrary JavaScript snippets within the browser context and retrieves the results.
• Browser Navigations - Directs the browser to open specific webpages via the provided URL address.
• Data Extractions - Retrieves text content, HTML attributes, and DOM properties from specific elements using selectors.
• Browser Navigation - Controls browser navigation to specific URLs and manages page load events.
• Browser Session Managers - Starts and manages remote browser sessions by connecting to a WebDriver server with specific capabilities.
• Automation Wait Conditions - Provides mechanisms to block execution until specific DOM elements, text, or JavaScript conditions are met during browser automation.
• Browser Capability Configuration - Configures browser behavior, preferences, and custom profiles for automated sessions.
• Browser Driver Management - Manages the startup and shutdown of local browser driver executables automatically.
• Process Lifecycle Management - Automatically manages the lifecycle of local browser driver binaries as child processes.
• Driver Integration - Provides specific support for launching and managing Firefox browser instances.
• Window Management - Adjusts window size, toggles fullscreen mode, and switches between different browser window handles.
• Capability Negotiation Protocols - Handles the negotiation of browser capabilities and versions during the session handshake.
• Browser Screenshot Capture - Captures screenshots of the current browser view or specific page elements.
• Client-Server Architectures - Uses a client-server architecture to translate high-level PHP commands into driver-level API calls.
• Command Patterns - Encapsulates browser actions as command objects for serialization and transmission to remote drivers.
• DOM Presence Polling - Implements polling loops to verify the presence of DOM elements before continuing execution.
• Alert Handling - Interacts with browser-native JavaScript alerts, confirmations, and prompts by accepting or dismissing them.
• Automatic Frame Switching - Moves the driver focus between the main document and various iframes to interact with nested content.
• Automated End-to-End Testing - Enables automated validation of complex user flows and interface interactions through programmatic browser control.
• Browser Cookie Management - Creates, deletes, and retrieves browser cookies to manage session state and user preferences.
• Form Management - Handles complex form interactions, including dropdown selections and radio button groups.
• Form Submission Clients - Triggers form submissions by calling the submit method or clicking the submit button.
• Shadow DOM Traversal - Allows navigation into and interaction with elements inside encapsulated shadow roots.
• Chrome DevTools Protocols - Provides the ability to send low-level commands via the Chrome DevTools Protocol for advanced browser manipulation.
• Browser Configuration Profiles - Defines and manages distinct browser environments and settings via configuration profiles before launching sessions.

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