WebBrowser.md

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;
}