Posted by Marlin Forbes on 01/18/08 09:42

mr_marcin wrote:
> Hi
>
> Does anybody have some idea how to input some text into inputbox on
> one page, than press some button on that page, that will load another
> page, and finally read the responde? Suppose I want to write a price
> comparision engine, where I would like to parse shops website for
> price each time user wants.

Hi there,

SimpleTest has a class included called SimpleBrowser, which does what
you want, with a very intuitive API. It's not too fast tho...

SimpleTest: http://www.lastcraft.com/simple_test.php

Or, you can interactively setup browsing sessions with the Selenium IDE
and then use the PHP client for the Selenium Remote Control to run them...

Selenium IDE: http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/
Selenium RC: http://www.openqa.org/selenium-rc/
PHP Client for Selenium: http://pear.php.net/package/Testing_Selenium

Misc:
http://blog.thinkphp.de/archives/133-Practical-Testing-PHP-Applications-with-Selenium.html


Regards,
Marlin Forbes
Freelance Developer
Data Shaman
datashaman.com
+27 (0)82 501-6647

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