PHP Headless Browser?

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StackOverflowNewbie picture StackOverflowNewbie · Jul 5, 2011 · Viewed 25k times · Source

Is there a headless browser library for PHP? Would like something that has a JS engine built into it. FOSS preferred.

Answer

Anthony Hatzopoulos picture Anthony Hatzopoulos · Nov 16, 2012

PhantomJS - http://phantomjs.org/

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

You can couple it with something like php-PhantomjsRunner (now deprecated) if you want or bake your own.

When setup and ready to start testing with PhantomJS, pick out one of the various Testing Frameworks at your disposal.

I recently also came across this tutorial from tutsplus should it help anyone.

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