I'm experimenting with PHP Mink (installed as on nodejs cannot find module 'zombie' with PHP mink). I am trying to parse a webpage (which I have no control over), which has an element like this inside a form:
<input tabindex="5" value="Do Submit!" class="my_btn my_btn_2" type="submit"></input>
Notably, this <input> has neither id nor name, and so I cannot find a way to select this element.
I would rather avoid using XPath, because I wouldn't like to specifically specify a hierarchy path which can very well change in the future. I'd best like to look up a child inside the form, which has a value attribute with value Do Submit!, but I don't know how to specify that in Mink?
I created a minimal example demonstrating this; here is the HTML file:
selbtnnoid.htm
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
.my_form {
width: 50%;
border: 2px solid red;
}
.my_label {
font-size: large;
}
.my_input_2 {
font-size: medium;
}
.my_btn {
background-color: yellow;
}
.my_btn_2 {
font-size: large;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<p>Here is the form:</p>
<form method="post" action="wherever.php" id="my-form" class="my_form">
<h1>Some form here:</h1>
<p>
<label for="my-input-txt">
<span class="my_label">Some data:</span>
<input name="my-input-txt" id="my-input-txt" placeholder=" Enter data. " class="my_input_2" tabindex="1" type="text"></input>
</label>
</p>
<p>
<input tabindex="5" value="Do Submit!" class="my_btn my_btn_2" type="submit"></input>
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
... and here is the PHP file:
test_php_mink_selbtnnoid.php
<?php
$nodeModPath = "/home/USERNAME/.nvm/versions/node/v4.0.0/lib/node_modules";
putenv("NODE_PATH=".$nodeModPath); # doesn't really help; use setNodeModulesPath
# composer autoload for mink:
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
$zsrv = new \Behat\Mink\Driver\NodeJS\Server\ZombieServer();
$zsrv->setNodeModulesPath($nodeModPath . "/"); # needs to end with a trailing '/'
$driver = new \Behat\Mink\Driver\ZombieDriver( $zsrv );
$session = new \Behat\Mink\Session($driver);
// start the session
$session->start();
//~ $session->visit('selbtnnoid.htm'); // nope; status code: 0 if just called locally
//~ $session->visit('file:///path/to/selbtnnoid.htm'); // nope; Error: listen EADDRINUSE 127.0.0.1:8124
$session->visit('http://localhost:8090/selbtnnoid.htm'); // run php -S localhost:8090 in the folder with these two files
echo " current URL: " . $session->getCurrentUrl() ."
";
echo " status code: " . $session->getStatusCode() ."
";
$page = $session->getPage();
$myForm = $page->findById("my-form");
$myInput = $myForm->findField("my-input-txt");
# check if we have the element: // yes, displays 'my input tag is: input'
echo "my input tag is: ". $myInput->getTagName() ."
";
# try to get the button:
$myBtn = $myForm->findField("Do Submit!");
echo "button selected by value is: " . var_export($myBtn, true) ."
"; // NULL
$myBtn = $myForm->find('css', 'my_btn');
echo "button selected by css is: " . var_export($myBtn, true) ."
"; // NULL
?>
The script outputs:
$ php test_php_mink_selbtnnoid.php
current URL: http://localhost:8090/selbtnnoid.htm
status code: 200
my input tag is: input
button selected by value is: NULL
button selected by css is: NULL
So, how can I select / get a reference to this button element in this HTML file?
