Click an option in dropdown menu using PHP Selenium Webdriver?

Question

I am using PHP Selenium Webdriver wrapper by Facebook. Can anyone please give me an example of how to click or select an option from a select drop down menu?

I have tried this:

$test = $driver->findElement( WebDriverBy::id('drop1').WebDriverBy::cssSelector("option[value='11']"));
$test->‌​click();

but it errors out:

Message : Object of class WebDriverBy could not be converted to string

Solution 1

Try the below code.

$test = $driver->findElement("css selector", 'select[id="drop1"] option[value='11']');
$test->‌​click();

Solution 2

It should be

$test = $driver->findElement( WebDriverBy::id('drop1') )
               ->findElement( WebDriverBy::cssSelector("option[value='11']") )
               ->click();

If you are working on "select" tag, use WebDriverSelect instead.

$select = new WebDriverSelect($driver->findElement(WebDriverBy::id('drop1')));
$select->selectByValue('11');

Solution 3

Do you want click or select item? If select than follow: Facebook framework helper

Works like:

$selectingContainer = $driver->findElement("locator");

$selection = new WebDriverSelect($selectingContainer);

$selection->selectByVisibleText($text);

"locator" - it is locator for dropdown menu element.

Comments

[HemChe]

check if this link can help you !

[condo1234]

not 100% sure how that would work for the Facebook wrapper, do you have an example

[condo1234]

I tried this: $test = $driver->findElement( WebDriverBy::id('drop1').WebDriverBy::cssSelector("option[va‌​lue='11']"));$test->‌​click(); but it errors out: "Message: Object of class WebDriverBy could not be converted to string"

[Sohail Ahmad]

If I have to select another select list so I have to create new instance for it?