It must be kept running while you start your tests. Don't forget to always call quit() at the end so that the geckodriver process is terminatedįor this case, you start geckodriver instance by yourself. Or you can define the environment variable before starting the PHP script: $ export WEBDRIVER_FIREFOX_DRIVER=/path/to/geckodriver When geckodriver binary is installed elsewhere, define path to the binary using WEBDRIVER_FIREFOX_DRIVER environment variable: putenv('WEBDRIVER_FIREFOX_DRIVER=/path/to/geckodriver') If you installed geckodriver in your system PATH, you can start it like this without any additional steps: $driver = FirefoxDriver::start() This is suitable for simple cases, when you run the browser locally on your computer. In this case php-webdriver takes care of starting and setting up geckodriver process. Start GeckodriverĪs with other browsers, there are multiple ways how to start Geckodriver instance, each suitable for different scenario. This is most easily done by using latest stable version of Firefox and the latest released version of Geckodriver. ⚠️ Make sure you have compatible version of Firefox and Geckodriver. ℹ️ Geckodriver may be available in some Linux distributions (for example as firefox-geckodriver package in Ubuntu), so you can install the latest version using your system package manager. See official Selenium documentation covering PATH setup.

Make sure the path to geckodriver/ geckodriver.exe is in your system PATH, so that you can easily start it. To use Geckodriver, you will need to download geckodriver/ geckodriver.exe executable. Browser driver is a binary file which enables the browser to be controlled using WebDriver protocol. However, this is not enough, as each supported browser also needs its browser driver, in the case of Firefox it is Geckodriver (the name came from 'Gecko' - browser engine used by Firefox). Contentsįirst you need to install the Firefox browser. This page covers specifics of using php-webdriver with Firefox browser and Geckodriver.

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