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An Introduction to PHP for automating - REGEX, CURL and other basics - "Let's Automate"

Name: An Introduction to PHP for automating - REGEX, CURL and other basics - "Let's Automate"
Uploaded: 2017-03-24T14:27:21+00:00
Duration: 10 min 56 s

EvilTester - Software Testing

In this video I provide an overview of PHP with basic functions for automating web applications.

► An introduction to PHP

► An overview of REGEX in PHP

► Screen Scraping Web Site using PHP

► Processing JSON in PHP

► Add assertions to live code to guard against application changes

► A walkthrough of the code I use to automate Instagram using PHP.

- A quick overview of PHP as an option for Automating Web Applications

- this is not 'test automation', this is me automating some tasks

- I am not using a test framework and I am not asserting anything

- But PHP is pretty easy to install and is available on most web servers so is pretty simple

- PHP is a scripting language and is embedded within HTML so I create an HTML page, call it .php and anything within angled brackets and `?php ... ?` is executed as PHP

- PHP manual is pretty good http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php

- important functions I have used to automate Instagram are

- cURL - `curl_init`

- http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-init.php

- JSON - `json_decode` and `json_encode`

- http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php

- `preg_match` for REGEX

- http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php

- I like the PHP manual

- pretty much every function has examples so you can see how to use it

- with comments from people using it

- My PHP is pretty hacky