Checking for a table row using DomCrawler

Question

I am writing a phpunit test... on my page I have several rows, one of them is like this:

<tr><td>MATCH<small><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pushpin"></span></small></td></tr>

Some are like this:

<tr><td>NOT A MATCH 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>NOT A MATCH 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>NOT A MATCH 3</td></tr>

how can I run a test to check that the row with the pushpin glyphicon is the one with "MATCH"?

Basically I want the test to confirm that the glyphicon is appearing on the correct row, and just having something like $crawler->filter('small:contains("' . $glyphCode . '")')->count() only confirms that the glyph exists - not that it's in the right place.

Any help appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

You can use XPath Selectors with Symfony's DomCrawler.

To select your desired element use this XPath expression:

//td//small/span[@class="glyphicon glyphicon-pushpin"]

Then place it inside a PHPUnit assertion.

$this->assertEquals(1, 
   $crawler->filterXPath('//td//small/span[@class="glyphicon glyphicon-pushpin"]')->count()
);

I've used assertEquals 1 as expected value, to ensure that one element is found on the page.

Answer 2

Actually, the question can be treated as a string match problem. There are several different ways to do that.

• use PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

$ret = $html->find('td[class=*glyph]');

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• use regular expression in PHP

the pattern string may like /class="[^"]+glyph/

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• run grep command in the shell

$ grep glyph xxx.php