[FIXED] How to use two browsers in selenium with phpunit

Issue

I need to make a test using two browser windows at the same time. I am using phpunit with selenium.

Example:

1. Open browser1 and navigate to some url
2. Copy some dynamic content
3. Open browser2, navigate to other url, fill a form with the content of step 2 and submit the form.

I cannot navigate to the url in step 3 from the browser1 because then it will not work.

Right now I cannot open browser2, every attempt I do will use browser1.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Solution

Thanks Keith Tyler. I played a bit with the code and finally I was able to do it.

I will put the code here because it may be usefull for someone.

First thing is to create a class extending PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase:

class Browser extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Selenium2TestCase
{   
    public function __construct(){
        parent::__construct();
        $this->setHost("127.0.0.1");
        $this->setPort(4444);
        $this->setBrowser("firefox");
        $this->setBrowserUrl("url");
        $this->prepareSession(); // this does the trick
    }   
}

Then you can use it like this:

$this->url("url1"); // $this will be the default browser
$browser2 = new Browser(); // $browser2 is the new browser and has all the functions from phpunit and selenium available
$browser2->url("url2");

Hope it will save time to someone.

Answered By - Lucas Gonzalez