Question

In a functional test in symfony, sfTestBrowser provides methods

• click() “Simulates a click on a link or button.”
• select() “Simulates selecting a checkbox or radiobutton.”

and unselect().

But I have not found a way to simulate making a selection from a <select> element.

Does anybody know a way to do this?

Answer 1

This has troubled me too. I’m assuming you just want to set the value for form submission? If you know the value, you can of course just do

$browser->click('Save', array(
    'theselectfield' => 'desired_value'
));

But usually I don’t know the value I want posted, because it’s from a database-driven select box. So my solution is

$theOption = $browser->getResponseDomCssSelector()->matchAll('select[name*=name_of_select_field] option:contains(TheOptionTextYouWant)')->getNode();

$browser->setField('theselectfield', $theOption->getAttribute('value'));
... or use $browser->click() instead ...

Frustrating because you have to break out of the $browser call chain, in order to use getResponseDomCssSelector(), but I haven’t found an easier way.