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mazelab/phantomjsstarter
========================

Starts phantomjs sessions with webdriver support

1.3.0(9y ago)19.7k[1 issues](https://github.com/mazelab/phantomjsstarter/issues)MITPHP

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PhantomJS Starter
=================

[](#phantomjs-starter)

PHP helper class to start phantomjs sessions on demand. You could use it in functional test frameworks like behat/mink.

License
-------

[](#license)

The phantomjsstarter is open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

`composer require mazelab/phantomjsstarter --dev`

```
    "require-dev": {
        "mazelab/phantomjsstarter": "^1.0"
    }

```

API
---

[](#api)

The *Starter* constructor accepts the following parameters:

- `$port` - webdriver port number which is passed to the `--webdriver` option
- `$options` - other additional options. Defaults to `--proxy-type=none --ignore-ssl-errors=true`
- `$phantomJsPath` - path to the phantomjs executable. Defaults to global `phantomjs`

Example
-------

[](#example)

A *FeatureContext* file could look like this

```
    class FeatureContext extends MinkContext
    {
        /** @BeforeSuite */
        public static function setup(SuiteEvent $event)
        {
            // this will set the port
            $phantomjs = new Mazelab\Phantomjs\Starter(8643);
            $phantomjs->up();
        }

        /** @BeforeSuite */
        public static function setup2(SuiteEvent $event)
        {
            // this will set the port and tells the starter
            // to use the binary from node_modules/.bin
            $phantomjs = new Mazelab\Phantomjs\Starter(8643, null, 'node_modules/.bin/phantomjs');
            $phantomjs->up();
        }
        ...
```

And then your config file `behat.yml`

```
    default:
        context:
            class:  'FeatureContext'
        formatter:
            name:               pretty
            parameters:
                output_path:    null
        extensions:
            Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
                default_session: selenium2
                javascript_session: selenium2
                base_url: 'https://dev.myproject.com'
                selenium2:
                    wd_host: "http://localhost:8643/wd/hub"
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 71.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~193 days

Recently: every ~185 days

Total

7

Last Release

3287d ago

### Community

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