PlaywrightPHP

Visit a page

The simplest script: launch a browser, open a page, read the title.

The smallest thing the library does: start a browser, open a page, read something from it, close up.

Run it

bash
php content/examples/visit.php

Expected output:

text
Title: Example Domain

This is the fastest smoke check after installation: one browser, one page, one value read from the page.

Read from the DOM

php
$page->goto('https://example.com');

echo $page->locator('h1')->textContent().PHP_EOL;

if ($page->locator('a')->isVisible()) {
    $page->locator('a')->click();
}

Locators auto-wait, and they are strict: a locator that matches more than one element throws rather than picking one for you. Narrow it with first(), last(), or a better selector.

Switch engine

The same script runs on any of the three engines. Only the factory changes:

php
$context = Playwright::firefox();
// or
$context = Playwright::webkit();

Playwright::safari() is an alias of webkit().

What it demonstrates

  • Playwright::chromium() creates a browser context.
  • newPage() opens a tab.
  • goto() navigates to a URL.
  • title() reads page state back into PHP.

Go next

Source

visit.php
php
<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

/*
 * This file is part of the community-maintained Playwright PHP project.
 * It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
 *
 * (c) 2025-Present - Playwright PHP - https://github.com/playwright-php
 *
 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 * file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

require_once __DIR__.'/../../vendor/autoload.php';

use Playwright\Playwright;

$context = Playwright::chromium();
$page = $context->newPage();

$page->goto('https://example.com');
echo 'Title: '.$page->title();

$page->close();
$context->close();