Error loading GoutteClient when using Behat/Mink

Question

I'm trying to use Behat/Mink in order to load a website.

I've used Composer for the installation, this is my composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "behat/mink": "*",

        "behat/mink-goutte-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-selenium-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-sahi-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-zombie-driver": "*"
    }
}

In order to make the installation I've ran the following commands:

$ curl http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ php composer.phar install

All was installed smoothly without any error messages.

This is my index.php file:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Behat\Mink\Mink,
    Behat\Mink\Session,
    Behat\Mink\Driver\GoutteDriver,
    Behat\Mink\Driver\Goutte\Client as GoutteClient,
    Behat\Mink\Driver\SahiDriver;

$startUrl = 'www.example.com';

// init Mink and register sessions
$mink = new Mink(array(
    'goutte1'    => new Session(new GoutteDriver(GoutteClient($startUrl))),
    'goutte2'    => new Session(new GoutteDriver(GoutteClient($startUrl))),
    'javascript' => new Session(new SahiDriver('firefox')),
    'custom'     => new Session(new MyCustomDriver($startUrl))
));

And I've tried to run it using this command:

$ php index.php

However I get the following error message:

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function GoutteClient() in index.php on line 14

Which refers to this line:

'goutte1'    => new Session(new GoutteDriver(GoutteClient($startUrl))),

The installation was done using the following documentation:

http://mink.behat.org/

The example was done following the documentation:

https://github.com/Behat/Mink

Any suggestions of what could I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

You forgot the "new" keyword before GoutClient. You should write:

 $mink = new Mink(array(
    'goutte1'    => new Session(new GoutteDriver(new GoutteClient($startUrl))),
    'goutte2'    => new Session(new GoutteDriver(new GoutteClient($startUrl))),
    'javascript' => new Session(new SahiDriver('firefox')),
    'custom'     => new Session(new MyCustomDriver($startUrl))
));

BTW: you don't have to initialize the GouteClient at all, GouteDriver should work just fine.

Here's a working example of Mink standalone: https://github.com/jakzal/web-scraper-demo