[Codeception] Acceptance testing with session variables

Hi everybody,

I like to use the awesome codeception framework to perform acceptance test for my application. But I think I currently couldn't find the clue to deal with session.

I have the following setup:

routes.php

Route::get('/', function()
{
    session_start();
 $session = $_SESSION;
    session_write_close();

    if(array_key_exists('user', $session))
        return 'success';

    return 'fail';
});

acceptance.suite.yml:

class_name: AcceptanceTester
modules:
   enabled: [WebDriver]
   config:
      WebDriver:
         url: 'http://localhost/bart/testing/public/'
         browser: phantomjs
         capabilities:
             webStorageEnabled: true

SessionCest.php

<?php
use \AcceptanceTester;

class SessionCest
{
    public function _before(AcceptanceTester $I)
    {
        $_SESSION = [
            'active' => 1,
            'user' => 'bart',
            'expire' => time() + 600,
            'role' => -1
        ];
    }

    public function _after(AcceptanceTester $I)
    {
    }

    public function tryToTest(AcceptanceTester $I)
    {
        $I->amOnPage('/');
        $I->see('success');
    }
}

The problem is, that I always get "fail" instead of "success" - no matter what I change. So I would like to know, whether there is any way to set session variables before the suite runs?

Thanks and best regards!

bart

11 years ago

Best Answer

Level 13

Okay, it wasn't an easy one but I found the solution myself.

First of all you have to add the capability --cookies-file=[path to cookie file] for phantomjs. Then I do the following:

session_start();
$cookieData = file_get_contents([path to cookie file]);
$phpSessionId = substr($cookieData, strpos($cookieData, 'PHPSESSID=') + 10, 26);

session_id($phpSessionId);

$_SESSION = [
   'status' => 1,
   'expire' => time() + 600,
   'user' => 'bart',
   'role' => [-1],
];

session_write_close();

Flatline

11 years ago

Level 2

I'm not that familiar with codeception, but I think the Laravel4 module should be able to handle that just fine.

bart

11 years ago

Level 13

@Flatline, you are totally right, but I have to use the default PHP session variable, because this part of code is just a module from our codebase, uses default PHP without any framework - currently. But I'm there to change it ;)

Flatline

11 years ago

Level 2

@bart ah, got it. Good luck with that! Hope you can get them to change :)

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