MinkGoutteDriver VS Goutte

We found the related issue on the Guzzle GitHub repository and we noticed a fix had been released with version 6.3 of this library. Hurray, we can bump Guzzle version to 6.3 and overcome the problem! But looking at BehatPageObjectExtension’s composer.json we’ve soon realized that Guzzle isn’t a direct dependency managed by us. “It’s not a big deal” I thought as Guzzle was required by Goutte and we require Goutte through its Mink driver,so I expected to find some tagged version of Goutte and the Mink Driver with this requirements bump. Sadly I found it wasn’t the case as Guzzle is required in Goutte with ^6.0 (so, basically every version between 6 and 7) and this includes the versions with the warning described above. Therefore in our case the warning was displayed as a “side effect” of deps=low that requires indirectly Guzzle 6.0 as is the lowest dependency accepted.

Look into Goutte (https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/Goutte). It has a simple API and you can extract text/links with ease by targeting CSS selectors. I have used it for a similar task before, you should be done within a day, max 2.

But this process will fail if the source site changes. Its better to look at parsing HTML code instead if using sub-strings. There are some nice libraries like Goutte that can help you with scraping a site.

Without discussing if it’s right or wrong to keep a version of third party code that could break everthing (take a look at this PR), we were suddenly at a crossroads: drop the deps=low and give up on this kind of tests or dig in the Composer manual and look for something that could possibly help us: you guessed right, conflict is what we needed (thanks to jakzal!).

I recommend looking into something more modern like Goutte. The GitHub page has some documentation.