Select elements using Selenium Webdriver PHP? - selenium

Question

I have a number of page elements that I want to store in a variable and loop through using Selenium Webdriver PHP.
For example:
< cite > Name 1 < /cite >
< cite > Name 2 < /cite >
<cite > Name 3< /cite >
I am using the following code, but it doest give me the results from above(i.e. Name 1) etc. How do I grab the text from the element using Selenium Webdriver.
$users = $driver->findElements(
WebDriverBy::xpath('//cite')
)->getText();
foreach($users as $u)
{
echo $u;
}
I am using Selenium Webdriver Facebook wrapper

Answer 1

I don't really know PHP, but in Java, you'd do something similar to:
List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//cite"));
for (WebElement element: elements) {
System.out.println(element.getText());
}
Given that, I'd assume that the PHP equivalent would be something like this:
$users = $driver->findElements(WebDriverBy::xpath('//cite'));
foreach($users as $u)
{
echo $u->getText();
}

Answer 2

JimEvan's answer is correct. If you're getting a "non-object" type error, you should check to make sure the findElements() call is actually returning something:
$users = $driver->findElements(WebDriverBy::xpath('//cite'));
fwrite(STDOUT, "Number of users: " . count($users));
Perhaps it has something to do with the space characters in your element tags (just a guess)?

Answer 3

Correct Code is.
$users = $driver->findElements(WebDriverBy::xpath('//cite')); foreach($users as $u) {echo $u->getText();}