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String checks

Testomato allows you to create string checks for two types of page content. Those simple checks can be created for:

  1. HTML on page - represents raw source code that we downloaded from given URL
  2. Text on page - represents just readable text from given URL

String checks

Then you can use following operators:

  • contains - check that downloaded content contains given string with substr() PHP function
  • does not contain - check that content does not contain given string
  • equals - content is exactly same
  • matches - check that content match regular expression with preg_match() PHP function
  • does not match - check that content does not match

How regular expressions are processed

Section titled “How regular expressions are processed”

Testomato processes and escapes all users inputs including regular expressions. We are using { and } for wrapping your regex and also adding the following Pattern Modifiers:

  • u pattern and subject strings are treated as UTF-8. An invalid subject will cause the preg_* function to match nothing
  • m subject strings are treated as multi-line string

You can debug your regex with https://www.phpliveregex.com/ or https://phphub.net/regex/

When to use HTML on page vs Text on page?

Section titled “When to use HTML on page vs Text on page?”

HTML on page is content as downloaded from a given url, only encoded to utf8 - it's useful for checking all content including HTML tags or meta information in <head></head>.

Text on page is a subset of HTML on page - we just remove all markup (HTML tags, head, scripts etc.) and then apply all your checks.