Using a PHP interactive prompt utility with Selenium RC makes it easier to debug Selenium tests.

playing with phpsh + selenium rc

* Download and open Selenium RC from seleniumhq.org

* Download and install phpsh from phpsh.org
        [terminal-1$ sudo ln -s /home/ubuntu/Apps/phpsh/phpsh /usr/local/bin/phpsh

* Start Selenium RC Server (in a new terminal window)
        [terminal-2]$ cd /home/ubuntu/Apps/selenium-remote-control-1.0-beta-2/
        [terminal-2]$ cd selenium-server-1.0-beta-2/
        [terminal-2]$ java -jar selenium-server.jar 

* Go to the Selenium PHP client library directory
        [terminal-1]$ cd /home/ubuntu/Apps/selenium-remote-control-1.0-beta-2/
        [terminal-1]$ cd selenium-php-client-driver-1.0-beta-2/
        [terminal-1]$ ls
        doc  GoogleTest.php  MockBrowserTest.php  PEAR  SeleniumTest.php  
        TestSuiteHeadless.php  TestSuite.php

* Launch phpsh
        [terminal-1]$ phpsh

* "Hello, Google!" 
        php> set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . './PEAR/');
        php> require_once 'Testing/Selenium.php';
        php> 
        php> $selenium = new Testing_Selenium("*firefox", "http://www.google.com");
        php> $selenium->start()
        php> $selenium->open('/')
        php> $selenium->type("q", "hello world")
        php> $selenium->click("btnG")

* Cleanup
        php> $selenium->stop()
        php> exit