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codeigniter-curl.php

<?php
$url = 'http://www.website.com/login.php';
$postdata = array('username' => "Jamie",'password' => "password");

$ch = curl_init();
if($ch){
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt'); // set cookie file to given file
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt'); // set same file as cookie jar

   $content = curl_exec($ch);
   $headers = curl_getinfo($ch);				

   curl_close($ch);

   // Debug option
   // print_r($headers);

   if($headers['http_code'] == 200){ 
      echo $content;
   }
}
?>