curl.with.cookie.php

curl.with.cookie.php

<?php
// INIT CURL
$ch = curl_init();

// SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN
$url = 'your-url';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

// ENABLE HTTP POST
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

// SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'user=???&pass=????');

// IMITATE CLASSIC BROWSER'S BEHAVIOUR : HANDLE COOKIES
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');

# Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL
# not to print out the results of its query.
# Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
# from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false.
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// EXECUTE 1st REQUEST (FORM LOGIN)
$store = curl_exec ($ch);

$second_url = 'second url';
// SET FILE TO DOWNLOAD
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $second_url);

// EXECUTE 2nd REQUEST
$content = curl_exec ($ch);


// CLOSE CURL
curl_close ($ch);


?>