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the url now has an 's' after the http $text = file_get_contents('https://www.xxx.com); and i get Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Failed to enable crypto in ....... i've tried adding the 's' to the file get contents above without luck and also added allow_url_fopen allow_url_include = On extension=php_openssl.dll allow_url_fopen = On to the php5.ini file (which is hosted in the webroot.) any ideas? thank you

SOLVED - i used a while loop to increase $h and reset every variable variable individually. maybe not the best way but it works. thanks all

Scootstah, in my example, doesn't unset only unset whatever $h is at that point in the code? If so I need to unset all keys used in the variable. Thank you.

Thanks. Maybe it's another part of code that is faulty as I have tried unset. (What is the advantage of not using variable variables?)

how do you unset or clear or empty a variable variable please? i have seen : unset($variable) but can't get this to work on variable variables. The one i am using is called ${"hcorner".$h} Any ideas please? Thank you.

Jazzman! Please get rid of the log in details!

Please may you remove the password and user before it's changed!

DM ing you now JM

Hi jazzman. I am not keen to share my user details (even via DM). Really sorry but hope you understand. Could you (or me?) regester another account? It's free. Thanks for your time.

Thanks. Unfortunately my knowledge is not that good. I don't understand how that script logs in anywhere. Really sorry!

i know that if i go to this page http://www.bet365.com/extra/en/results-and-archive/results/?fromdate=13/09/2014%2000:00&searchpath=result&fixtureid=46827110&period=99&challengeid=26278650&competitionid=999999&sportid=1&sportdesc=soccer&todate=14/09/2014%2000:00&languageid=1&zoneid=1 i then log in and it arrives back at the same page, but with full access. There is no other page to visit, as I thought before.

Thanks Jacques1, I appreciate your advice. I am afraid I have no idea what a simple test script would look like? I am well in the deep end here.

ok, had a look at those, thank you. I get a blank page returned from this code: //init curl $ch = curl_init(); //Set the URL to work with curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // ENABLE HTTP POST curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); //Set the post parameters curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'user='.$username.'&pass='.$password); //Handle cookies for the login curl_setopt($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 the request (the login) $store = curl_exec($ch); //the login is now done and you can continue to get the //protected content. //set the URL to the protected file curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $grab); //execute the request $content = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); echo $content; $username, $password are set as my login variables and $url = 'http://www.bet365.com'; $grab = 'http://www.bet365.com/extra/en/results-and-archive/results/?Fromdate=13%2f09%2f2014+00%3a00&SearchPath=result&FixtureId=46827110&Period=99&ChallengeId=26278650&CompetitionId=999999&SportId=1&SportDesc=Soccer&Todate=14%2f09%2f2014+00%3a00&LanguageId=1&Zoneid=1'; any suggestions please?

Thank you I will do. So if I search for Curl log in ?? Please could you advise me on what I am looking for ? Really basic question but is it just curl?

thank you. please could you direct me to a good starting point for this - something similar? do you think that it is possible? I am a novice but keen to learn. don't know much about curls but a little about php other than this.

i am trying to do a "file get contents" from the following website http://www.bet365.com/home/ It is necessary to input your account username and password here, and then I want to get the contents of this page http://www.bet365.com/extra/en/results-and-archive/results/?Fromdate=13%2f09%2f2014+00%3a00&SearchPath=result&FixtureId=46827110&Period=99&ChallengeId=26278650&CompetitionId=999999&SportId=1&SportDesc=Soccer&Todate=14%2f09%2f2014+00%3a00&LanguageId=1&Zoneid=1 I have tried a couple of scripts but just can't seem to get it to work. I have tried $context = stream_context_create(array( 'http' => array( 'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$username:$password") ) )); $data = file_get_contents($url, false, $context); echo $data; with the username and password and url entered as variables. but get the message Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.bet365.com/extra/en/results-and-archive/results/?Fromdate=13%2f09%2f2014+00%3a00&SearchPath=result&FixtureId=46827110&Period=99&ChallengeId=26278650&CompetitionId=999999&SportId=1&SportDesc=Soccer&Todate=14%2f09%2f2014+00%3a00&LanguageId=1&Zoneid=1) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in "myscript's address" on line 13 Maybe i don't need to visit the homepage first to log in? Any ideas please? Thank you apologies for the message being in code quotes, I wrote it in Word but then couldn't paste it, even using the special Word paste button. Hope the message comes out ok. Thank you.