[SOLVED] PHP cUrl - Nothing happening.

[liamthebof]

Hello, yet again.

 

I am making another php script which requires a login to get the page a data I require. I have used cUrl before, but I still do not know very much. I used Live headers to get the required postfields but still no luck.

 

$url = "http://xxxxxxx.net/index.php?action=login";
$post = "user=xxxx&passwrd=xxxx&cookieneverexp=on";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');

//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $output;

 

The output is the login page with nothing changed. Not logged in, no 'incorrect password'. Ect.

 

Any ideas. No doubt there is a very easy solution.

 

Another note, it is a SMF forum, if that makes a difference.

[aggrav8d]

Check which page the index.php form redirects to on login.  you might have to send your first curl request somewhere like login.php to get access and then send your "real" request to the page you actually want.

[liamthebof]

Its stays on index.php.

 

On another note, I think this may be related.

 

This is an example of the cookie received when using liveheaders.

Cookie: PHPSESSID=5c8febe59114b15ee507b1e032958ec6; SMFCookie463=a%3A4%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A2%3A%2243%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A40%3A%22b56f140351f568fd7894418dc6dab2b18fef755c%22%3Bi%3A2%3Bi%3A1434907814%3Bi%3A3%3Bi%3A1%3B%7D

 

Furthermore, my cookie.txt file is not being edited.

 

[MadTechie]

I thought the login got posted to http://xxxxxxx.net/index.php?action=login2 on SMF forum

[liamthebof]

OK, the key was in the login2, thank-you very much. I am not sure why, as login displays a login form, but it works so thankyou.