Check page for value

[EchoFool]

Hey,

 

I have a row of codes which i want to check on an external page exists in some kind of loop using CURL.

 

How ever the only way to obtain the codes on the external website is to be on index.php with POST name "showtype" set to 1. Otherwise they will not load the list.

 

Can some one explain how i load up such a page with a set POST on my site with CURL to check if the code exists based on the value from my array??

 

Hope you can help.

[teamatomic]

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/simplepost.html

This site will be your friend when learning curl, and even after you think you've learned it.

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[EchoFool]

Okay i got that but i have to be logged in on the external site which involves a different page to login first =/

 

Even though im logged in on my browser - how come CURL doesn't act like im logged in ? IS there some thing im missing here.

[EchoFool]

This is what i tried but i don't know what half of it does.

 

<?php

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/tmp/cookieFileName");   // no idea what this is
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.mydomain.com/?c=login");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=user1&password=test12&login=1&redir=1");


ob_start();      // prevent any output
curl_exec ($ch); // execute the curl command
ob_end_clean();  // stop preventing output

curl_close ($ch);
unset($ch);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // no idea what this is
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookieFileName"); // no idea what this is


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.domain.com/subfolder/index.php"); //here i need to send a secondary POST to get the list which i mentioned in my original first post! 

$buf2 = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

echo "<PRE>".htmlentities($buf2);
?>

[teamatomic]

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/tmp/cookieFileName");  // no idea what this is

The name and location of the cookie sent by the site so curl can use it.

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.domain.com/subfolder/index.php");

//here i need to send a secondary POST to get the list which i mentioned in my original first post!

 

Here is where you have to use the parts from the post example.

 

For any OPTS you dont understand do a bit of rtm'ing.

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

 

[EchoFool]

how would i know the location and name of the cookie for a particular site :S

[teamatomic]

Do a google

"IE where are my cookies"

"firefox where are my cookies"

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic

[EchoFool]

lol okay i get the idea - don't ask for help just google although google was what brought me here but never mind.

[teamatomic]

No, not at all. I have no idea what browser you use or what version it is. You however do, or at least should. So in the time it takes you to post the question you could google and have the answer.

 

Then after that you may have a relevant question like:

I use the latest firefox and it uses sqllite to store cookie...what do I do now??

 

 

HTH

Teamatomic