A little curl help

[Rifts]

Hey Guys!

 

I have never used curl before but I have a little knowledge of it. Before I embark on this small project I have a quick question.

 

What I'm trying to do is this; use curl to login into my utility bill website and grab the new total of my bill then email me the total.

 

Is it possible using curl to grab info like that? Are there limitations as to certain sites curl can and cannot log into?

 

Thanks

 

[Kieran Menor]

That should be perfectly possible, yes.

[Rifts]

awesome thanks I'm googling a tutorial for this. If you know any off the top of your head let me know.

 

thanks

[Kieran Menor]

I don't, sorry, but feel free to ask if you get stuck.

[Rifts]

ok so i'm using this code:

 

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

// SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.aps.com/');

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

// SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'username=mylogin&passoword=mypassword');

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

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

// CLOSE CURL
curl_close ($ch); 

?>

 

Now when I run this i just get a blank screen. How do I know if its logging in or not?

 

Also lets pretend it does login, how can I grab a value from the page it logged into?

 

Thanks

[Rifts]

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