login to a remote site with php; curl?

[fatkatie]

I'm a little familiar with Perl's lwp and I've scraped a few sites.  But I've never logged in remotely AND presented a 'protected' page to the user.

Is it possible to login remotely and then open a page for a user via a link?  We have the credentials but we're sick of the login dance.  I'll invest some time figuring it out if someone can tell me if this is even possible.

Thank you.

[fatkatie]

It's not working , but after a login,  can it be this simple?

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $gotoUrl);
$content = curl_exec($ch); 
echo $content;

 

[fatkatie]

Op... I think I'm on my way.  Feel free to nuke the post if you wish.  Thank you.