Urgent Curl help please

[raydawg]

I'm having a problem getting Curl to work properly...and I know its because of this unique situation, so I'm hoping a CURL expert can help me out.

 

I'm trying to access this URL (public search form) using CURL and grab the HTML contents

http://enterprisedirectory.ucr.edu/phone/tel_search.show

 

Now the problem is that in order to access that site, a Cookie must be set.  For the web browser if you attempt to access the site, it redirects you to http://enterprisedirectory.ucr.edu, sets the cookie then sends you back.  In PHP if I call curl on this site, instead of grabbing the contents it physically redirects the browser to http://enterprisedirectory.ucr.edu (thus leaving my script) and then back to the search page (still not in my script)

 

So im thinking the only way to do this is to use CURL, pass a cookie along with the CURL requests and then it will not do the redirect on me.  Well the problem with that is when I view my cookies I can see the cookie that was set, but in my cookies.txt (or Cookie folder in IE) there is no record of this cookie!!??

 

So i tried doing this and creating a cookie file with the contents

enterprisedirectory.ucr.edu    TRUE    /phone/    TRUE    1181508361    SearchID    5851

 

Then in PHP use this

$ch = curl_init();

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,120);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");

//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

     

$results = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

 

That did not work, but Im assuming I did it wrong.  Can someone please help me out with this, I really need to get this working.  After about 5 hours of this im pulling my hair out and begging for help.

Thank you

-Ray