php login to other site using curl

[fix3r]

I want to use php to login to another site and then go to that site using the screen name I was logged into and view a webpage on that site and submit a form and searching for text

 

mostly, i need help logging into that site through a php script.. how would I go about doing this

[fix3r]

<?php

$headers = array("User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0. Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8");

$url="THE WEBSITE";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "email=email&pass=pass");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$store = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print_r($store);

?>

 

Okay, I got the login to work. Now, how would I make it go to an existing page with the login information and then submit a whole new form? That I am a little confused about.

[fix3r]

Okay, sorry for spam. It seems that this code still outputs the html of the site. How do I make it not output the site at all?

 

$url="WEBSITE";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies1.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies1.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "ALL MY FIELDS");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$store = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
//print($store);

[chigley]

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.externalsite.co.uk/login.php");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=foo&password=bar");

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

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$login = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.externalsite.co.uk/memberspage.php");

$members = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

?>

You now have a variable, $members, which contains the HTML output of memberspage.php after logging in with the username foo and password bar.

Hope that helps.. and works!