parse multiple pages with curl session

[teamplaylotto]

Hi,

I'm having trouble parsing multiple pages in a curl session..

 

I am using curl to parse a page that requires a cookie, I can do that fine and store the information that I need using

$result=curl_exec($ch);

 

and then parsing $result

 

after doing that, I want to go to another page and parse that one, I change the variable $url and then use

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); 

$result=curl_exec($ch);

 

but $result is the same page as the first one :-(

 

why am I getting the same contents for $result?

 

hope you can help

 

Andy

[chigley]

Can you paste your entire code please? It should be working if you redefine the URL and execute it again.

[teamplaylotto]

thanks for responding chigley, seeing as you said it should work I went through the code a bit more and found out why I was getting the same page, coz I'm stupid!!

 

I was putting $result into $rows by using explode() and parsing $rows to find the info, after the next curl_exec() I forgot to put the $result into $rows again so I was parsing the same array again and again, the $result was actually updating.

 

It took me all morning to write a new script that can take my login details and then store the cookie  after sending them to the login page and then going on to the prospects page, so I learned how to do that at least!! thats when I saw your message and looked back at my original code and found out what was wrong. doh!

 

I'm using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'cookiefrom livehttp headers'); after logging in to the site and copying the cookie contents from live http headers plugin and pasting it into the code which works as long I don't wait too long to run the script.

 

on my new script, I tried to parse the login page of the site to get the captcha image and display it on a form and then when the form is submitted, pass the captcha details to the script that will then try and log in with a set username and password but I'm having problems with the captcha image, I can get it and display it but when the form is processed, it comes up with "wrong code number" which is probably because I parse the page and then call the image again so it would have changed. hmmmm, need to figure that out!

 

thanks for answering