Using PHP to login and retrieve

[Anon]

Ok, so I had this PHP script set up that would pull information off of an html page to be used in an online application I'm making and everything was going great... That is until the page I was pulling the information off of decided to require a login to access the information.

Previously, I could access the following page without any login:
http://baseball.smallworld.com/fullseason/main/manager_other.html?user_id=34696

However, now it requires you to be logged in first before you can view it. I've worked on some work-arounds, and I can login with a direct URL such as:
http://baseball.smallworld.com/fullseason/answer_login.html?username=Teamname&password=Password

But this URL does not have the information I need. Now here's the fun part: If you login in using the 2nd URL, you can then use the 1st URL (because, in effect, you're logged in). The problem is getting this to work in PHP.

I've tried the following to no avail:

<?

$url = "http://baseball.smallworld.com/fullseason/answer_login.html?username=Teamname&password=Password";

fopen($url, "r");

$team = "http://baseball.smallworld.com/fullseason/main/manager_other.html?user_id=34696";

$document = fopen($team, "r");

$content = fread($document, 999999);

echo $content;

?>

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Anon]

After doing some testing, I found out that I can use an HTML refresh to call the login page in one frame, and refresh another frame about 15 seconds later that will display the page with the info I need. Take a look at http://www.gleem.com/BaseballTracker/test.html for an example of what I mean. The left frame is the login frame and the right frame has the content I want.

HOWEVER, if I replace the html on the right hand side with the following PHP Script, it won't work:

<?

$url = "http://www.yahoo.com";

$doc = fopen($url, "r");

$content = fread($doc, 999999);

echo $content;

?>

You can see this example at http://www.gleem.com/BaseballTracker/test2.html
By the way, the above example (test2.html) works fine if I have yahoo.com as the URL in the php, just not if I have the internal URL I need to use)
Any help is appreciated.