Sending cookies to webpages, to grab them

[chuckaroo]

Hi, first, let me say this is a brill site, and now you have board I understand, I signed up 🙂

I would like to get a webpage into a variable (its html as you usually do). Usually I'd use something like readfile().

Let me explain what the script should do:

Visit a bulletin board, which requires cookies to be sent (its a you must login board 🙁 ), and get a specific page . I'm then going to preg_match out the recent topics.

So the problem is sending cookies to a page and getting the result, sockets perhaps?

thanks in advance 🙂
😃

[mikesgt2]

Here is a script i just wrote after reading your post to get the "user cp" page on this forum, it sends cookies with a http request.

<pre>
<?php

$cookies = array(
	'bbuserid'		=> 'useridhere',
	'bbpassword'	=> md5('yourpassword')
);

$host = 'www.phpbuilder.com';
$get = '/board/usercp.php';


$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);

if($fp) {

	$request = "GET $get HTTP/1.0\r\n";
	$request .= "Host: $host\r\n";
		if(sizeof($cookies)) {
			$c = array();
			$request .= 'Cookie: ';
				foreach($cookies as $k=>$v) {
					$c[] = "$k=$v";
				}
			$request .= implode('; ', $c);
			$request .= "\r\n";
		}
	$request .= "\r\n";

		if(fputs($fp, $request)) {

			$head = '';				
				while(!strstr($head, "\r\n\r\n")) {
					$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
					$head .= $line;
					list($k,$v) = explode(': ', $line);
						if(strtolower($k) == 'content-length') {
							$content_length = (int)trim($v);
						}
				}

			// now you have the body !!
			$body = fread($fp, $content_length);

		} else {
			print 'error: could not write';
		}

	fclose($fp);

} else {
	print 'error: could not connect';
}

?>
</pre>

if you want to log into a differnt board system you can find out the cookie names it uses from your temporary internet files. Then set the variables at the top of this script.

Hope this helps!