Getting PHP to login to a site not using http_auth

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Well Im not sure if this is possible but PHP has amazed many previous times and I hope it will do it again so here goes...

I need to be able to use 'file' or 'fopen' to open a web page url, easy enough however this time the page i am trying to open needs a login and password (which I have). Is there a way to get php to login to the page somehow before it tries to open the page? Im running this file from a remote linux server so I cant use IE's cookie either.

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks a lot in advance!
Kevin

Weedpacket

You could simulate the login page. Get the login page, and examine its form (you say it's not using http_auth, so I guess we're talking about an html form).

The cURL functions are nice at this point; you can build an http POST request that mimics what the login page would have sent to the server (action, method, fields, etc.), send that to the server (it will look to the server like you filled in the real login form and submitted it), and get back the response.

You could use fsockopen() instead, but now you'll have to do the http yourself.

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The problem is that after I log into the page (I thunk I got the cURL stuff right and assume it gets logged in) I need to then have php open pages that arent the result of the login....they are pages that require you to login but are not the 'Thanks for logging in page.." does that make sense?

Heres some of the code I came up with so far....

$URL="www.axiagolf.com/gametrack/login_check.asp";
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://$URL");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "t_user_name=test&t_password=test&c_save_login=1");curl_exec ($ch);

//curl_close ($ch);

$file = "http://www.axiagolf.com/gametrack/course/course_profile.asp?strCourseID=00001;

the variable $file never gets opened I assume because the site no loger knows that I am logged in....please let me know if I am doing something wrong.

Thanks again,
Kevin