cURL HELP simple login not working

[iBuddy]

Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, because I just can't pin point. I have googled and searched through this site and I'm stumped.

Objective: Make a simple login cURL script (this is my site)

Link: http://www.crackarcade.com

cURL script:

<?php
    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.crackarcade.com");
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=games&password=games");
    curl_exec ($curl);
    curl_close ($curl);
echo $curl;
?> 

 

HTML code of login:

 <form action="http://www.crackarcade.com/index.php?action=login" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="PHPSESSID" value="faba60f6b18c0b0f2124aed1dbf5238b" />
	Username:<br><input type="text" name="username" maxlength="20" size="20"><br>
	Password:<br><input type="password" name="password" maxlength="20" size="20"><br>
	<input type="checkbox" name="remember" value="1" checked="checked">&nbsp;Remember me<br>
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Log In">
	</form>

When running the script it does not fill in the username or password

[Weedpacket]

Why do you need cURL to log in to your own site? Can't you just use the database directly?

But anyway; note that the URL in your form doesn't match the URL in the cURL submission.

It also depends on what sort of server-side form validation your index.php is doing (is it checking that $_POST['submit'] is set, for example?)

[iBuddy]

Ok I need to log in and then once confirmed logged in goto a certain page, how would I go about that?

See after I log in I want to be able to redirect the curl to http://www.crackarcade.com/category/1/Action

the reason for doing this is a lot of reasons, one is because some of my sites are on different ded servers. I want my other sites to pull this information of the latest games. A couple other reasons too but thats the main one. I have to be logged in for this to work tho.