PHP CURL And Cookie

[ebg]

With CURL is there a way to grab the cookie id from a web page that is visited via curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); and then ensure it is sent with a post?

If so can someone tell me how to do it?

Thank you.

[bogu]

CURL, Client URL Library Functions
Predefined Constants

CURLOPT_POST: Set this option to a non-zero value if you want PHP to do a regular HTTP POST. This POST is a normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind, most commonly used by HTML forms.

Curl also has support for cookies. Cookie handling with curl is very simple. There are three options built into curl, CURLOPT_COOKIE, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE. CURLOPT_COOKIE is used to set a cookie for the current session. CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR stores the location of a file to store the cookies received when the session is closed. CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE stores the location of a file containing cookies written in either Netscape format or raw HTTP header style.

[ebg]

bogu wrote:

CURL, Client URL Library Functions
Predefined Constants

CURLOPT_POST: Set this option to a non-zero value if you want PHP to do a regular HTTP POST. This POST is a normal application/x-www-form-urlencoded kind, most commonly used by HTML forms.

Curl also has support for cookies. Cookie handling with curl is very simple. There are three options built into curl, CURLOPT_COOKIE, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, and CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE. CURLOPT_COOKIE is used to set a cookie for the current session. CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR stores the location of a file to store the cookies received when the session is closed. CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE stores the location of a file containing cookies written in either Netscape format or raw HTTP header style.

bogu -

Thank you for the reply. I have the CURLOPT_POST, working on this one form, but I am trying to do another form and it is not working. I have determined the site may be checking the HTTP_REFERER so I also tried using curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url); but the post is still not working. In reviewing Live Headers I noticed there is the following line:

Cookie: CTG=1166484672; DM52091284BRV6=V1%r(#X"rz%%eeCiCe%%@@r%iez%zrze%"%%eeCiCe%%z%%eeCiCe%%"%%eeCiCe@B"%%eeCiCe%%@@r%ie"e%z(xB$FG:hfxB$_aI~ahFxB$FfIT_Ih_xB$~::dDGxBrxBimGxB^z7}z)OuKr6XrzA6FG:hf6_aI~ahF6FfIT_Ih_6~::dDGHomG9zu::dmIhd; WSS_GW=V1z%%eeCiCe%%

My guess is the site is assigning a cookie on the form and looking for this cookie on post. I tried the following lines in my code to handle the cookie, but have been unable to get them to work.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_WRITEHEADER, $cookie_new);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt"); 

Can you provide me specific guidance on how to handle the cookie with curl_setopt, I am not seeing it as I read the documentation.

Thank you.