Looging onto an external website via a form

[PillBox]

Hi all,

My first post here. Think I'll be around a lot more.

I have created a website for the game trackmania. At the moment players who play on my game server are stored in my Mysql database. To register on the website, they select their username from the list and then supply a password. Obviously its a bad idea as anyone can log in with any ID.

I contacted Nadeo, they guys who created the game, and they say that I can validate a player if they enter a correct community code with their game login. This is where the problem lies.

They have given me this url : http://stats.trackmaniaforever.com/checkCommunityCode.php?login=...&code=... and they have supplied me with a username and password.

If you try using the login above, you will need the username and password, and that is not a problem. But I need my form to access the page, sending the players login and community code, then return the result (errorcode ; access rights).

How do I do this? I have looked at cURL but have no clue to what I am doing.

Any help would be great. Thanks all.

[NogDog]

Since they are accepting inputs via the URL ("get" method), if your web host has the PHP directive allow_url_fopen enabled, you could simply use [man]file_get_contents/man.

$url = sprintf(
   "http://stats.trackmaniaforever.com/checkCommunityCode.php?login=%s&code=%s",
   urlencode($_POST['login_name']),
   urlencode($_POST['login_code'])
);
$result = file_get_contents($url);

(Change the names of the $_POST variables to whatever fields your are using, or other variables, or whatever.)

[PillBox]

Thanks a lot, that worked perfectly.

[elribonazo]

I've just tested the code , but it isnt working....
i also have a Nadeo public account
I really don't recieve nothing if i execute that php from another php, executing it from a browser and sending the variables trough the url directly does work.

But i need to manage the variables to make a bucle
if they are correct do that if not do else

Please help xDD