Need help loggin to a site with cURL

[jdeer0618]

To all the great PHP folks out there,

I want to automate some tasks from a site and this requires me to log in. I am pretty new to cURL and just cannot seem to get this right.

I really thing the problem is the POSTFIELDS but I just don't know. Have have use LiveHeaders and put that info but no combination seems to get me anywhere. Any help would be really appreciated. Here is the code:

<?php
/
Coded By: Chad Scira (if you remove this, you will spontainously combust)

Gives you the ability to run a full blown CURL call with just a url and an array

@var string
@var array
/
function curl_http_request ($url, $options)
{
$handle = curl_init($url);
foreach ($options as $option => $value) curl_setopt($handle, constant($option), $value);
ob_start();
$buffer = curl_exec($handle);
ob_end_clean();
curl_close($handle);
return $buffer;
}

curl_http_request('http://www.pagepluscellular.com/dealers.aspx', array(
'CURLOPT_POST' => true,
'CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION' => true,
'CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS' => 'ctl02_GlobalMenu1_uxLogin_txtDealerCode=XXXXXXXXXX&ctl02_GlobalMenu1_uxLogin_txtPassword=XXXXXXXXX&ctl02_GlobalMenu1_xLogin_txtPasswordTemp=PASSWORD&ctl02_GlobalMenu1_uxLogin_btnSubmit=submit',
'CURLOPT_USERAGENT' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1',
'CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR' => 'cookie.txt',
'CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE' => 'cookie.txt'
));

$ch = curl_init('http://www.pagepluscellular.com/Dealers/My%20Account/Dealer%20Account%20Summary.aspx'); // the target
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return the page
$result = curl_exec($ch); // executing the cURL
curl_close($ch); // Closing connection
echo $result;
?>

TIA,
JD

[halojoy]

What error message do you get?

1. PHP has got error_reporting() to give additional information.
   http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php
2. CURL has got [man]curl_error/man to give you specific information.

Here an exampel script that will turn on and use BOTH

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL); // all PHP errors
ini_set('display_errors', 1); // make sure it is displayed in page


// Create a curl handle to a non-existing location
$ch = curl_init('http://404.php.net/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

if(curl_exec($ch) === false)
{
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch); // show error information
}
else
{
    echo 'Operation completed without any errors';
}

// Close handle
curl_close($ch);

?>

[jdeer0618]

when this runs:
$ch = curl_init('http://www.pagepluscellular.com/Dealers/My%20Account/Dealer%20Account%20Summary.aspx'); // the target
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return the page
$result = curl_exec($ch); // executing the cURL
curl_close($ch); // Closing connection
echo $result;

I get a page that says "Object moved to here" This happens because the first curl did not log in. The account summary page is a protected page.

I think it could also be a cookie issue because if I log in with FireFox and go get redirected to the account summary pages there are more protected links that if I copy a link open a new tab and just paste the link in the address bar of the new tab it will open that page. In that case i have two tabs both logged into the site at the same time.

Hope that helps.

JD