curl https post varibles.

n_wattam

I'm trying to post varibles to a form on this page, but i'm getting no output.

https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/login.asp

varible names
clubcardnumber
postcode

<?
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/clubcard/login.asp"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('clubcardnumber' => "12345",  'postcode' => "12345")); 
$returned = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);

echo $returned;

?>

bradgrafelman

What happens if you replace this:

echo $returned;

with this:

var_dump($returned);

Also, note that the use of the '<?' (and '<?=') short tags has been deprecated for some time now. These tags have been disabled by default and even removed in newer versions of PHP. As such, you should replace all occurances of these tags with a full '<?php' opening tag in all of your scripts.

n_wattam

Thanks for the quick reply. I get the following

bool(false)

bradgrafelman

Sounds like cURL is failing for some reason. Is error_reporting set to E_ALL? Are you logging all PHP error messages (and, if not, are you at least displaying them)?

n_wattam

i have no problem running that script on a different website, but it doesnt require me to use POST varibles. I'm wondering if the https has anything to do with it.

As for the error reporting, yes i beleive i have this set to E_ALL

bradgrafelman

n_wattam wrote:
As for the error reporting, yes i beleive i have this set to E_ALL

Okay... and what about the others? Are you logging errors and/or displaying them?

If cURL is returning false, then it failed for some reason. If cURL fails for some reason, it will generate an error message. If it generates an error message, you need to show us the exact error message, otherwise we don't know what's wrong.

n_wattam

is there a way i can make sure if E_ALL is on, or a way i can turn it on using a .htaccess file?

bradgrafelman

[man]error_reporting/man

EDIT: Woops, I meant to link to the function... here's the correct manual link: [man]function.error_reporting[/man].

n_wattam

ok i've put the error code in the script, but no errors are coming up, just the msg i last quoted.

bradgrafelman

Is display_errors set to On? You can use [man]ini_set/man to enable that. Try adding this to the top of your script:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

See if you get any PHP error messages after doing that.

n_wattam

Yup, just tryied your snippit, and still just showing the bool(false)

bradgrafelman

Oops, forgot about [man]curl_error/man... Try adding this after the var_dump() statement:

echo curl_error($ch);

Let us know what you see.