How can I send cookies using PHP curl in addition to CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE?

Question

I am scraping some content from a website after a form submission. The problem is that the script is failing every now and then, say 2 times out of 5 the script fails. I am

Answer 1

Here is a list of examples for sending cookies - https://github.com/andriichuk/php-curl-cookbook#cookies

$curlHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curlHandler, [
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://httpbin.org/cookies',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,

CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE  => $cookieFile,
CURLOPT_COOKIE => 'foo=bar;baz=foo',

/**
 * Or set header
 * CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
       'Cookie: foo=bar;baz=foo',
   ]
 */
]);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);
curl_close($curlHandler);

echo $response;