PHP using CURL: is there a way to emulate a cookie instead of saving it to a file?

Question

I access a REST api service that utilizes a variable called session_id. The API calls for this to be stored in a cookie and I accomplish this as follows:

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Answer 1

There is a good example here,

http://sgjoomla.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/joomla/curltest.php

For some reason, the cookie part is commented out but all the code you need is still there.

Basically, you parse the "Set-Cookie" headers yourself and save the cookie value by doing this,

  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, 'read_header');

Put the cookie value in a global. In next call, set it like this,

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, "$cookieName=$cookieValue");