After using cURL to log into a remote webpage, how can I then access another webpage and return it as a string?

Question

Okay, I\'m pretty new to cURL. I\'ve managed to log into a webpage using cURL and sending POST data, but once I\'m logged in, I\'d like it to load various webpages under the

Answer 1

It generally depends on how the remote site handles state management.

In most cases, this will be via a cookie, so you'll need to instruct curl to keep track of cookies.

Something like:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '/tmp/cookies');  //where to write cookies received from server
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '/tmp/cookies'); //where to read cookies to send in requests.

ought to get you started there.

EDIT Blatant Copy/Paste Example (from here - found with about 20 seconds of googling "php curl login"). This looks to be about right: