setting a cookie in PHP CURL

Question

Im really new to the php curl concept, can anybody show me a simple example of how to set a cookie in the browser using php curl

this is my code tha

Answer 1

Php Curl allows you to directly set the cookie Header, using:

curl_setopt($curlHandle,CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookieString);

Where $cookieString holds semicolon separated key=value pairs of cookie data.

Please refer to this question: PHP Curl and setcookie problem

And be sure to thoroughly go through http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Answer 2

I'm not clear on what you are expecting to have happen with cookies. However, you might try this:

$ch = curl_init('http://localhost/setc.php?userid=123&panelid=1');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// get headers too with this line
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '/tmp/cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '/tmp/cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'cookiename=cookievalue');
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Answer 3

Try this:

curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt');

This will automatically create one cookies.txt