Unable to fetch my schedule data from my schools site. Login with cURL won't work

Question

Edit: Why the minus one?

What I am trying to do is the following:

• I am trying to login to my school site using cURL and grab the sched

Answer 1

This is how I solved it. The problem was probably the 'not-using-cookies' part. Still this is probably 'ugly' code, so any improvements are welcome!

// This part is for retrieving the token from the hidden field.
// To be honest, I have no idea what the cookie lines actually do, but it works.
$getToken= curl_init();
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_URL, '');       // Set the link
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookies.txt');  // Magic
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookies.txt'); // Magic
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);         // Return only as a string
$data = curl_exec($token);                                 // Perform action

// Close the connection if there are no errors
if(curl_errno($token)){print curl_error($token);}
else{curl_close($token);} 

// Use a regular expression to fetch the token
$regex = '/name="token" value="(.*?)"/';
preg_match($regex,$data,$match);

// Put the login info and the token in a post header string
$postfield = "token=$match[1]&user=&paswoord=";
echo($postfields);

// This part is for logging in and getting the data.
$site = curl_init();
curl_setopt($site, CURLOPT_URL, '