Save cookies for remote web pages

Question

I\'ve got a PHP application which needs to grab the contents from another web page, and the web page I\'m reading needs a cookie.

I\'ve found info on how to make thi

Answer 1

You'd probably be better off using cURL. Use curl_setopt to set up the cookie handling options.

If this is just a one-off thing, you could use Firefox with Live HTTP Headers to get the header, then paste it into your PHP code.

Answer 2

Shazam - that worked ! Thx soooo much ! In case someone else stumbles upon this page, here's what was needed in detail:

1. install cURL (for me it'was as simple as 'sudo apt-get install php5-curl' in ubuntu)

2. change the prior-listed PHP to the following:

   <?php
   
   $cr = curl_init('http://remoteServer/login.php?user=xxx&pass=yyy');
   curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
   curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');   
   $whoCares = curl_exec($cr); 
   curl_close($cr); 
   
   $cr = curl_init('http://remoteServer/pageicareabout.html');
   curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
   curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt'); 
   $documentiwant = curl_exec($cr);
   curl_close($cr);
   
   ?>
   

Above code snippet heavily influenced by http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4555.html.