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Hey,

Haven't been here for a while but I'm confused on something related to PHP. I've been out of the internet world for about 6-8 months really which means im mentally fucked when it comes to PHP.

code:

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<?
function fetch($url,$post=false,$cookie=true,$timeout=1) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
if ($cookie) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
}
if ($post) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE); //debug
$output=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
$cookie=tempnam('','');
$url='http://www.website.com/fsock.php';
$post='username=Nathan1&password=test';
fetch($url,$post,$cookie);

$url='http://www.website.com/vote.php?account=nathan1&site=2';
echo fetch($url,$post,$cookie);

#$url='http://www.website.com/vote/vote.php';
#echo fetch($url,false,$cookie);

?>

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Basically it logs in okay, but then when it comes to clicking the link it doesn't work, it redirects to the home page (which after some investigation = not logged in) which makes me think the cookie isn't being stored.
Anyone got any ideas on how to make the cookie last longer or be stored so it'll work?

Thanks

quote:

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Originally posted by Nathan
... which makes me think the cookie isn't being stored.

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Have you looked at the request headers to make sure you're sending the cookie?

php code:

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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);

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Okay I tried that, and still no joy

set the value of $cookie to a valid filename as a string.

Can I have an example please?

Like I already said, don't you have to fopen that file?

I don't think you can just put the filename in curl_setopt...

See: http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

No worries guys, I got it working

My code was perfectly fine, it was I was missing a variable that the site needed to allow the vote

quote:

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Originally posted by Ezra
Like I already said, don't you have to fopen that file?

I don't think you can just put the filename in curl_setopt...

See: http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

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Yeah, you can do this. I found it out earlier.