Save cookies for remote web pages
cookies, curl, php
Solution
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.
Problem
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 this call once i have the cookie ( http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/msg/4f618114ab15ae2a ), however I've no idea how to generate the cookie, or how / where the cookie is saved. For example, to read this web page via wget I do the following: ``` wget --quiet --save-cookies cookie.file --output-document=who.cares \ http://remoteServer/login.php?user=xxx&pass=yyy wget --quiet --load-cookies cookie.file --output-document=documentiwant.html \ http://remoteServer/pageicareabout.html ``` ... my question is how do I do the '--save-cookies' bit in PHP so that I can use the cookie in the follow-up PHP stream_context_create / file_get_contents block: ``` $opts = array(http'=> array( 'method'=> "GET", 'header'=> "Accept-language: en\r\n" . "Cookie: **NoClueAtAll**\r\n" ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); $documentiwant = file_get_contents("http://remoteServer/pageicareabout.html", 0, $context); ```