Here is a nice little snippet that allows you to log in to a web form and then proceed to another page to get Dynamically generated files.

First you must create a file in tmp or any directory you choose and make sure it is writable for making your cookie.


$login = "https://domain.com/login.php";
$url = "https://domain.com/statistics.php";

$cookie = "/tmp/domain.txt";

$reffer = "https://domain.com/login.php";



// these are were we write our data to locally

$logfile = "domain.log.1"; // first file to create

$logdir="logs";



// are query strings. this is an array but you can set up to pull from a database if needed



$query = array(1=>"UserServiceId=1111&Action=CSV",

"UserServiceId=1112&Action=CSV",

"UserServiceId=1113&Action=CSV");



//login page

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $login);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

// Action is set because this paticular form needs it to process to the next page

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "Email=Username&Password=Password&Action=Login");

// may differ from form to form, View source of page to see what is needed

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie); // get file

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie); // write to file

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); // process page

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_exec ($ch);



curl_close ($ch);



// now for each query string we cURL



foreach($query as $page=>$csv){

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $csv); // get file

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$result.= site_name($id).substr(curl_exec($ch), 44); // append data and organize by site name

}

curl_close ($ch);



//Error check

// br tag = HTML br tag but stupid MT won't write it out

if ($result == NULL) {

echo "Error: br tag";

echo curl_errno($ch) . " - " . curl_error($ch) . "br tag";

}


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