I am trying to log in a website using php via cURL. But the website I am trying to log in requires cookies and session I am new to php what is the best way to set up cookies and session so that I can log in I have tried $_SESSION and setcookies they don't seem to work.. here is the code I have written any help on this topic would be helpful thanks
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/logint");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
$data = array(
'username' => 'username',
'passwd' => 'pass',
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
echo($output);
curl_close($ch);
?>