从我的站点登录到远程站点

Question

I'm building a website and I need to login to another site and take some info from there. the Problem is that the other site requires a user-name and a password (which I have of course) at it's login page. How can I enter my user-name & password and then pass to the second page to get the info ? I'm trying to do it via php but I just read that mayby curl is required..

thanks !

Answer 1

Use cURL!

Create a page on your remote page that returns the information (i'd recommend using xml as your format) that you want then grab it like this from the site requesting information.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.yourRemoteWebsite.com/mysecretinformation.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'username=Roee84&password=yourPassword');

$myInfo = curl_exec($ch)

At that point, $myInfo will have whatever information you sent from the other side.

if you end up using xml, check out http://php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php for easy parsing.