cURL's COOKIEJAR - It doesn't seem to be written ?

Hi,

I'm just experimenting with cURL and how it handles cookies. I've been trying to get it to write cookies to a file but without success, using some example code (changed slightly) from the book 'Webbots, Spiders and Screenscrapers' by Michael Schrenk. Here is the code :

<?PHP
$s = curl_init();
$target = "http://www.google.com";
$cookie_file = "c:\temp\phpcookies.txt";

curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file); // Read cookie file
curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,  $cookie_file); // Write cookie file

//Configure the cURL command
curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_URL, $target);             // Define target site
curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);     // Return in string

# Indicate that there is no local SSL certificate
curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);    // No certificate

curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);     // Follow redirections
curl_setopt($s, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 4);             // Limit redirections to four

# Execute the cURL command (Send contents of target web page to string)
$downloaded_page = curl_exec($s);

print $downloaded_page;

# Close PHP/CURL session

curl_close($s);
?>

PHP:

Unfortunately no file containing the cookies appears in 'C:\temp' on my laptop. By the way I'm using an local XAMPP installation to try these scripts.

Anyone give me any suggestions ?

 

I'm not at all familiar with curl, but maybe try these things (yes, some are obvious and makes it sound like I think you're an idiot, but I don't ):
--> try adding a backslash to the $cookie_file var, before the c: - this seems necessary sometimes, so maybe here
--> try creating that file in advance, and see if the data appears in it, if so then it just isn't creating the file
--> I doubt you're not doing this, but refresh the folder after it runs, before looking for the file
--> try using a different folder, in case there's something about the folder that stops it working

 

That did the trick ! Thanks for your help Pos1tron