Log in with php to password protected site

I know password and username but how I can log in with php? I need that because I need to download documents with cron job.

 

Check out cURL-functions.

 

$username='juuseri';
$password='salasana';
$URL='http://www.domain.com/haendler/items.xls';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$URL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); //timeout after 30 seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
echo $result;
$status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); //get status code
curl_close ($ch);

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Prints to screen file but how I write it to my server? file_put_contents("testi.xls", fopen($result, 'r')); doesn't work. It makes only 0kb file.

 

You do file_put_contents("filename.ext",$result); why in the world do you have fopen in there? Also, this would show up if you turn on displaying errors.

 

Yes I screwed up that. But I have error_reporting(E_ALL); in php file and I get never any errors, just blank screen.

 

That just sends all errors to the log-file. Check that. If you wanna display those errors on screen, use

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

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However, this will NOT necessarily show anything on screen - depending on what type of problem, it might not actually reach the browser (500-errors will normally not display anything, since it's a server-error, preventing output)