Sessions problem

Hello,

I was fetching a data from membership area(using username and pw of course). I used a session ID that I got with Firebug but when it changes my script stops working.
I need this sessionID to load up site contents and download a few files from server.
However, I am stuck, because I don't know how to extract it.
My code is :

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "loginpage.php"); // login
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "D=$D"); // variable with username and pw
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
$reply2 = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

PHP:

What am I doing wrong? The cookie is not saved anywhere I guess and I cannot use it later to load up things I really want to get...

 

Just asking, don't you need to use full http://domain urls ?

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.domain.com/loginpage.php");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username=something&password=something");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$login = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.domain.com/membership_area.php");

$members = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

?>

PHP:

$members, contains the HTML output of the membership_area.php page.

 

Hi,

I just change URLs so that no one would see actual site.
Thanks for help. This works, but, again, it sends a variable from LOGIN.php to script/server.php containing information on WHAT to load, and sends sessionID to it. However, I have no idea how to extract it...
Here is the cookie it POSTS to server.php

	dp_C_dp_sid=0282d4809401ef4454e75aebd87f366c; RPC_dp_sid=0282d4809401ef4454e75aebd87f366c; dp_C_auth=9bc6b4fabc32b0ec8aa0663cbc5d2b6f; gpf_language=en-US

PHP:

I need to get either dp_C_dp_sid or RPC_dp_sid.

This post request generates after I press login button and browser proceeds to member area.

 

Is it a actual session or cookie? If there is a option to stay logged in, do it with your browser if using Firecookie goto the cookie tab an export cookies from this site to a file.

You could then use something like this.

$cookie = "/home/xxxxx/cookie.txt";
$url = "www.example.com/member.php";
$ch = curl_init();  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$html = curl_exec ($ch); 
curl_close ($ch);

PHP:

I mean if its a session you can export it using FireCookie/FireBug and modify it to never expire and keep logging in so long as you don't log into the actual account again.

 

You are a genius! Thanks!