PHP Curl And Cookies
First create temporary cookie using tempnam() function:
$ckfile = tempnam ("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE");
Then execute curl init witch saves the cookie as a temporary file:
$ch = curl_init ("http://uri.com/");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
Or visit a page using the cookie stored in the temporary file:
$ch = curl_init ("http://somedomain.com/cookiepage.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
This will initialize the cookie for the page:
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
In working with a similar problem I created the following function after combining a lot of resources I ran into on the web, and adding my own cookie handling. Hopefully this is useful to someone else.
function get_web_page( $url, $cookiesIn = '' ){
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => true, //return headers in addition to content
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT => true,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true, // Validate SSL Certificates
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_COOKIE => $cookiesIn
);
$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$rough_content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
$header_content = substr($rough_content, 0, $header['header_size']);
$body_content = trim(str_replace($header_content, '', $rough_content));
$pattern = "#Set-Cookie:\\s+(?<cookie>[^=]+=[^;]+)#m";
preg_match_all($pattern, $header_content, $matches);
$cookiesOut = implode("; ", $matches['cookie']);
$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['headers'] = $header_content;
$header['content'] = $body_content;
$header['cookies'] = $cookiesOut;
return $header;
}
You can specify the cookie file with a curl opt. You could use a unique file for each user.
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true );
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, uniquefilename );
curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, uniquefilename );
The best way to handle it would be to stick your request logic into a curl function and just pass the unique file name in as a parameter.
function fetch( $url, $z=null ) {
$ch = curl_init();
$useragent = isset($z['useragent']) ? $z['useragent'] : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2';
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, isset($z['post']) );
if( isset($z['post']) ) curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $z['post'] );
if( isset($z['refer']) ) curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $z['refer'] );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, ( isset($z['timeout']) ? $z['timeout'] : 5 ) );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $z['cookiefile'] );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $z['cookiefile'] );
$result = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
return $result;
}
I use this for quick grabs. It takes the url and an array of options.