curl help please

kevinkhan · 11-03-2010, 07:37 PM

can anybody explain the following lines of code please. im new to curl and desperately trying to learn it

PHP Code:


			
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

//curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CAPATH, SSL_CA_FILE);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_FILE);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, COOKIE_FILE);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3");



//login to initialize cookies

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php');

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qryString);

$page = curl_exec($curl_handle);



sleep(1);

unset($logInPage);



curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php');

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qryString);

$page = curl_exec($curl_handle);



unset($qryString);



// get home page

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 0);

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.facebook.com/home.php');

$page = curl_exec($curl_handle);

Rowsdower! · 11-03-2010, 07:50 PM

Which part is confusing you? Have you read the documentation?

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php

Let us know specifically where you're getting lost.