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I'm using this curl script to login and display a page that i want but i need to copy the content of the display page to file/database how can I do this?

<?php
// ---- LOGIN ---

$referer = "http://www.tradedoubler.com"; // site main url
$url = "http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/login"; // url of login form post too

$ch = curl_init();

$postvars = "j_username=******&j_password=******"; // list the form variables

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); // HTTPS
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1); // do not identify client as Curl
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"); // fake to be Internet Explorer 6.0
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // change if GET is used in the form
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // return HTTP header
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars); // send the POST variables separated with &
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/tmp/cookieFileName"); // autosaves cookies in tmp file

$page = curl_exec($ch); // the returned page
$error = curl_error($ch);

// echo $error."\r\n"; // for debuging purposes

curl_close($ch);

// --- GET PAGE --- (while logged in)

$url = "http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/reports/Epi?cache=invalidate&navProgramId=&navOrganizationId=&reportSelection=true&program_id=0&affiliate_id=0&period=custom_period&reportType=csv&startDay=11&startMonth=10&startYear=2004&endDay=11&endMonth=10&endYear=2004&showDeleted=false&nrOfCols=0"; // url of the page you want to go to
$referer = "http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/login";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2); // HTTPS
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer); // use the loginpage as referer this time
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookieFileName"); // load cookies from tmp file

$page = curl_exec($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);

curl_close($ch);

//echo $error."\r\n"; // for debuging purposes

echo $page; // the returned page

?>

hernst42

As you have your page-content in the variable $page you can write that content to a file like this:

$fn = date("Ymd") . '.txt';
$fp = fopen($fn, 'a+');
fputs($fp, $page);
fclose($fp);

Write all page content retrieved for that day to one file. You make also the filename more unique or identifyable.

If you want to store the content in a database use a text-field to store that content. The code depends on the database you use.

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Skonen

Sorry Usage is:

if (write_page($page, date("dmY"), ".txt")) {
echo "Succeeded";
} else {
echo "Failed";
}

JconServ

at the top place ob_start(); //starts output buffering

then after your last line of output place the dump variable
$display_data = ob_get_contents(); // get buffer contents
ob_end_flush(); //send output

and then use the function posted above to write your data.

(Note: output buffering does cause some overhead, nothing to be worried about though)