How would I log into a site with curl? - php

Question

I've been trying to log into a site (www.namemc.com/login) with a curl script for about 5 hours now and I think I'm going crazy trying to do so.
I was wondering if you would be able to check what's wrong with my code. I think the site may be blocking it somehow, but I'm not sure.
Code:
<?php
$username = 'example#gmail.com';
$password = 'example';
$accountUrl = 'https://namemc.com/login';
$postdata = "email=".$username."&password=".$password;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $accountUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
?>

Answer 1

curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server. The command is designed to work without user interaction.
You should be using either a cookie or a Header to maintain a session in your code like:
cookie="cookie.txt";
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
Also have you tried arguements in double quotes instead of single .
and ensure send all form data which is needed in $postdata.