Make session work with Curl (ZF2) - php

Question

I'm working with REST in my Zend Framework 2 application. In order to test my rest calls, I use Curl to send REST requests as follows:
$client = new Http\Client();
$client->setAdapter(new Http\Client\Adapter\Curl());
$request = new Http\Request();
$request->setUri($url);
$request->setMethod($method);
$response = $client->dispatch($request);
$jsonString = $response->getContent();
Everthing works fine except that the Curl requests seem to ignore the session. I need access to the logged-in user in my rest request handling to e.g. make Acl work. When I send REST request using AngularJS, the session actually works. Here's how I set up the session:
$storage = new SessionArrayStorage();
$manager = new SessionManager($config, $storage);
$session = new Session('surveylab', $manager);
How can I pass the session information to Curl, so I get access to the session in the Curl requests?

Answer 1

Checkout the cURL options for:
CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE
CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR
look for examples for the cURL usage of them:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/tmp/cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "/tmp/cookie.txt");

Answer 2

Send your login credentials as post to your login url, extract the cookies from the result and send them with the next request. I don't know if your application updates the cookies over time but you should update them if necessary.
Some example code:
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "http://your/url",
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Cookie: ' . $cookies . '"'),
CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
CURLOPT_POST => count($postData),
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post_string
));