I have a link I need users to click in order for them to receive a text message. The URL points to an external link so I can't mask it. At present when a user clicks on the link I redirect them to the external site to send the message, but I do not wish to do this as I don't want the user to see the external URL.
I have tried to use file_get_contents() and cURL but I have been unable to get either mechanism to work. When I load the page in the browser I get the text response "OK", when I use PHP to make the request I get the "OK" response from the server but I do not receive the text message to my phone.
Here is the cURL code I have tried:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
Using twilio may be able to save you some time here.
Note: Only wrote this here because I cant comment for some reason.
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I am trying to use a button on my php web-application to launch a logged-in session on another website. In other words I want my application to:
open a new tab/window (achieved)
go to another website + login or
(alternatively) collect the session data needed for the target site to consider the current browser logged in.
This is achieved (in an incomplete manner with the following code:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$postdata);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $result;
This successfully visualise the "logged-in" page of the remote site but whenever I click on any of the functionalities of such remote site I get and obvious 404. This is because I am just printing the output of the successful login via cURL and my browser is not dealing with the remote application on the target website. E.g. my address bar says I am in local.dev/loggedin.php instead of being at secure.targetsite.com/loggein.php.
This maybe helpful: Once logged-in via the browser, the target website sets a session cookie that allows the session to survive for a certain amount of time so that may also be useful. Can my web-application just fetch and store the session data from the auth procedure carried out by curl and use it to login?
This might not be possible to be done via cURL..
I was thinking of just parsing the response header for the cookie and use php setcookie() but it does not work: I get bounced by the remote app as if I was never logged in.
Please be patient, I am not an expert in the use of curl.
I have done that for a few of my own applications, but it should work for almost anything that can be logged in via an html form submission. You can't use curl for this because it is running on your web server (whether that is on your local machine or in the cloud somewhere is irrelevant) and not actually being run by your browser. Your PHP application needs to open a new tab/window with a page that includes an HTML that includes all necessary fields, method="get" or "post" as appropriate, and action="the destination login URL". Then just add an automatic form submission - e.g., with jQuery $('#form_id').submit() on page load.
Have form data that is to be sent to our email marketing service database (using cURL). Upon receipt of the data, it bounces back a confirmation page.
The problem is the confirmation page displays above the page that has the form on it. How do I get the confirmation page to render on its own? I believe the problem lies in the cURL script I am using, but can't figure it out.
cURL code:
if ($validForm) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://oi.vresp.com?fid=2b68154d4e');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "first_name=$first_name&last_name=$last_name&email_address=$email_address&company_name=$company_name&cust_group=$cust_group");
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
What I am trying to do is open a url and pass variables using PHP,
Everytime I use the cURL method it opens the page and displays the output and won't follow the redirects afterwards.
The HttpRequest is not found.
What can I do?
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
For privacy issues I cant post what the url is but thats the code thats giving me the problem when It curls the page it actually displays what it's curling.
Hi I am new to php and want to know some alternate function for the header('location:mysit.php');
I am in a scenario that I am sending the request like this:
header('Location: http://localhost/(some external site).php'&?var='test')
something like this but what I wanna do is that I want to send values of variables to the external site but I actually dont want that page to pop out.
I mean variables should be sent to some external site/page but on screen I want to be redirected to my login page. But seemingly I dont know any alternative please guide me. Thx.
You are searching for PHP cUrl:
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.example.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
Set the location header to the place you actually want to redirect the browser to and use something like cURL to make an HTTP request to the remote site.
The way you usually would do that is by sending those parameters by cURL, parse the return values and use them however you need.
By using cURL you can pass POST and GET variables to any URL.
Like so:
$ch = curl_init('http://example.org/?aVariable=theValue');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Now, in $result you have the response from the URL passed to curl_init().
If you need to post data, the code needs a little more:
$ch = curl_init('http://example.org/page_to_post_to.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'variable1=value1&variable2=value2');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Again, the result from your POST reqeust is saved to $result.
You could connect to another URL in the background in numerous ways. There's cURL ( http://php.net/curl - already mentioned here in previous comments ), there's fopen ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php ), there's fsockopen ( http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php - little more advanced )
I've been banging my head against a wall for a few hours now - and it's probably something really obvious I've missed!
I'm trying to connect to a payment service provider (PSP) using CURL, post data and follow the post so the user actually ends up on the PSP's site.
Using the following:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://psp.com/theirpage');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://mysite.com/mypage");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$params);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
This successfully connects, verifies the data I've passed, but instead of redirecting the user to the PSP, it just loads the HTML on my site. Safe mode is off, and open_basedir is blank.
What am I doing wrong?
CURL would do an internal redirect and it wont have any effect on the user viewing your curl script. Keep in mind that the payment was made by your server NOT the users computer, hence expecting the session to work for the user is incorrect. cURL 'is the browser'.
If you just want a redirect after payment is made via cURL, you will have to do it via header() or by using some JS like window.location.
The curl request is being made from your server, and as such your server is receiving the response page. There's no way to initiate the request from the server and have the client receive the response. Either return the HTML to the user from your site (as you're doing), or make the request from the client's browser using Javascript. Hope that helps