PHP Using cookies to log in - php

Question

I am trying to log into a page through curl. Where a successful login redirects you to the actual site and you see the content there.
Basically, there is are 2 urls, the first url is to post the login credentials to and the other url is where the content is visible after the login.
I managed to send a post request to the login url and it successfully creates a valid cookie too but I can't figure out how to use the cookie to see the content of the page from the second url.
I am trying to do a normal curl request (without the POSTFIELDS in the code) with these two options to retrieve the content of page 2 but if you view the source for it, it just displays the html code to redirect to the login url.
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try to add more parameters to your CURL request :
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; en-US)');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$string = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);