Question

I want to read data from a website with cURL but from a certain user logged in with a session. I don’t know cURL but I’ll be reading the documentation on php.net tonight.

Can this be done? I don’t have access to the database on the server but I have a php script on it, so I want to get the username of the user that is logged in.

Answer 1

Use curl_setopt() coupled with the CURLOPT_COOKIE option to set the PHPSESSID cookie:

curl_setopt($resource, CURLOPT_COOKIE, 'PHPSESSID=' . $usersSessionId);

Optionally, if your server allows PHPSESSID to be passed as a GET parameter in the URL, you could just append PHPSESSID=123456 to the URL and not bother with a cookie.