On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:35 PM, ioannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ioannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am hoping someone can spot what is missing here. I am getting null result > from curl-ing a page with json post variables. > > I try this url in my Firefox browser - > > http://www.targetsite.com/search.php#somevar.someothervar > > (#somevar.someothervar are irrelevant, I think, as I get the curl variables > from Firebug below.) > > In Firebug, this shows: > > POST http://www.targetsite.com/ajax/search.xml > > In Firebug, below this link are tabs for: Headers, Post, Response, XML and > Cookies. Post tab shows like: > > JSON > VAR1 1 > VAR2 "2012-09-12" > VAR3 null > CACHED [] > OPTIONS null > > To prove there is output, the Firebug Response tab shows: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <JSON> various JSON encoded stuff </JSON> > > The above is what I am trying to curl. > > My php code: > > $ch = curl_init(); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); > > //target page from Firebug above: > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, > "http://www.targetsite.com/ajax/search.xml";); > > //I was not sure how to represent CACHED [], so set it to null try "CACHED"=>array() > $data = array( > "VAR1" => 1, > "VAR2" => "2012-09-12", > "VAR3" => null, > "CACHED"=>null, > "OPTIONS"=>null, > ); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); > > //make the request > $result = curl_exec($ch); > > //this returns null > > Any ideas where to go with this? Maybe I need to include the Cookies? I use > the above php and curl functions normally so it's all installed on the > server. > > John It might be that the site is using sessions/cookies. Have a look at the header data with firebug. Not sure if that's the problem, to find out what's really going on, call echo curl_error($ch); after curl_exec to find out what went wrong exactly. If you still don't know how to proceed, paste the result of the curl_error call in your reply. - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
