Curl login Joomla 1.6/3.0

Question

I am trying to login Joomla 1.6/3.0 by curl in PHP but not success.

I had try method from joomla 1.5

$uname = "id";
$upswd = "pswd";
$url = "http://www.somewebpage.com";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, './cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, './cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE );
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
if (!preg_match('/name="([a-zA-z0-9]{32})"/', $ret, $spoof)) {
    preg_match("/name='([a-zA-z0-9]{32})'/", $ret, $spoof);
}

// POST fields
$postfields = array();
$postfields['username'] = urlencode($uname);
$postfields['passwd'] = urlencode($upswd);
$postfields['lang'] = '';
$postfields['option'] = 'com_login';
$postfields['task'] = 'login';
$postfields[$spoof[1]] = '1';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$ret = curl_exec($ch);

But it 's show forbidden

Answer 1

Joomla! normally from the web browser will send a token, to make sure the form was posted from a browser (and not from somewhere outside, like you are trying to do).

If it's not posted from a browser, an error like 'The most recent request was denied because it contained an invalid security token. Please refresh the page and try again.'

You may want to look for an autentication plugin that supports what you are trying to do. For example the Autologin plugin .