Simple HTML Dom and Curl

Question

Hi is curl the best method for using POST with cookie and also navigated to another page for scrapping? I'm using the coding below and I can't get it to work.

include('simple_html_dom.php');

    $data = array(
     '__EVENTTARGET' => '',
     '__EVENTARGUMENT' => '',
     '__VIEWSTATE' => '%2FwEPDwUKLTcyODA2ODEwMGRk',
     'Myname' => 'justdev12345',
     'Mypassword' => '12345',
     'idLogin' => 'Login',
     'tmplang2' => '6',
     'fm' => '',
     'jc' => '',
     'LoginRef' => ''
     );

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://secure.site.com/mainframe.aspx");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "sdc_cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "sdc_cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true);

$output = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$output = new simple_html_dom();   
$output = file_get_html('http://profiles.site.com/profile_900.aspx?AccountID=ShopCartUpdate');
print $output;

Answer 1

Your code is fine up until the end where you throw away the curl response and load the url with simple-html-dom. If you want to use the curl response it should look like this:

$html = str_get_html($output);
$html->find('title');

Otherwise you should probably remove all the curl code.