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Login to site with PHP cURL

I'm trying login to a remote site, by having curl to the login form.
I want to redirect to another subdomain and get content.
The code I have doesn't seem to work and only tries to show the main page of the site.
<?php
$username = 'user';
$password = 'pass';
$loginUrl = 'https://site_url';
//init curl
$ch = curl_init();
//Set the URL to work with
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $loginUrl);
// ENABLE HTTP POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
//Set the post parameters
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'user='.$username.'&password='.$password);
//Handle cookies for the login
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
//Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL
//not to print out the results of its query.
//Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
//from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//execute the request (the login)
$store = curl_exec($ch);
//the login is now done and you can continue to get the
//protected content.
//set the URL to the protected file
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://site_url/statistics');
//execute the request
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//save the data to disk
file_put_contents('~/file.txt', $content);
?>

Does it have to be via cURL?
Have you considered leveraging a library like Guzzle?
They have good documentation that covers scenarios as you have described.
https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#post-form-requests
Something like the below but could be laid out better
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\BadResponseException;
$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://url_site/', 'cookies' => true]);
// Login
try {
$client->request(
'POST',
'login/',
[
'form_params' => [
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password,
],
]
);
} catch (BadResponseException $e) {
echo "Error Logging On for User {$username}";
exit;
}
// Navigate
$response = $client->request('GET', '/statistics');
$content = $response->getBody()->getContents();
file_put_contents('~/file.txt', $content);

Need to call SAP web service to send XML file from web page using JavaScript

We need to call an SAP web service from our website and submit an XML file to the SAP url. SAP API has credentials.
The purpose is to execute a function module in SAP which creates an SAP user ID and then returns the SAP user ID name back to our website via a return xml.
Below is the PHP code which i have tried.
<?php
$credentials = "Username:Password";
// Read the XML to send to the Web Service
$request_file = "m2bsubscr.XML";
$fh = fopen($request_file, 'r');
$xml_data = fread($fh, filesize($request_file));
fclose($fh);
$url = "SAP API HERE";
$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: \"run\"",
"Content-length: ".strlen($xml_data),
"Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($credentials)
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $defined_vars['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
// Apply the XML to our curl call
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_data);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
// Show me the result
echo "Success!<br />\n";
}
curl_close($ch);
// Handle the response from a successful request
$xmlobj = simplexml_load_string($data);
var_dump($xmlobj);
?>
My XML File:
<n0:_-majul_-m2bSubscriptionCreate xmlns:n0="urn:sap-com:document:sap:soap:functions:mc-style">
<IsSubscription>
<Bupar></Bupar>
<Sstat></Sstat>
<Categ></Categ>
<Fname>Wolfgang</Fname>
<Lname>Haerle</Lname>
<Email>whaerle#hotmail.com</Email>
<Srmrk></Srmrk>
<Cczip></Cczip>
<Cccty></Cccty>
<Ccadr></Ccadr>
<Cntry>US</Cntry>
<Product>1</Product>
<Begda>2020-07-08</Begda>
<Endda>2020-08-08</Endda>
<Price>765</Price>
<Curr>USD</Curr>
<Quantity>1</Quantity>
<Unit>MON</Unit>
<Userid></Userid>
</IsSubscription>
</n0:_-majul_-m2bSubscriptionCreate>
but it returns Success with bool(false) as a result. I tried to display error but it has no error.
Please help me to find what is the issue.
I wanted to do this in JavaScript. Kindly suggest me the way to do.

click-event in php to retrieve downloadable file.

I have to download a csv file from a site. previously there was a form action url which can be programmed to download the file but now it is a selection button without any action url (only '#').And completely manipulated by JS. When i click 'Domains as csv' then csv file will download but i want to do it when the script runs only.whenever i run the php script I can access and download the pages with the help of action url but that specific file is not retrievable. please any idea how to deal such issue?
php script :
$proxy_host = "internet.com.ag";
$proxy_port = "1111";
$proxy = "$proxy_host:$proxy_port";
$teliko_credentials = array("username"=>"com", "pass"=>'com');
$url = '//domain.net/';
$url = '//domain.net/#';
//$url = /domain.net/#DomainOverview/Domains';
$fileExt = ".csv";
$file = '';
function curl_session($url, $proxy, $credentials ) {
$ch = curl_init(); //init curl
// snippet for via proxy authentication
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); //login form action url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy); // passing proxy details
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); //If url has redirects then go to the final redirected URL.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // ENABLE HTTP POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'user='. $credentials['username'] .'&password='.urlencode( $credentials['pass'] ).'&submit=Login'); //Set the post parameters
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt'); //Handle cookies for the login
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //not to print out the results of its query. Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$file = curl_exec($ch); // retrieves the source file
return $file;
curl_close($ch);
}
$file = curl_session($url ,$proxy, $credentials);
if ($file != '')
file_put_contents('\\W516014\Exchange\http\fs\Export-'.date("d.m.Y").$fileExt, $file);// download file into the specified directory
?>

XmlHttpRequest - post JSON - json string too many quotes (i think) [duplicate]

I looked around a lot before posting this question so my apologies if it is on another post and this is only my second quesiton on here so apologies if I don't format this question correctly.
I have a really simple web service that I have created that needs to take post values and return a JSON encoded array. That all worked fine until I was told I would need to post the form data with a content-type of application/json. Since then I cannot return any values from the web service and it is definitely something to do with how I am filtering their post values.
Basically in my local setup I have created a test page that does the following -
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data))
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://webservice.local/'); // Set the url path we want to call
$result = curl_exec($curl);
//see the results
$json=json_decode($result,true);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($json);
On the webservice I have this (I have stripped out some of the functions) -
<?php
header('Content-type: application/json');
/* connect to the db */
$link = mysql_connect('localhost','root','root') or die('Cannot connect to the DB');
mysql_select_db('webservice',$link) or die('Cannot select the DB');
if(isset($_POST['action']) && $_POST['action'] == 'login') {
$statusCode = array('statusCode'=>1, 'statusDescription'=>'Login Process - Fail');
$posts[] = array('status'=>$statusCode);
header('Content-type: application/json');
echo json_encode($posts);
/* disconnect from the db */
}
#mysql_close($link);
?>
Basically I know that it is due to the $_POST values not being set but I can't find what I need to put instead of the $_POST. I tried
json_decode($_POST), file_get_contents("php://input") and a number of other ways but I was shooting in the dark a bit.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Steve
Thanks Michael for the help, that was a definite step forward I now have at least got a repsonse when I echo the post....even if it is null
updated CURL -
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://webservice.local/');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
updated php on the page that the data is posted to -
$inputJSON = file_get_contents('php://input');
$input= json_decode( $inputJSON, TRUE ); //convert JSON into array
print_r(json_encode($input));
As I say at least I see a response now wheras prior it was returning a blank page

You have empty $_POST. If your web-server wants see data in json-format you need to read the raw input and then parse it with JSON decode.
You need something like that:
$json = file_get_contents('php://input');
$obj = json_decode($json);
Also you have wrong code for testing JSON-communication...
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS tells curl to encode your parameters as application/x-www-form-urlencoded. You need JSON-string here.
UPDATE
Your php code for test page should be like that:
$data_string = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init('http://webservice.local/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$result = json_decode($result);
var_dump($result);
Also on your web-service page you should remove one of the lines header('Content-type: application/json');. It must be called only once.

Hello this is a snippet from an old project of mine that uses curl to get ip information from some free ip databases services which reply in json format. I think it might help you.
$ip_srv = array("http://freegeoip.net/json/$this->ip","http://smart-ip.net/geoip-json/$this->ip");
getUserLocation($ip_srv);
Function:
function getUserLocation($services) {
$ctx = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('timeout' => 15))); // 15 seconds timeout
for ($i = 0; $i < count($services); $i++) {
// Configuring curl options
$options = array (
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
//CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json'),
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle compressed
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "test", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 5, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 5, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10 // stop after 10 redirects
);
// Initializing curl
$ch = curl_init($services[$i]);
curl_setopt_array ( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec ( $ch );
$err = curl_errno ( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error ( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo ( $ch );
$httpCode = curl_getinfo ( $ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE );
curl_close ( $ch );
//echo 'service: ' . $services[$i] . '</br>';
//echo 'err: '.$err.'</br>';
//echo 'errmsg: '.$errmsg.'</br>';
//echo 'httpCode: '.$httpCode.'</br>';
//print_r($header);
//print_r(json_decode($content, true));
if ($err == 0 && $httpCode == 200 && $header['download_content_length'] > 0) {
return json_decode($content, true);
}
}
}

you can put your json in a parameter and send it instead of put only your json in header:
$post_string= 'json_param=' . json_encode($data);
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://webservice.local/'); // Set the url path we want to call
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($curl);
//see the results
$json=json_decode($result,true);
curl_close($curl);
print_r($json);
on the service side you can get your json string as a parameter:
$json_string = $_POST['json_param'];
$obj = json_decode($json_string);
then you can use your converted data as object.

Javascript to make Post or Get call to a URL and return the text that's on the page

I've been trying to do this all morning I need to make either a POST or a GET call to this
URL http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php
I need it to return the text that's on the page, I know it can't be that difficult but I'm completely code blocked on this one,
I've tried using JQuerys .post and .get functions but I cant seem to return just the text on the page
any help would be appriciated
EDIT:
Ah ok so there's a technical reason for not being able to do it. balls, Thanks for the help guys

(function ($) {
$.ajax({
url: 'http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php',
type: 'text',
success: function (response) {
//do something with the text from the site
}
});
}(jQuery));
Obviously you need to host this script on the URL you are loading because of the same origin policy

You are running into the cross domain limitation. You can only to a request to a page in the same domain.

There is another possibility if you need to post calls to a page on another domain. Let's say your Javascript is being run from index.php. You might create a file called ctexter.php.
ctexter.php would use curl to make the post request to http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php, and would then output the response (the output from) send.php. So, if index.php makes an ajax call to ctexter.php, and ctexter.php is outputting the response from send.php, you have in effect achieved your goal.
You could make the curl post requests with this function:
function post_request($url, $data) {
$output = array();
foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
if(is_object($value) || is_array($value)){
$data[$key] = serialize($value);
}
}
$output = array();
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if ($result) {
$output['status'] = "ok";
$output['content'] = $result;
} else {
$output['status'] = "failure";
$output['error'] = curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
where $url is (obviously) the url to post to, and $data is an associative array containing the data you want to submit.
Then on ctexter.php you could do something like:
// Since we already built the post array in the
// ajax call, we'll just pass it right through
$response = post_request("http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php", $_POST);
if($response['status'] == "ok"){
echo $response['content'];
}
else{
echo "It didn't work";
}
Finally, hit ctexter.php using JQuery .post():
$.post("ctexter.php",
{
firstparamname: "firstparamvalue",
somethingelse: "llama"
},
function(data) {
alert("It worked! Data Loaded: " + data);
});

If you're on the same domain, you'd use some code like this:
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (ajax.readyState==4 && ajax.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("targetElementID").textContent = ajax.responseText;
}
}
ajax.open("GET","http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php",true);
ajax.send();
Learn how to use AJAX
If not, then, sorry, you're out of luck because you'll run into the same origin policy error.

There is a way to make a request to that URL and get around the same origin policy. Put something like a PHP script on your own domain that makes a request to http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php and then call your own script from the javascript.
If your host supports PHP and cURL a script like this would do the job:
<?php
$url="http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php";
$post="";
if(strstr($url,"?")){
$split=explode("?",$url);
$url=$split[0];
$post=$split[1];
}
$ch = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
if($post!=""){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
}else{
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print $result;
?>