Till recently most of my php scripts were working fine on the servers with instantaneous outputs as and when a echo statement came. One issue that popped a lot on localhost was that of chunky outputs; that is the outputs of big scripts came out in chunks rather than smoothly with every echo or print [...]
The Curl Library of PHP can be used to open remote web pages and also logging in where a login is required.
Code
$login_url = ‘http://www.somesite.com/login.php’;
#These are the post data username and password
$post_data = ‘username=someusername&password=somepassword’;
#Create a curl object
$ch = curl_init();
#Set the useragent
$agent = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
#Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $login_url );
#This is a POST query
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 [...]
