I have tried to login to facebook via curl,

I have successfully logged into facebook in this manner but cannot seem to keep the facebook logged in as soon as you click anything in facebook it redirects you to the login page.

I pondered this + thought that it was due to the fact that curl was using the cookie + not the browser, thus when you click you are un - authenticated.

is there any way of setting the cookie file that the curl has exported into the browser?

I was hoping I could simply open the php file + it would curl log me in + then redirect me to my facebook page, thanks for the help here is the code:

<?php
  // script name: login_to_facebook.php
  // coder: Sony AK Knowledge Center - www.sony-ak.com

  // your facebook credentials
  $username = "xxxxx";
  $password = "xxxxx";

  // access to facebook home page (to get the cookies)
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.facebook.com");
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, getcwd() . '/cookies_facebook.cookie');
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
  $curlData = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);

  // do get some parameters for login to facebook
  $charsetTest = substr($curlData, strpos($curlData, "name=\"charset_test\""));
  $charsetTest = substr($charsetTest, strpos($charsetTest, "value=") + 7);
  $charsetTest = substr($charsetTest, 0, strpos($charsetTest, "\""));

  $locale = substr($curlData, strpos($curlData, "name=\"locale\""));
  $locale = substr($locale, strpos($locale, "value=") + 7);
  $locale = substr($locale, 0, strpos($l开发者_Go百科ocale, "\""));

  $lsd = substr($curlData, strpos($curlData, "name=\"locale\""));
  $lsd = substr($lsd, strpos($lsd, "value=") + 7);
  $lsd = substr($lsd, 0, strpos($lsd, "\""));

  // do login to facebook
  $curl = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1");
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "charset_test=" . $charsetTest . "&locale=" . $locale . "&non_com_login=&email=" . $username . "&pass=" . $password . "&charset_test=" . $charsetTest . "&lsd=" . $lsd);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, getcwd() . '/cookies_facebook.cookie');
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, getcwd() . '/cookies_facebook.cookie');
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
  $curlData = curl_exec($curl);
  curl_close($curl);

  echo $curlData;
?>

---

You're talking about setting a cookie for a domain you don't control, which just isn't possible.