using cURL with PHP variables to automatically log a user in

[Lloyd_4]

Hi Everyone, I am new to using cURL

I have a client website I am working on...

They have a password script that automatically creates a new password -
what they would like to do now is automatically log the user in -

using the automatic password and the users email address.
The password script is working perfectly and I have the email & password variables available -
$moefEmail & $moefPassword

I just need help with editing the two cURL scripts to automatically log the user in

I have found the following two articles that detail the process, But I am not sure what I am doing with cURL -
http://thisinterestsme.com/php-login-to-website-with-curl/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20049393/using-php-curl-to-login-to-my-websites-form

                        //The username or email address of the account.
                            define('USERNAME', 'myusername');

                        //The password of the account.
                            define('PASSWORD', 'mypassword');

                        //Set a user agent. This basically tells the server that we are using Chrome ;)
                            define('USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.2309.372 Safari/537.36');

                        //Where our cookie information will be stored (needed for authentication).
                            define('COOKIE_FILE', 'cookie.txt');

                        //URL of the login form.
                            define('LOGIN_FORM_URL', 'http://example.com/login.php');

                        //Login action URL. Sometimes, this is the same URL as the login form.
                            define('LOGIN_ACTION_URL', 'http://example.com/login-check.php');

                        //An associative array that represents the required form fields.
                        //You will need to change the keys / index names to match the name of the form
                        //fields.
                            $postValues = array(
                                'username' => USERNAME,
                                'password' => PASSWORD
                            );

                        //Initiate cURL.
                            $curl = curl_init();

                        //Set the URL that we want to send our POST request to. In this
                        //case, it's the action URL of the login form.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, LOGIN_ACTION_URL);

                        //Tell cURL that we want to carry out a POST request.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);

                        //Set our post fields / date (from the array above).
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postValues));

                        //We don't want any HTTPS errors.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

                        //Where our cookie details are saved. This is typically required
                        //for authentication, as the session ID is usually saved in the cookie file.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_FILE);

                        //Sets the user agent. Some websites will attempt to block bot user agents.
                        //Hence the reason I gave it a Chrome user agent.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USER_AGENT);

                        //Tells cURL to return the output once the request has been executed.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

                        //Allows us to set the referer header. In this particular case, we are 
                        //fooling the server into thinking that we were referred by the login form.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, LOGIN_FORM_URL);

                        //Do we want to follow any redirects?
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);

                        //Execute the login request.
                            curl_exec($curl);

                        //Check for errors!
                            if(curl_errno($curl)){
                                throw new Exception(curl_error($curl));
                            }

                        //We should be logged in by now. Let's attempt to access a password protected page
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/protected-page.php');

                        //Use the same cookie file.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, COOKIE_FILE);

                        //Use the same user agent, just in case it is used by the server for session validation.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USER_AGENT);

                        //We don't want any HTTPS / SSL errors.
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
                            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

                        //Execute the GET request and print out the result.
                            echo curl_exec($curl);