title: Login to remote site with PHP cURL
body: <p>I'm new to using cURL and its hard to find good resources for it.
  What I'm trying to do is login to a remote site, by having curl do the login form and then send back that it was successful.</p>
  
  <p>The code I have doesn't seem to work and only tries to show the main page of the site.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $username="mylogin@gmail.com"; 
  $password="mypassword"; 
  $url="http://www.myremotesite.com/index.php?page=login"; 
  $cookie="cookie.txt"; 
  
  $postdata = "email=".$username."&amp;password=".$password; 
  
  $ch = curl_init(); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6"); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url); 
  
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata); 
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
  $result = curl_exec ($ch); 
  
  echo $result;  
  curl_close($ch);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong. After this is working I want to redirect to another page and get content from my site.</p>