php - add cookie to curl's cookiejar

Question

I'd like to be able to add cookies set from javascript into the cookie jar. Is there any PHP functions for this? or should i just open the cookie jar using fopen and hijack it?

Answer 1

As others suggested, in order to add cookies you have to add the cookie to the cookieFile mentioned in the cookie jar curl property.

file_put_contents($cookie, ".ebay.com   TRUE    /   FALSE   0   lucky9  ".$lucky9, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX,null);

Above is something I did to insert a cookie into my cookieFile.

The cookieFile contains a cookie in 7 tab delimited properties :

domain - The domain that created AND that can read the variable. 
flag - A TRUE/FALSE value indicating if all machines within a given domain can access 
 the variable. This value is set automatically by the browser, depending on the value    you set 
 for domain. 
 path - The path within the domain that the variable is valid for. 
 secure - A TRUE/FALSE value indicating if a secure connection with the domain is needed      to access the variable. 
 expiration - The UNIX time that the variable will expire on. UNIX time is defined as   the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. 
 name - The name of the variable. 
 value - The value of the variable.

Taken from here.

Answer 2

Shameless plug:

You may use Cookie Jar Writer.

It is an utility PHP class for runtime editing cURL's cookie jar file. In other words, it allows to add custom cookie variables to a cookie jar file within sequence of cURL requests.