Log in on another site and check for private messages

Question

Is it possible to log in on another site from localhost or for example my server where a website runs on?

Here's what I want to do: Every hour a cronjob should get the website data via file_get_contents() and check for new private messages. If there is an unread one, open it, extract the contents and do some other stuff with it. The problem: Everytime I try to get the contents, it'll just go to the login site.

Thanks in advance.

You might find this other question helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1797510/file-get-contents-receive-cookies — Femi, Mar 20 '14 at 14:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 20 '14 at 14:05

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Your script need to login into the target website, you can use curl for do that. http://php.net/manual/fr/book.curl.php/

answered Mar 20 '14 at 14:05

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This should probably be a comment on the original post. – Mattt Mar 20 '14 at 14:06

Log in on another site and check for private messages

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