how to mimic cookie?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hello,

I have found this software very useful. I am now trying to crawl a website that is only accessed when there is a certain cookie stored in my browser. The website does this to present information specific to a city selected. Is there a way I could mimic this cookie in my phpcrawl code?

[Uwe Hunfeld]

Hi,

"Injecting" cookies is not supported directly by phpcrawl (yet).

But a little workaround should do the trick:
Within your extended crawler-class, just overrdie the constructor and place your cookie into the internal cookie-array.

So if your code now looks like this and you want to add a cookie for the site www.anysite.net with the name "cookie_name" and the value "cookie_value"

// ...
class MyCrawler extends PHPCrawler
{
  function handlePageData(&$page_data)
  {
    // ... 
  }
} 
// ...

replace it with this one:

// ... 
class MyCrawler extends PHPCrawler
{
  function __construct()
  {
    parent::__construct();
    $this->pageRequest->cookies["anysite.net"]["cookie_name"] = "cookie_value";
    // Use "anysite.net" here, NOT "www.anysite.net"
  }
  
  function handlePageData(&$page_data)
  {
    //...
  } 
} 
// ...

Hope it works for you!