Not able to read cookies file that saved by CURL

Question

I'm not able to read cookies file that saved by CURL

<?php

$path = dirname(__FILE__)."/cookies.txt";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.youtube.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $path);
curl_exec($ch);

$filecontent = file_get_contents($path);

var_dump($filecontent);

?>

This code supposed to make curl request to youtube, save the cookies to the cookies.txt file, then read it by using file_get_contents, the cookies file is saved but file_get_contents not able to read it, why is that please? and how to solve it?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to close the curl resource before reading the cookies.txt file

try this

<?php

$path = dirname(__FILE__)."/cookies.txt";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.youtube.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $path);
curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

$filecontent = file_get_contents($path);

var_dump($filecontent);

?>