I am trying to login to a website and grab content from a page you must be authenticated to see. I have done some research and have seen some examples using both cURL and stream_context_create but I cannot get either way to work. I have the url for the page to login to, and the page that contains the data I need to get. Your help is much appreciated!

Here's what I'm working with:

<?php 
    $pages = array('home' => 
'https://www.53.com/wps/portal/personal', 
               'login' => 
'https://www.53.com/wps/portal/personal', 
               'data' => 
'https://www.53.com/servlet/efsonline/index.html?Messages.SortedBy=DATE,REVERSE'); 
    $ch = curl_init(); 
    //Set options for curl session 
    $options = array(CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)', 
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE, 
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 2, 
             CURLOPT_HEADER => TRUE, 
             //CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE, 
             CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => 'cookie.txt', 
             CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => 'cookies.txt'); 

    //Hit home page for session cookie 
    $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $pages['home']; 
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); 
    curl_exec($ch); 

    //Login 
    $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $pages['login']; 
    $options[CURLOPT_POST] = TRUE; 
    $options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = 'uid-input=xxx&pw=xxx'; 
    $options[CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION] = FALSE; 
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); 
    curl_exec($ch); 

    //Hit data page 
    $options[CURLOPT_URL] = $pages['data']; 
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); 
    $data = curl_exec($ch); 

    //Output data
    echo $data; 

    //Close curl session 
    curl_close($ch); 
?>

Cheers,

Anthony