Yahoo! Login

The Yahoo user class that comes with this package can login in any page of Yahoo services and retrieve its contents.

Just call the Login setting the GetPage parameter to the Yahoo page that has the message subjects you need.

Could you please be more specific, I'm very new to this...
What exactly do i need to write in php to login to yahoo using your class so that i can use curl after it to get the contents i need?

Please help...

You are not going to use curl directly. That is too complicated. The purpose of the Yahoo user class of this package is to simplify that task.

Take a look at the yahoo_export_address_book.php and yahoo_group_invite.php examples. These use the Yahoo user class to login in Yahoo and get some relevant pages.

What you need to do is to write a script that creates an object of this class and calls its Login function. This function takes an associative array as parameter. You need to set the GetPage entry of that array to specify the URL of the Yahoo page that you want it to return.

after setting $yahoo = new yahoo_user_class; also user name and password, i tried like this to get the page i need:

$parameters
=array('GetPage'=>'http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/2899');
// also tried without http://
$success = $yahoo->Login($parameters);

if i echo $success i get 1, not page contents, i need this page contents returned in a string so i can extract information i need and show it on my page

i guess i'm not understanding something right, could you please write me how can i get the string with needed yahoo page contents?

The page contents are returned in the $parameters['Response'] entry.

Thanx a lot, now i got everything i need. Thanx again.

The class does not work with yahoo 360.
I always get
'the login page does not redirect to the expected page'; error

Please check

$yahoo = new yahoo_user_class;
....
then user and password set

$parameters
=array('GetPage'=>'https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.done=http%3A%2F%2F360.yahoo.com%2F%3F.login%3D1&.src=360');
// also tried without http://
$success = $yahoo->Login($parameters);
if ($success) echo $parameters['Response']; else echo $yahoo->error;
?>

Oh I am sorry, ur class works good, I just put a wrong GetPage link

I am sorry again,

this problem happens , after logging and show the correct page (yeah yahoo shows that i logged in)

i click an entry on that blog and this new page shows that i am not logged in ??

Of course. You are just retrieving the requested page asking the class to login as a given Yahoo user.

If you display the page on a browser, the browser will not be receiving the cookies from the Yahoo site that tell it that you are logged in.

Whatever you are doing, showing pages retrieved like that is not the way to achieve it.