Simple CURL redirect - redirect

Question

I have been around this site looking for solution to my question, some answers look close but not as much to find the solution to my issue
I have PHP curl to login to certain site and redirect to certain link while logged in.
***First to log:***
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https >somesite');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $uagent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'some other site');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 220);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, dirname(__FILE__).DS.'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, dirname(__FILE__).DS.'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'userid='.$log.'&password='.$pass.);
$content = curl_exec( $ch )
***then run this to get away from page with ads ***
$info = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
$fnd='ads'; ***// check to see if has ads***
$pos=strpos($info, $fnd);
if ($pos!==false)
{
$url1 = "https - link to redirect while logged id"; // ***I have this link for sure***
$ch1 = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, $url1);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $uagent);
curl_setopt( $ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT ,100);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, dirname(__FILE__).DS.'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, dirname(__FILE__).DS.'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt ($ch1, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
$content = curl_exec ($ch1);
but that is not working.
Who would kindly answer me?
Thank you.

Answer 1

I heard a dialog in a horror movie(not sure though) long time back "Easy Pizzy, that means crazy". Solution of your problem is easy, but not until you know it :-)
Close your curl to make sure it saves the cookies into the file. Otherwise its always empty and hence not working on second call.
// use it before second curl call
curl_close($ch);
In fact its always a good practice to close the curl instance after the needs are done!