Login to website using cURL and PHP

Hey I am trying to login to the NJIT site to check if username and password are correct. For some reason I keep getting rejected even if I use correct credentials. Also how do I strip the $result to check if it contains "Fail" which would mean the credentials were wrong. Here is my code.

Main:

<?PHP
session_start();
require_once('functions.php');

//$UCID=$_POST['UCID'];
//$Pass=$_POST['Pass'];

$UCID="jko328";
$Pass="password";
$credentialsNJIT="user=".$UCID."&pass=".$Pass;

$njit_url="http://ift.tt/1JnlAl4";

$njit_result=goCurlNJIT($credentialsNJIT, $njit_url);
echo $result;

?>

Here is the cURL function:

function goCurlNJIT($postdata, $url){

session_start();

  $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTPS);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    if(strpos($result, "Failed") === false){
       $response = "NJIT did not like credentials";
    }
    else{
       $response = "NJIT liked your credentials";
       }

echo $response;

}