Upload a PDF file to Google Drive

google-drive-upload-pdf.php

<?php

require 'google-api/apiClient.php';
require 'google-api/contrib/apiOauth2Service.php';
require 'google-api/contrib/apiDriveService.php';

$pdfFile = 'test.pdf';

// API Console: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
// Create an API project ("web applications") and put the client id and client secret in config.ini.
// Set up the Drive SDK in the API console.
// Create a Chrome extension, set the "container" and "api_console_project_id" parameters, and install it.
$config = parse_ini_file('config.ini'); // client_id, client_secret

// initialise the client
$client = new apiClient();
$client->setUseObjects(true);
$client->setAuthClass('apiOAuth2');
$client->setScopes(array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file'));
$client->setClientId($config['client_id']);
$client->setClientSecret($config['client_secret']);
$client->setRedirectUri($config['client_uri']);
$client->setAccessToken(authenticate($client));

// initialise the Google Drive service
$service = new apiDriveService($client);

// create and upload a new Google Drive file, including the data
try {
	$file = new DriveFile;
	$file->setTitle(basename($pdfFile));
	$file->setMimeType('application/pdf');
	
	$result = $service->files->insert($file, array('data' => file_get_contents($pdfFile), 'mimeType' => 'application/pdf'));
}
catch (Exception $e) {
	print $e->getMessage();
}

print_r($result);

function authenticate($client, $file = 'token.json'){
	if (file_exists($file)) return file_get_contents($file);

	$_GET['code'] = ''; // insert the verification code here

	// print the authentication URL
	if (!$_GET['code']) {
		exit($client->createAuthUrl(array('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file')) . "\n");
	}

	file_put_contents($file, $client->authenticate());
	exit('Authentication saved to token.json - now run this script again.');
}

Hi, I really appreciate your efforts for providing this code snippet,but can you please also send the download link to the complete api?

@arun7379 just go get it here https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client

I am getting Undefined index: uploadType in Google\Service\Resource.php on line 221 exception, when I call the $service->files->insert() method, I have passed all the parameters as shown in the above code.
Solved
earlier I was using $service->files->insert($file, array('data' => $data, 'mimeType' => 'image/jpeg'));
changed it to $service->files->insert($file, array('data' => $data, 'mimeType' => 'image/jpeg','uploadType' => 'media'));

@joshiket To solve the warning, you should specify uploadType along with mimeType.
p.s. this piece of code is for V2; please migrate to V3.

can you please update the topic

Hi, I need to setup Google Drive API for one of my project and following the documentation leads me nowhere. The API which I am getting do not have files which are included in the code. Can anyone guide me with the code and API as I am new to APIs.

I need to create a system wherein public users will submit their assignments by uploading Word/PDF files which will be transferred to common Google Drive of teacher and link of each uploaded file will be generated.

Please suggest. Thanks.

Now if only I could find this for php not wrapped in the google-api-php-client

require 'google-api/apiClient.php';
require 'google-api/contrib/apiOauth2Service.php';
require 'google-api/contrib/apiDriveService.php';

Where i can purchase php files?