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Creating a POST request using file handlers for file content
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<?php | |
# base code found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3085990/post-a-file-string-using-curl-in-php | |
$delimiter = '----WebKitFormBoundary'.uniqid(); | |
$data = create_post($delimiter, array( | |
'bingo' => 'yes' | |
), array( | |
'file' => array( | |
'filename' => 'data.txt', | |
'type' => 'application/octet-stream', | |
'content' => '@data.txt', | |
//'content' => fopen('data.txt', 'rb'), | |
//'content' => 'raw contents', | |
) | |
)); | |
$handle = curl_init('http://requestb.in/1717eay1'); | |
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true); | |
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER , array( | |
'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=' . $delimiter, | |
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data))); | |
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); | |
curl_exec($handle); | |
/** | |
* @param array $postFields The KVPs you want as post data | |
* @param array $fileFields The objects of each file: name => array(type=>'mime/type',content=>'raw data|resource',filename=>'file.csv') | |
*/ | |
function create_post($delimiter, $postFields, $fileFields = array()){ | |
// form field separator | |
$eol = "\r\n"; | |
$data = ''; | |
// populate normal fields first (simpler) | |
foreach ($postFields as $name => $content) { | |
$data .= "--$delimiter" . $eol; | |
$data .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' . $name . '"'; | |
$data .= $eol.$eol; // note: double endline | |
$data .= $content; | |
$data .= $eol; | |
} | |
// populate file fields | |
foreach ($fileFields as $name => $file) { | |
$data .= "--$delimiter" . $eol; | |
// fallback on var name for filename | |
if (!array_key_exists('filename', $file)) | |
{ | |
$file['filename'] = $name; | |
} | |
// "filename" attribute is not essential; server-side scripts may use it | |
$data .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' . $name . '";' . | |
' filename="' . $file['filename'] . '"' . $eol; | |
// this is, again, informative only; good practice to include though | |
$data .= 'Content-Type: ' . $file['type'] . $eol; | |
// this endline must be here to indicate end of headers | |
$data .= $eol; | |
// the file itself (note: there's no encoding of any kind) | |
if (is_resource($file['content'])){ | |
// rewind pointer | |
rewind($file['content']); | |
// read all data from pointer | |
while(!feof($file['content'])) { | |
$data .= fgets($file['content']); | |
} | |
$data .= $eol; | |
}else { | |
// check if we are loading a file from full path | |
if (strpos($file['content'], '@') === 0){ | |
$file_path = substr($file['content'], 1); | |
$fh = fopen(realpath($file_path), 'rb'); | |
if ($fh) { | |
while (!feof($fh)) { | |
$data .= fgets($fh); | |
} | |
$data .= $eol; | |
fclose($fh); | |
} | |
}else { | |
// use data as provided | |
$data .= $file['content'] . $eol; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
// last delimiter | |
$data .= "--" . $delimiter . "--$eol"; | |
return $data; | |
} |
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