I am wanting to send a file via http POST using PHP and cURL.
The form POST was working ok with basic fields besides the file being posted with \'application/json\'.
One omission I see is that you need to add your $cfile
object to the $data
array. This, coupled with the answer by Samir, should get you all squared away.
This all gets very confusing and "contradictory" very quickly! Because cUrl is quite flexible and powerful, little differences in usage context have a massive impact and can lead to DAYS of non-existent bug chasing.
Secondly, the URL/Endpoint you are posting to can also have it own "implementation" and expectations. This understanding it complicated when experience is only with GET requests AND the assumption/expectation is based of PHP Super Easy $_REQUEST
In the case above, simplifying: This is a live working example, but the postfields ($post) has been reduced from the 50 odd in use to a few for example. This will post as multipart form data.
Here important options are the options to use CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS and NOT CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST. Doing so will require you to take care of required headers and in particular, content size header, etc.
// Post "field" array. Notice its 1 Dimensional. Else, this should rather accept JSON. simply decode array to json and proceed). Depends what server is expecting - Form data, Form + files, json or maybe just a RAW request body.
$post = array(
'RsmMaster1_TSM' => $tsm,
'__EVENTTARGET' => '__Page',
'__EVENTARGUMENT' => 'ExcelExport',
'__VIEWSTATE' => $viewstate,
'__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR' => $viewstategenerator,
'__EVENTVALIDATION' => $eventvalidation
);
// Optional, Required in THIS case because, well gosh darn who knows, as the receiving server admin?
$headers = array(
'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
'Accept-Language: en-ZA,en-GB;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3',
'Referer: https://example.com/Main.aspx'
);
// cUrl it into the goal!
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://example.com/Main.aspx');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie); // Session maintain!
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE );
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
You need to build query string for data to be posted. Use http_build_query
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
Hi I have figured out the problem.
My params were not set correct on the api endpoint. Need to set a note_id(c_id)
But issue I am having now is posting all data at once. I am posting file after the note has been created thus generating the note id for me for posting file. Can anyone help with that? I can post a new question.
See updated code below:
//$orgID = (is_numeric($_POST['orgID']) ? (int)$_POST['orgID'] : 0);
//$noteTitle = (isset($_POST['noteTitle']) ? $_POST['noteTitle'] : null);
//$noteBody = (isset($_POST['noteBody']) ? $_POST['noteBody'] : null);
$noteID = (isset($_POST['noteID']) ? $_POST['noteID'] : null);
$localFile = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
$fp = fopen($localFile, 'r');
$curl = curl_init();
$cfile = new CURLFILE($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $_FILES['file']['type'], $_FILES['file']['name']);
$data = array();
//$data["TITLE"] = "$noteTitle";
//$data["BODY"] = "$noteBody";
//$data["LINK_SUBJECT_ID"] = "$orgID";
//$data["LINK_SUBJECT_TYPE"] = "Organisation";
$data['FILE_ATTACHMENTS'] = $cfile;
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_UPLOAD => 1,
CURLOPT_INFILE => $fp,
CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS => false,
CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE => 128,
CURLOPT_INFILESIZE => filesize($localFile),
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.insight.ly/v2.1/Notes/?c_id=" . $noteID . "&filename=" . $_FILES['file']['name'],
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $data,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"authorization: Basic xxx",
"cache-control: no-cache",
"content-type: multipart/form-data",
"postman-token: xxx"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
HTML
<form method="POST" action="formSend.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
//<input type="text" value="" name="orgID">
//<input type="text" value="" name="noteTitle">
//<input type="text" value="" name="noteBody">
<input type="text" value="" name="noteID">
<input name="file" type="file" id="file"/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="btnUpload"/>
</form>
If anyone is interested this is my solution for using fpdf to generate a PDF document from the web form then auto send, instead of the file upload. FPDF file ---> send via CURL automatically NOT with file upload