Re: [phpesp-general] [PHP] Send XML file with curl functions

[Aaron A. <li...@fr...>]

Option 2 is what I'm trying to do, but the problem is that when curl 
sends the file over the command line, when it's processes via PHP the 
attached file comes over $_FILES.

But, added the postdata obviously doesn't allow it to come over that 
way.  Is there any way to use option 2 and transmit the file so it will 
come over under $_FILES?

-- Aaron

Bojan Tesanovic wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Aaron Axelsen wrote:
>
>> I am trying to create the following command with the php curl functions:
>>
>> curl -F "data=@domain.xml" "http://path/to/api"
>>
>> The problem i'm having is that i'm creating the xml file with php - 
>> so the contents are stored in a variable.  How can I send the 
>> contents of that variable via curl?  I thought just assigning the xml 
>> variable to data would work - but it hasn't.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> -- 
>> Aaron Axelsen
>> li...@fr...
>>
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>
>
>
> What I can suggest
> 1. save the XML to file eg xmldata.xml   and use
> system('curl -F "data=@xmldata.xml" "http://path/to/api" ');
>
> 2. or Use PHP CURL functions
>
> fufunction postData($postFileds,$url){
>         $ch = curl_init();
>         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
>         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST      ,1);
>         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS    ,$postFileds);
>         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  ,1);
>         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER      ,0);  // DO NOT RETURN 
> HTTP HEADERS
>         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  ,1);  // RETURN THE 
> CONTENTS OF THE CALL
>         $data = curl_exec($ch);
>         curl_close($ch);
>         return $data;
>     }
>
> $xmlData = 'some xml data';
> $postFileds = 'data='. urlencode($xmlData);
>
> //call function
> postData($postFileds,"http://path/to/api");
>
>
>
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> Bojan
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Aaron Axelsen
li...@fr...

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