Sorry - Please Ignore.
Aaron Axelsen wrote:
> 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 $_FILES?
>
> -- Aaron
>
> Bojan Tesanovic wrote:
>
>> On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Aaron Axelsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am trying to create the following command with the php curl functions:
>>>
>>> curl -F "data=@domain.xml" "http://path/to/api"
>>>
>>> The problem i'm having is that i'm creating the xml file with php -
>>> so the contents are stored in a variable. How can I send the
>>> contents of that variable via curl? I thought just assigning the xml
>>> variable to data would work - but it hasn't.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
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>>> Aaron Axelsen
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>>
>> What I can suggest
>> 1. save the XML to file eg xmldata.xml and use
>> system('curl -F "data=@xmldata.xml" "http://path/to/api" ');
>>
>> 2. or Use PHP CURL functions
>>
>> fufunction postData($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");
>>
>>
>>
>> -------
>> Bojan
>> http://www.carster.us/
>>
>>
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