PHP Curl Post and Get Response

Question

I have a shell code as below.
"curl -X POST -F '[email protected];type=text/plain' https://textomate.com/a/uploadMultiple"

This code send a file to the URL and get the response below.

{
  "countedFiles": [
    {
      "wordsNumber": 340,
      "charsNumber": 2908,
      "charsNoSpacesNumber": 2506,
      "wordsNumberNN": 312,
      "charsNumberNN": 2755,
      "charsNoSpacesNumberNN": 2353,
      "md5": null,
      "fileName": "textomate-api.pdf",
      "error": null
    }
  ],
  "total": {
    "wordsNumber": 340,
    "charsNumber": 2908,
    "charsNoSpacesNumber": 2506,
    "wordsNumberNN": 312,
    "charsNumberNN": 2755,
    "charsNoSpacesNumberNN": 2353,
    "md5": null
  }
}

And I want to post a file via PHP and get this response or only value of "charsNoSpacesNumber".

Could you please help me with this?

Thanks a lot

Bartosz Pachołek · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-03 05:18:48Z

1

You can do it as follows:

YET be sure to first check their T&C as I am not sure if they provide such a service for free.

Also be sure to include some error / exceptions handling.

<?php
//Initialise the cURL var
$ch = curl_init();

//Get the response from cURL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the Url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://textomate.com/a/uploadMultiple');

$path = '/path/to/your/file.pdf';
$file = curl_file_create($path, 'application/pdf', 'file');

//Create a POST array with the file in it
$postData = array(
    'file' => $file,
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

// Execute the request, decode the json into array
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
var_dump($response['total']['charsNoSpacesNumber']);

answered Jan 3, 2020 at 5:18

Bartosz Pachołek

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Emre Gündüz Over a year ago

Thank you for your support. But it didn't work for me. Sample file and index.php page is in the same directory. I try to indicate the path both '/test.pdf' and 'test.pdf' but it returned null value. They provide this service for free. When I try to run the code I shared first from shell it worked. I just wanted to run the same code via PHP but I still don't know how to do it. I hope you have another solution for me :( Thanks a lot

Bartosz Pachołek Over a year ago

Hmm sorry for such a trivial idea, but have you tried checking if php can see the file? Try var_dumping file_exists($path) and see the result. Also what response you get from their service (try var_dumping) the response?

Emre Gündüz · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-05 00:32:52Z

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Thanks for your support Bartosz. This is my code and I also shared an image of the code and results. I hope there are enough information.

<?php

if(is_callable('curl_init')){ 
    echo "curl is active"; 
} else { 
    echo "curl is passive"; 
}


//Initialise the cURL var
$ch = curl_init();

//Get the response from cURL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the Url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://textomate.com/a/uploadMultiple');

$path = 'textomate-api.pdf';
$file = curl_file_create($path, 'application/pdf', 'file');

//Create a POST array with the file in it
$postData = array(
    'file' => $file,
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

// Execute the request, decode the json into array
$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
var_dump($response['total']['charsNoSpacesNumber']);
var_dump($response);
var_dump(file_exists($path));

?>

answered Jan 5, 2020 at 0:32

Emre Gündüz

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Bartosz Pachołek Over a year ago

Let us try two more things - add: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 2); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); and after curl_exec: var_dump(curl_errno($ch)); var_dump(curl_error($ch)); Change also: $response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true); to: $response = curl_exec($ch); var_dump($response); $response = json_decode($ch);

Bartosz Pachołek Over a year ago

Also var_dump the file: var_dump($file);

Emre Gündüz Over a year ago

I shared the last situation. I hope you can check the results

Bartosz Pachołek Over a year ago

There was a typo in my last comment, it should be $response = json_decode($response);. Sorry for that.

Bartosz Pachołek Over a year ago

It seems that we also misunderstood each other in the part about curl_exec... Let me give a sample code - one sec.

Emre Gündüz · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-05 21:42:22Z

Updated code is below and you can see the results in the image.

I want to use this API on my website to be able to calculate character count of documents. I am using Wordpress and API provider gives us 3 options, Java, PHP (Wordpress) and Shell. They have something for Wordpress but I don't know how to use it.

You can reach all the files from here. https://github.com/zentaly/textomate-api If you take a look there, you can get more information and maybe you can find me a better solution.

And again thank you so much for your support, I appreciate it.

<?php

if(is_callable('curl_init')){ 
    echo "curl is active"; 
} else { 
    echo "curl is passive"; 
}


//Initialise the cURL var
$ch = curl_init();

//Get the response from cURL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the Url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://textomate.com/a/uploadMultiple');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_exec: var_dump(curl_errno($ch));
var_dump(curl_error($ch)); 



$path = 'textomate-api.pdf';
$file = curl_file_create($path, 'application/pdf', 'file');

//Create a POST array with the file in it
$postData = array(
    'file' => $file,
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

// Execute the request, decode the json into array
$response = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($response);
$response = json_decode($ch);
var_dump($response['total']['charsNoSpacesNumber']);
var_dump($response);
var_dump(file_exists($path));
var_dump($file);

?>

Please check this: pastebin.com/VJqaj1Vi - it covers parts where we have misunderstood each other, also has my contact details.

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