CLI CURL -> PHP CURL

Question

How can I translate this curl command so that it works in a PHP script?

curl --request POST --data-binary '@import.xml' --header "Content-Type: application/atom+xml" --header "Content-Length: 378" "http://url.com"

this don't work:

$data = array('file'=>$filename);                    

    $headers = array(
        'Content-Type: application/atom+xml',
        'Content-Length: 378'
    );

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'httpL//url.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);  
curl_exec($ch);

Did you find an answer? I'm having a tough time translating something similar to this. — TechFanDan
– TechFanDan, Commented Oct 12, 2011 at 19:48

FMaz008 · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-09 20:21:16Z

4

Try this:

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
        'Content-Type: application/atom+xml'
    ));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://siteurl.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, file_get_contents($filename));  
curl_exec($ch);

answered Sep 9, 2011 at 20:21

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Daniel Stenberg · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-19 22:53:26Z

The correct thing would be to read the file into a string and then provide that string to the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS options. That feature of reading into a string is not provided by libcurl but is done by the command line client and I don't think the PHP/CURL binding offers the equivalent.

The command line uses --data-binary which corresponds to a CURLOPT_POSTSFIELDS with a string, not a hash array as the array will turn the post in to a multipart post (which the command line does with -F, --form). Also, the custom request set to POST is totally superfluous.

Usually, running the command line with "--libcurl test.c" is a good way to get a first draft version of a C program using the C API, but as the PHP API is very similar that should work as decent start in most cases.

Edit: and custom changing/providing the "Content-Length:" header is never a good idea unless you know perfectly well what you're doing. libcurl will always provide one that is generated based on the data you pass on to it.

Marc B · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-19 15:36:50Z

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$data = array('file'=> '@' . $filename);

You need to prepend the filename with a '@' to tell CURL it's actually a filename and not just a string. The headers are not required either, as CURL will fill them in itself.

answered Jul 19, 2011 at 15:36

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8 Comments

Jocky Over a year ago

From manual: "To post a file, prepend a filename with @ and use the full path." don't work...

Marc B Over a year ago

Try doing $result = curl_exec($ch); if ($result === false) { die(curl_error());. Never assume the curl request succeeded - always check return values.

Jocky Over a year ago

>> The headers are not required either, as CURL will fill them in itself. but in CLI CURl they are necessarily

Marc B Over a year ago

@jocky: yeah, but OP is trying to do it in PHP... and there they're not required.

Jocky Over a year ago

PHP CURL ends with succes, but result not right - in CLI CURL it's another

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