I have to send files from my php back end to an API as form-data objects. These files were created directly in the back end and the sending is not associated with any HTML form.
The API documentation provides an example of sending a form-data object but in python, here it is:
files=[
('file',('owl-50267_1920.jpg',open('dataset/img/owl-1.jpg','rb')))
]
How can I do the same thing in php ? Thank you
Here is how to create a form-data object in PHP:
$file = ['file' => new CURLFILE('path/to/file.ext')];
Example of usage:
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => 'API endpoint URL',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => ['file' => new CURLFILE('path/to/file.ext')],
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['X-API-KEY': 'api key']
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
=> See previous answer here: Send file using multipart/form-data request in php
