I want to post a file to a URL with PHP.  What is the code for this?

Here is a Python sample of exactly I want to accomplish:

def postit(url, file):
    f = open(file, "r")
    s = f.read()
    ff = urllib.urlopen(url, s)
    print ff.read()
    ff.close()
    f.close

Thanks.

xemion-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by answerguru-ga on 03 Jan 2005 10:35 PST

Hi xemion-ga,

Have you had a look at this yet? Before posting it as an answer, I
just wanted to make sure it wasn't something you had already seen:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

answerguru-ga

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Clarification of Question by xemion-ga on 03 Jan 2005 11:21 PST

Yes, I've seen it.  That deals with people uploading files to MY site.
 I want to send a file, not receive one.

I'm not familiar with the urllib Python library, but if uploading a
file is what you need to do, you can do it using the CURL library
functions in PHP, like so:

<?

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/whatever");

$post["file"] = "@filename.txt";       // "@" is treated specially
$post["arg1"] = "val1";                // any additional parameters
$post["arg2"] = "val2";

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

?>

Vladimir

hi,

go to http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient and download the httpclient class.

it has a example file (test_http_post.php)

or you can test it with the following scripts :

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receieve.php ( the script who recieves the file)

<?
    if (is_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']))
    {
        if (copy($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'],'recievedfile.file'))
            echo "FILE IS RECIEVED size: ". $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['size'];
        else
            echo "FILE IS RECIEVED. BUT COULD NOT COPY FILE";
    }
    else
        echo "No file is recieved";
?>
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send.php 
<?php
	require("http.php");

	$http=new http_class;
	$http->timeout=0;
	$http->data_timeout=0;

        $url="http://domain/recieve.php";
        $file_to_be_posted=file_get_contents("line.gif");

	$error=$http->GetRequestArguments($url,$arguments);
	$arguments["RequestMethod"]="POST";
	$arguments["PostValues"]=array(
		"submit"=>"Send",
		"MAX_FILE_SIZE"=>"1000000"
	);
	$arguments["PostFiles"]=array(
		"userfile"=>array(
			"Data"=>$file_to_be_posted,
			"Name"=>"line.gif",
			"Content-Type"=>"automatic/name",
		)
	);

$http->Open($arguments);
http->SendRequest($arguments);
$http->ReadReplyHeaders($headers);
$http->ReadReplyBody($body,1000);
echo HtmlSpecialChars($body);
$http->Close();




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regards,
Umut ATASEVER