I have a raspberry pi running a lamp stack, an arduino and a camera hooked up. The end goal is that when my arduino takes a photo, it then writes an image to a php address which is then emailed.
Right now, I'm trying to get the image to get placed in the right place.
Here's my php snippet:
<?php
print_r($_FILES);
move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "/var/www/images/mypic.jpg");
?>
My python code is doing:
import requests
r = requests.get('https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png')
r2 = requests.post('http://192.168.1.100/accept_image.php', data = r.content)
I realize the image is going to get overwritten. That's not a problem. I can always add a timestamp later etc etc.
However, this gives me an error code. I'm a beginner at php and use python mainly for scientific computing so not sure if I'm passing the picture correctly. I know that the ip is correct as I can connect to it and it's all in network.
I have looked at this Python script send image to PHP but am still getting stuck.
EDIT: Upon further debugging:
print_r($_POST);
returns an empty array. Not sure why?
To have a file accessible to PHP in $_FILES, you must use HTML-form style encoding of files (multipart/form-data). This is different from a standard POST request including the content in the request body. This method is explained in http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php - the key here is:
PHP is capable of receiving file uploads from any RFC-1867 compliant browser.
What's you're trying to do is not sending it the RFC-1867 way, but a plain-old POST request.
So you have two options:
Send the data from Python using multipart/form-data encoding. It shouldn't be too hard but requires some work on the Python side.
Just grab the data on the PHP side not from $_FILES but by directly reading it from the POST body, like so:
.
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');
file_put_contents("/var/www/images/mypic.jpg", $data);
It's more of a memory hog on the PHP side, and means you need to do some validation that you actually got the data, but is quite simpler.
To clarify, in PHP $_POST is only populated when the Content-type request header is multipart/form-data or application/x-www-form-urlencoded (and of course the data is encoded in the proper way).
If you get a POST request with anything else in the body, you can read it directly by reading from the php://input stream, and you're responsible for handling / decoding / validating it.