I'm trying to create a PHP script which sends some JSON data together with a zipped file to an API (InMobi) but I can't get it to work. I usually just set the header to application/json and use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data)); where $data is a PHP array but how do I attach the file on top of that?
The request should look like this:
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=AYip2bnLbOw0R2vf8lDZ71pon3CDottfPlckt-E Content-Disposition: form-data; name="payload"
Content-Type: application/json; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
{
"campaign": {
"name": "campaign-with-banner-ad",
"dailyBudget": "2000.00",
"startDate": "2012-03-10",
"endDate": "2012-05-31",
"action": "create",
"adGroups": [
{
"countryId": 94,
"name": "First AdGroup",
"bid": "1.89",
"landingURL": "http://test.inmobi.com/sampleapp",
"ctaDetails": {
"id": "1"
},
"action": "create",
"ads": [
{
"type": "banner",
"name": "From Root",
"filePath": "/",
"altText": "3 img add",
"action": "create"
},
{
"type": "banner",
"name": "From ad1",
"filePath": "/ad1/",
"action": "create"
},
{
"type": "banner",
"name": "From ad2",
"filePath": "/ad2/",
"action": "create"
}
]
}
]
}
}
--AYip2bnLbOw0R2vf8lDZ71pon3CDottfPlckt-E
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="zipFile"; filename="banners.zip" Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
<Contents of ZIP File>
In all of the examples I've seen they put the file in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS but I don't know how to combine that with json_encode and the above request looks like the file is sent in a separate part of the request.
Thanks!
Split the data into two fields:
$postdata = array(
'json' => json_encode($whatever),
'zipfile' => '@/path/to/yourfile.zip'
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST_FIELDS, $postdata);
Then on the receiving end:
$json = json_decode($_POST['json');
$file = $_FILES['zipfile'];