I have a page on a different server with a <form>
and I use cURL to set the data automatically. However in this form there is a file input <input name='file' type='file'>
and now I am aware of the fact that the file input behaves differently from the others.
//This is my code till now.
$ch = curl_init();
//page is password protected I am not sure if this works but I hope it does.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://user:pass@mydomain.com/system_backup.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
//set a file as post variable this doesn't work
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "file=".$file."&var1=".$var1."&var2=".$var2);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
So my question is how do I set a file as a postfield with cURL.
found the solution myself
$postParams['file'] = '@'.realpath("URLTOFILE.txt"); //for type = file
$postParams['var1'] = urlencode("var1"); //type = text, submit pretty much everything.
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://user:pass@mydomain.com/system_backup.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postParams);
Look at this guide, you need to prefix the file full path with '@'
You can put the params in an array as $postFields = array('file'=>$file,'var1'=>$var1,'var2'=>$var2);
and then use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postFields));
Hopefully should work.