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CURLFile::__construct

curl_file_create

(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7)

CURLFile::__construct -- curl_file_createCreate a CURLFile object


Description

Object oriented style

public CURLFile::__construct ( string $filename [, string|null $mime_type = NULL [, string|null $posted_filename = NULL ]] )

Procedural style

curl_file_create ( string $filename [, string|null $mime_type = NULL [, string|null $posted_filename = NULL ]] ) : CURLFile

Creates a CURLFile object, used to upload a file with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS.


Parameters

filename
Path to the file which will be uploaded.
mime_type
Mimetype of the file.
posted_filename
Name of the file to be used in the upload data.


Return Values

Returns a CURLFile object.


Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 mime_type and posted_filename

are nullable now; previously their default was 0.


Examples

Example #1 CURLFile::__construct() example

Object oriented style


<?php/* http://example.com/upload.php:<?php var_dump($_FILES); ?>*/// Create a cURL handle$ch = curl_init('http://example.com/upload.php');// Create a CURLFile object$cfile = new CURLFile('cats.jpg','image/jpeg','test_name');// Assign POST data$data = array('test_file' => $cfile);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);// Execute the handlecurl_exec($ch);?>

Procedural style


<?php/* http://example.com/upload.php:<?php var_dump($_FILES); ?>*/// Create a cURL handle$ch = curl_init('http://example.com/upload.php');// Create a CURLFile object$cfile = curl_file_create('cats.jpg','image/jpeg','test_name');// Assign POST data$data = array('test_file' => $cfile);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);// Execute the handlecurl_exec($ch);?>

The above example will output:


array(1) {
  ["test_file"]=>
  array(5) {
    ["name"]=>
    string(9) "test_name"
    ["type"]=>
    string(10) "image/jpeg"
    ["tmp_name"]=>
    string(14) "/tmp/phpPC9Kbx"
    ["error"]=>
    int(0)
    ["size"]=>
    int(46334)
  }
}

Example #2 CURLFile::__construct() uploading multiple files example

Object oriented style


<?php$request = curl_init('http://www.example.com/upload.php');curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_POST, true);curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, true); curl_setopt(    $request,    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,    [        'blob[0]' => new CURLFile(realpath('first-file.jpg'), 'image/jpeg'),        'blob[1]' => new CURLFile(realpath('second-file.txt'), 'text/plain'),        'blob[2]' => new CURLFile(realpath('third-file.exe'), 'application/octet-stream'),    ] );curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);echo curl_exec($request);var_dump(curl_getinfo($request));curl_close($request);

Procedural style


<?php// procedural$request = curl_init('http://www.example.com/upload.php');curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, true); curl_setopt(    $request,    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,    [        'blob[0]' => curl_file_create(realpath('first-file.jpg'), 'image/jpeg'),        'blob[1]' => curl_file_create(realpath('second-file.txt'), 'text/plain'),        'blob[2]' => curl_file_create(realpath('third-file.exe'), 'application/octet-stream'),    ] );curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);echo curl_exec($request);var_dump(curl_getinfo($request));curl_close($request);

The above example will output:


array(26) {
  ["url"]=>
  string(31) "http://www.example.com/upload.php"
  ["content_type"]=>
  string(24) "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
  ["http_code"]=>
  int(200)
  ["header_size"]=>
  int(198)
  ["request_size"]=>
  int(196)
  ["filetime"]=>
  int(-1)
  ["ssl_verify_result"]=>
  int(0)
  ["redirect_count"]=>
  int(0)
  ["total_time"]=>
  float(0.060062)
  ["namelookup_time"]=>
  float(0.028575)
  ["connect_time"]=>
  float(0.029011)
  ["pretransfer_time"]=>
  float(0.029121)
  ["size_upload"]=>
  float(3230730)
  ["size_download"]=>
  float(811)
  ["speed_download"]=>
  float(13516)
  ["speed_upload"]=>
  float(53845500)
  ["download_content_length"]=>
  float(811)
  ["upload_content_length"]=>
  float(3230730)
  ["starttransfer_time"]=>
  float(0.030355)
  ["redirect_time"]=>
  float(0)
  ["redirect_url"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["primary_ip"]=>
  string(13) "0.0.0.0"
  ["certinfo"]=>
  array(0) {
  }
  ["primary_port"]=>
  int(80)
  ["local_ip"]=>
  string(12) "0.0.0.0"
  ["local_port"]=>
  int(34856)
}

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