The usage of the @filename API for file uploading is deprecated. Please use the CURLFile class instead

Question

I am beginner to php and i was exercising by HP's IDOL OnDemand api to extract texts from any image file.

I had to set a curl connection and execute api request but when i try to post file by using @ method, in php 5.5 its deprecated and recommends me to use CURLFile.

I also digged php manuals and came up with something like this https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl-file-upload

Code is as below:

$url = 'https://api.idolondemand.com/1/api/sync/ocrdocument/v1';

$output_dir = 'uploads/';
if(isset($_FILES["file"])){

$filename = md5(date('Y-m-d H:i:s:u')).$_FILES["file"]["name"];

move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],$output_dir.$filename);

$filePath = realpath($output_dir.$filename);
$post = array(
    'apikey' => 'apikey-goes-here',
    'mode' => 'document_photo',
    'file' => '@'.$filePath
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;

unlink($filePath);

If any rewrite code and show me how to use Curlfile i would be appreciate.

Thanks,

Answer 1

I believe it's as simple as changing your '@'.$filePath to use CurlFile instead.

$post = array('apikey' => 'key', 'mode' => 'document_photo', 'file' => new CurlFile($filePath));

The above worked for me.

Note: I work for HP.