Upload Files in php using REST

Question

Is there a way to upload a file from a client side to the server using REST using PHP,

I am trying to use the below code, and it is not working from me.

<?php

$file_to_upload = array('file_contents'=>'@c:\\test.txt');
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/api/upload.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $file_to_upload);
 curl_exec($ch) or die( curl_error($ch) );
$error = curl_error($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo " Server response: ".$result;
echo " Curl Error: ".$error;

?>

and my upload.php

$uploaddir = realpath('./') . '/';
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_POST['file']['name']);

echo $uploadfile;
echo "\n";
echo '<pre>';
echo $_POST['file']['tmp_name'];
       if (move_uploaded_file($_POST['file']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
           echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
       } else {
           echo "Possible file upload attack!\n";
       }
       echo 'Here is some more debugging info:';

      print_r($_FILES);
       echo "\n<hr />\n";
       print_r($_POST);
print "</pr" . "e>\n";
?>

Answer 1

I think you should be looking for $_FILES['file_contents'] and not $_POST['file']. – user1190992

Answer 2

php5.5+

$filePath = $_FILES['file_upl']['tmp_name'];
$type=$_FILES['file_upl']['type'];
$fileName = $_FILES['file_upl']['name'];
    
$data = array('file_upl' => curl_file_create($filePath, $type, $fileName));

$ch = curl_init();     
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/api/upload.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('Content-Type: multipart/form-data'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);