Sending Media Files using CURL - Laravel PHP - php

Question

I am posting data(including a media file (.wav)) from my app to an API with curl. When submitting my data, i check for the data including the mediafile submitted in my API. From the response i get from my API, see below
Response
{"status":"success","media":false,"data":{"message":"Media Campaign","recipient":["34505140704"],
"file":{"name":"\/Users\/path\/to\/folder\/public\/Voice\/aaaah.wav","mime":null,"postname":null}}}true
In the response, the file is being retrieved as well but when i check for the file using $request->hasFile('file') or $request->file('file'), I get false and null respectively.
Can someone let me know why this is happening in my code please ?
Controller
public function test()
{
$file_name_with_full_path = '/Users/path/to/folder/public/Voice/aaaah.wav';
if(function_exists('curl_file_create'))
{
$cFile = curl_file_create($file_name_with_full_path);
}
else
{
$cFile = '#' . realpath($file_name_with_full_path);
}
$post = array('message' => 'Media Campaign', 'recipient' => ['34505140704'],'file' => $cFile);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post));
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
}
APIController
public function campaign(Request $request)
{
if (($request->get('message')) {
return response()->json([
'status' => 'success',
'data' => $request->all()
]);
}
}

Answer 1

To be honest, I'd use Guzzle to hide the details of cURL requests in PHP. The way PHP's cURL extension handles file transfers changed a couple of years ago, which broke a lot of legacy code at the company I was working for. By using a third-party wrapper like Guzzle, you can let the Guzzle developers worry about changes in the underlying extension - all you need to do is keep your Guzzle package up to date.
PHP - Why Use Guzzle Instead of cURL?