400 http code error using PHP & CUrl & gifs.com API - php

Question

I looked for a sample code for php & curl and i found this link http://www.php-guru.in/2013/upload-files-using-php-curl/
I tried using the code with gifs.com API to try to convert gif to mp4 (for speed reasons) then display it on my site. i tried using a giphy url to upload to gifs.com and so i ended up with the code below.
$url = 'https://api.gifs.com/media/upload';
$headers = array("Content-Type:multipart/form-data", "Gifs-API-Key:gifkey"); // cURL headers for file uploading
$postfields = array("file" => "#https://media.giphy.com/media/l378drKbCncSKYbS0/giphy.gif", "title" => 'guineapig');
$ch = curl_init();
$options = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $headers,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $postfields,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
); // cURL options
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$server_output = curl_exec($ch);
if (!curl_errno($ch)) {
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
echo $info['http_code'];
echo $server_output;
} else {
$errmsg = curl_error($ch);
echo $errmsg;
}
curl_close ($ch);
The problem is, it's always showing a 400 http_code and i don't know what the problems is
here is the full error it displays
HTTP/1.1 100 Continue HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Server: nginx Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:44:05 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 0 Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: false Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Accept,Content-Type,Gifs-API-Key Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,POST,OPTIONS Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Access-Control-Max-Age: 43200 Request-Id: 9b78a2d3-0f25-4f13-bb2d-a40b75e6fa8f Via: 1.1 google Alt-Svc: clear
I don't understand the error
note: I'm using a localhost xampp server, Is this the cause of it messing up?

Answer 1

turns out i only needed to use their import API since it's a link to a gif rather than a file upload, so i changed the header with a json instead of a multipart-form
$url = 'https://api.gifs.com/media/import';
$headers = array("Gifs-API-Key: gifkey", "Content-Type: application/json"); // cURL headers for file uploading
$postfields = "{\n \"source\": \"https://media.giphy.com/media/l378drKbCncSKYbS0/giphy.gif\",\n \"title\": \"guineapig\",\n \"tags\": [\"crazy\", \"hand drawn\", \"2015\", \"art\"],\n \"attribution\": {\n \"site\": \"vine\",\n \"user\": \"someone\"\n }\n}";
$ch = curl_init();
$options = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $headers,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $postfields,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
); // cURL options
curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
$server_output = curl_exec($ch);
if (!curl_errno($ch)) {
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
echo $info['http_code'];
echo $server_output;
} else {
$errmsg = curl_error($ch);
echo $errmsg;
}
curl_close ($ch);