Cant create shot in Dribbble - php

Question

I need your help with this:
I try to create a shot in Dribbly but get the error message.
I did it like described in the documentation(http://developer.dribbble.com/v1/shots/#create-a-shot). This is my code:
$url = "http://www.rodos-palace.gr/uploads/images/509.jpg";
print_r($drib->create_shot('shottitle', $url));
public function create_shot($title, $image, $description = false)
{
$query = array(
'title' => $title,
'image' => $image
);
if ($description) {
$query['description'] = $description;
}
// print_r("<br>crearing_shot-> ".__LINE__);
$query['access_token'] = $this->access_token;
return $this->curl_post_shot($this->short_api, $query);
// return $this->curl_post_shot($this->short_api . "?" . 'access_token=' . $this->access_token, http_build_query($query));
}
public function curl_post_shot($url, $post)
{
$headers = array("Content-Type: multipart/form-data");
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_POST => 1,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $headers,
/*, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false*/
));
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true );
curl_setopt($curl, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
$information = curl_getinfo($curl);
if( ($resp = curl_exec($curl)) === false )
{
echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($curl);
}
else
{
// echo 'Operation completed without any errors';
}
//echo "Check HTTP status code >>>>";
// Check HTTP status code
if (!curl_errno($curl)) {
switch ($information = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE)) {
case 200: # OK
break;
default:
{ /*echo 'Unexpected HTTP code: ', $http_code, "\n";*/}
}
}
curl_close($curl);
print_r("<br>crearing_shot-> ".__LINE__);
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($information);
print_r("<br>----------------------------<br>");
print_r($headers);
return $resp;
}
and this is the error:
{ "message": "Validation failed.", "errors": [
{
"attribute": "image",
"message": "file is required"
} ] }
beside this, I try to do it with the image real path and with the PHP $_FILES and the result is the same.
please help me to solve this problem.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Since I cannot verify, because I do not have an uploader account, I recommend using the cURL file class to upload a file. There are multiple ways to to this, but since you use OOP you should try this:
public function create_shot($title, $image, $description = false)
{
$query = array(
'title' => $title,
'image' => new CURLFile($image), // $image is the absolute path to the image file
);
if ($description) {
$query['description'] = $description;
}
$query['access_token'] = $this->access_token;
return $this->curl_post_shot($this->short_api, $query);
}
You will find details in the manual about the file upload.