Basic Curl to PHP Conversion - php

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to do this CURL command:
curl https://uploads.stripe.com/v1/files \
-u sk_test_OCHANGEDPcDr0: \
-F purpose=identity_document \
-F file="#/path/to/a/file.jpg"
In PHP, I'm using this PHP script:
https://github.com/php-mod/curl
And tried this:
$curl->setBasicAuthentication('-u', 'sk_live_CHANGED');
$curl->post('https://uploads.stripe.com/v1/files', array(
'purpose' => 'dispute_evidence',
'file' => $targetFile,
));
But I think the syntax is completely wrong, I'm really new to curl and don't understand what all the different -u and -F commands PHP equivalents are.

Answer 1

The -u username:password option translates to:
$curl->setBasicAuthentication('username', 'password');
To upload a file, you need to put # before the filename, just like in the curl command.
$curl->post('https://uploads.stripe.com/v1/files', array(
'purpose' => 'dispute_evidence',
'file' => '#' . $targetFile,
));

Answer 2

You'll probably want to try something like this:
$headers = array(
'Authorization: Bearer ' . $your_api_key,
'Content-Type: multipart/form-data'
);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://uploads.stripe.com/v1/files',
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_INFILESIZE => '10000',
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $headers,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => array(
'purpose' => 'dispute_evidence',
'file' => '#' . realpath($path_to_file)
)
));
$resp = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
EDIT: Alternatively, you can upload files directly from the browser like this.

Answer 3

If you have a functional curl command invocation, you can get what you are after by adding the --libcurl filename.c option.
This will generate a C program to do what your command line did. Though you are after PHP and not C, this is still useful because they both use the same names for various options.