php: curl script working but not in php file - php

Question

I have a curl script that is working fine in terminal.
curl -XPOST \
-F "file=#var/www/myfile.wav;type=audio/wav" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer $MY_TOKEN' \
'https://myurl'
I have tried this way in my php file,
<?php
$url = "https://myurl";
$key = "myKey";
$path = "/var/www/";
$fileName = "myfile.wav";
$data['file']= "#".$path.$fileName;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Authorization: Bearer $key"));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
?>
I get an error from the server. Seems I am not making request as the server expects. Am I missing anything in the php script?

Answer 1

Try this:
$data = array('file' => file_get_contents($path.$fileName));
There may be a problem with your CURL library that PHP is using.
Or PHP may be blocked from making HTTPS connections.
Try a series of simple tests using CURL in PHP like this first one with POST false:
<?php
$url = "https://myurl/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
echo $response;
?>
and then with POST true...
<?php
$url = "https://myurl/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
echo $response;
?>

Answer 2

Since it's an HTTPs URL , You need to make use of this parameter
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);