Upload a file using an API PUT request - php

Question

I'm building an API in PHP. One of the methods is place.new (PUT request). It expects several string fields, and it also expects an image. However I can't get it working. With a POST request it was easy, but I'm not sure how to do it with a PUT and how to get the data on the server.
thanks for the help!
Test CURL code
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $this->url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, $image);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($image));
$this->result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
Server code
if ( $im_s = file_get_contents('php://input') )
{
$image = imagecreatefromstring($im_s);
if ( $image != '' )
{
$filename = sha1($title.rand(11111, 99999)).'.jpg';
$photo_url = $temp_dir . $filename;
imagejpeg($image, $photo_url);
// upload image
...
}
}
Solution
send
// Correct: /Users/john/Sites/....
// Incorrect: http://localhost/...
$image = fopen($file_on_dir_not_url, "rb");
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILE, $image);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($file_on_dir_not_url));
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
receive
/* Added to clarify, per comments */
$putdata = fopen("php://input", "r");
/* Open a file for writing */
$fp = fopen($photo_url, "w");
/* Read the data 1 KB at a time
and write to the file */
while ($data = fread($putdata, 1024))
{
fwrite($fp, $data);
}
/* Close the streams */
fclose($fp);
fclose($putdata);

Answer 1

Did you read http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.put-method.php ? Script PUT /put.php all set up?
Also, what is $image -- it needs to be a file handler, not a file name.
Ps. Using file_get_contents will try to load whatever is PUT on the server into memory. Not a good idea. See the linked manual page.