QuickBlox - How to use REST API + PHP to create blob content

Question

I tried to create blob content (an image) with QuickBlox REST API(curl) and PHP, the response return always says "size":null, and image is not uploaded to QuickBlox backend, i.e. shows "Not uploaded" in QuickBlox admin portal.

I guess maybe the file name is not properly passed to the API, but the QuickBlox REST API document is too simple and I couldn't figure out.

Below is my code, much appreciated if anyone could help, many thanks:

JS:

function upload_profile_photo()
{
    var data = new FormData();
    jQuery.each(jQuery('.editableform input[name=avatar]')[0].files, function(i, file) {
        data.append('file-'+i, file);
    });
    jQuery.ajax({
        url: 'update_profile_photo.php',
        data: data,
        cache: false,
        contentType: false,
        processData: false,
        type: 'POST',
        success: function(result){
            showSuccess(result);
        }
    });
}

update_profile_photo.php:

...
    $imageName = $_FILES['file-0']['tmp_name']; // Tried ['name'] also failed
    $imageType = $_FILES['file-0']['type'];
...
$response = UpdateProfileImage($imageType, $imageName);
...
function UpdateProfileImage($imageType, $imageName) 
{
    $requestBody = http_build_query(array(
                    'blob' => array(
                            'content_type' => $imageType,
                            'name' => $imageName
                            )
            ));
    ...
    $response = $this->Curl_Post($requestHeader, $requestName, $requestBody);
    return $response;

}

QuickBlox Response:

{"blob":{"id":1159901,"uid":"d328c47565614cbdaed9671ce7bc6d8000",
"content_type":"image/jpeg","name":"/tmp/phpbRqnXb","size":null, ...}

Rubycon · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-10 09:31:30Z

1

To upload a file to QuickBlox you have to do 3 requests as mentioned here:

http://quickblox.com/developers/Content#Typical_use_.D1.81ases

Create a file
Upload a file
Declaring file uploaded

After this your file will be completely uploaded to the QuickBlox backend and you will be able to check it in Admin panel

answered Jun 10, 2015 at 9:31

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3 Comments

Dario Rusignuolo Over a year ago

How the binary needs to be uploaded? the doc says that -F file=@user_avatar.jpeg but that's the name of the file or the actual file blob as form data?

Rubycon Over a year ago

It should be a common way to upload a file in PHP

Darshan ambaliya Over a year ago

Hello have you any code demo of php for uploading file ?

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