Upload file does not work - cURL & PHP

Question

My code to upload the file on the REMOTE server doesn't seem to be working. When uploading the file from the browser at the link, all the contents of csv file is committed to the database. Here is the code:

function postToDB()
{
  $fp = fopen('./errorLog.txt', 'w+');
  $csvFile = fopen('./myFile.csv', 'r');
  $url="http://abc.com/UploadCSVLogin/";

  $ch=curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, ":password");
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $csvFile);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR, $fp);

  if (!curl_exec($ch))
     echo "Error: ".curl_error($ch);
  else
     echo "Success";
  curl_close($ch);
}

Strangely, the code echoes "Success". But I don't find the database updates taking place with the code above even though "Success" is echoed.

Can anyone help me find the issue here?

Geoffrey · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-04 00:36:39Z

1

This is because your submitting the raw CSV data, and its not encoded into field=value pairs as form post data is. The easiest way to deal with this is on the server to just use:

$csvfile = file_get_contents("php//input");

answered Jun 4, 2011 at 0:36

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Geoffrey Over a year ago

You can, but you need to read up on RFC 2616 w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

Geoffrey Over a year ago

Also since your posting a file, you need to look at RFC 1341 - w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html

Geoffrey Over a year ago

Or, you could give this class a go, not sure though if it works as I just googled it for you - phpclasses.org/package/…

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