Need some help with CURL

Hello,

I am currently using CodeIgniter 2.2.3 and I am trying to execute a CURL Statement which requires me to use '@' before the FileURL.

The problem is, I am running php 5.5.9 and using '@' before URL has been deprecated after php 5.5.

I tried using $data = array( 'file' => new CURLFile($filePath) );

But this doesn't seem to run correctly when I execute the script. Digging a few more thing, I found out it is necessary to set CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD to true, so I did that as well, but its still not working!

I get no reply from the API Server whatsoever! I asked the API Developer to test my code and he said it worked perfectly fine for him (just running it using plain PHP), but with CodeIgniter, I am not able to run the script correctly.

What am I doing wrong? Is there anything else that has to be done?


Thanks,

Well... maybe you can start by posting the code snippet that is not working? I'm using CURL in a CodeIgniter project and it's working fine. CI is not the problem here.

Do you have any options, or is cURL all you get? I usually use phpseclib for file transfers to other servers, as its implementation of SFTP makes it super easy to use. I've used cURL a lot, and used it with CodeIgniter a lot. CodeIgniter doesn't do anything to inhibit your cURL usage, so if it's not working it's your code, your server, your firewall, your ISP, etc.

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Well... maybe you can start by posting the code snippet that is not working? I'm using CURL in a CodeIgniter project and it's working fine. CI is not the problem here.

Thanks for you reply and sry for my late reply... Here is the code....

PHP Code:

//$somefile_info['file'] = name_of_somefile.extension
//$somefile_info['folder_id'] = Saved in db, that is how we get the file.

    $new_name_for_api = $somefile_info['somefile_name']. ' ['.$somefile_info['quality'].'] ['.$somefile_info['uploader']. ']';
    $details = array('name' => $new_name_for_api, 'category' => 28, 'apikey' => 'd67276793f5c9158e977cc34104e07c2', 'somefile' => new CURLFile(site_url('/uploads/somefiles/folder/'.$somefile_info['folder_id'].'/'.$somefile_info['file'])), 'descr' => 'Visit Us http://somesite.com/');

    function upload_to_api($details) {
        $url = "http://site.com/api-upload.php";
        $connect_timeout = 10;
        $data_timeout = 30;
        
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $connect_timeout);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $data_timeout);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, 1);
        curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $details);
        $result = curl_exec ($ch);
        $http_code = curl_getinfo ($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
        curl_close ($ch); 

        if ($http_code != "200") {
            return null;
        } else {
            if (!($json = json_decode($result)) || json_last_error()) {                                            
                $error = 'There was a issue decoding the response.';
                return $error;
            } else if (isset($json->error) && !empty($json->error)) {
                $error = $json->error;
                return $error;
            } else {
                return $json;
            }
        }    
    }


    $uploaded = upload_to_api($details);
    if(!empty($uploaded->ok)) {
        echo '<b>'.$uploaded->ok.'</b>';
    } else {
        print_r($uploaded);
    } 


Let me know what's wrong with this...

Do you have any options, or is cURL all you get? I usually use phpseclib for file transfers to other servers, as its implementation of SFTP makes it super easy to use. I've used cURL a lot, and used it with CodeIgniter a lot. CodeIgniter doesn't do anything to inhibit your cURL usage, so if it's not working it's your code, your server, your firewall, your ISP, etc.

Not really, the website I am trying to upload the file to, only has an API, which I can connect to, only using CURL. It can not actually be my server because, this problem is arising only when I try to use new CURLFile() or curl_file_create() function. I have tried to connect to another site using CURL (which doesn't require '@') before the URL and it works perfectly fine (without CURLFile). The problem is with the API's that allow file upload using '@' before URL, that is, where new CURLFile() is required...

Let me know what I am doing.... Btw, thanks for replying...

Check for curl error :

PHP Code:

if(curl_exec($ch) === false)
{
    echo 'Error : ' . curl_error($ch);
} 


Check for curl error :

PHP Code:

if(curl_exec($ch) === false)
{
    echo 'Error : ' . curl_error($ch);
} 


Thanks for reply includebeer.

It seems I was doing a very silly mistake here... When I used the curl_error($ch), t first gave me this error :

Code:

Error : couldn't open file "http://somesite.com/uploads/somefiles/folder/1/name_of_somefile.extension"

After digging a little bit more on that, I came to know that CURLFile can only take relative paths as input. And then, when I changed the array to this... It started working!!!

PHP Code:

$details = array('name' => $new_name_for_api, 'category' => 28, 'apikey' => 'd67276793f5c9158e977cc34104e07c2', 'somefile' => new CURLFile('var/someperson/somethingsomething/somesite/uploads/somefiles/folder/'.$somefile_info['folder_id'].'/'.$somefile_info['file'])), 'descr' => 'Visit Us http://somesite.com/'); 


Thanks for all your help!