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form post
// form field separator
$delimiter = '-------------' . uniqid();
// file upload fields: name => array(type=>'mime/type',content=>'raw data')
$fileFields = array(
'file1' => array(
'type' => 'text/plain',
'content' => '...your raw file content goes here...'
), /* ... */
);
// all other fields (not file upload): name => value
$postFields = array(
'otherformfield' => 'content of otherformfield is this text',
/* ... */
);
$data = '';
// populate normal fields first (simpler)
foreach ($postFields as $name => $content) {
$data .= "--" . $delimiter . "\r\n";
$data .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' . $name . '"';
// note: double endline
$data .= "\r\n\r\n";
}
// populate file fields
foreach ($fileFields as $name => $file) {
$data .= "--" . $delimiter . "\r\n";
// "filename" attribute is not essential; server-side scripts may use it
$data .= 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="' . $name . '";' .
' filename="' . $name . '"' . "\r\n";
// this is, again, informative only; good practice to include though
$data .= 'Content-Type: ' . $file['type'] . "\r\n";
// this endline must be here to indicate end of headers
$data .= "\r\n";
// the file itself (note: there's no encoding of any kind)
$data .= $file['content'] . "\r\n";
}
// last delimiter
$data .= "--" . $delimiter . "--\r\n";
$handle = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER , array(
'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=' . $delimiter,
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data)));
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($handle)
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