www.ianwremmel.com: PUTting PHP to Restful APIs (Like CouchDB) as JSON

curl_only_supports_putting_files.php

<?php
foreach ($collection as $id => $data) {
  $handle = fopen(FILENAME, 'w'€™);
  $filesize = fwrite($handle, json_encode($data))
  fclose($handle);
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, SERVER_URL . '/' . DATABASE  . '/' . $id);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);

  $handle = fopen(FILENAME, 'r');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $handle);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $filesize);

  curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($handle);
}
?>

the_situation.php

<?php
foreach ($collection as $id => $data) {
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, SERVER_URL . '/' . DATABASE  . '/' . $id);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $data);
  curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
}
?>

the_solution.php

<?php
foreach ($collection as $id => $data) {
  $handle = tmpfile
  $filesize = fwrite($handle, json_encode($data)) - 2;
  fseek($handle, 1);
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, SERVER_URL . '/' . DATABASE  . '/' . $id);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $handle);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $filesize);

  curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($handle);
}
?>

tmpfile.php

<?php
foreach ($collection as $id => $data) {
  $handle = tmpfile
  $filesize = fwrite($handle, json_encode($data))
  rewind($handle);
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, SERVER_URL . '/' . DATABASE  . '/' . $id);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $handle);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $filesize);

  curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($handle);
}
?>

valid_json_is_not_valid_json.php

<?php
foreach ($collection as $id => $data) {
  $handle = tmpfile
  $data = json_encode($data));
  $length = strlen($data)
  $data = substr(1, $data, $length) - 2;
  $filesize = fwrite($handle, $data)
  rewind($handle);
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, SERVER_URL . '/' . DATABASE  . '/' . $id);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, TRUE);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $handle);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $filesize);

  curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($handle);
}
?>