PHP - Send file to Discord via Webhook

discord_webhook_upload_file.php

<?php
//from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65133851/uploading-file-to-discord-with-webhook-in-php
//file is being called by a POST request in my case
//print_r for debugging
//default max size discord accepts is 8MB

echo "<pre>";

$webhookurl = "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/xxxx/xxxxxxx";

print_r($_FILES);

$json_data = [
    "content" => "file uploaded - " . $_FILES["file"]["name"],
    "tts" => "false",
    "file" => curl_file_create($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], $_FILES["file"]["type"], $_FILES["file"]["name"])
];

print_r($json_data);

$curl = curl_init( $webhookurl );
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); // 5 seconds
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5); // 5 seconds
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: multipart/form-data'));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_data);

$returned_data = curl_exec( $curl );
curl_close( $curl );

echo "---response---\n";

print_r(json_decode($returned_fileName));

echo "</pre>";