curl - Can anyone give me an example for PHP's CURLFile class?

Question

I had a very simple PHP code to upload a file to a remote server; the way I was doing it (as has been suggested here in some other solutions) is to use cUrl to upload the file.

Here's my code:

$ch = curl_init("http://www.remotesite.com/upload.php"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('fileupload' => '@'.$_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'])); 
echo curl_exec($ch);        

The server is running PHP 5.5.0 and it appears that @filename has been deprecated in PHP >= 5.5.0 as stated here under the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS description, and therefore, I'm getting this error:

Deprecated: curl_setopt(): The usage of the @filename API for file uploading is deprecated. Please use the CURLFile class instead in ... 

Interestingly, there is absolutely nothing about this Class on php.net aside from a basic class overview. No examples, no description of methods or properties. It's basically blank here. I understand that is a brand new class with little to no documentation and very little real-world use which is why practically nothing relevant is coming up in searches on Google or here on Stackoverflow on this class.

I'm wondering if there's anyone who has used this CURLFile class and can possibly help me or give me an example as to using it in place of @filename in my code.

Edit:

I wanted to add my "upload.php" code as well; this code would work with the traditional @filename method but is no longer working with the CURLFile class code:

$folder = "try/";
$path = $folder . basename( $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']); 
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $path)) {
echo "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']). " has been uploaded";
}

Final Edit:

Wanted to add Final / Working code for others looking for similar working example of the scarcely-documented CURLFile class ...

curl.php (local server)

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="Filedata" id="Filedata" /> 
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

<?php
if ($_POST['submit']) {
    $uploadDir = "/uploads/";
    $RealTitleID = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];
    $ch = curl_init("http://www.remotesite.com/upload.php"); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $args['file'] = new CurlFile($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'],'file/exgpd',$RealTitleID);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args); 
    $result = curl_exec($ch);       
}
?>

upload.php (remote server)

$folder = "try/";
$path = $folder . $_FILES['file']['name']; 
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $path)) {
echo "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['file']['name']). " has been uploaded";
} 

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17032990/can-anyone-give-me-an-example-for-phps-curlfile-class

Answer 1

There is a snippet on the RFC for the code: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl-file-upload

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$args['file'] = new CurlFile('filename.png', 'image/png', 'filename.png');
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);

You can also use the seemingly pointless function curl_file_create( string $filename [, string $mimetype [, string $postname ]] ) if you have a phobia of creating objects.

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$args['file'] = curl_file_create('filename.png', 'image/png', 'filename.png');
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);