PHP ActiveX

Upload Binary File from Memory

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This example demonstrates how to upload a binary file from memory. It uploads the file to a subdirectory of our choosing. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

$success = 1;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
// Google Drive scope.

$gAuth = new COM("Chilkat.AuthGoogle");
$gAuth->AccessToken = 'GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN';

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// Connect using TLS.
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('www.googleapis.com',443,1,$bAutoReconnect);

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
$rest->SetAuthGoogle($gAuth);

// -------------------------------------------------------------------------
// A multipart upload to Google Drive needs a multipart/related Content-Type
$rest->AddHeader('Content-Type','multipart/related');

// Specify each part of the request.

// The 1st part is JSON with information about the file.
$rest->PartSelector = '1';
$rest->AddHeader('Content-Type','application/json; charset=UTF-8');

// Construct the JSON that will contain the metadata about the file data to be uploaded...
$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->AppendString('name','hedgehogs.jpg');
$json->AppendString('description','A cute photo of two hedgehogs.');
$json->AppendString('mimeType','image/jpeg');

// To place the file in a folder, we must add a parents[] array to the JSON
// and add the folder ID.  
// In a previous example (see Build Local Metadata Cache
// we built a local cache to make it easy to lookup file IDs given a file path.
// Let's find the file ID for the folder "testFolder/abc/123"
$gdCache = new COM("Chilkat.Cache");
$gdCache->Level = 0;
$gdCache->AddRoot('C:/ckCache/googleDrive');

$folderId = $gdCache->fetchText('testFolder/abc/123');
if ($gdCache->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print 'Filepath not found in cache.' . "\n";
    exit;
}

$parents = new COM("Chilkat.JsonArray");
$json->AppendArray2('parents',$parents);

$parents->AddStringAt(-1,$folderId);

$rest->SetMultipartBodyString($json->emit());

// The 2nd part is the file content, which will contain the binary image data.
$rest->PartSelector = '2';
$rest->AddHeader('Content-Type','image/jpeg');

$fac = new COM("Chilkat.FileAccess");

// Read a JPG file from the local filesystem.
$jpgBytes = $fac->ReadEntireFile('qa_data/jpg/hedgehogs.jpg');

// Add the bytes to our upload
$rest->SetMultipartBodyBinary($jpgBytes);

$jsonResponse = $rest->fullRequestMultipart('POST','/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart');
if ($rest->LastMethodSuccess == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    print 'response status code = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusCode . "\n";
    print 'response status text = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusText . "\n";
    print 'response header: ' . $rest->ResponseHeader . "\n";
    print 'response JSON: ' . $jsonResponse . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Show the JSON response.
$json->Load($jsonResponse);

// Show the full JSON response.
$json->EmitCompact = 0;
print $json->emit() . "\n";

// A successful response looks like this:
// {
//   "kind": "drive#file",
//   "id": "0B53Q6OSTWYoldmJ0Z3ZqT2x5MFk",
//   "name": "hedgehogs.jpg",
//   "mimeType": "image/jpeg"
// }

// Get the fileId:
print 'fileId: ' . $json->stringOf('id') . "\n";

?>