PHP ActiveX

Add Data to multipart/form-data Request

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Demonstrates how to add content (such as a JPG, PDF, XML, etc.) to multipart/form-data requests. PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

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

$req = new COM("Chilkat.HttpRequest");
$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->ContentType = 'multipart/form-data';
$req->Path = '/xyz/something';

$req->AddParam('param1','value1');
$req->AddParam('param2','value2');

// Add some small files to the request. (Small so we can see what the full request looks like without too much data..)
$bd = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $bd->LoadFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish20.jpg');
$req->AddBdForUpload('starfish20','starfish20.jpg',$bd,'image/jpeg');

$success = $bd->LoadFile('qa_data/pdf/helloWorld.pdf');
$req->AddBdForUpload('helloWorld','helloWorld.pdf',$bd,'application/pdf');

$success = $bd->LoadFile('qa_data/xml/tinyA.xml');
$req->AddBdForUpload('tinyA','tinyA.xml',$bd,'text/xml');

// This HTTP request contains binary data, so we cannot call GenerateRequestText
// to examine it as a string.  We can instead call GenerateRequestFile
// to write the request to a file and then examine using a hex editor,
// or an editor that is capable of handling null bytes and non-printable chars (perhaps by displaying "?" chars instead).
$req->GenerateRequestFile('qa_output/multipartFormDataRequest.bin');

print 'OK.' . "\n";

// This is the HTTP multipart/form-data request built by the above code:

// POST /xyz/something HTTP/1.1
// Host: domain
// Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------090708030009010000030901
// Content-Length: 2220
// 
// --------------090708030009010000030901
// Content-Disposition: form-data; name="param1"
// 
// value1
// --------------090708030009010000030901
// Content-Disposition: form-data; name="param2"
// 
// value2
// --------------090708030009010000030901
// Content-Disposition: form-data; name="starfish20"; filename="starfish20.jpg"
// Content-Type: image/jpeg
// 
// JPEG DATA HERE...
// --------------090708030009010000030901
// Content-Disposition: form-data; name="helloWorld"; filename="helloWorld.pdf"
// Content-Type: application/pdf
// 
// PDF DATA HERE...
// --------------090708030009010000030901
// Content-Disposition: form-data; name="tinyA"; filename="tinyA.xml"
// Content-Type: text/xml
// 
// XML DATA HERE...
// --------------090708030009010000030901--
// 

?>