(PHP ActiveX) Building a multipart/form-data Request for HTTP Upload

Uploading files to a web server typically requires building a multipart/form-data request where the files are contained in the sub-parts of the MIME request.

Note: HTTP uploads require code on the server-side to receive the upload. For example, see Complete C# ASP.NET HTTP Upload Example

This example produces the following HTTP multipart/form-data request:

POST /something HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------070002080409050901090203
Host: domain
Content-Length: 546

--------------070002080409050901090203
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileA"; filename="fileA.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file A
--------------070002080409050901090203
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileB"; filename="fileB.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file B
--------------070002080409050901090203
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fileC"; filename="fileC.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the contents of file C
--------------070002080409050901090203--

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// This example demonstrates building a multipart/form-data request.

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.HttpRequest')
$req = new COM("Chilkat.HttpRequest");

// The ContentType, HttpVerb, and Path properties should
// always be explicitly set.
$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->Path = '/something';
$req->ContentType = 'multipart/form-data';

// The contents and name of each file to be uploaded is provided
// by calling any of the following methods:
// AddBytesForUpload
// AddBytesForUpload2
// AddFileForUpload
// AddFileForUpload2
// AddStringForUpload
// AddStringForUpload2

// For this example, we'll provide the contents of the files to be uploaded
// directly as in-memory strings.
$req->AddStringForUpload('fileA','fileA.txt','This is the contents of file A','utf-8');
$req->AddStringForUpload('fileB','fileB.txt','This is the contents of file B','utf-8');
$req->AddStringForUpload('fileC','fileC.txt','This is the contents of file C','utf-8');

// View the request that would be sent if SynchronousRequest was called:
$requestMime = $req->generateRequestText();
print $requestMime . "\n";

// A few important comments about the HTTP request that is generated:
// 
// 1) Chilkat automatically generates a random boundary string.   In 99.999% of cases, this should 
//    be sufficient.
// 2) The Content-Length header is automatically generated based on the actual length of the MIME message
//    that follows the intial (topmost) MIME header.
// 3) The HOST header will automatically get filled in with the actual domain when SynchronousRequest
//    is called

?>