I'm writing a RESTful API. I'm having trouble with uploading images using the different verbs.
Consider:
I have an object which can be created/modified/deleted/viewed via a post/put/delete/get request to a URL. The request is multi part form when there is a file to upload, or application/xml when there's just text to process.
To handle the image uploads which are associated with the object I am doing something like:
if(isset($_FILES['userfile'])) {
$data = $this->image_model->upload_image();
if($data['error']){
$this->response(array('error' => $error['error']));
}
$xml_data = (array)simplexml_load_string( urldecode($_POST['xml']) );
$object = (array)$xml_data['object'];
} else {
$object = $this->body('object');
}
The major problem here is when trying to handle a put request, obviously $_POST doesn't contain the put data (as far as I can tell!).
For reference this is how I'm building the requests:
curl -F userfile=@./image.png -F xml="<xml><object>stuff to edit</object></xml>"
http://example.com/object -X PUT
Does anyone have any ideas how I can access the xml
variable in my PUT request?
First of all, $_FILES
is not populated when handling PUT requests. It is only populated by PHP when handling POST requests.
You need to parse it manually. That goes for "regular" fields as well:
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$raw_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
foreach ($parts as $part) {
// If this is the last part, break
if ($part == "--\r\n") break;
// Separate content from headers
$part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
list($raw_headers, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);
// Parse the headers list
$raw_headers = explode("\r\n", $raw_headers);
$headers = array();
foreach ($raw_headers as $header) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
$headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' ');
}
// Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
$filename = null;
preg_match(
'/^(.+); *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/',
$headers['content-disposition'],
$matches
);
list(, $type, $name) = $matches;
isset($matches[4]) and $filename = $matches[4];
// handle your fields here
switch ($name) {
// this is a file upload
case 'userfile':
file_put_contents($filename, $body);
break;
// default for all other files is to populate $data
default:
$data[$name] = substr($body, 0, strlen($body) - 2);
break;
}
}
}
At each iteration, the $data
array will be populated with your parameters, and the $headers
array will be populated with the headers for each part (e.g.: Content-Type
, etc.), and $filename
will contain the original filename, if supplied in the request and is applicable to the field.
Take note the above will only work for multipart
content types. Make sure to check the request Content-Type
header before using the above to parse the body.
Please don't delete this again, it's helpful to a majority of people coming here! All previous answers were partial answers that don't cover the solution as a majority of people asking this question would want.
This takes what has been said above and additionally handles multiple file uploads and places them in $_FILES as someone would expect. To get this to work, you have to add 'Script PUT /put.php' to your Virtual Host for the project per Documentation. I also suspect I'll have to setup a cron to cleanup any '.tmp' files.
private function _parsePut( )
{
global $_PUT;
/* PUT data comes in on the stdin stream */
$putdata = fopen("php://input", "r");
/* Open a file for writing */
// $fp = fopen("myputfile.ext", "w");
$raw_data = '';
/* Read the data 1 KB at a time
and write to the file */
while ($chunk = fread($putdata, 1024))
$raw_data .= $chunk;
/* Close the streams */
fclose($putdata);
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
if(empty($boundary)){
parse_str($raw_data,$data);
$GLOBALS[ '_PUT' ] = $data;
return;
}
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
foreach ($parts as $part) {
// If this is the last part, break
if ($part == "--\r\n") break;
// Separate content from headers
$part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
list($raw_headers, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);
// Parse the headers list
$raw_headers = explode("\r\n", $raw_headers);
$headers = array();
foreach ($raw_headers as $header) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
$headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' ');
}
// Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
$filename = null;
$tmp_name = null;
preg_match(
'/^(.+); *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/',
$headers['content-disposition'],
$matches
);
list(, $type, $name) = $matches;
//Parse File
if( isset($matches[4]) )
{
//if labeled the same as previous, skip
if( isset( $_FILES[ $matches[ 2 ] ] ) )
{
continue;
}
//get filename
$filename = $matches[4];
//get tmp name
$filename_parts = pathinfo( $filename );
$tmp_name = tempnam( ini_get('upload_tmp_dir'), $filename_parts['filename']);
//populate $_FILES with information, size may be off in multibyte situation
$_FILES[ $matches[ 2 ] ] = array(
'error'=>0,
'name'=>$filename,
'tmp_name'=>$tmp_name,
'size'=>strlen( $body ),
'type'=>$value
);
//place in temporary directory
file_put_contents($tmp_name, $body);
}
//Parse Field
else
{
$data[$name] = substr($body, 0, strlen($body) - 2);
}
}
}
$GLOBALS[ '_PUT' ] = $data;
return;
}
Quoting netcoder reply : "Take note the above will only work for multipart content types"
To work with any content type I have added the following lines to Mr. netcoder's solution :
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$raw_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
/*...... My edit --------- */
if(empty($boundary)){
parse_str($raw_data,$data);
return $data;
}
/* ........... My edit ends ......... */
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
............
...............