Sending file contents in $_POST with PHP

Below is an example of how you can use HTTP PUT to transfer a local file a remote URL with PHP

The sending function

function putFile()
{
$url = 'http://my-receivingserver.com/receiver.php?' 
. http_build_query (array('filename'  => 'the_fileneme','someParam' => 1));
$filePath = 'var/local/path/to/file.txt';
$file = fopen($filepath, 'rb');
$handle = curl_init($URL);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_INFILE, $file);
$output = curl_exec($handle);
curl_close($handle);
fclose($file);
}

function putFile()

{

$url = 'http://my-receivingserver.com/receiver.php?'

. http_build_query (array('filename' => 'the_fileneme','someParam' => 1));

$filePath = 'var/local/path/to/file.txt';

$file = fopen($filepath, 'rb');

$handle = curl_init($URL);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_INFILE, $file);

$output = curl_exec($handle);

curl_close($handle);

fclose($file);

}

The receiver function

This piece of code will be used in order to handle the receiving file. As stated above this must be run inside “http://my-receivingserver.com/receiver.php”

$f = fopen( 'php://input', 'r' );
$out = '';
while( $line = fgets( $f ) ) {
$out .= $line;
}
echo $out
fclose( $f );

$f = fopen( 'php://input', 'r' );

$out = '';

while( $line = fgets( $f ) ) {

$out .= $line;

}

echo $out

fclose( $f );