Doc #52331 [Opn->Csd]: Use of @ in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is new

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52331&edit=1 ID: 52331 Updated by: kalle@php.net Reported by: dscotese at litmocracy dot com Summary: Use of @ in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is new -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux/Windows I think PHP Version: 5.3.2 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: kalle Block user comment: N New Comment: This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-23 17:05:23] kalle@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of kalle Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=304665 Log: Fixed bug #52331 (Use of @ in CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is new) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-20 05:44:46] dscotese at litmocracy dot com curl cURL support enabled cURL Information 7.19.6 Age 3 Features AsynchDNS No Debug No GSS-Negotiate No IDN Yes IPv6 No Largefile Yes NTLM Yes SPNEGO No SSL Yes SSPI No krb4 No libz Yes CharConv No Protocols tftp, ftp, telnet, dict, ldap, ldaps, http, file, https, ftps Host i686-pc-mingw32 SSL Version OpenSSL/0.9.8l ZLib Version 1.2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-10-20 05:14:25] kalle@php.net Which version of cURL are you experincing this limitation? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-26 12:27:30] ross@php.net If you're setting POSTFIELDS as a string you need to encode like so: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "file=@/home/ross/image.png"); For example, using http_build_query(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-07-26 08:07:12] dscotese at litmocracy dot com Yes, that is what I'm referring to. I'm also referring to this form of it: <?php curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "@/home/ross/photo.jpg"); ?> Note that in the second form, PHP expects the string to contain properly encoded data. I'm not entirely sure if this second form is supported in any version of PHP (as insinuated in my final paragraph). I also never figured out how to post a comment but still honor php.net's request not to document bugs in the comments, so I didn't post the apparent requirement that the @-prefixed path be passed as an array. I believe there are servers that want an XML file posted, but don't want it posted as part of a name-value pair. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52331 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52331&edit=1