This is an example of how to upload a file from PHP to another server that may or may not be running PHP .

Note that using Pear’s HTTP _Request package is probably easier.

   1  <?php
   2    require_once('Var_Dump.php');
   3    Var_Dump::displayInit(array('display_mode' => 'HTML4_Text'), array('mode' => 'normal','offset' => 4));
   4  
   5    $url = 'www.aktagon.com/upload';
   6    $file = '/tmp/file_to_upload';
   7    $post_data = array();
   8  
   9    $post_data['username'] = '';
  10    $post_data['password'] = '';
  11    $post_data['file'] = "@$file";
  12  
  13    $ch = curl_init();
  14  
  15    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  16    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
  17  #    'Cookie: xxxx',
  18  #    'Content-Type: xxxx'
  19    ));
  20    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
  21    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
  22    #curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, '127.0.0.1:8888');
  23  
  24    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
  25  
  26    $response  = curl_exec($ch);
  27    $info      = curl_getinfo($ch); 
  28    $http_code = $info['http_code'];
  29    $speed     = round($info['speed_upload'] / 1024);
  30    $size      = round($info['size_upload'] / 1024);
  31  
  32    if($http_code != 200)
  33    {
  34      echo "Upload failed with HTTP code $http_code. Uploaded $size kilobytes with $speed kilobytes/s.<br/>";
  35      echo "<h1>Response</h1><pre>$response</pre><h1>Debug information</h1>";
  36  
  37      Var_Dump::display($info);
  38    }
  39    else
  40    {
  41      echo "Uploaded successful. Uploaded $size kilobytes with $speed kilobytes / s.<br/>";
  42      echo "<h1>Response</h1><pre>$response</pre>";
  43    }
  44    curl_close($ch);
  45  ?>
  46  

You can remove the Var_Dump code (Pear module), if you haven’t installed it, or don’t need it.

First you need to install XML _RPC and VAR _DUMP:

Installing XML _RPC

   1  pear install XML_RPC
   2  pear install VAR_DUMP

Example XML -RPC client

Note this code hasn’t been tested, so may contain errors.

Anyway, VAR _DUMP is great for debugging…

   1  <?php
   2    require_once("XML/RPC.php");
   3    require_once('Var_Dump.php');
   4  
   5    Var_Dump::displayInit(array('display_mode' => 'HTML4_Text'), array('mode' => 'normal','offset' => 4));
   6    
   7    $host = "xxx.com";
   8    $uri = "/xxx/xmlrpc";
   9  
  10    $function   = "eat";
  11    $parameters = array(
  12      new XML_RPC_Value("a"),
  13      new XML_RPC_Value(0),
  14      new XML_RPC_Value(10),
  15      new XML_RPC_Value("b")
  16    );
  17    
  18    $message = new XML_RPC_Message($function, $parameters);
  19      
  20    $client = new XML_RPC_Client($uri, $host, 80);
  21    $client->setDebug(1);
  22    $client->proxy = "127.0.0.1";
  23  
  24    $result = $client->send($message);
  25  
  26    if (!$result) {
  27      echo 'Communication error: '.$client->errstr;
  28  	Var_Dump::display($client);
  29      exit;
  30    }
  31  
  32    if($result->faultCode())
  33    {
  34       echo "** ERROR **n";
  35       echo 'Fault Code: ' . $result->faultCode() . "n";
  36       echo 'Fault Reason: ' . $result->faultString() . "n";
  37       exit;
  38    }
  39  
  40    echo "<pre>".htmlentities($message->serialize()). "</pre>";
  41  
  42    Var_Dump::display($result);
  43  
  44    $val = $result->value();
  45    $ticket = $val->scalarval();
  46    
  47    echo $ticket;
  48  ?>
  49  

Data types

struct

   1  $user_params =  array(
   2  	'username' 	  	 => new XML_RPC_Value(".."),
   3  	'email' 	 	 => new XML_RPC_Value("..."),
   4  	'time'  => new XML_RPC_Value(gmdate("Ymd\TH:i:s"), 'dateTime.iso8601')
   5  	);
   6  
   7  $rpc_param = new XML_RPC_Value($user_params, 'struct')

dateTime.iso8601

   1  'time'  => new XML_RPC_Value(gmdate("Ymd\TH:i:s"), 'dateTime.iso8601')