Comments on: How To HTTP-PUT A File Somewhere Using PHP

By: Matt Lyons

Matt Lyons — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:48:38 +0000

Try as I might I couldn’t get Chris’s code to work in my situation. For others who might find the same issues here is a fsockopen example that worked for me.

function realSocket() {
$fp = fsockopen(“www.example.com”, 80, $errno, $errstr, 12);

fwrite($fp, “PUT /somewhere/somefile HTTP/1.1\r\n”);
fwrite($fp, “Host: http://www.example.com\r\n”);
fwrite($fp, “Content-Length: 8\r\n\r\n”);
fwrite($fp, “testdata\r\n\r\n”);

echo “”;
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
echo “”;

fclose($fp);
}

realSocket();

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:14:16 +0000

@Brandon
You may be right, but I think end(…) seems a little more intuitive that using the -1 array index. They both work, and I have used that trick (the -1 array index) in other cases.

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:50:12 +0000

Chris, although that’s a very handy dandy use of end(), but I wonder, wouldn’t it have more overhead than using an array index of -1?

$code = $matches[1][-1];

I suppose it might depend on the underlying code for array indexing and end() itself, I’ve just always used the array indexing.

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:49:37 +0000

@Chad
Well, cURL seems to require more lines of code to do the same thing, so fewer lines of code is always a good thing in my book. Just a personal preference, nothing more.

As for extensions, again, it’s just personal preference. One lest thing to worry about when compiling and installing PHP (I tend to do it from scratch when it’s my own stuff). There are some really good extensions out there, so don’t shy away from using one that fits.

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:39:37 +0000

Your comment

“I’m also quite proud that it’s cURL free, as cURL seems to be the first option that most people use when doing this kind of thing.”

caught my attention. Is there any particular reason for not wanting to use cURL? I saw in another comment that you like to avoid extensions. Any reason for that?

I am fairly new to programming, so I am interested in people’s practices and preferences.

Thanks

By: Henryb

Henryb — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:09:40 +0000

A bit offtopic.. But what happend to all the colors and the easy readable design

By: PHPDeveloper.org

PHPDeveloper.org — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:00:50 +0000

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By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:46:51 +0000

@Simon
But that would require an external package (PEAR in this case) and I really try to avoid adding external libraries to an application if I can.

By: Simon Brüchner

Simon Brüchner — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:19:14 +0000

To get the HTTP status you could also use PEAR::HTTP_Request

require_once “HTTP/Request.php”;
$req =& new HTTP_Request(“”);
$req->setURL(‘http://www.example.com/’);
$req->sendRequest();
$code = $req->getResponseCode();

This class supports PUT an DELETE too, but I’ve never used it that way.