php-guzzleHow to send multipart requests with Guzzle in PHP?

Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services. To send a multipart request with Guzzle, you need to create a multipart/form-data request.

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->request('POST', 'http://httpbin.org/post', [
    'multipart' => [
        [
            'name'     => 'field_name',
            'contents' => 'abc'
        ],
        [
            'name'     => 'other_field',
            'contents' => '123'
        ],
        [
            'name'     => 'file_name',
            'contents' => fopen('/path/to/file', 'r')
        ]
    ]
]);

The output of the example code will be a response object containing the response from the server.

Parts of the code:

• $client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();: creates a new Guzzle client.
• $response = $client->request('POST', 'http://httpbin.org/post', [: sends a POST request to the specified URL.
• 'multipart' => [: specifies that the request should be a multipart request.
• [: starts an array containing the fields and files to be sent.
• 'name' => 'field_name',: specifies the name of the field.
• 'contents' => 'abc': specifies the contents of the field.
• fopen('/path/to/file', 'r'): opens the file to be sent.

Helpful links

• Guzzle Documentation
• Sending Multipart Requests with Guzzle

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