php-guzzleHow to use multipart/form-data with PHP Guzzle?

Using multipart/form-data with PHP Guzzle is easy. Here is an example code block to demonstrate how to do it:

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

The output of the example code will be a response object containing the data sent in the request.

Code explanation

• $client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(); - creates a new Guzzle client object
• $response = $client->request('POST', 'http://httpbin.org/post', [ - sends a POST request to the specified URL
• 'multipart' => [ - specifies that the request should use multipart/form-data
• [ - starts an array of data to be sent in the request
• '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 in the request
• ]); - ends the array of data to be sent in the request

Helpful links

• Guzzle Documentation
• PHP Manual - fopen

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