Sending a file via HTTP PUT in PHP

Question

I\'ve been struggling for several hours trying to figure out how to get this work. I\'m trying to send a file via HTTP-PUT to an eXist db. There is user authentication for

Answer 1

Aha! After a little "rubber ducking" with the grumpy dwarf stuffed doll on my desk here, I figured out the solution:

        $data = file_get_contents($tmpFile);
         $params = array(
             'http' => array(
                 'method' => 'PUT',
                 'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($this->ci->config->item('ws_login') . ':' . $this->ci->config->item('ws_passwd')) . "\r\nContent-type: text/xml\r\n",
                 'content' => file_get_contents($tmpFile)
             )
         );
         $ctx = stream_context_create($params);
         $response = @file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);

         return ($response == '');