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

function _publish($service, $doc) {
    $params = array(
        'http' => array(
            'method' => 'PUT'));
    $context = stream_context_create($params);
    $fp = fopen($service, 'rb', false, $context);
    $response = fwrite($fp,file_get_contents($doc));
    if ($response === false) {
        return false;
    }
    // Pull out the status code from the header
    $metaData = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
    preg_match_all("/HTTP\/1\.[1|0]\s(\d{3})/", $metaData['wrapper_data'][0], $matches);
    $code = end($matches[1]);
    if ($code == 200) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

from http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2008/01/11/how-to-http-put-a-file-somewhere-using-php/