Question

I am currently using <input type="file"> to post a file. Since I cant specify the value for

<input id="content" type="file"> and have to manually browse for the file, I want to know if I can specify the path using PHP Curl.

will the server read $_POST["content"]

Answer 1

Yes you can do it this way:

$post_params = array();
$post_params['file'] = '@'.'demo/testfile.txt';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_params);

the @ is really important to specify that this is an actual file to curl

You will receive the file through the $_FILES super global as if you did a rel form

$_FILES['file']

Hope it helps

To answer your question you need the absolute path on your filesystem