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Re: Problems using PHP CURL option CURLOPT_READFUNCTION

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:01:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Stefan Hadjistoytchev wrote:

> I would like to transfer a file to ftp site using Curl.
>
> As stated in the PHP Curl FAQ:
> ****************************
> 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ?
> Yes, but you cannot open a FILE * and pass the pointer to a DLL and have
> that DLL use the FILE *. If you set CURLOPT_FILE you must also use
> CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION as well to set a function that writes the file, even
> if that simply writes the data to the specified FILE*. Similarly, if you use
> CURLOPT_INFILE you must also specify CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.
> ****************************
>
> I have no idea how the function specified in CURLOPT_READFUNCTION option
> should look like !?!

I have no idea either. I can see in the PHP/CURL source code that the option
is supported fine, but I am clueless when it comes to PHP and can't tell you
how it is supposed to be used.

This is an obvious case when the C interface docs is not sufficiant for
PHP/CURL users...

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-08-01