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imnotjames/curlfile-compat
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Compatibility library with CURLFile from PHP 5.5

0.0.1(11y ago)34.9k↓33.3%1MITPHP

Since Jun 28Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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CURLFile Compatibility Library
==============================

[](#curlfile-compatibility-library)

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Compatibility library to add a [CURLFile](http://php.net/class.curlfile) class to older versions of PHP. [The RFC](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl-file-upload) has some more information on it as well.

This class abuses the fact that the PHP `CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS` option will coerce classes to strings when sending it as data, and outputs the older style of including files in the post data.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

New school or old school, your choice.

For a new school installation with [Composer](http://getcomposer.org) simply [add it to your list of dependencies.](https://packagist.org/packages/imnotjames/curlfile-compat)

If you're kicking it old school you've got to `require` `src/CURLFile.php` and `src/imnotjames/CURLFILE.php`.

Either way, the non-namespaced CURLFile will only be created if the class doesn't already exist. Same goes for the `create_curl_file` function.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Exactly the same as [PHP's CURLFile'](http://php.net/curlfile)

```
$handle = curl_init('http://example.com');

$cfile = new CURLFile('puppy.jpg','image/jpeg','puppy_boquet');

// Assign POST data
$data = array('test_file' => $cfile);

curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_exec($handle);
```

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4334d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![imnotjames](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1551593?v=4)](https://github.com/imnotjames "imnotjames (14 commits)")

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Tags

curlfile-uploadcurlfile

###  Code Quality

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