Incorrect parameters error when in PHP script but working when pasted into browser

[Jamie Davies]

Hello. 

I am banging my head against a wall at the moment. I am using the codeigniter port of the slideshare php wrapper for the api and it is working well for all other functions. I am trying to have a script upload a file to slideshare and keep getting the following error returned: 

Array ( [0] => Array ( [Error] => true [Message] => Incorrect parameters ) )

However, if I paste the URL that is being called by the following function into a browser it works with no issues and returns the ssid of the file as I would expect. 

   private function get_data($call, $params) {

        $ts = time();

        $hash = sha1($this->secret . $ts);

        try {

            $res = $this->file_get_contents_utf8($this->apiurl . $call . "?api_key=$this->key&ts=$ts&hash=$hash" . $params);

        } catch (Exception $e) {

            // Log the exception and return $res as blank

        }

        return utf8_encode($res);

    }

    // Upload slide to slideshare

    public function upload_slide( $params ) {

        

        $strparams = $this->prepare_url($params);

        $data = $this->XMLtoArray($this->get_data("upload_slideshow", "&" . $strparams));

        return $data;

        

        

    }

Any help or advice would be appreciated. 

Many thanks, 

Jamie 

[Jamie Davies]

After lots of debugging it was an issue with the $params that were being passed through. Both the upload_url and the title needed wrapping in urlencode() before passing through or it was terminating the url that was being then called by file_get_contents thus the incorrect parameters being through back.