PHP code to upload a GPX file

[Matt Stuehler]

All,

I'm working on a PHP application to upload GPX files to Strava.

So far - I've got the oath part working just fine - I can get the access token.

Here's the relevant part of my code:

// $filename is the name of the GPX file

// $actual_file contains the full path

$actual_file = realpath($filename);

$url="https://www.strava.com/api/v3/uploads";

$postdata = "activity_type=ride&file=". "@" . $actual_file . ";filename=" . $filename . "&data_type=gpx";

$headers = array('Authorization: Bearer ' . $strava_access_token);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 3);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$response = curl_exec ($ch);

When I execute this - here's what I get in response:

{"message":"Bad Request", "errors":[{"resource":"Upload", "field":"file","code":"not a file"}]}

Any help or insight would be much appreciated!

[Paul Mach]

Maybe some php experts can comment further, but I've gotten this to work in the past:

$post = array(

        "activity_type" => "ride",

        "data_type" => "gpx",

        "filename" => $filename,

        "data" => file_get_contents($actual_file)

);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);

Dr. Paul Mach

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[Matt Stuehler]

Paul,

Thank you for you help!

Unfortunately - that doesn't seem to fix my problem.

If I use other API functions (e.g., https://www.strava.com/api/v3/athlete) - it works great. So, I know that I've at least got the authentication part right.

It seems like the main thing I'm getting wrong is setting the "file" parameter...

[Matt Stuehler]

OK - thanks to help from Paul, I've got this working. I don't know if this code is ideal, but it works...

// $filename is the name of the file

// $actual_file includes the filename and the full path to the file

// $strava_access_token contains the access token

$actual_file = realpath($filename);

$url="https://www.strava.com/api/v3/uploads";

$postfields = array(

    "activity_type" => "ride",

    "data_type" => "gpx",

    "file" => '@' . $actual_file . ";type=application/xml"

);

$headers = array('Authorization: Bearer ' . $strava_access_token);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 

$response = curl_exec ($ch);

Apparently, it's important not to include the CURLOPT_POST option.