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Priya M.
9 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Distinction between Oauth 2 and PHP Core API (PHP SDK)
Hi, I'm from Softaculous Ltd and we are now starting to integrate with Dropbox for Backups upload and download. I want to know the difference between your PHP Core API or PHP SDK and OAUTH 2....
- 9 years agoIf you want to use the HTTPS endpoints directly, that's possible using just curl.
Here are some basic examples using curl in PHP:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/409/uploading-a-file/1354/uploading-a-file-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923322665017
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/410/getting-account-information/1364/getting-space-usage-information-for-the-linked-user-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923328624075
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/412/listing-a-folder/1370/listing-the-root-folder-via-curl-in-php-and-the-curl-extension#t=20170221192336214657
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/408/downloading-a-file/20965/downloading-a-file-with-metadata-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923411507977
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/414/getting-a-shared-link-for-a-file-or-folder/24125/creating-a-shared-link-for-a-file-using-curl-in-php#t=201702211923392625782
To get an access token for the end user's account, you need to implement the OAuth app authorization flow. You can find information on how that works here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
The documentation for those endpoints can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
9 years agoIf you want to use the HTTPS endpoints directly, that's possible using just curl.
Here are some basic examples using curl in PHP:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/409/uploading-a-file/1354/uploading-a-file-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923322665017
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/410/getting-account-information/1364/getting-space-usage-information-for-the-linked-user-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923328624075
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/412/listing-a-folder/1370/listing-the-root-folder-via-curl-in-php-and-the-curl-extension#t=20170221192336214657
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/408/downloading-a-file/20965/downloading-a-file-with-metadata-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923411507977
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/414/getting-a-shared-link-for-a-file-or-folder/24125/creating-a-shared-link-for-a-file-using-curl-in-php#t=201702211923392625782
To get an access token for the end user's account, you need to implement the OAuth app authorization flow. You can find information on how that works here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
The documentation for those endpoints can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
Here are some basic examples using curl in PHP:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/409/uploading-a-file/1354/uploading-a-file-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923322665017
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/410/getting-account-information/1364/getting-space-usage-information-for-the-linked-user-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923328624075
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/412/listing-a-folder/1370/listing-the-root-folder-via-curl-in-php-and-the-curl-extension#t=20170221192336214657
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/408/downloading-a-file/20965/downloading-a-file-with-metadata-via-curl-in-php#t=201702211923411507977
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/414/getting-a-shared-link-for-a-file-or-folder/24125/creating-a-shared-link-for-a-file-using-curl-in-php#t=201702211923392625782
To get an access token for the end user's account, you need to implement the OAuth app authorization flow. You can find information on how that works here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
The documentation for those endpoints can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
Priya M.
9 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
I'm not able to understand how to make the PHP curl call, what all curl parameters are to be set, etc. I'm not able to understand how to fetch the user auth token using the authorization API:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/h
I'm using it like this. Please correct me:
$post['response_type'] = 'token'; $post['client_id'] = '6i45k3fi9a1i9an'; $post['redirect_uri'] = get_current_url().'&auth_callback=1'; $url = 'https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize'; // Set the curl parameters. $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5); //Set proxy //curl_proxy($ch); // Turn off the server and peer verification (TrustManager Concept). curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($post)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Get response from the server. $resp = curl_exec($ch); r_print($resp);
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