Getting Started

I would like some assistance in getting started from the ground using a php and jquery environment (basic web stuff) to use Dropbox for some basic file upload/list/download.

To date we have used a 3rd party sdk that had worked examples available via help pages and Youtube - making the learning curve less steep. Now, with dropbox changes for deprecating long life tokens, we need to look at using the Dropbox API directly.

# How to prepare my local developement environment: files to 'install' etc.

# How establish a connection / authorisation where our php code can behind the scenes request 'offline' tokens so that our logged in user can use our dropbox interface without being challenged for dropbox re-authentication.  In other words we really want our php code to do all the dropbox authentication if possible (to date this is done via our saved long term token).

# A simple example of creating a dropbox object to upload/list/download.

 

Hopefully, I'm  not asking too much (?)