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Informatica P.'s avatar
Informatica P.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Is posible upload file whit PHP and get public share link to file?

Hello,  I  want upload  a file  whit API PHP. But i want get the public link share  to my users download  the  file from their home.   Is posible?
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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10 years ago

Your URL is wrong... it should be https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload.

There may be other ways, but one way to post the content of a local file would be to read it into memory first. E.g., this worked for me:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, fread($f, filesize("test.txt")));

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