Re: API v2: Simple image gallery on my website using dropbox

Thanks for writing in, and for the feedback.

I understand you're interested in making a photo gallery on your web site. Dropbox does offer the Dropbox Embedder which can display a folder of photos via a shared link to the folder, but it doesn't offer custom branding. I'll pass that along as a feature request, but I can't promise if or when that might be implemented.

Alternatively, Dropbox also offers an API you can use to build a more custom integration. Dropbox doesn't offer examples for that in PHP in particular, but the HTTP documentation has examples shown in curl which you can translate that for whatever platform you need. And for prototyping and trying out specific API calls, the API v2 Explorer can be helpful. It can even show you how the request would be formatted in multiple contexts, such as in Python or raw HTTP, if you click "Show Code".

For example, you can find the documentation for /2/files/get_thumbnail_batch here, and the API v2 Explorer page for it here. Note that Dropbox API thumbnail endpoints return the thumbnails as data directly in the response, not as URLs.

Also, while Dropbox doesn't offer an SDK for PHP, there are some third party libraries that may be useful. If you choose to use a third party library, refer to its documentation for instructions on how to use it. Note that as third party libraries are not made by Dropbox, we cannot provide support for them.

If you run in to any issues with the Embedder or API feel free to share the details and we'll be happy to help however possible.