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Dropbox API for search in PHP
Hi,
I'm trying to search for a file uploaded in my Dropbox APP using the following code:
$data = json_encode(array("path" => "/", "query" => $this->filename, "mode" => "filename"));
$...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorLooking over your code, there are a few things that should be fixed:
- When specifying the root folder, you need to use the empty string "", not "/".
- You'll need to POST (CURLOPT_POST) not PUT (CURLOPT_PUT).
- You should not turn off SSL verification if possible.
- The parameters must be passed as JSON in the HTTP request body, not in a header.
You can find more information on using this endpoint here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-search
There's an example of calling an "RPC" endpoint like this in PHP here:
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I was able to do that. Removing CURLOPT_PUT resolved the issue.
I have now issues with reading the files uploaded on dropbox. I can see that the endpoint for this purpose is : https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download
I'm not able to understand how to use the output of the above API to read instead of saving the file locally?
- Greg-DBThat endpoint returns the file context in the response body. What your app does with that response is up to you. I.e., you can have it read it into memory and do something with it there, or you can save it to a local file.
Here's an example that tells curl to save it to a local file:
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/dropbox-api/408/downloading-a-file/20965/downloading-a-file-with-metadata-via-curl-in-php#t=201706161828140145756
Alternatively, instead of saving it to a local file using curl's CURLOPT_FILE option, you can read the file data from the curl_exec output, e.g., in that example saved as $output.Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
We do not want to save in local file. Also, reading in memory may cause memory exhausted issue with large files. Same is the issue with saving the read data in a variable when the file is large enough.
Instead, we want to read the file in parts instead of reading the entire file at once. Is there any option to the same?
- Greg-DBThe file data is returned in the HTTP response, so you could read from it as a stream if your HTTP client supports it.
It looks like PHP curl's may effectively support this via CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION:
http://docs.php.net/function.curl-setopt
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