PHP Extension

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file). PHP Extension

<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new CkHttp();
$http->put_KeepResponseBody(true);

// Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
// See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
$http->put_AuthToken('BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN');

$http->put_FollowRedirects(true);

// The file is specified by the file ID.
// In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
// The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
$bd = new CkBinData();
$success = $http->DownloadBd('https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content',$bd);
$statusCode = $http->get_LastStatus();
if ($success == false) {
    if ($statusCode == 0) {
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        print $http->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    }
    else {
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        print 'Response status code: ' . $statusCode . "\n";
        // Examine the response body.
        print 'Response body:' . "\n";
        print $http->lastResponseBody() . "\n";
    }

    print 'Download failed.' . "\n";

}
else {
    print 'Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.' . "\n";

    print 'Number of bytes: ' . $bd->get_NumBytes() . "\n";
}


?>