(PHP ActiveX) Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

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

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Http')
$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

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

$http->FollowRedirects = 1;

// 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
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.BinData')
$bd = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $http->DownloadBd('https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content',$bd);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

print 'Number of bytes: ' . $bd->NumBytes . "\n";

?>