PHP

REST Download Binary File to Memory

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Download a binary file to a Chilkat BinData object. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\BinData;
use Chilkat2\Rest;
use Chilkat2\StringBuilder;

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

$rest = new Rest();

// We're going to download a sample MS-Word doc file.
// The URLs of our MS-Word sample documents are:

// https://www.chilkatdownload.com/sample_data/sample.doc
// https://www.chilkatdownload.com/sample_data/sample.docx

$pathPartOfUrl = '/sample_data/sample.doc';
$domain = 'chilkatdownload.com';

$bTls = true;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
try {
    $rest->Connect($domain, $port, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);

    $bd = new BinData();
    $rest->FullRequestNoBodyBd('GET', $pathPartOfUrl, $bd);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

// A 200 response is expected for actual success.
// If we don't get a 200 response, then the response body was not actually
// the file data, but it was text containing error information.
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    $sbErrorText = new StringBuilder();
    $sbErrorText->AppendBd($bd, 'utf-8', 0, 0);
    echo $sbErrorText->GetAsString(), "\n";
    echo "-- Failed.\n";
    exit;
}

// Save to a local file.
// Change the file path based on your operating system or needs...
try {
    $bd->WriteFile('c:/temp/qa_output/sample.doc');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo "Failed to save to local file.\n";
    exit;
}

echo "REST Download of MS-Word File was successful.\n";