PHP ActiveX

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 ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

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

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");
$http->KeepResponseBody = 1;

// 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
$bd = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$success = $http->DownloadBd('https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content',$bd);
$statusCode = $http->LastStatus;
if ($success == 0) {
    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->NumBytes . "\n";
}


?>