PHP ActiveX

Box.com Download Text File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of a text 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");

// 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 = 371828468442
// The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
$sb = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $http->DownloadSb('https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content','utf-8',$sb);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Downloaded:' . "\n";
print $sb->getAsString() . "\n";

?>