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knalpiap
8 years agoHelpful | Level 5
PHP - Show thumbnail
Hi peepz, I'm running a PHP project for which I read a specific Dropbox directoty using 'list_folder'. Five files (JPG), matching certain criteria are selected from all returned files. So far, so ...
- 8 years ago
Wow!! I've managed to work it out :)
I've read the following post again https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-support/API-v2-Simple-image-gallery-on-my-website-using-dropbox/td-p/169202After this, all I additionally changed is
echo $result;
to
$data = base64_encode( $result ); echo '<img src="data:image/jpg;charset=utf8;base64,'.$data.' />';
and now it works!! Thank you so much!
Best,
Knal
knalpiap
Helpful | Level 5
Hi Greg,
Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction!
I've changed the code based on what I understood from your input:
<?PHP $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $headers = array(); $headers[] = "Authorization: Bearer XXX_SECRET_CODE_XXX"; $headers[] = "Content-Type:"; $headers[] = 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/DropsyncFiles/2017.09.01_22.36.01/20170901223632654.jpg","format":{".tag":"jpeg"},"size":{".tag":"w1024h768"}}'; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); $result = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch); } curl_close ($ch); //echo imagecreatefromstring( $result ); <-- Returns 'Resource id #2' in the browser echo $result; ?>
The current output is complete jibberish like follows:
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... but then a lot longer.
I imagine this is the actual image data, but now I can't output it as an image. Also, I've read your endpoint download link again (I did before posting) but I can't figure out what this means for my code.
My apologies, I am not very good at coding as you can see :)
Thanks,
Knal
knalpiap
8 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Wow!! I've managed to work it out :)
I've read the following post again https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-support/API-v2-Simple-image-gallery-on-my-website-using-dropbox/td-p/169202
After this, all I additionally changed is
echo $result;
to
$data = base64_encode( $result ); echo '<img src="data:image/jpg;charset=utf8;base64,'.$data.' />';
and now it works!! Thank you so much!
Best,
Knal
- lrduques6 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Hi!!
I am having the same issue here. I tried to read to documentation at the link below but I received a message saying: access denied!
Can you help me out pleeease?
Thank you in advance.
- Pavlitto6 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Your answer have a little problem,
$data = base64_encode( $result ); echo '<img src="data:image/jpg;charset=utf8;base64,'.$data.' />';
after the $data at the end you should ad ( " ) before closing so this should look like this
$data = base64_encode( $result ); echo '<img src="data:image/jpg;charset=utf8;base64,'.$data.' " />';
- Inderjeetdev10 months agoHelpful | Level 5
It worked:
$data = base64_encode( $response ); echo '<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,'.$data.'" />';
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