We're making changes to the Community, so you may have received some notifications - thanks for your patience and welcome back. Learn more here.
Forum Discussion
Code for APIv2
Sorry, I'm just a hack trying to upload a database backup to dropbox. API v1 worked fine but now I'm forced to migrate.
Here's the code I used to use, with the old API v1 commands and the new A...
If you want to call the Dropbox API directly, rather than via a library, you can makes HTTPS connections to the endpoints themselves. For example, to upload a file, you would use /2/files/upload. Calling that using curl in PHP would look something like this:
<?php $path = 'test_php_upload.txt'; $fp = fopen($path, 'rb'); $size = filesize($path); $cheaders = array('Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>', 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream', 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/test/'.$path.'", "mode":"add"}'); $ch = curl_init('https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $cheaders); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $size); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = curl_exec($ch); echo $response; curl_close($ch); fclose($fp); ?>`<ACCESS_TOKEN>` should be replaced with the OAuth 2 access token.
The uploaded file path in Dropbox is defined by the "path" parameter in Dropbox-API-Arg.
So, for example, to upload a file "test_php_upload.txt" to root, the path parameter should be "/test_php_upload.txt".
Here's a version of my previous example that would do that:
<?php $path = 'test_php_upload.txt'; $fp = fopen($path, 'rb'); $size = filesize($path); $cheaders = array('Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>', 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream', 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/'.$path.'", "mode":"add"}'); $ch = curl_init('https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $cheaders); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $size); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $response = curl_exec($ch); echo $response; curl_close($ch); fclose($fp); ?>
Brilliant Greg, that's working, thankyou.
One problem tho, I am uploading from a local path and it seems to be holding that path in to Dropbox. I just want to upload to the root folder in Dropbox, but every change I make seems to break the code.
Are you able to assist please?
<?php
$filename = "/db_" . date('d-m-Y').".zip";
$path = "/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4" . $filename;
$fp = fopen($path, 'rb');
$size = filesize($path);
$cheaders = array('Authorization: Bearer 1234567890',
'Content-Type: application/octet-stream',
'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"'.$path.'", "mode":"add"}');
$ch = curl_init('https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $cheaders);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $size);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThe uploaded file path in Dropbox is defined by the "path" parameter in Dropbox-API-Arg.
So, for example, to upload a file "test_php_upload.txt" to root, the path parameter should be "/test_php_upload.txt".
Here's a version of my previous example that would do that:
<?php
$path = 'test_php_upload.txt';
$fp = fopen($path, 'rb');
$size = filesize($path);
$cheaders = array('Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>',
'Content-Type: application/octet-stream',
'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/'.$path.'", "mode":"add"}');
$ch = curl_init('https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $cheaders);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, $size);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>
- Strange I thought I did that but brilliant - all working well now.
Thankyou very much for your help Greg, it is greatly appreciated.
