Multiple getFile - PHP

Roshan B.1

Hi,

I'm currently making a website that requires multiple images to be downloaded with the dropbox API in one go (up  to 300 at a time).

Currently I am using this code, however I only ever seem to be able to download 46 images at a time before it stops. (I even tried upping max execution time)

I'm working on making it just put the files into a DB and periodically just update from there but that seems highly inefficient.

Is there a call to fetch multiple files in one go?

My current code:

if($delta['has_more'] == 1){//if new files are present
 print_r($delta['has_more']);
 foreach($delta['entries'] as $entry){
 print_r($entry['0']);
 echo '<hr/>';
 if($entry['1'] == null){
 unlink(basename($entry['0']));
 }else{
 if($entry['1']['is_dir'] != 1){//if not a directory
 //save new file
 $path = $entry['1']['path'];
 $filename = basename($path);
 $output = '/var/www/vhosts/MY/DOMAIN/images/dropbox/'.$filename;
 $f = fopen($output, "w+b"); // write to $output
 $fileImage = $dbxClient->getFile($path, $f);
 fclose($f);
 }
 }
 }
}

Steve M.

No, there's no API method to download multiple files in a single request.

What do you mean when you say "it stops"? Is there some sort of error?

The first line of this code seems wrong... has_more means there will be more entries if you call delta again. I also don't see the loop where you're calling delta for more entries.

The logic should be something like this (pseudocode):

has_more = true
while(has_more)
 result = delta()
 has_more = result['has_more']
 process_entries(result.entries)