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Mark Chouinard / January 15, 2013

Display Dropbox Folder Using Custom Domain

I wanted to use my own domain name to display a public Dropbox folder.  I had no interest in IFrames or HTML framesets so I turned to PHP.

It only takes a few quick lines of PHP to tackle this.  First use file_get_contents() to retrieve the page. Then use html_entity_decode() to clean up the results.  After that, do a str_replace() to fix all relative URLs.  Last but not least, echo the contents to the browser.

$contents = file_get_contents('https://www.dropbox.com/your_dropbox_folder');
$contents = html_entity_decode($contents);
$contents = str_replace('="/', '="https://www.dropbox.com/', $contents);
echo $contents;

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