[Plugin: Dropbox Photo Sideloader] Sideload the thumbnail instead of the original

No, the original image is the file Dropbox passes to the plugin.

However, realize that sideloading is taking the image from Dropbox and loading it directly into the site, not loading it via your computer. So it will be faster than uploading the file directly, most likely.

Mmm, okay.

the problem is that the images are to big to host on my private website (family picture archive). That’s why i host them at Dropbox. So the best way for me to show the thumbnails of the original images is to load them via a custom /thumbnail api request directly into the theme files…

Sorry to bug you about this anyway, because it’s not really relevant to the functionality your plugin provides.

Are there any plans on moving to the https://github.com/BenTheDesigner/Dropbox PHP SDK now that https://www.dropbox-php.com has stopped development?

Yeah, what you’re trying to do won’t work in the long run. See, Dropbox isn’t a hosting site, it’s.. well.. a dropbox. Their API changes their URLs every so often specifically to prevent what you’re trying to do, which is to host the pictures from there directly.

In the long run, you’ll have problems with this approach. Better to get a better webhost where you can host the pictures on that host yourself.

Also, no, no plans to switch to another PHP library at present. The one you linked to only works with curl and isn’t particularly expandable easily, from what I can see. The one I’m using now works well enough and doesn’t need much extra support. I’d be more inclined to drop the use of any library before switching to yet-another-one.

I aware about there policy, thats why i want to download and save the thumbnail as an attachment. But currently is see no real solution other then caching the thumbnail image, which is no real solution for me, so it’s back to simply uploading the thumbnails and resized images myself.

And create an api call for download link to the corresponding gallery on dropbox with the sharelink, which expires 20 years in to the future, should be enough.

Also, no, no plans to switch to another PHP library at present. The one you linked to only works with curl and isn’t particularly expandable easily, from what I can see. The one I’m using now works well enough and doesn’t need much extra support. I’d be more inclined to drop the use of any library before switching to yet-another-one.

Ah okay thank you for explaining. I did not check out the code myself other then that this SDK is the only one left for PHP mentioned by Dropbox.com/developers.

Thanks for your input. You made me reconsider my options whether to move my cloud storage somewhere else or not, which is a good thing. I will look in to it.