Get file ID of a given path

Question

is there a direct method to get file ID by giving a path (e.g. /some/folder/deep/inside/file.txt)? I know this can be done by recursively checking folder\'s contents, but a simp

Answer 1

Here is my approach on how to get a folder id based on a path, without recursively going through the whole tree, this can be easily adapted for file as well. This is based on PHP and CURL, but it's very easy to use it in any other application as well:

//WE SET THE SEARCH FOLDER:
$search_folder="XXXX/YYYYY/ZZZZZ/MMMMM/AAAAA/BBBBB";

//WE NEED THE LAST BIT SO WE CAN DO A SEARCH FOR IT
$folder_structure=array_reverse (explode("/",$search_folder));

// We run a CURL (I'm assuming all the authentication and all other CURL parameters are already set!) to search for the last bit, if you want to search for a file rather than a folder, amend the search query accordingly
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.box.com/2.0/search?query=".urlencode($folder_structure[0])."&type=folder");    

// Let's make a cine array out of that response
$json=json_decode(curl_exec($curl),true);
$i=0;
$notthis=true;

// We need to loop trough the result, till either we find a matching element, either we are at the end of the array
while ($notthis && $i